One on One Conversations/Workshops/Classes

Welcome to The Poetry Conversation with Sharon Bryan.

I post weekly thoughts on poetry, and I hope you’ll join in.  I think of this site as a big room with comfortable chairs where we can gather to talk about poems and poets, craft, translation, what it is to be a poet, what others are reading and listening to, whatever interests you.  I’ll be inviting other poets to do guest posts, so please feel free to make suggestions.

Sharon Bryan - Poet
  • Recent Thoughts

    Working with Me

    Several of you have asked about working with me privately, individually or in classes, so I’m going to schedule…

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  • What Prompts a Poem

    In one of the last Fridays at 4 discussions I mentioned my bafflement at the current popularity of prompts…

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  • Bedside Books

    This week I’m interested in what poetry books we’re all reading right now.  What’s on your bedside table–or chairside,…

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  • Mary Ruefle’s Poems and Prose

      This week I’d like to talk about Mary Ruefle’s poetry, and some excerpts from her prose.  Her work…

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  • Favorite Poems

           I assume you’re all familiar with the Favorite Poem Project that was founded by Robert Pinsky…

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  • Long-line Metrical Poems

            Now that we’ve spent two weeks looking at ways poets create music in long-lined free verse,…

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  • Long-lined Free Verse

            I’d like to continue our discussion from last week of C. K. Williams’ long-line free…

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