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Poetry Events
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Recording from Dreaming Ages, an Open Door reading with Zachary Cahilll, Ama Codjoe, Calvin Forbes, Maud Lavin, Sungjae Lee, and Jenny Lin, at the Poetry Foundation on October 13, 2022....
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From Poetry Events
Join us for a poetry reading and conversation with Maya Marshall and Nicole Homer in partnership with Haymarket Books, a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.
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From Poetry Events
Recording from a reading and concert of songs from LYNX Project’s debut album, beautiful small things.
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From Poetry Events
Recording from the live award ceremony at the Poetry Foundation honoring the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Class of 2020: Harry Mark Petrakis, Era Bell Thompson, and Lisel Mueller, with...
Created in partnership by the Poetry Foundation and Manual Cinema, this animated short brings three war poems to life with innovative puppetry and animation work.
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From Poem Videos
Filmed on location at Kenkeleba House Garden in the East Village, this poignant film contemplates how poetry can entrap, rather than release, past traumas and hardships.
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From Poem Videos
Filmed on location at Sister’s Uptown Bookstore in Harlem, this moving meditation reveals the tangled strands of personal identity that emerge from literature and repetitive thought patterns.
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From Poem Videos
In this moving meditation, author Esther Aloba contemplates sexuality, queerness, loss, and resilience in the aftermath of a relationship.
Poetry Explorers
Spring has sprung, Poetry Explorers! Let’s pick flowers and make sweet memories. In today’s episode we will make a suncatcher and reflect on how we have grown with the seasons.
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Good evening, Poetry Explorers! What do you like about night-time? Tonight we'll embrace the poetry of the night world and make a mobile, also known as a dreamcatcher.
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With Valentine’s Day and Black History Month, February is a month of love and justice. Today we'll read poems about love and justice by e.e. cummings and Jacqueline Woodson, then...
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What are your favorite things about winter? Is snow on that list? Today we’ll make a “Word Blizzard” snow globe, and think about how a poem might be like snow.
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Today we’ll learn how to make a kaleidoscope and think about how a kaleidoscope might be like a poem.
Imani Davis (they/them) reads Patricia Smith's poem, “First Friction.”
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From Ours Poetica
Desiree C. Bailey (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “Chant for the Waters and Dirt and Blade (Slight Return).”
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Ilyus Evander reads "In the Dream Where I Wake Up in My Physics Class Naked" by Torrin A. Greathouse
From Ours PoeticaIlyus Evander (they/them) reads Torrin A. Greathouse's poem, “In the Dream Where I Wake Up in My Physics Class Naked.”
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From Ours Poetica
Blythe Baird (she/her/hers) reads Aimee Nezhukumatathil's poem, “The Purchase.”
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From Ours Poetica
Justice Ameer (xe/xem/xir) reads Logan February's poem, “A Boy Cries Wolf.”
Whitman’s poetry unites us in freedom and our compassionate, common humanity.
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From Poetry Documentaries
Vanessa Place tweets Lyn Hejinian’s life softly as her song.
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From Poetry Documentaries
Produced by Norbert Lempert of REMproductions in association with the Poetry Foundation. Gerald Stern is as much the poet warrior now as when he stunned the poetry world thirty years...
Read by Emilio Aponte-Sierra
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From Favorite Poem Project
Read by Hana Bajramovic
Phil Kaye shares one of his poems, “Surplus,” for a brief but spectacular take on his grandfather, Cheerful Al, and the limitations of "traditional masculinity."
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From NewsHour Poetry Series
As a writer, editor and archivist, Kevin Young is a poet actively engaged with the world.
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From NewsHour Poetry Series
Jeffrey Brown remembers the renowned writer with a look back at a 2006 interview.
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From NewsHour Poetry Series
Inspired by the people who have come forward as part of the #MeToo movement, Imani Davis shares her poem “Platinum” and gives her Brief but Spectacular take on how society...
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From NewsHour Poetry Series
New York-based poet Whitney Greenaway shares her Brief but Spectacular take on letting go.