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The Poetry Foundation will close at 1 PM CT on Wednesday, November 7. We'll resume normal hours on December 4. Have a happy holiday! Plan your next visit: poetryfoundation.org/visit

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. Listen here: bit.ly/3Z8QIFl

On the latest episode of #VSThePodcast, @mobrowne and @yonaharvey join @brittanyroger_ & @MoonsAtDusk LIVE from @FuriousFlowerPC! In this moment from the episode, Mahogany reads from from “For Sonia in Three Parts.” Listen to the full episode: bit.ly/3Z9oE4Y

Every job needs writers. Find out where you can fit in at @poetryfound and @nypl, plus so much more in the Girls Write Now Portal. Make your free account & get access to our selection of jobs, internships, writing contests, & more! buff.ly/41TGREx

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. Plan your next visit: poetryfoundation.org/visit

The Poetry Foundation building will be closed today, November 23.

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

Give the gift of poetry with our sponsor, @PoetryMagazine! For a limited time, you can get one year of POETRY and their exclusive tote bag. buff.ly/40NTgex

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 Read their prize-winning work: bit.ly/3CAFKRF

Shuntaro Tanikawa (1931-2024) bit.ly/4fOVMGp

The Northwest New Mexico Arts Council supports the literary and performing arts, STEAM education, and other enrichment for people of all ages. Learn more about our grantee-partner: bit.ly/40SoL7j

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

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!🎂 poetryoutloud.org/poem/they-are-…

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! bit.ly/4htkq0k

Curl up with our collection of poems to read as the leaves change and the weather gets colder. 🍂 bit.ly/3NZ8MwH