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The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Presents "Aja Monet - What I've Learned" a Camovement by Cam Be & Aja Monet Shot by Cam Be & Aja Monet Edited by Cam Be Filmed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York, NY Aja Monet is the youngest to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grandslam Championship title in 2007 at the age of 19.

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Wendell Berry Reads "The Peace of Wild Things"

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Wendell Berry Reads "The Peace of Wild Things"

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Wendell Berry Reads "The Peace of Wild Things" - Subtitled Version #nature #poetry

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Over the years, this list of poetic forms for poets has grown from 50 to 86 to 100 and now 168. And I doubt we're anywhere near adding to the list (still have plenty of forms to discuss for future Poetic Form Fridays). This list is a combination of well-established traditional forms, newer types of poems, and even a few fun super new nonce forms.

( Common Poetry Terms.)

Each form listed below has a very brief description to give the vaguest ideas of how it differs from the others in the list, but I advise clicking the link for the name of the form to gain a true understanding of the guidelines for each poetic form. Also, most of those pages include at least one (if not several) example poems to show how to write them.

And with that simple introduction, please enjoy this updated list of poetic forms from abstract to zejel and 160+ more in between. Be sure to check out each form. It might even make a good year-long challenge to write three forms each week of the year.

Here's my list of 168 poetic forms:

(Note: Click on the name of each form to read the full description in the original posts.)

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Play with poetic forms!
Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than 100 poetic forms, including more established poetic forms (like sestinas and sonnets) and newer invented forms (like golden shovels and fibs).

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Build an Audience for Your Poetry!
While your focus as a poet will always be on refining your craft, why not cultivate a following along the way? With the multitude of social networking opportunities available today, it's never been easier to connect with other poetry enthusiasts.

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Poem your days away with Robert Lee Brewer's Smash Poetry Journal. This fun poetic guide is loaded with 125 poetry prompts, space to place your poems, and plenty of fun poetic asides.

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From abstract poems to villanelles, find a range of poetic forms for poets in this list, including French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Welsh, and contemporary forms! Each listing links to a more comprehensive description of the form along with an example poem using the form.

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These poetry templates are NOT just for reading or English classes.

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Palindromes with Mary Oliver's _Wild Geese_ 

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Who Understands Me but Me by Jimmy Santiago Baca | Poetry Foundation

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They turn the water off, so I live without water,

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You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

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For those of us who live at the shoreline

standing upon the constant edges of decision

for those of us who cannot indulge

the passing dreams of choice

who love in doorways coming and going

in the hours between dawns

looking inward and outward

seeking a now that can breed

like bread in our children's mouths

so their dreams will not reflect

who were imprinted with fear

like a faint line in the center of our foreheads

learning to be afraid with our mother's milk

this illusion of some safety to be found

the heavy-footed hoped to silence us

this instant and this triumph

We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid

when the sun sets we are afraid

it might not rise in the morning

when our stomachs are full we are afraid

when our stomachs are empty we are afraid

when we are loved we are afraid

when we are alone we are afraid

and when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

we were never meant to survive.

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A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde | Poetry Foundation

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For those of us who live at the shoreline

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New Mexico In Focus, a Production of NMPBS

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Episode 1143 | Jimmy Santiago Baca: Words Have the Power to Change The World

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The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too)

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The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too)

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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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History

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Written By: Ben Cosgrove

The staggering range and sheer excellence of the late John Dominis' pictures-his Korean War coverage; his portraits of pop-culture icons like Sinatra, Redford and McQueen; his beautiful treatment of the "big cats" of Africa; his virile sports photography-place him firmly among the premier photojournalists of his day. But a lesser-known photo essay that Dominis shot for LIFE magazine, focusing on the plight of Appalachians in eastern Kentucky in the early 1960s, spotlights another aspect of the man's great talent: namely, an ability to portray the forgotten and the afflicted while never sacrificing the dignity of his subjects.

The extraordinary 12-page feature for the Jan. 31, 1964, issue of LIFE, titled "The Valley of Poverty" one of the very first substantive reports in any American publication on President Lyndon Johnson's nascent War on Poverty .

At the time, LIFE was arguably the most influential weekly magazine in the country, and without doubt the most widely read magazine anywhere to regularly publish major photo essays by the world's premier photojournalists. In that light, LIFE was in a unique position in the early days of Johnson's administration to not merely tell but to show its readers what was at stake, and what the challenges were, as the new president's "Great Society" got under way.

"The Valley of Poverty," illustrated with some of the most powerful and intimate photographs of Dominis' career, served (and still serves today) as an indictment of a wealthy nation's indifference.

As LIFE put it to the magazine's readers in January 1964:

In a lonely valley in eastern Kentucky, in the heart of the mountainous region called Appalachia, live an impoverished people whose plight has long been ignored by affluent America. Their homes are shacks without plumbing or sanitation. Their landscape is a man-made desolation of corrugated hills and hollows laced with polluted streams. The people, themselves often disease-ridden and unschooled are without jobs and even without hope. Government relief and handouts of surplus food have sustained them on a bare subsistence level for so many years that idleness and relief are now their accepted way of life. President Johnson, who has declared "unconditional war on poverty in America," has singled out Appalachia as a major target. . . . Appalachia stretches from northern Alabama to southern Pennsylvania, and the same disaster that struck eastern Kentucky hit the whole region the collapse of the coal industry 20 years ago, which left Appalachia a vast junkyard. It was no use for the jobless miners to try farming strip mining has wrecked much of the land and, in any case, the miners had lost contact with the soil generations ago. . . . Unless the grim chain [of unemployment and lack of education] can be broken, a second generation coming of age in Appalachia will fall into the same dismal life a life that protects them from starvation but deprives them of self-respect and hope.

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The War on Poverty in the Pages of LIFE: Appalachia Portraits, 1964

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Fifty years after LBJ declared a War on Poverty in America, LIFE presents a series of photos by John Dominis from eastern Kentucky in 1964.

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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Fill out one of these documents for each poet. You should analyze at least three poems, highlighting what's working. Share this with the poet and your teacher (samantha.ratcliffe@uky.edu