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Let's get trioleted, girls! The queens delve into some fun poetic forms.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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Discover more about Jehanne Dubrow's The Arranged Marriage, about which Claudia Rankine writes,"The poet here is positioned to observe, to picture, and to record in order to communicate coherence in the face of incoherence."

Aaron reads: Sonia Sanchez "Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman." Learn more about Tubman here.  

Read  Agha Shahid Ali's ghazal, "Tonight". Shahid died in 2001. 

Here's more about the triolet.  For a few examples of the form, here's Gabriel Fried's "Parenting Triolet" and Rachel Hadas's "Fortress" 

Read more about the Golden Shovel here, and read Terrance Hayes's "Golden Shovel." 

Read more about the Duplex, or watch Jericho Brown explain it here. Read Jericho Brown's "Duplex" or watch him read the poem here.