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The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness. —Charles Simic

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you are not alone, the poem said, in the dark tunnel. —Louise Glück #fromthearchives

"October" by Louise Glück

from "Poems 1962-2012" published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. —Louise Glück

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If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it. —Anne Carson

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Today's Featured Poet: Eliza Gilbert is an undergraduate at Vassar College. She is the recipient of the 2023 Iowa Review Award in Poetry, as well as LitMag’s 2023 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. She was born and raised in New York City.

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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. —C. D. Wright

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I was young here. Riding the subway with my small book as though to defend myself against the same world: you are not alone, the poem said, in the dark tunnel. —Louise Glück

"October" by Louise Glück

from "Poems 1962-2012" published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Today's Featured Poet: June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936 and was the author of 10 books of poetry, 7 collections of essays, 2 plays, a libretto, a novel, a memoir, 5 children’s books, and June Jordan’s Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint.

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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. —Fernando Pessoa

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Publishing: "Last month, at age 101, Sarah Yerkes released her first collection of poems, “Days of Blue and Flame,” published by Passager Books at the University of Baltimore." (The Washington Post) #pdnews

At age 101, this woman released her first collection of poems

After decadeslong careers in landscape architecture and sculpture, centenarian finds art in words

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Today's Featured Poet: Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, AL with her partner and several intense mammals. Alina’s poems, essays, and fiction can be found in BOMB, Poetry, @pleiadesmag , and others. She is currently working on a novel-like creature.

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Today's Featured Poet: Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award. He lives in New York City, where he is a professor at NYU.

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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. —W. S. Merwin

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Today's Featured Poet: Wanda Coleman—poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist—was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Mercurochrome.

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Today's Featured Poet: Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988-2000 ( @boaeditions , 2000), won the National Book Award for Poetry.

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"Not all conversations worth having are happening in English." — Mónica de la Torre, on the value of translation

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Today's Featured Poem: "Byline, Be Sky" by Alina Stefanescu ( @aliner ), from the July/August 2021 issue of @kenyonreview . Read here:

"Byline, Be Sky" by Alina Stefanescu

from Kenyon Review

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Profile: "Taylor Byas is... already making a case for herself as a literary descendant of fellow Chicagoan Gwendolyn Brooks." (Chicago Mag) #pdnews

Chicago's Best Poetic Journey Through the South Side

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Today's Featured Poet: Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.

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I was young here. Riding the subway with my small book as though to defend myself against the same world: you are not alone, the poem said, in the dark tunnel. —Louise Glück

"October" by Louise Glück

from "Poems 1962-2012" published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Today's Featured Poet: Sally Wen Mao is the author of two collections of poetry, OCULUS ( @GraywolfPress , 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and MAD HONEY SYMPOSIUM ( @AliceJamesBooks , 2014). She is a @kundimanforever fellow in both fiction and poetry.

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someone told me he died casually. like the world swallowed his noise & gave us the broth to recall him by. —Aurielle Marie ( @YesAurielle ) #fromthearchives

"no name in the street" by Aurielle Marie

from "Gumbo Ya Ya" published by University of Pittsburgh Press

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The secret ambition of all lyric poetry is to stop time. —Charles Simic

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. —Charles Simic

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Rita Dove: “The first thing that goes when a government becomes a tyranny are words”

Salon talks to poet Rita Dove about why degrading language and the arts threatens democracy and humanity

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Today's Featured Poet: @caesarah_ is the author of Theophanies, forthcoming with @AliceJamesBooks in January 2024. She is a Stadler Fellow at @BucknellU and poetry editor for @WestBranchMag . Find her at .

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Today's Featured Poet: Emily Dickinson was American lyric poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. With Walt Whitman, Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century American poets.

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I let the poem have its way with me. —Lucie Brock-Broido

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Today's Featured Poet: Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is now a third year PhD student and Yates scholar at the @uofcincy , and an Assistant Features Editor for @The_Rumpus .

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Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again. —Anne Carson

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... it's worth a shot??

