Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
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A literary nonprofit bringing you great poetry from across places, eras, and traditions. We have left X and now post on Bluesky: https://t.co/RKH5ZZQyR3
New York, NY
Joined March 2020
Dear readers and followers: we are leaving X for new adventures on Bluesky! . Follow us there at for weekly poem films, new podcast episodes, and more poetic offerings.
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RT @SJSwords: ✨ PREMIERE TONIGHT! ✨. My new poetry film Universal City premieres at the @BloomsdayFF x @BrinkerhoffPoem showcase! 🎥🎙️. Feat….
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The Bloomsday Film Festival presents Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation Film Showcase on Friday, June 13th at 7pm in Belvedere College. Premiere of this year’s Adrian Brinkerhoff/Bloomsday ‘Unive...
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RT @poetryireland: Joyce’s ‘Universal City’: An Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation / Bloomsday Poetry Film Showcase. Friday 13th June at….
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RT @writersmosaic: .@marjorielotfi reads 'Prayer' by John Burnside, the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the @Brink….
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Prayer by John Burnside Give me a little less with every dawn: colour, a breath of wind, the perfection of shadows, till what I find, I find because it’s there, gold in the seams of my hands and...
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RT @writersmosaic: In the next of our series of poetry films with @BrinkerhoffPoem, poet @_dodo reads, 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleri….
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Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to...
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: In this stunning @BrinkerhoffPoem /@writersmosaic film directed by Savannah Acquah, @marjorielotfi is filmed reciting th….
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Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, The Hebridean Crab Apple. An Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation funded film, directed by Savannah Acquah.
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RT @wcorklitfest: Sounds wonderful! We'll be tuning into the @BrinkerhoffPoem poetry podcast The Glimpse to hear host @seanehewitt and a wo….
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Do note that this will be our final post on X. We invite you to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and our new Bluesky account (, or subscribe to our newsletter for updates on our weekly poem films and other programs.
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Our winter poetry update is here!. Discover poems by great contemporary poets like @skygoneout, @jane_janeclarke, @Idharker, @seanehewitt, @officialdonika, @VKennefick, @craigsperez, @Padraig_Regan, and more, plus many powerful voices from the past.
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Discover 75 poems freshly added to our site in our winter poetry update.
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"Here I am open, riddled with light,.my full year split like a pomegranate,.all its days beaded like seeds". Vona Groarke performs her poem "Stansted to Knock, December 21st" in a film produced with @IrishArtsCenter.
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Floored by clouds so dense you think you
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RT @camillerankine: New poem out today ✨
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A poem by Camille Rankine: “I check the news to tell me / what I know”
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RT @POETSorg: Out of the huts of history’s shame.I rise.Up from a past that’s rooted in pain.I rise. —Maya Angelou.
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Discover the meaning behind Maya Angelou's inspiring poem, with an audio recording of actress Rosie Perez reading this classic work, which has been celebrated by Serena Williams, Cory Booker, and...
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RT @POETSorg: The dead do. what they want.which is nothing—. sit there, mantled,. or made real.by photographs. ––Kevin Young.@Deard….
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The dead do / what they want / which is nothing—
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RT @ilya_poet: "Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also. I don’t know where I get the courage to keep on living….
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RT @susanlleary: “He could not use a pen with his hands.”. —Jose Hernandez Diaz, “The True Poet” in THE PARACHUTIST . @JoseHernandezDz @Sun….
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"If there is a war.buried. in this gift.I'll eat that too". Patrick Rosal performs his poem "Gift" in the eighth and final offering of our NYC-based poem film series produced with @POETSorg.
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When you hold a slice of fresh cut red melon
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"I feel like the experience of poetry—it's like the only art form that we sort of strap to a gurney and try to beat a confession out [of].". Happy birthday to Kaveh Abkar! Listen to our Season One episode of The Glimpse with Akbar and @camillerankine: .
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Kaveh Akbar reads "Reading Farrokhzad in a Pandemic" and Russell Edson’s poem “The Neighborhood Dog” and converses with Camille.
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RT @tseliotprize: We're delighted to announce that the winner of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize is Peter Gizzi with Fierce Elegy, published….
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