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What’s the Skinny? Writing Skinny Poems

November 9, 2020May 29, 2025 | Danna Smith

If you haven’t written a Skinny poem before, you are in for a real treat! This poetic form was created by Truth Thomas in the Tony Medina Poetry Workshop at Howard University in 2005.

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