Verse of April
@verseofapril.bsky.social
Digital Anthology of Homage to the Poets. We proudly publish from Paris, France. Now accepting submissions for Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V. www.verseofapril.com
It was our final event of this year's season! See you in September, loves. Thank you to Skye, to all of our readers this year, to Rerenga Wines, and to our beautiful, thoughtful Parisian community.
Paris Heretics@parisheretics.bsky.social · 4w agoTomorrow in Paris! Skye Jackson at Rerenga Wines, hosted by our friends at @verseofapril.bsky.social 3 Rue de la Fidélité, 75010, at 14h
Alisha Dietzman at Mnemosynes in Paris, this Saturday, May 30th at 14h!
"So, I wrote my own poem, continuing a conversation I was only just realizing women poets had been having for centuries, and I felt very sad," writes Nikki Ummel in her homage statement to Diane Seuss. You can read her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nikki-ummel-v
"I think that I am very tender for category errors. And footnotes," writes @minxmarple.bsky.social in the opening of her homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. You can read and hear her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...
On April 18th, Mnemosynes is proud to host French poet, translator, and critic Lénaïg Cariou for a reading from her new collection, les dires (Éditons MF, April 2026). 14h at Rerenga Wines!
Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.
"Rich’s expansive outlook has helped me feel like I too have permission to bend [the word poetry]." See @jstoneking.bsky.social's full homage to @richardinlelot.bsky.social on our site: www.verseofapril.com/jason-stonek...
Just opened an Internet window, and, man, does it feel better in here. Send us your FR>EN or EN>FR translations of living poets’ work. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by Baptiste de Chabaneix)
Yes, give us more poet-on-poet. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by @dechabaneixbaptiste)
Here is the fourth of my Text Embodiments series, in which dancers and other movement artists interpret my words with motion. It was such a pleasure to collaborate with dancer Marie Grillo 🤩, and thanks as always to Leslie McAllister for the 🎥🙏 #poetry #dance #ballet youtu.be/CSfPI-IFgfA
Text Embodiments #4 - Marie Grillo
YouTube video by Jason Stoneking
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Mnemosynes — ❤️🔥. We have events on the horizon. More updates soon.
Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)
Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️
Verse of April@verseofapril.bsky.social · 9mo agoOn November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.
A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Call of Air | Sylvie Kandé, Nancy Naomi Carlson
Accursed would you go as far as to covetyour neighbor’s long-gone past...Melancholy this sixth sense!No the appetite for things ebbingalready leaves a
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Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi. Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org
Join us for our 5th Anniversary party, Dec 16th at @pointephemere.bsky.social! Poetry, Music, DJ Sets and lots of surprises 🎉 Featuring Heretics artists @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social @lesteria.bsky.social @richardinlelot.bsky.social + friends and special guests! Don't miss it!
On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.
"The beauty of friendship (and the similarly-weighted tragedy of its dissolution) as a young adult is something I am intimately familiar with, and [Patterson's] poem captured it so beautifully," writes nat raum. Read (and listen) to their full entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nat-raum
you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today! I.i am A. writing 1. an ars poetica i. in which i bury you, ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, 2. a farewell. https://www.havehashad.com/t727h
poem in which you become the “you” by nat raum
i am writing an ars poetica in which i bury you, in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, a farewell. still crying in my car sometimes. for your specter.
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PARIS: Next Tuesday, with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom; Laura Mullen and Stéphanie Chaillou; Sandra Mousssempès, Amanda Murphy, and myself. Hosted by Ivy Writers and The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. Would be nice to see you there.
This is the first in my new series, Text Embodiments, in which dancers and other movement artists interpret my words with motion. It was a privilege to collaborate with Sylvaine Soldano of liebemdance.com 💝 Thank you Leslie McAllister for 🎥+✂ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_D...
Text Embodiments #1 - Sylvaine Soldano
YouTube video by Jason Stoneking
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Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
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The last Mnemosynes reading of the 2024-2025 year with gorgeous poems from Rhoni Blankenhorn and Lindsay Turner. Thank you, dear poets, for the pleasure and real questioning of your verse. It has been an honor to share these moments with you all this season. See you soon in September. GROSSES BISES.
Of her homage to Liliane Giraudon, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social writes, "These are the fragments I first envisioned painting onto glass. I eventually decided to reduce the amount of text inside the window itself, but the original selection has since coalesced into a found poem."
Hand fans, orange wine, backless chairs, legs, « portes béantes », car-gripping hands of curious children, peal of motor scooter, bus, rumble of Pride, Wet Hot European Summer, « negative capability » of the floor, as our guest named it, & speaking of her, Catherine Barnett. 🩵
We are expecting a good turn-out for this event, so please try to arrive on time to secure a place. It might also be a good idea to bring a hand fan! Chilled wine will be for sale by the glass at the store.
Verse of April@verseofapril.bsky.social · last yr.Parisians, this Saturday, June 28th, from 14-16h, we'll be hosting American poet Catherine Barnett at Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series. Join us at Rerenga Wines in the 10th for natural wine, books, poems, and intimate exchange!
NEW POEM #244: "Practice Run" by Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) "'The Rapture! Someone's been yanked to heaven!' The girls argued. How could it be the Rapture if they were still here? How could someone with a mustard-stained t-shirt go before them?" stonecirclereview.com/practice-run/
Today my poem “transmasc marvel girl (sonnet)” is poem of the week at The Missouri Review!!! missourireview.com/arcadia/
Parisians, this Saturday, June 28th, from 14-16h, we'll be hosting American poet Catherine Barnett at Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series. Join us at Rerenga Wines in the 10th for natural wine, books, poems, and intimate exchange!