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The Poetry Foundation works to amplify poetry & celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience & share poetry. Publisher of @PoetryMagazine
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Niveah Glover of Florida is the 2024
@PoetryOutLoud
National Champion and winner of $20,000!
Learn more about the competition and the incredible young people who participate.
#POL24
#PoetryOutLoud
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We are proud to announce THE SLOWDOWN, a new poetry podcast and radio feature hosted by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith! Learn more and listen on November 26.
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How alone I am, but in music
my desolation is my rejoicing.
—Louise Glück (1943-2023)
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The Poetry Foundation and
@PoetryMagazine
are excited to announce Adrian Matejka
@adrian_matejka
as the new editor of POETRY! 🎉 🎉 🎉
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Say surrender. Say alabaster. Switchblade.
Honeysuckle. Goldenrod. Say autumn.
Say autumn despite the green
—Ocean Vuong, whose birthday is today!
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🎊 The Poetry Foundation is thrilled to announce the 12 finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships! Thank you to all of those who shared their work with us! 🎊
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Congratulations to
@Danez_Smif
for winning this year’s
@ForwardPrizes
for Best Collection! 🎊
#ForwardPrizes
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Please join us in congratulating the five 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows, Bhion Achimba, Roda Avelar, Ariana Benson, Chrysanthemum, and Willie Lee Kinard III! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
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The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce Marilyn Nelson is the winner of the 2019 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Naomi Shihab Nye is the 2019–21 Young People's Poetry Laureate, and Terrance Hayes is the winner of the 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism! 🎊
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The heart
is a skinny
piece of paper.
—Shani, age eleven
What poem would you write on the “skinny/ piece of paper” that is the heart?
#NationalPoetryMonth
📚
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We are saddened by the passing of David Berman. Spend a little time with his thoughts on writing in this interview with
@travisjnichols
.
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Congratulations to Louise Glück on winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature!
Revisit Claire Luchette's interview with Glück on writing process, her 13th book of poems, and why she experiences a ‘kind of grief’ upon publication.
[📷 Katherine Wolkoff]
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The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 2022 Pegasus Awards winners, including an unprecedented cohort of 11 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winners! 🎉🎊
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listen little sister
angels make their hope here
in these hills
follow me
I will guide you
—bell hooks
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🎉 Congratulations to the 2020 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows:
@isaborgeson
,
@lutherxhughes
,
@cyreejarelle
,
@_dariussimpson
, &
@khatyxiong
! 🎉
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The Board of Directors of the Poetry Foundation have accepted the resignation of Foundation President Henry Bienen with gratitude for his years of service; it is effective immediately. In addition, Willard Bunn III is stepping down as Board chair.
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...Today I want
to resolve nothing.
I only want to walk
a little longer in the cold
—Kim Addonizio with our
#PoemOfTheDay
for the new year.
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🎉 Poetry Month is here! 🎉
With free downloads of
@PoetryMagazine
, hybrid events, and over 46k poems in our archive, there are so many ways to celebrate!
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You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
--Maya Angelou
#poemsofresistance
#poemoftheday
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It's official—Chicago has its first official Poet Laureate: avery r. young! 🎉🎉🎉
Many thanks to our partners
@ChiPubLib
and
@ChicagoDCASE
!
#ChicagoPoetLaureate
#PoetryMonth
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"Plato wanted to banish poets from his Republic because they can make lies seem like truth. Shelley thought poets were 'the unacknowledged legislators of the world,' and Auden insisted that 'poetry makes nothing happen.'" [1/2]
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Clara Rilke, great, great granddaughter of Rainer Maria Rilke visited Poetry Foundation today!
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"In poetry we talk a lot about finding a voice," says Srikanth Reddy, "but it has a lot to teach about listening."
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"It’s easy for people to say no to imperfectly rendered plans for the future. But we have to understand that the greatest social transformations in our country came about because people fought for things they had never seen."
—
@eveewing
to
@JulianThePoet
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The 2019 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalists are:
@noahbaldino
,
@fannychoir
, Jane Huffman,
@miaadrikang
,
@_joseolivarez
, Alan Pelaez Lopez,
@JulianThePoet
,
@Justafknminute
,
@monicasokwrites
,
@noahrwarren
& Michael Wasson! 🎉
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We are thrilled to announce the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows: Tarik Dobbs
@mxrlevant
, Diamond Forde,
@PoemsandCake
, Tariq Luthun
@tariqpoems
,
@TroyOsaki
, and Alan Pelaez Lopez
@MigrantScribble
! 🎉
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We are saddened by W.S. Merwin's passing. Spend time reflecting on his legacy in this collection of his work.
