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Five Things I've Learned

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Five Things I've Learned publishes weekly cultural and literary updates, including book awards, documentary screenings, and author interviews, alongside promotional content for its paid online writing and poetry classes. The publication targets writers and literary enthusiasts by mixing news features with direct sales for its Substack course collections.

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Five New Things from Five Friends We Admire.

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Five New Things, from Five Friends We Admire.

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Five New Things from Five Friends We Admire.

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A personal invitation from Michael Ruhlman and Ann Hood

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A personal invitation from Joe Randazzo

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A personal invitation from Dan Shaughnessy

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A personal invitation from William Giraldi

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A personal invitation from Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

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Just Announced: The New Fall Season begins Sunday, October 4th.

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Just Announced: The New Fall Season begins Sunday, October 4th.

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Introducing the Art of Revision Collection

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Writing and Reading

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Maya C. Popa

Poet and editor who led a session on manuscript mixtapes and published a new collection.

poet, editor, and founder of Conscious Writers Collective · Conscious Writers Collective · 24d

Kim Addonizio

Shares five things learned about how great poems surprise and transcend time.

Poet, fiction writer, and essayist · 30d

Kaveh Akbar

Shares five things about antiquity's spiritual verse helping understand ourselves.

Award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar · 30d

Jane Hirshfield

Shares five things about inviting original seeing in poems.

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator · 30d

Adrian Matejka

Shares five things about turning a stack of poems into a cohesive collection.

Poet, teacher, and Editor-in-Chief of Poetry magazine · Poetry magazine · 30d

Carl Phillips

Shares five things about patterns in poems we love.

Pulitzer Prize winning poet · 30d

Andre Dubus III

Author of memoirs Townie and Ghost Dogs; shares lessons on memory and self-illumination in writing.

award-winning writer, teacher · 38d

Adam Gopnik

Author of memoirs like Paris to the Moon; discusses the alchemy of rules and practices in memoir writing.

legendary New Yorker writer, essayist · 38d