#POEM

Jay Hulme

JayHulmePoet

There's a poet out there who writes stunningly beautiful poems about gay angels and queer Jesus and occasionally I dig out their work and feel all the feelings and wish

claire schwartz

23cschwartz

There's a reason that racist poems are often bad on the level of craft. It's because, as M. NourbeSe Philip says, English—a colonial language—requires decontamination. That is a rigorous thing,

michael burkett

Burkett_ELA

I completely understand & agree that as an educator I should challenge myself to reach new heights each year. The kids deserve a teacher that strives for continual improvement. Ex.

Andy

__codexterous

For GCSE Literature, I explicitly teach students how to write and what to include in the **introduction** for each question. We rehearse this a lot. A short THREAD on why

Putri Prihatini

BlogTolkien

On 18 January 1934, The Oxford Magazine published Tolkien's poem titled "Looney". Tolkien later revised it with new title "The Sea-Bell (Frodos Dreme)", with a tone much darker and full

Andy

__codexterous

I’ve been thinking recently about what we mean by **literary form**. How do we define literary form and how might we think about it? A short THREAD on what I’ve

Shankar

shankarrajaram1

In "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of a Muslim Past", @AudreyTruschke's comments on the six languages (भाषाषट्क) beginning with संस्कृत. She writes that the "sixfold set doesn&#

Clare Frances

missdaisyfdoo

1/ Seeing as the Guardian's run a goddamn obituary of Peter Sutcliffe, I'm sharing this Blake Morrison poem about the demonisation of women & how we can't underplay misogyny's role

erika meitner

rikam99

I’ve never done a thread before! Here’s a thread: I’ve been submitting to @poetrymagazine unsuccessfully for ~20 years, since back when I'd walk my envelopes of poems to the post

Dr. Hannah VanderHart

hmvanderhart

The soul hast to stay where it is, even though restless, hearing raindrops at the pane,the signing of autumn leaves thrashed by the wind, longing to be free, outside, but

Saeed Jones

theferocity

Countee Cullen was gay and had a really hot BF named Harold Jackman. But wait, there’s more! Cullen’s adopted father was gay too. When Cullen married DuBois’s daughter, he went

Caleb Parkin

CalebParkin

POETS: I am convinced there must be theory of how to write a successful specular / mirror poem...Or maybe it's just tinkering with all the words a LOT until it

Darren Chetty

rapclassroom

Watched The Secret Garden film. Like many illustrated versions of the book, it tries to dodge the racism within the original story. Indian people don’t speak in the film -

Kehinde 🇳🇬

kalonge93

Gonna try and post poems by lesser known and celebrated Black poets all Month. Here’s one by Ray Durem who was extremely influential to the Black Power movement. The poem

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MrAshCunningham

I wrote this because I do not like lies. I do, however, like myths. I like them a great deal, and they are not without theological significance.So here is my

Floyd Maxwell

justthinkit

"It’s most commonly believed the line originated from the poem, Piers Plowman, said to have been written around 1360 by English poet William Langland, about a man in search of

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