Dawn Potter
@dawnlorrainepotter.bsky.social
director of poetry and teaching programs at Monson Arts * ten books of prose and poetry, most recently the poetry collection "Calendar" * gardener, editor, teacher, pal, etc. * Maine
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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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...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The 2026 Conference on Poetry & Learning at Monson Arts is now open for registration! Dates are July 5–12, 2026. Join us!
monsonarts.org/workshop/con...
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Announcing a new Poetry Kitchen class--https://docs.google.com/forms/d/160sijxcwQ0i5WQuhTZX5xKr95IOR58CEiIHx64JqCNI/edit
June 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Announcing a new Poetry Kitchen class--https://docs.google.com/forms/d/160sijxcwQ0i5WQuhTZX5xKr95IOR58CEiIHx64JqCNI/edit
New poem, old topic . . . voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/16/d...
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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June 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
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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...
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May 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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...
monsonarts.org/workshop/poe...
Just 2 spaces left! Join us!
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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...
monsonarts.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Just 2 spaces left! Join us!
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The poet David Dear interviews me about my poem "To the Republic"-- dlpotter.blogspot.com/2025/03/inte...
Interview about "To the Republic"
A few week's ago Vox Populi published my poem " To the Republic ," a poem I wrote in (sort of) response to Horace's ode of the same name . ...
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March 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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--
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Dawn Potter
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February 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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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February 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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...
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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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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 ...
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February 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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...
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?'"
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Dawn Potter
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February 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"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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Poems of Defiance, Poems of Love: Making New Work in Hard Times
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February 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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...
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."
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Dawn Potter
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February 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"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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Dawn Potter
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February 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"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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Dawn Potter
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February 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"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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Dawn Potter
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February 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"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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Dawn Potter
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February 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"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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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...
monsonarts.org/workshop/poe...
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...
monsonarts.org
February 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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...
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."
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Dawn Potter
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February 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"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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Dawn Potter
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February 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"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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Dawn Potter
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January 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"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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Dawn Potter
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January 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"Now it is 3 degrees and the wind is wailing outside my window."
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