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The New Perspective Challenge

Nov 27, 2021

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Choose One of Five

Feb 1

Why is your poetry kissed with paint?

Dec 22, 2024

Who do you want to be at the end of the world?

Feb 11

Every Poem is Hiding a Secret. Here is How to Find It

Mar 1

12:07

Every Poem is Hiding a Secret. Here is How to Find It

McKellen's simplest trick works on every poem you'll ever read.

Mar 1

2:10

The Poem at the Heart

The Power of Poetry on Stage

Feb 22

2:59

Who do you want to be at the end of the world?

A Government Censor Tried to Kill a Question

Feb 11

12:07

Choose One of Five

Some Doors Can Only Be Opened From the Inside, But Poetry Knocks

Feb 1

Waschküchenmelancholie

A story about alcohol in poetry

ants crawl my drunken arms,

Dec 29, 2024

2:25

Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Leschnitz,

Waschküchenmelancholie

Nov 22, 2024

0:37

Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold with Mushrooms

Waschküchenmelancholie

Oct 23, 2024

You say, "This makes no sense."

I reply, "Exactly." We spiral through chaos, arms wide open, catching fragments of reason as they shatter around us. Logic crumbles like sand castles…

Jul 18, 2024

Philosophenweg

12:07

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Some Doors Can Only Be Opened From the Inside, But Poetry Knocks

Feb 1

a movie about the perceiving eye

Permission to be unreadable, for a moment

Apr 21, 2025

0:10

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start

Hommage à Charles Bukowski

Aug 16, 2024

0:04

Instructions on how to be unhappy

Philosophenweg | Paul Watzlawick

Jul 26, 2024

0:26

Until we are all free, we are none of us free

Philosophenweg | Emma Lazarus

Jul 22, 2024

0:28

Philosophenweg | Ernest Hemingway

Jul 21, 2024

0:44

Dancers in Blue

Philosophenweg | Edgar Degas

Jul 19, 2024

0:39

Philosophenweg | Walter Benjamin

Jul 15, 2024

Poetry Tools

12:07

Every Poem is Hiding a Secret. Here is How to Find It

McKellen's simplest trick works on every poem you'll ever read.

Mar 1

12:07

Choose One of Five

Some Doors Can Only Be Opened From the Inside, But Poetry Knocks

Feb 1

1:37

The Son Who Commanded His Father to Live

On the psychological reversal at the heart of poetry’s most famous rage

Jan 20

Truly, Madly, Deeply

When You Can't Understand the Words

Jan 13

2:38

O Captain! My Captain!

The Rehearsal You Don’t Know You’re Performing

Jan 4

Your Poems Are Ready. You're Not.

A Field Guide to Publishing Before You Feel Permission

Dec 28, 2025

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