On the latest episode of the #PoetryOffTheShelf podcast, Ada Limón and host Helena de Groot discuss rejection, moving forward, and what the trees have seen. 🌳 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4y3kzPU
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☀️ As August was winding down, the people who work tirelessly to support poets, build community, and expand access to poetry were invited to rest, recharge, and be together at the Poetry Foundation’s first Sustainable Futures Retreat. Learn more about their experience: https://bit.ly/3ThjXXE
Large green-tailed lizard, zucchini-mottled flicks and swirls. But, no! It’s not some random lizard: that’s the snake! A rill of water falling up the stone, he’d heard my light, quick foot as human-hard. —Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1941-2026) https://bit.ly/4dgFV4b
from Eurydics: Snake
It's not some random lizard: that's the snake! that wildly handsome man who had no wife, his wife had “gone away” (but where?) so he wanted to meet more...
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Beat Poet Ted Joans Connects Poetry, Collage Art, and Jazz youtu.be/eyuGDgVHKIA?...
Beat Poet Ted Joans Connects Poetry, Collage Art, and Jazz
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Long before I became Series Editor, the Poets on Poetry Series taught me about inquiry and craft. What an honor, then, that two of our books were nominated for the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the @poetry.foundation. Congratulations, @philipmetres.bsky.social and Jason Schneiderman.
Meet Fatima Jafar, one of our 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! 🎉 Fatima builds her poetry practice around inherited memory, communal creativity, and a hunger to remember. Read more about Fatima: https://bit.ly/4jbyVZU
Like a painting, our talk is dense with description, half-truths, landscapes, phrases layered with a patina over time. When she came into my life I didn’t hesitate. –Robin Becker with today's #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4A34rPH
Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
I've expanded like the swollen door in summer to fit my own dimension. Today all good Jews collect their crimes like old clothes to be washed and given to...
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Steven Belletto, author of BLACK SURREALIST: THE LEGEND OF TED JOANS, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the poem and the collage art Joans created to accompany much of his poetry. Check out the September issue of POETRY magazine for more on Joans's poetry and art.
Where are you wandering to, little fools Come, big sister will teach you how to write verse Itchy little wasps sucking rotting flowers Horny baby lambkins butting gaps in the fence. –Ho Xuan Huong translated by Marilyn Chin with today's #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4yt0p1p
Wasps
Where are you wandering to, little fools Come, big sister will teach you how to write verse Itchy little wasps sucking rotting flowers Horny baby lambkins…
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Jared Marcel Pollen reflects on Ingeborg Bachmann's "plunges into silence" at her centenary. Read "The Edge of the Unsayable:" https://bit.ly/4haQDu6
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens –William Carlos Williams was born #OnThisDay in 1883. #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4r4BcIf
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens
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Watch! Watch them. But from eleven rows back, through ever-moving water, that hazy one-way mirror that is watching a girl –Summer LoPriore with today's #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4iklYN6
Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall
for a male artist, spit and piss on it, cigarette smoke and grunt at it, ii? Male lecturer says he was replaying desire : put the ball in, fantasize, spit...
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This is today’s poem of the day from @poetry.foundation and it blew my little mind. “Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall,” by Summer LoPriore. Bacall was born on this day in 1924. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
And God! to dwell in the town In these springlike summer days, On my brow an unfading frown And hate in my heart always— –Claude McKay with today's #PoemoftheDay https://bit.ly/3SSFeqG
Joy in the Woods
to dwell in the town In these springlike summer days, On my brow an unfading frown And hate in my heart always— A machine out of gear, aye, tired, Yet…
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Congrats to Meg Day for winning the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize! 🏆 I am on pins & needles to read Sound Lasso, much love ❤️ Also I am the one finalist, which is exciting—my own book is close! 😊 Thank you judges, thank you poetryfoundation & Graywolf & congrats to the winners 🙏
The Poetry Foundation awards $195k in prizes for poetry craft, service, and criticism www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/182...
2026 Pegasus Awards Celebrate Poetry’s Range
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Found this poem on the Poetry Foundation site today and man it’s so good! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Jazz Is My Religion
Jazz is my religion and it alone do I dig the jazz clubs are my house of worship and sometimes the concert halls but some holy places are too…
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As I drew nearer to the end of all desire, I brought my longing's ardor to a final height, Just as I ought. –Dante Alighieri translated by 2026 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient Robert Pinsky with today's #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4r27CTT
from Paradiso: Canto 33 (lines 46-48, 52-66)
As I drew nearer to the end of all desire, I brought my longing's ardor to a final height, Just as I ought. My vision, becoming pure, Entered more and…
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Besides, everything is better now. Not us but implants, blenders, children, heart attacks. There’s never been a better time to be alive than when you are. If you are. –D. A. Powell with today's #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4zYe3LD
Positivity
“Anyway, it isn't forever,” Chris said, “eventually you're dead.” And we laughed Besides, everything is better now. Black-throated blue warbler says...
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Meet Xochi Quetzali Cartland, one of our 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! 🎉 Xochi affirms a poetry practice devoted to justice, liberation, and the lived truths of Black, brown, queer, and immigrant communities. Read more about Xochi: https://bit.ly/3T0q7LF
In her new collection, Carolyn Forché asks whether poetry of witness is still possible in a world fractured by algorithms and overwhelming catastrophe. Read Frederico Perelmuter's essay on Forché. Content note: war and violence. https://bit.ly/4xPkz5P
They call you the New World but I close my eyes and the cold is a cloud that envelopes history. – Fernando Valverde translated by Carolyn Forché with today's #PoemoftheDay https://bit.ly/4xgwR6t
The light passes from ridge to ridge, from flower to flower— the hepaticas, wide-spread under the light grow faint— the petals reach inward, the blue tips bend toward the bluer heart and the flowers are lost. –H.D. with today's #PoemoftheDay https://bit.ly/3SjVtwb
Evening
The light passes from ridge to ridge, from flower to flower— the hepaticas, wide-spread under the light grow faint— the petals reach inward, the blue tips…
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It's now announced--I'm this year's recipient of the Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry from the Poetry Foundation. Other Pegasus award winners and myself will be honored in late October in Chicago: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/182...
2026 Pegasus Awards Celebrate Poetry’s Range
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Not a bad day. The announcement went out this afternoon: The Poetry Foundation chose moi as the next Young People's Poet Laureate! That's reason enough to smile, don't you think?
🏆The cat is officially out of the bag -- Professor Emeritus Robert Pinsky is the winner of the 2026 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize!🏆 Congratulations, Robert -- we're so happy for you!
Congratulations to Poets on Poetry Series author Jason Schneiderman on being awarded the 2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism by the @poetry.foundation! If you haven't read Jason's book yet, you can order your copy directly from @uofmpress.bsky.social here: press.umich.edu/Books/N/Noth...
