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    Writing Prompts and Exercises

    Feb 14, 2018 2 minutes

    Suggested Reading: A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry (W. W. Norton, February 2018) by Gregory Orr

    The author of a dozen books of poetry as well as three books about poetry, including (University of Georgia Press, 2002), Orr delivers an innovative and accessible guide based on the notion of turning “worlds into words,” using close readings of poems

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