The Poetry Professor

Poetry professor Stephen Cavitt gives a recap of Season 1 and tips for instructors using the pod in their classrooms.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Reading Lorca Beside the Ocean" and discuss including quotes in poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "The First Date and Everything After" and discuss magical realism in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Content: this poem contains mild sexual references. In this episode, Stephen mentions the amazing poet Michael Hettich.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Pocket Universes" and discuss whimsical poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Lavender Soap" and discuss how to talk about tough topics in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Explicit label: This poem contains references to sexual abuse and may not be appropriate for younger listeners. Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "South of Missoula," "Quapaw Ridge," and "Usumacinta Blues" and discuss small, deliberate choices in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Forty is Another Country" and discuss writing prompts. Click here to read the full transcript.Stephen's poetry collection NoctisTerrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Notes from a Grocery Store Psychic" and discuss logical leaps in prose poems. Click here to read the full transcript.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Summer in San Carlos" and discuss consistent imagery in poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "The Classification of Trees" and discuss small, deliberate choices in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Florida Nights" and discuss small, deliberate choices in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Understanding English Poetry" and discuss persona poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.In this episode, Stephen mentions poets.org and https://www.poetryfoundation.org.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Ghost Story" and discuss keeping a "slush fund" of poems to use later, Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.In this episode, Stephen gives a shoutout to the tiny journal, where this poem first appeared.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Nocte Visita" and discuss writing in community. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Contains brief mention of drug use and sexual themes.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Natura" and discuss how individual poems fit into a poetry collection. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Boxing and the Breath" and inviting the reader into your subculture. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "One of These Things is Not Like the Other" and discuss dialogue in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Contains sexual themes.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Fire Comes from a Place Beyond this World" and discuss precise moves in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Contains sexual themesStephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read " The Ghost of Fremont Canyon" and discuss couplets. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Explicit rating: sexual abuseStephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Canyon Vigil" and discuss sentence length. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Explicit rating: contains brief mention of suicidal thoughts.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Middle Aged White Man Drives West" and discuss implied backstory in poetry. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Farm Talk" and discuss sharing your subculture in a poem. Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Petroglyphs" and discuss persona poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Waking Up in America" and discuss writing inevitable endings. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Going Alone" and discuss the ration of imagery to statement in a poem. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Purgatory is a Greyhound Bus Across America" and discuss prose poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Explicit rating: mild sexual references.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "One Scream" and discuss segmented poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show.Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

The Poetry Professor Podcast: one real-life professor dissecting his poems to show you their poetic techniques...and help you get famous. Here's the trailer for Season 1.