The Poetry Professor

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Write your best life. Each week, poetry professor Stephen Cavitt reads an original poem and discusses its key technique, helping poetry lovers read between the lines. This season: poems from his book Noctis Terrores. Stephen Cavitt, MFA, teaches creative writing at Florida Gulf Coast University. He has lived in a tipi, studied with shamans, fed wild bears, walked on fire, and climbed New Mexico's highest mountain in skinny jeans. The lead sniper for a SWAT team taught him to shoot. Tom Brown Jr. taught him to track. His mother taught him to sing. Stephen is the author of