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The Poetry Professor

The Poetry Professor

By: Stephen Cavitt
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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 Noctis Terrores and The Und Wars series in science fiction, which begins with The Distance Between Stars.

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Episodes
  • The Trailer: Poetry Professor Podcast

    The Trailer: Poetry Professor Podcast
    Jun 9 2025

    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.

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    3 mins
  • Nocte Visita — Writing in Community

    Nocte Visita — Writing in Community
    Sep 9 2025

    Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Nocte Visita" and discuss writing in community. Click here for a full transcript of the show.

    Contains brief mention of drug use and sexual themes.

    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.
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    8 mins
  • Natura — How Individual Poems Fit into a Poetry Collection

    Natura — How Individual Poems Fit into a Poetry Collection
    Sep 4 2025

    Listen to poetry professor Stephen Cavitt read "Natura" and discuss how individual poems fit into a poetry collection.

    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.
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    8 mins
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