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Poetry Genius is a weekly newsletter celebrating the craft, passion, and community around poetry. Curated by Tom Vance Kane, an experienced poet and educator,

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Poet's Notebook: Night Storm

Welcome to the Poet’s Notebook.

For many years, a significant part of my work as a writer was as a “ghostwriter” for various companies, including travel and tourism agencies. It’s a fascinating challenge: you’re tasked with capturing the e...

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Same Title, Your Poem: The Cookbook and Compost Heap Challenge

Hello, Geniuses,

Somewhere on your kitchen shelf sits a cookbook you bought with good intentions. Somewhere in your garden (or your neighbour’s) there’s a heap of rotting peelings doing more useful work than most of us manage before lunch....

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Why "Show, Don't Tell" Is Terrible Advice for Poets

Every poetry workshop has one moment where somebody says it. Usually a few minutes in, usually with the quiet confidence of someone repeating something they read on a bookmark. Show, don’t tell. Heads nod. The line about the sad dog gets ci...

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Five Clichés to Banish From Your Poems Immediately (And What to Use Instead)

I once spent a full afternoon in the lab waiting on a reaction that needed exactly forty minutes at exactly sixty degrees.

I once spent a full afternoon in the lab waiting on a reaction that needed exactly forty minutes at exactly sixty de...

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4 Things All Great Poets Steal (And You Should Too)

Let’s get one thing straight. We are not talking about plagiarism. Plagiarism is for frauds and fools.

We’re talking about theft.

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