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Apr 18, 2009
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Featured Poets

Clayton Eshleman

Clayton Eshleman
Born in Indianapolis and educated at the University of Indiana, Clayton Eshleman is the author of several books of poems and prose, and the recipient of the National Book Award for his translation of César Vallejo's Complete Posthumous Poetry

Mari Evans

Mari Evans
Author of four books of poetry, including A Dark and Splendid Mass Mari Evans is also a children's book writer and playwright who lives in Indianapolis.

Other Indiana Poets
Etheridge Knight
John P. Welle
Literary organizations & centers

The Indiana Arts Commission
The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC), an agency of state government, is a public catalyst, partner, and investor in the arts, and serves the citizens of Indiana by funding, encouraging, promoting and expanding the arts.

The Writers' Center of Indiana
The Writers' Center of Indiana is the only comprehensive community-based literary arts organization in Indiana. The Center offers classes and workshops; collaborates with the University of Indianapolis to provide education services to the local community; hosts "A Gathering of Writers," a day-long celebration that brings writers, publishers, and literary agents to Indianapolis to participate in workshops, public readings, and panel discussions; and publishes Maize, a biannual literary journal, and Literally, a bimonthly newsletter.

Readings series, conferences & literary festivals

Indiana Arts Calendar
A state-wide events calendar.

Indiana University Calendar of Readings
Readings and talks about the craft of writing, and regular readings of poetry and prose from The Creative Writing Program's graduate students and faculty.

The Indiana University Writers' Conference
The Indiana University Writers' Conference believes in a craft-based teaching of writing, emphasizing an exploration of creativity through a variety of approaches, offering workshop-based craft discussions, classes focusing on technique, and talks about the careers and concerns of a writing life.

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Most Popular Poems

1. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...

2. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...

3. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master...

4. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...

5. Sick
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today"...

6. This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten / the plums...

7. so you want to be a writer?
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you...

8. somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
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somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond...

9. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

10. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why...

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Poems about Indiana

July in Indiana
by Robert Fitzgerald
The wispy cuttings lie in rows...
Writing programs & colonies

Indiana University Creating Writing Program
The Creative Writing Program at Indiana University in Bloomington offers both the Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) and the Masters of Arts (M.A.) degrees in fiction and poetry.

Purdue University Creative Writing Program
Established in 1987, the English Department's graduate program in creative writing gives poets and fiction writers the opportunity to develop their work in a serious, non-competitive atmosphere which values originality and a vital literary tradition.

University of Notre Dame Creative Writing Program
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Notre Dame is a two-year degree program centered around workshops in poetry and fiction and offering literature courses, translation, a literary publishing course, and twelve credits of thesis preparation with an individual faculty advisor.

Literary journals & small presses

African American Review
Quarterly with a focus on African American literature and culture.

Indiana Review
A biannual literary review that considers previously unpublished essays, fiction, graphic arts, interviews, poetry, and reviews. The Indiana Review also administers two poetry prizes.

Maize
The biannual journal of the Writers' Center of Indiana. On average, 80% of each issues is devoted to work by Indiana-connected writers.

Notre Dame Review
An independent, non-commercial magazine of contemporary American and international fiction, poetry, criticism and art.

Sycamore Review
Published biannually by Purdue University's English Department.

Barnwood Press
Founded in 1978 to support poetry through publishing and educational activities.

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