Announcing a new Poetry Kitchen class--https://docs.google.com/forms/d/160sijxcwQ0i5WQuhTZX5xKr95IOR58CEiIHx64JqCNI/edit

New poem, old topic . . . voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/16/d...

There's still ONE opening left at the Conference on Poetry & Learning. Please consider joining us. You don't have to be a poet. Or a teacher. Though if you are one or both, that's excellent too. The thing is: the labels don't matter. What you have to be is YOU. monsonarts.org/workshop/poe...

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The poet David Dear interviews me about my poem "To the Republic"-- dlpotter.blogspot.com/2025/03/inte...

A small essay on Dickens as poetic influence-- dlpotter.blogspot.com

Due to sudden and amazing-to-me demand, I've scheduled a second session of my generative-writing workshop "Poems of Defiance, Poems of Love." May 3 on Zoom. $75. docs.google.com/forms/d/1-Aa...

My April 19 Poetry Kitchen class "Poems of Defiance, Poems of Love" is now entirely full. If you are in need of a generative writing day addressing chaos, dread, and artistic need, I am willing to run a second session on Sunday, April 20. $75. Let me know. dlpotter.blogspot.com/p/the-poetry...

"Lately my teaching has been centering more and more around the notion of self-awareness. Simply: 'Look hard at your work. What is it?'" dlpotter.blogspot.com

I've posted a new Poetry Kitchen class ! Poems of Defiance, Poems of Love: Making New Work in Hard Times docs.google.com/forms/d/12Mi...

"I love giving a meal as a gift, every single night." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"O reading, the great love affair." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"I guess I don't know what I know, craft-wise, until I shape words around it." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"Yesterday, on video, I was being treated solemnly as a Poet. Today I am cleaning the cat box and scouring the sink." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"I'm sure this week's news will be crammed with arrows and knives. But I did get to watch a baby happily stuff pie into his mouth with his fist. That does, for some reason, help." dlpotter.blogspot.com

Yes, the news is horrible. But community, collaboration, art, and survival are what we're all about at the Conference on Poetry and Learning at Monson Arts. Please consider joining us this summer. We need each other . . . we need each other so much. monsonarts.org/workshop/poe...

"What do artists do in the midst of chaos and fear? They do what they can do, which is to keep making art." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"There is no way to square . . . plain generosity with the contorted vengefulness that is our new regime. It is like we have been invaded by aliens. And yet, somehow, the aliens are us." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"When I left Wellington yesterday, the time was 7:30 a.m. and the temperature had plummeted to one degree above zero, with a vicious wind." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"Now it is 3 degrees and the wind is wailing outside my window." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"Oh, earth and heaven: they've always got something up their sleeves." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"Miracles await, and disaster also, and perhaps that is why my body is sad today. It is hard to know how to be ready for anything." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"Head down, head held high. Trudge forward into the wind." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"I have no power, except in very small and private realms. Every day I teeter between strength and weakness. All I can do is keep teetering, I guess." dlpotter.blogspot.com

"And now this morning I feel like one giant myth of myself. Rosy-fingered Dawn may have gone gray, but she's still hurtling through her morning chores, bright lines of laundry fluttering in her wake." dlpotter.blogspot.com

Since 2008 I have kept a daily blog, a letter to the world, to a world that mostly doesn't read letters, but nonetheless there they lie on the doormat. Here's a bit from today's: I know there is such anguish in you that you cannot say a single word. --Anna Akhmatova (1917) dlpotter.blogspot.com

Registration is now open for the 2025 Conference on Poetry and Learning at Monson Arts! Join me, along with faculty members Teresa Carson, Gretchen Berg, and Gwyneth Jones, for a week of collegiality and deep learning in one of Maine's most beautiful settings. monsonarts.org/workshop/poe...