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On the latest episode of #PoetryOffTheShelf, Elisa Díaz Castelo speaks with host Helena de Groot on vertigo, breaking a chicken, and her grandmother's advice for a good life.
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Jan Beatty is a poet for whom authenticity, that ever-difficult term, is neither a pose nor a social media marketing gambit.
—Ed Simon profiles the punk laureate of Pittsburgh. bit.ly/3UYF9zC
For [Elizabeth Arnold], what was most convincing in a poem was always most incredible, what stretched one’s belief in what it is possible to do with language.
—Joshua Weiner remembers Elizabeth Arnold bit.ly/3CJwris
The Poetry Foundation will close at 1 PM CT on Wednesday, November 7. We'll resume normal hours on December 4.
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I always wonder where the ghosts are
& if they still celebrate the living
Headlights hush through our window
in the eternal language of the grasses.
—Kinsale Drake with the #PoemOfTheDay. bit.ly/3YQVN6E
The supposed cult of difficulty attributed to modernism was partly a reaction to the blunt force of that spurious collective known as “the Reader.”
—Jared Marcel Pollen (@JaredMPollen) on Ryan Ruby's CONTEXT COLLAPSE. bit.ly/4fxsb48
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Congratulations to the 2024 POETRY Magazine prize winners!
🎉 Ishion Hutchinson
🎉 Tayi Tibble
🎉 Jackie Sabbagh
🎉 Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
🎉 Monika Cassel
🎉 Danielle Vogel
🎉 Joe Alicea
🎉 Melvin Dixon
🎉 Kate Asche
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The Northwest New Mexico Arts Council supports the literary and performing arts, STEAM education, and other enrichment for people of all ages.
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Ryan Ruby chronicles the ways in which poetry has become increasingly conscious of itself under the necessities inherent in its own production.
—Jared Marcel Pollen (@JaredMPollen) on CONTEXT COLLAPSE. bit.ly/4fxsb48
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we should be kind, we should/ take warning, we should forgive each other/ Instead we are opposite, we/ touch as though attacking,
Happy Birthday, Margaret Atwood!🎂
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I want the moon’s intuition, but not its questions.
I want the malice of nothing on earth. I want to enter
every room in a strange electrified city
and find you there.
—Happy birthday to Terrance Hayes, who was born #OnThisDay in 1971!
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Curl up with our collection of poems to read as the leaves change and the weather gets colder. 🍂 bit.ly/3NZ8MwH