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We are proud to announce the 2018 cohort of Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! Congratulations to
@mafiasafia
,
@HieuMinh
,
@samsax1
,
@nascenters
, and
@speakdeadly
!
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We are saddened to hear of the passing of Mary Oliver.
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Patricia Smith (
@pswordwoman
) is the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner, honored for lifetime achievement!
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Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
—Emily Dickinson, who died
#onthisday
in 1886.
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Congratulations to the 2023 Pegasus Awards winners!
🎉 Kimiko Hahn: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
🎉
@ToiDerricotte
& Cornelius Eady (
@roughband
): Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry
🎉Douglas Kearney: Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Learn more:
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We're seeking several freelance writers to review poetry books and a news curator to aggregate poetry-related news for the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet! Learn more about these independent contractor roles!
#freelance
#publishing
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We are so pleased to announce that Joy Harjo (whose birthday is today!) is our 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Winner!
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.
@JackieWoodson
is the new Young People’s Poet Laureate!
http://t.co/Myq5KxkJNy
http://t.co/XjoxkREOvy
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April is
#NationalPoetryMonth
and we have so many ways to celebrate. This month's issue is made up of 3 special folios and we'll be posting questions for you about some of the poems in the issue; those posts will be marked with the 📚 emoji. We can't wait to hear from you!
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Call for Submissions: Emily Dickinson 1st Book Awd
Seeking manuscripts from poets 40+ years of age for $10K prize
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Don Share, editor of POETRY magazine, has announced he is stepping aside.
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Hear poetry from
@eveewing
,
@Danez_Smif
,
@beblk
, and others at the Third Annual Chicago Poetry Block Party on Saturday, July 28! Learn more at
#CPBP2018
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"There is no such thing as Native American poetry. We are poets who belong to Native Nations. There are more than 573 Native Nations."
—
@HeidErdrich
on the June 2018 Native Poets issue of
@poetrymagazine
.
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Resolve to read more poetry, write more openly, and breathe more freely in 2018!
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Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" was published 200 years ago this month. Learn more about the poem that has intrigued lovers of poetry, film, and comic books alike.
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When I am gone what will you do?
Who will write and draw for you?
Someone smarter—someone new?
Someone better—maybe YOU!
–"When I Am Gone" by Shel Silverstein who died
#onthisday
in 1999.
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Announcing emergency funding for organizations fighting for social justice, and working to advance racial equity in poetry and affiliated art. Apply now:
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In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
—Mark Strand, who was born
#OnThisDay
in 1934.
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Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
–W.S. Merwin with our
#PoemoftheDay
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Elizabeth Acevedo
@acevedowrites
is the 2022–24 Young People's Poet Laureate, taking over from Naomi Shihab Nye
@YPPLaureate
.
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The CDC Poetry Initiative is calling for poets to submit work that incorporates all seven of the words that the Department of Health and Human Services banned the CDC from using. Prepare your most vulnerable, evidence-based work!
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Congratulations to all of the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships finalists! The 2021 cohort will be announced in September! 🎉
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"Even when I am confounded by a poem, my world is changed in some way." Roxane Gay on poetry.
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We are proud to announce the finalists for this year’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships. The winners will be announced in September, and we encourage you to get to know all of the finalists’ work in the meantime!
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Congratulations to
@JoyHarjo
, the new US Poet Laureate! Get to know her work with out Poet 101. [Portrait by
@SophieherX
]
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The caged bird sings/with a fearful trill/of things unknown... - RIP Maya Angelou
http://t.co/270TcLcc0Q
http://t.co/K7NLJ9cSwe
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Congratulations to
@poetrymagazine
contributor Frank Bidart, who is the winner of the 2018
#PulitzerPrize
for poetry! Get to know his work with this podcast from the archives.
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The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce Marilyn Chin (
@poetmarilynchin
) as the winner of the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and Saskia Hamilton as the winner of the 2020 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism! 🎉 🎉
[📷 Jon Medel]
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We recognize these are unprecedented times for education, and so we started compiling resources for teaching and learning remotely, for all levels. Please explore, share and send us your ideas.
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Congratulations to the 2019
@poetrymagazine
Prize winners:
@MonicaYoun
,
@chen_ken
,
@johnleeclark
,
@TAGreathouse
, John Hennessy and Ostap Kin,
@TsengIsland
, Mark Ford,
@Vanessid
and
@alyssanmo
!
