Come, Gods of the Night, enter here, touch
One of your sleepless clients. His head

Is a rose being burned alive.

––Roger Reeves
#PoemADay

poets.org/poem/prayer-go…

'Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary,
Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
Without believing a word.'

John Crowe Ransom, born #OnThisDay .

brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/blue-gir…

james tate, “the last days of april”

This extraordinary short poem by #Cavafy : five lines of remarkable potency:

Barbara Crooker

Someone said my poems are 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺
𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳. Out the window, in the field, seven
cows now gather. When I looked ten minutes
ago, only three cows ... Everyone
must know that to be clear means to have lost
something we have loved.

—Victoria Chang, from 'Feb.5.2022'

Some voice always followed,
telling me which foot
to put down first.
Thanks for deflecting the ricochet
against that anarchy of dusk.

—Yusef Komunyakaa, former Academy Chancellor, born #OTD

poets.org/poem/thanks-0

nothing so patient as truth.

Lucille Clifton

“I should be in awe of the living.” A poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen.

Ask yourself what’s in your heart, that
reliquary—blood locket and seed-bed—and
contend with what it means,

—Natasha Trethewey, Academy Chancellor, born #OTD

poets.org/poem/imperativ…

Our latest film poem collaboration with Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation this week.

#miami

El Coral Gables Art Cinema proyectará nuestras películas “Arrancaba las flores y se las comía” y 'Lo que cuenta' antes de una película principal mañana y domingo, como parte de la programación de O, Miami Poetry Fest

Gracias a Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

brinkerhoffpoetry.org/programs/read-…

Cruelty made me. Cruelty and the sweet smelling earth,

and the wet scent of bay.



—Linda Gregg

So excited to see a new poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil in this issue of The American Poetry Review ☀️:

Tomorrow we release six new films as part of 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚, an online film series including conversations with artists Jeffrey Gibson, Heather Hart, and Ben Pease as well as Tippet Rise co-directors Pete & Lindsey Hinmon.

tippetrise.org/relevance-of-p…

Two of my poems in the new American Poetry Review

'Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.'

William Shakespeare was born #OnThisDay . Celebrate by watching Simon Callow's performance of the Bard's 'Sonnet 60.'

With thanks to The Coronet Theatre.