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Dear Readers,

My Poetry site features a series of 4 essays "How to Read a Poem" at http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art38724.asp that offers assistance to those who think understanding poetry is difficult.

After posting this series Tuesday, I already have had one request from an editor to use it in an online poetry zine.

I hope you find the articles useful. Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or even suggestions about the series.

Thank you for visiting Poetry at BellaOnline.com!

The How to Read series is awesome. I also took your 8 free lessons course on understanding poems better, and it helped a lot. I was one of those students who only thought teachers knew the answers to poems. I'm not perfect at understanding them yet for example, I still have to study really hard to get Shakespeare but I do a lot better on poets like Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath.

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Jane Ivey

Hello Linda, I've just added the link to "How to Read a Poem" to the resource section of my site.