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
–Read Emily Dickinson from our series “Together and by Ourselves”
#PoemoftheDay
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We're delighted to announce that Major Jackson
@Poet_Major
will be the new host of
@slowdownshow
, with his first episode on January 23! 🎉
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Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle,
Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
–From "The Colossus" by Sylvia Plath, who died
#onthisday
in 1963. [📷 by Bettmann]
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On this National Haiku Poetry Day, learn more about the possibilities of the Haiku form, and maybe give it a go yourself.
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Current U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith talks to
@nytimes
about what's she's reading, including collections by
@poetrymagazine
contributors
@eveewing
, Layli Long Soldier, and
@jennymxie
.
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Congratulations to our 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows!
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So, it's over.
In the pine-crown
he makes his nest,
he's done all he can.
—Mary Oliver, who passed away Thursday, with our
#PoemoftheDay
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the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making
–Lawrence Ferlinghetti who has passed at the age of 101
[📷 Ilka Hartmann]
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"You could give a speech, you could give a eulogy, you could critique, but sometimes just having a moment of silence is profound."
—
@eveewing
in her interview with
@JulianThePoet
. [Photo by Daniel Barlow]
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I realized that by devaluing humor, by striving to be a “serious writer,” a deadly serious person, I wasn’t taking myself seriously.
—Chen Chen (
@chenchenwrites
) for the
#Harriet
blog.
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We’re thrilled to announce new members of the
@poetrymagazine
team! 🎉
Please join us in welcoming Cindy Juyoung Ok as host of the Poetry Magazine Podcast and five new magazine readers!
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Congratulations to Ed Roberson, winner of the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize!
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The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 2021 Pegasus Awards winners! Please join us on October 21 to celebrate all of these incredible artists!
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Congratulations to Jericho Brown (
@jerichobrown
), Toi Derricotte (
@ToiDerricotte
), Ilya Kaminsky (
@ilya_poet
), Carmen Giménez Smith (
@lizitasmith
) and Arthur Sze on being named finalists for the National Book Award in Poetry!
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“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
—Lewis Carroll, who was born
#onthisday
in 1832.
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The Poetry Foundation and POETRY magazine stand in solidarity with the Black community, and denounce injustice and systemic racism.
Read our full statement here:
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Today is
#InternationalWomensDay
, and we will be posting eight items over the course of the day to celebrate. We begin with a poem by Lucille Clifton from our
#WomensHistoryMonth
collection.
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Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day with poems from our Native American Poetry and Culture collection [Art by Dyani White Hawk]
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Read our Open Letter of Commitment to Our Community
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Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
–Maya Angelou, who died
#onthisday
in 2014:
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Poems can expose grim truths, raise consciousness, and build united fronts. Explore our updated collection "Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment."
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Forget the Emily Dickinson you think you know. Behold, instead, a woman who baked a lot; who was very often funny; and who used a prodigious number of exclamation points in letters to her family.
—
@MayaCPopa
on the letters of Emily Dickinson
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I thought: If T.S. Eliot can add those Western languages, why shouldn't I add lines of Japanese and East Asian literature? Why shouldn't I include my cultural references?
—Kimiko Hahn, winner of the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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Last night we honored Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Terrance Hayes at our Pegasus Awards ceremony! 🎊(Photo credit:
@AP_Images
)
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We are excited to announce that Margarita Engle is the 2017 Young People’s Poet Laureate!
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Poetry is for lovers! For Valentine’s Day, gift a $20 one-year subscription to a lover, friend, or yourself.
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“It can say, ‘Can we just get quiet for a minute? Can we just listen to actual words that are employed with a great deal of focus and urgency?’”
—Tracy K. Smith on
@slowdownshow
in an interview with
@_SaraAridi
for
@nytimes
.
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I have been woman
for a long time
beware my smile
I am treacherous with old magic
—Audre Lorde from "A Woman Speaks," featured in our Women's History Month collection.
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Introducing the 2021 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships cohort:
@BByrdlong
@stevenespadaw
@Mynrhindi
@nattyrao
@shieh_simon
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I am the farthest star
I am the cold of dawn
I am the roaring of the rain
I am the glitter on the crust of the snow
I am the long track of the moon in a lake.
—N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024)
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Check out
@tavitulle
in the July/Aug issue of
@poetrymagazine
featured in
@thehairpin
http://t.co/F37PDvsYdy
http://t.co/oyvbIKSNdX
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Rest in Purple, Prince.
Here is Constance Enslow's "Purple" from
@poetrymagazine
April 1923
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