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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Please join me and these three terrific poets next Tuesday, August 4, at 6 PM at Bryant Park, in the outdoor reading room along West 42nd Street. The brilliant Jason Schneiderman is our host. It's going to be a wonderful evening.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Last day at VCCA. A whole mess of poems written.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Le Moulin à Nef residency, in Auvillar, France. My studio is in the front, with the green shutters. I look out on to the River Garonne & its bridge & fragrant riverbank, which has already led to a poem about sensory overwhelm. My thanks to the VCCA people who make this place possible.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Trying to remember my French before I leave on Sunday for my residency at Le Moulin à Nef, so I don't accidentally board a train to Vladivostok.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Last night at a faculty reading for Poetry by the Sea, I read new poems, including two that celebrate the Manhattan Bridge. Sorry/not sorry, Hart Crane.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

6,940 consecutive days of aerobic exercise. Nineteen years.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A new year. A new mayor for New York. A new hope.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Our time has come, New York. Our time is now."

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world." --Paul Monette, October 16, 1945 - February 10, 1995

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Zohran Mamdani celebrates the life and legacy of trans activist Sylvia Rivera--and vows to support trans people in New York and combat Donald Trump's "scorched earth campaign" against them. See the first comment for the full, two-minute video, shot in Christopher Park.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Join us for the NY book launch of Rhoni Blankenhorn's "Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet" & Anthony Borruso's "Splice," from Trio House, at Black Spring Books, this Thursday, July 10, at 7 PM. I'll reas Reuben Gelley Newman, whose "Dear Dear" will be published by Trio House next year!

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today I have completed 6,575 consecutive days of aerobic exercise. Eighteen years. ____ Illustration: Pheidippides giving word of the Greek victory over Persia at the Battle of Marathon to the people of Athens, having run the whole way, by Luc-Olivier Merson. Pheidippides promptly dropped dead.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A hugely heartening march of thousands upon thousands in Manhattan, one of thousands of protests nationwide. Clay carried this sign for four hours. This good trouble will build and build. #handsoff

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I know Trump's terrible and tragic tariffs will bring trouble and turmoil to people the world over--but today, please, please, ponder the plight of the penguins on Heard Island.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

CCNY MFA AWP LA! My thanks to all the writers from the CCNY MFA in Creative Writing program, including fellow faculty members Rosanna Oh and Irvin Weathersby, who came together for lunch at Pine & Crane the first day of the conference. What a collegial and talented crew!

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Trans people everywhere, you are seen, valued, celebrated, and defended, today and every day.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

When Taylor Swift sings "This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things," I say "We Have." At the reading for "Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift."

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Proud to be with these writers on the Trio House Press backlist.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Join the people of Trio House Press at AWP on Friday night in Los Angeles!

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Can't I just get into a spaceship and go to another planet like Meryl Streep at the end of Don't Look Up?

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thirteen years ago at the AWP writers conference. I still get asked to sign copies of The New Criterion.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"HERE AND NOW, NEAR AND FAR, WE DON'T WANT YOUR SWASITKAR!" I'm so glad that, today at the protest again Elon Musk at Tesla in the Meatpacking District, I got the entire crowd shouting my chant! I feel like I just got published in The New Yorker.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"Here and now, near and far, we don't want a Swastikar!"

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Look, a portable toilet, and a Callahead.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"Fair or Not, Zelensky Is Angering Trump. Is His Style Hurting Ukraine?" So this is how the New York Times marks the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Once again it normalizes Trump and set up a situation in dominationist terms. Infuriating.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My grandfather, the Rev. Addison Hershey Groff, D.D., who died on a cold February 7 when I was 9 years old, wrote this prayer, "Disturb Us, O Lord." In my boyhood it was framed in his and my grandmother's house, along with all the family photo portraits. I studied it until I had it memorized.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Usage question: Is it "Swastikar" or "Swasticar"?

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Another semester begins, with Writing for the Culture.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

There is an asteroid headed toward earth. But there is only a 1.3% chance that it will hit us, and it won't arrive until 2032, unfortunately.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

2/"I’m writing a new novel," Fred says. "No one is challenging me to produce this work. There are no expectations. "I feel at this crazy time that I’m beginning again, with a wish to not repeat myself, to not repeat any formulas for fiction or painting. I write every day....

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/s... Frederic Tuten has mentored a couple generations of writers in the CCNY MFA in Creative Writing Program. Now, at 88, he's profiled in The York Times as one of The Unstoppables, "a series about people whose ambition is undimmed by time."

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I was surprised to learn that Facebook headquarters is in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A January poem I wrote. Thanks to Felice Neals for publishing it in (Re)An Ideas Journal.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This Wednesday was the semester’s last poetry workshop with my CCNY MFAers. The world beyond the workshop menaced us, but it was startling and thrilling to find ourselves so pure in our attention. I thought often of Marie Ponsot’s Zenlike postulate, “The poet’s only responsibility is to the poem.”

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

At the James Baldwin Centennial Celebration, a film of Baldwin, March 1978: "I was born in the crucible of the American republic, and I'm not afraid of anybody else....You still have to answer for your life in the teeth of the state. If you want to be an artist, you have to answer for that too."

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thus Saturday, come afterpoem with us!

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion." Today the occasion is Thanksgiving. From Clay via Katharine Hepburn.

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David Groff @davidgroff.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Poetry-loving friends, please consider joining my Zoom class, as we explore and practice the afterpoem: a poem that reacts to a poem by another poet. We'llcome up with poems that aren't imitations but independent, interactive artworks that send up sparks. A signup link is in the photo.

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