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.
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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,…
