Stephen Cavitt

The Poetry Professor

Arts EN ↓ 28 episodes

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

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Stephen Cavitt

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Purgatory is a Greyhound Bus Across America — Prose Poems 19.06.2025 8:33

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Purgatory is a Greyhound Bus Across America" and discuss prose poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show . Explicit rating: mild sexual references. Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com .

One Scream — Segmented Poems 12.06.2025 8:29

Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "One Scream" and discuss segmented poems. Click here for a full transcript of the show . Stephen's poetry collection Noctis Terrores is available now on Kindle Unlimited and in print at major online booksellers. Visit him on the web at stephencavitt.com.

The Trailer: Poetry Professor Podcast 09.06.2025 3:25

The Poetry Professor Podcast: one real-life professor dissecting his poems to show you their poetic techniques...and help you get famous. Here's the trailer for Season 1.