Poetry Genius
<Tom Kane>Poetry Genius is a weekly newsletter celebrating the craft, passion, and community around poetry. Curated by Tom Vance Kane, an experienced poet and educator,
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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How This Poem Works: Why I Won't Tell You What It Means (At First)
A student once asked me what a poem “actually means.” I told her the honest answer, which is that I don’t fully know, and neither does the poet half the time. She looked at me like I’d admitted to faking a chemistry result.
Here’s the thin...
How This Poem Works: Why Your Nature Poem Isn't Actually About Nature
Ask a room full of poetry students to write about weather, and you'll get forty poems about wind. Here's why that's usually a mistake.
Give a class the prompt “write about twilight” and watch what happens. Half the room reaches for purple....
Themes of Nostalgia, Sadness, Regret, and Wistfulness
Returning to a Pear Tree
The Scent of a Childhood Home
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My grandmother's house stands without her, the pear tree still heavy wi...
How This Poem Works: Turning a Garden Into a Wound
Here’s a sentence from grandmother’s garden: the roses bloomed copper-red in summer. Nothing sinister about it. Now here’s the same vocabulary, three lines later, doing something else entirely: petals of flame that bloom and die in seconds....
The Worst Poem You've Ever Written Is the One You Should Publish Next
You've been hiding the wrong poem.
Somewhere on your hard drive, or in a notebook with a cracked spine, or in a folder you’ve named something evasive like “misc” or “old stuff,” there is a poem you are ashamed of. You wrote it badly. You k...
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A retired Biochemist and Molecular Biologist, professional poet, owner of online Poetry Forum, Ghostwriter, now Lifestyle and Wellness Coach for Seniors
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