Dawn Potter

Conference on Poetry and Learning 2026 - Monson Arts The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

The 2026 Conference on Poetry & Learning at Monson Arts is now open for registration! Dates are July 5–12, 2026. Join us!
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Announcing a new Poetry Kitchen class--https://docs.google.com/forms/d/160sijxcwQ0i5WQuhTZX5xKr95IOR58CEiIHx64JqCNI/edit

Dawn Potter: Why, as the evening steps forward, as the late noise of traffic, of shrill birdsong, dies away, do I always recall those brief summers, when the old folks reclined in the grass on the hill

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Conference on Poetry and Learning - Monson Arts The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

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.
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Conference on Poetry and Learning - Monson Arts The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

Just 2 spaces left! Join us!
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Write Now: Dawn Potter - April 2025

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

Dawn Potter: To the Republic Those last moments, before the sun drops behind the hills, you linger, not yet yourself—no darkness, no stars— still waiting, waiting for the curtain to sigh shut

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A small essay on Dickens as poetic influence--
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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.
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The Poetry Kitchen Welcome to the  Poetry Kitchen,   a home for poets and readers who are searching for thoughtful conversation and deep writing time. Every ...

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.
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"Lately my teaching has been centering more and more around the notion of self-awareness. Simply: 'Look hard at your work. What is it?'"
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I've posted a new Poetry Kitchen class !

Poems of Defiance, Poems of Love: Making New Work in Hard Times
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"I love giving a meal as a gift, every single night."
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"O reading, the great love affair."
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"I guess I don't know what I know, craft-wise, until I shape words around it."
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"Yesterday, on video, I was being treated solemnly as a Poet. Today I am cleaning the cat box and scouring the sink."
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"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."
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Conference on Poetry and Learning - Monson Arts The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

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.
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"What do artists do in the midst of chaos and fear? They do what they can do, which is to keep making art."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Now it is 3 degrees and the wind is wailing outside my window."
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Thank you so much, Sean. This means a lot to me, coming from you. I'm really grateful.

Dawn Potter: Home Burial I pretend I am living in a faraway city, somewhere in Europe, where doves coo in the bell towers and a woman in heels click-clicks over the cobblestones, walking, walking late into the night.

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"Oh, earth and heaven: they've always got something up their sleeves."
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"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."
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"Head down, head held high. Trudge forward into the wind."
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"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."
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