Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
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A literary nonprofit bringing you great poetry from across places, eras, and traditions. We have left X and now post on Bluesky: https://t.co/RKH5ZZQyR3
New York, NY
Joined March 2020
Dear readers and followers: we are leaving X for new adventures on Bluesky! Follow us there at for weekly poem films, new podcast episodes, and more poetic offerings.
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Do note that this will be our final post on X. We invite you to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and our new Bluesky account (, or subscribe to our newsletter for updates on our weekly poem films and other programs.
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"Here I am open, riddled with light, my full year split like a pomegranate, all its days beaded like seeds" Vona Groarke performs her poem "Stansted to Knock, December 21st" in a film produced with @IrishArtsCenter.
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RT @POETSorg: Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise —Maya Angelou
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RT @ilya_poet: "Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also. I don’t know where I get the courage to keep on living…
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RT @susanlleary: “He could not use a pen with his hands.” —Jose Hernandez Diaz, “The True Poet” in THE PARACHUTIST @JoseHernandezDz @Sun…
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"If there is a war buried in this gift I'll eat that too" Patrick Rosal performs his poem "Gift" in the eighth and final offering of our NYC-based poem film series produced with @POETSorg.
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"I feel like the experience of poetry—it's like the only art form that we sort of strap to a gurney and try to beat a confession out [of]." Happy birthday to Kaveh Abkar! Listen to our Season One episode of The Glimpse with Akbar and @camillerankine:
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RT @tseliotprize: We're delighted to announce that the winner of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize is Peter Gizzi with Fierce Elegy, published…
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"Poison in the bread, the air drunk dry. Hard to doctor the wounds." Osip Mandelstam was born on this day in 1891. Here, watch poet Kayo Chingonyi's reading of Mandelstam's poem "54," in a film made with @PoetintheCityUK in 2022.
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"The sun was strong enough today To climb the wall and loose the courtyard trees (For two short hours, anyway) From hardship of the January freeze." Richard Wilbur, "A Courtyard Thaw"
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"I’m terrible at parties, secrets, and money. I want my stars sexy: fast light that’s prophetic. No nonsense about physics, refraction, past light." Hala Alyan performs her poem "Light Ghazal" in a film produced with @POETSorg.
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RT @POETSorg: you, who also survived the groaning machinery of darkness you who, despite this, do not want to be perceived in an empire awa…
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Epiichi bangan zoogipoog While silently the snow falls biinijichaagigewaad souls are washed new Margaret Noodin, "Bangan Zoogipoog / Silent Snowfall"
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