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Poetry Events
Introduction to the exhibition Monica Ong: Planetaria, with commentary from the artist and co-curators Katherine Litwin and Fred Sasaki. Free and open to all, Poetry Foundation exhibitions showcase work that brings together visual arts and the wr
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From Poetry Events
Recording from the book launch of Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School.
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From Poetry Events
A virtual reading featuring a live virtual reading with Viola Lee, Jen Steele, Helene Achanzar, and Hinisha Malone. The Open Door series presents work from new and emerging poets and...
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From Poetry Events
Recording from the book launch of Alida Miranda-Wolff’s Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last, with a Q&A with Michelle Boone.
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From Poetry Events
A virtual reading featuring the 2021 Forms & Features Visiting Teaching Artists, as we mark the launch of a new essay series, Poetry & Practice.
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
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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.
Andrea Gibson reads "Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps"
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From Ours Poetica
Muggs Fogarty (they/them) reads their poem, "You're so shy, Sex Camel."
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From Ours Poetica
Brittany Rogers (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "In Response to Baby Girl Asking Me If It Hurts to Give Birth."
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From Ours Poetica
Chrysanthemum Tran (she/they) reads her poem, “I Don't Even Like Sports.”
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From Ours Poetica
No'u Revilla (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “The ea of enough”.
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.