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🎉We are very excited to announce that Dana Levin is joining Poetry Daily's editorial board! 🎉 Each member of our diverse board selects poems for our daily poem feature, and works with us to identify new outstanding, interesting publications for our thousands of daily readers.

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Today's Featured Poet: Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938–2019) remains one of the most beloved, versatile & prolific Bengali writers of all time. Equally expressive in poetry & prose, fiction & nonfiction, she has over one hundred books to her credit.

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Emily Dickinson wrote on small scraps of paper, and handmade books. What do you write your poetry on?

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But are not all Facts Dreams as soon as we put them behind us — — Emily Dickinson (from The Envelope Poems)

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Announcement: "Joy Harjo, 68, will represent both her Indigenous culture and those of the United States of America when she succeeds Tracy K. Smith as the country's 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry this fall." (NPR) #pdnews

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No poem is just its embroidery of language... all poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling. —Henri Cole

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Today's Featured Poet: Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies ( @AliceJamesBooks , 2024), selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. She is the poetry editor for @WestBranchMag and lives in the Bay Area, California.

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I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered. —Louise Glück

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I don’t look on poems as closed works... I feel they’re probably going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. —John Ashbery

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Today's Featured Poet: Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for her 3rd collection and served as Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. She received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the National Medal of Arts from President Obama—the only poet ever to receive both.

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A poem should not be flawless but should be able to bear the burden of its flaws... —Chelsey Minnis

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. —June Jordan

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Today's Featured Poet: Katie Farris’s ( @katiefar ) work appears in @AmPoetryReview , @GrantaMag , and @thenation . She is the author of the chapbook A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, which won the 2020 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from @BPJTweets .

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I can't see her clearly. Can you see your mother clearly? I was concocted in the kettle of her body. —Diane Seuss ( @dlseuss ) #fromthearchives

"[I can't see her clearly. Can you see your mother clearly? I was concocted]" by Diane Seuss

from The Missouri Review

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Today's Featured Poet: Federico García Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. After his death, with his work suppressed, he became a potent symbol of the martyrdom of Spain.

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Today's Featured Poet: Li-Young Lee is the author of five critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently The Undressing ( @wwnorton , 2018). Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. I must have been the same to her. But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread, the thing her father said that hurt her, what she dreamed... —Robert Hass Read today's poem here:

"Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass

from "Praise" published by Ecco

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All phantom and shadow, so silent It must have seemed I hadn’t wakened, But passed into a deeper, more cogent state— The mind a dark city, a disappearing, A handkerchief Swallowed by a fist. —Tracy K. Smith

"A Hunger So Honed" by Tracy K. Smith

from "Here: Poems for the Planet" published by Copper Canyon

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Today's Featured Poet: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) broke with tradition and was criticized for her seminal experiments with unorthodox phrasing, rhyme and broken meter, within concise verse forms, thus becoming an innovator and forerunner of modern poets.

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Today's Featured Poet: Jericho Brown's collection, THE TRADITION, was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at @EmoryUniversity in Atlanta.

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Report: Ilya Kaminsky and Patricia Smith have been named Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. (Princeton) #pdnews

Patricia Smith and Ilya Kaminsky named Academy of American Poets Chancellors

Ilya Kaminsky, professor of creative writing at Princeton, and Patricia Smith, visiting professor of creative writing, have been named Academy of American Poets Chancellors. Smith will join the...

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Interview: "I take hope seriously. I write with and from that hope."—Maya C. Popa (Poetry Society of America) #pdnews

Stopping by with Maya C. Popa

In this interview series, we ask writers, musicians, curators, and innovators to reflect on influence, memory, language, shared spaces, and the power of poetry to bring us together.

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Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing. —John Ashbery

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Poetry Daily stands with the Black community. We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality. We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world. Black Lives Matter.

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Today's Featured Poet: John Keats was born in London on October 31st, 1795. Before his death at twenty-five, he wrote some of the greatest lyric poems in English.

