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The Sharpener: Daily curated poems and weekly essays designed to improve thinking through poetry.

Poems sharpen our thinking. Once we read a poem, we can’t revert to state we were in before we read it. Poems are not objects to be consumed: they are tools for change. Poems change how we think. And when we change how we think, together we change social structures.

No one does anything alone. The Saturday craft essays would not be possible without the insights, observations, analysis, editorial labor, and careful attention by Tanya Kalmanovitch and Sherine Gilmour. I am grateful that they have contributed so much to my creation of these essays.

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This is content about poetry that will help you read and write with the most beauty and meaning as possible.

I offer two versions. A daily free version is a continually-unfolding anthology of poems and quotations from artists and writers.

A paid-subscriber version ($7/month) also includes well-researched essays on craft and writing problems that I send on Saturday mornings.

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