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Today's Featured Poet: Christina Rossetti was one of the greatest female writers of the 19th century. She was born in London into a remarkably creative family; her father was an exiled Italian revolutionary and her brothers were founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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In light of the current crisis, we are starting an impromptu series, What Keeps Us. For the next ten days we will post poems to sustain and uplift through trying times, starting with C.D. Wright's, "What Keeps." #WhatKeepsUs

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Today's Featured Poem: "Wednesday" by Mohammed El-Kurd ( @m7mdkurd ), from Rifqa, published by @haymarketbooks . Read here:

"Wednesday" by Mohammed El-Kurd

from "Rifqa" published by Haymarket Books

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Today's Featured Poet: Imani Davis is a queer Black writer from Brooklyn. A Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, they’ve earned fellowships from @MellonFdn , @LambdaLiterary , @BOAAT_PRESS , and @StadlerCenter . They’re currently pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies at Harvard.

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I used to be fond of time as it was a matter that helped us feel intelligent. Those days have gone to where days go, in their own cemeteries. Today I see eternity everywhere. —Etel Adnan (1925 - 2021)

"[My favorite time is in time’s other side]" by Etel Adnan

from "Shifting the Silence" published by Nightboat Books

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In our newest series What Sparks Poetry series, "What Translation Sparks," we’ve asked a group of poet-translators to share a seminal experience in translation. How does the work of translating poetry feel essential to the writing of one’s own poetry?

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I don't believe in tame poetry... Poetry busts guts. —Frank Stanford

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Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. —Jorie Graham ( @jorie_graham )

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What Sparks Poetry? We want to know what experiences and ideas spark new poems. What Sparks Poetry is a new, serialized feature that seeks to draw the curtain back on the mysterious process of poem-making.

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Today's Featured Poet: Poet, filmmaker, screenwriter, and painter, Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967) was in Mazandaran, north of Tehran. Drawn to reading and writing poetry as a child, she dropped out of high school to study painting and dressmaking at a technical school.

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Today's Featured Poet: Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Her poetry collection, BLESSING THE BOATS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1988-2000 ( @boaeditions ), won the National Book Award for Poetry.

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We love in silence We keep our poetry locked in a glass cabinet Some nights We stay up passing it back and forth between us drinking deep —C.D. Wright #WhatKeepsUs

"What Keeps" by C.D. Wright

from "Steal Away: Selected and New Poems" published by Copper Canyon Press

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Today's Featured Poem: An excerpt from "Nomenclature for the Time Being" by Dionne Brand, from Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems, published by @DukePress . Read here:

"Nomenclature for the Time Being (excerpt)" by Dionne Brand

from "Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems" published by Duke University Press

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Today's Featured Poem: "Larks" by Hannah VanderHart ( @hmvanderhart ), from Issue 52 of @upthestaircase . Read here:

"Larks" by Hannah VanderHart

from Up the Staircase Quarterly

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Today's Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Language as Form, @aliner writes on "my cadastre" by Uljana Wolf. Read here:

Alina Stefanescu on Uljana Wolf's "my cadastre"

Repetition often has an incantatory effect. Nursery rhymes use repetition, rhythm, and rhyme to grant the wish laid upon the first star. Despite this magical aura of naming and claiming, wishing...

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I write to annoy God, to make Death laugh. I write because I can’t get it right. —Charles Simic

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What We Can Learn From Neruda's Poetry of Resistance

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Today's Featured Poet: Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them And Still I Rise. She died in 2014.

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Today's Featured Poet: Katie Farris is currently Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive ( @AliceJamesBooks , 2023) is her first book of poems.

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When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. —Maya Angelou Read "When Great Trees Fall" here:

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. —Gaston Bachelard

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Today's Featured Poet: Diane Seuss was born in Michigan City, Indiana, in 1956 and raised in Edwardsburg and Niles, Michigan. Seuss is the author of five books of poetry, including Four-Legged Girl ( @GraywolfPress , 2015), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Today's Featured Poet: Choi Seungja is one of the most influential feminist writers in South Korea. She made her literary debut in 1979 and shortly after became an icon of youth and freedom in Korean literature, being dubbed “the common pronoun of the 80s’ poets.”

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You will never get death out of your system. —Dana Levin ( @danalevinpoet )

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Today's Featured Poet: Brittany Rogers is a poet, mother, educator, and native Detroiter. She has work published in Vinyl Poetry and Prose, @theoffingmag , & elsewhere. She is Co-Editor in Chief for @MuzzleMagazine and a MFA candidate and Blackburn Fellow at @randolphcollege .

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Today's Featured Poet: Poet & literary scholar Evie Shockley thinks, creates, and writes with her eye on a Black feminist horizon. Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.

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Today's Featured Poet: Kim Hyesoon, one of the most influential contemporary poets in South Korea, is the author of several books of poetry and essays. She has received many awards for her poetry, including the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Summer after summer has ended, balm after violence: it does me no good to be good to me now; violence has changed me. —Louise Glück

"October" by Louise Glück

from "Poems 1962-2012" published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Today's Featured Poet: John Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark.

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🎉🎉 Join @Poetry_Daily editorial board members Kaveh Akbar and @ilya_poet Tuesday, November 2 at 7:30pm ET for a FREE online reading and conversation about Akbar’s PILGRIM BELL 🎉🎉 Register here:

Pilgrim Bell: A Reading & Conversation

Kaveh Akbar and Ilya Kaminsky in an intimate online reading and conversation

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He was calling in the bulls from the street. They came like a dark river, a flood of chest and hoof. —Natalie Diaz, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

"My Brother, My Wound" by Natalie Diaz

from "Postcolonial Love Poem" published by Graywolf Press

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Today's Featured Poem: "I've Been Thinking about Love Again" by Vievee Francis, from the Spring 2022 issue of @sewaneereview . Read here:

"I've Been Thinking about Love Again" by Vievee Francis

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Announcement: "The poet Louise Glück has become the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years, cited for 'her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.'" (The Guardian) #pdnews

Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature

The Swedish Academy has chosen the American poet, citing her ‘unmistakable poetic voice’

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Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body. Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body. —Carl Phillips ( @CPhillipsPoet )

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Today's Featured Poet: Chen Chen’s second book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is a best book of 2022 according to the Boston Globe, Electric Lit, NPR, and others. His debut was long-listed for the National Book Award.

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Today's Featured Poet: Threa Almontaser is the author of THE WILD FOX OF YEMEN ( @GraywolfPress ) selected by Harryette Mullen for the 2020 Walt Whitman Award from @POETSorg . She earned her MFA and TESOL certification from North Carolina State University.

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Today's Featured Poem: "My Twitter Feed Becomes Too Much" by Taylor Byas ( @TaylorByas3 ), from Bloodwarm, published by @VariantLit . Read here:

"My Twitter Feed Becomes Too Much" by Taylor Byas

from "Bloodwarm" published by Variant Lit

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Today's Featured Poet: Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets (forthcoming from @fsgbooks in February 2023). She is currently a senior editor at @yalereview and a lecturer in writing at Yale.

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Today's Featured Poet: Crystal Wilkinson is Kentucky’s Poet Laureate. She currently teaches at @universityofky where she is Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.

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Today's Featured Poet: Rumi, Molana, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Balkhy, was born in or near the city of Balkh, in present-day Afghanistan. He is considered the greatest poet of the Persian language.

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Announcement:"Ashley M. Jones has been chosen to be the first Black poet laureate for Alabama, according to the Magic City Poetry Festival." () #pdnews

Ashley M. Jones of Birmingham selected as state’s new poet laureate

Published works include 'Magic City Gospel'

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5 years

What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems. In the newest series, Life in Public, we ask our editors to examine how poetry speaks to different aspects of public experience.

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Report: "Over 2000 poets and writers... have pledged to boycott the Poetry Foundation..." (LitHub) #pdnews

Over 2000 poets and writers are boycotting the Poetry Foundation.

Over 2000 poets and writers—including Danez Smith, Franny Choi, Safiya Sinclair, Daniel José Older, Jamel Brinkley, Hala Alyan, and Javier Zamora—have pledged to boycott the Poetry Foundation (as w…

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2 years

Today's Featured Poet: Diane Seuss was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan. Seuss is the author of five collections of poetry, including Frank: Sonnets (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Today's Featured Poet: Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.

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