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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 22h

Camille Ralphs shares what some of our greatest writers have said about literature as a vocation. Read the full essay bit.ly/3VYy459

Black text on a white background. The text reads: John Keats said poetry should come as easily as leaves to a tree, or not at all; Rilke said you have to look inside yourself and ask Must I write? Not everyone who'd answer Yes is well known now, but everyone who's well known now would answer Yes. On the bottom of the graphic, there is a silhouette of a pegasus and the words: Camille Ralphs on poetry as a vocation

Text featuring a quote from Camille Ralphs: I've held roles as a barista in a service station, a university librarian, and a salesperson in a school uniform shop. Wanda Coleman, not to be bettered, was at certain points an actress, a Peace Corps recruiter, and an editor at a softcore porn magazine. But no experience is wasted on the work—or on the life. There is a pegasus silhouette at the bottom.

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A quote with black text on a white background reads: It is good to write every day—even if only a line, a seemingly fatuous observation; even if you're only adding phrases to your notebook or your Notes app. Inchoate things—and habits—have a way of starting to cohere. Below the quote is a small illustration of a pegasus in flight, with the text: Camille Ralphs on poetry as vocation.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beautiful essay by Karl Knights about finding his identity as a young queer poet in rural Suffolk www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/169...

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This Be the Place: My Actual Huh

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 28/09/2026

Karl Knights with "I’m the Passenger, Giving Wrong Directions on Purpose" featured in the September issue of POETRY. #PoemoftheDay Read or listen to the poem: bit.ly/4d6kv9L

Green graphic with white text: Nothing too far out. Three minutes here and there.
Keep left at the village’s one Georgian window.
Dawdle along Priory Road, backtrack to Angel Lane.
Blame it on winter, no streetlights for over an hour.
Once we clipped a small deer, saw him hobble back
into the trees. For a second I wished we’d hit him
full on. No one hurt. Car damaged, not a write-off.
Shattered headlights, blood trail across cat’s eyes. In green text under a green pegasus is the name Karl Knights.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 28/09/2026

Following years of organizational growth & creative collaboration with Pentagram, we're thrilled to reveal a new brand identity starting with the October issue of POETRY! Learn more about the rebrand designed to carry POETRY and the Poetry Foundation into the future: bit.ly/4ABZMol

Grid of images with an open October 2026 POETRY magazine, the quote What are we living and fighting for, if not—at least in part—for access to the sweet quotidian, and a stack of blue books POETRY covers.

A tree in front of a building with large windows. The words Poetry Foundation are prominently displayed on the glass facade.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 28/09/2026

Yup, you read that right! In honor of the first day of #LitMagWeek, enjoy 50% off single copies of POETRY when you use the code LITMAG50 now through 10/2. 💚 Get your copies here (going back more than 20 years!): bit.ly/4ycwSta

Green background with white text reads: 50% off single copies of Poetry September 28–October 2 #LitMagWeek.

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Karl Knights @inadarkwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lovely surprise on a slogging Monday morning to find that one of my poems is the Poem of the Day over at the @poetry.foundation website. Thank you to the editors 🙏

A screenshot from the Poetry Foundation website, showing Karl's poem, 'I'm the Passenger, Giving Wrong Directions on Purpose' as the poem of the day. The text preview reads, 'Nothing too far out. Three minutes here and there.
Keep left at the village’s one Georgian window.
Dawdle along Priory Road, backtrack to Angel Lane...'

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 27/09/2026

Meet Noel Munguia-Moreno, one of our 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! 🎉 Noel’s poetic revisioning asks readers to depart from traditional or straightforward readings. Read more about Noel: bit.ly/4hddzIU

Noel wearing a green shirt and black overalls sits on a bench, smiling with greenery in the background. Text reads: POETRY FOUNDATION, Noel Munguia-Moreno, and 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

Black background with white text displaying a quote: How can we look at this disaster—or alternatively, at this moment of joy—and see it again? Below the quote, there's a graphic of a pegasus in flight and the name Noel Munguia-Moreno.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 27/09/2026

Leslie McIntosh with "The Door of No Return has unlimited 5G data" featured in the September issue of POETRY. #PoemoftheDay Read or listen to the poem: bit.ly/3ThanUV

Green graphic with white text: I swear I don’t know these people
but they got my number anyway
came my complaint to the cellular sales rep
You promised me spam protection
when you sold me into the promo contract
but I didn’t think to ask
what spam meant
to the person
who took my money. Leslie McIntosh is in green text with a green pegasus above the name.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 26/09/2026

Paul Martínez Pompa with "lit" featured in the September issue of POETRY. #PoemoftheDay Read or listen to the poem: bit.ly/4yU88WH

Green graphic with white text: and when i raised my eyes a little higher, i saw human wishes. i saw moons blessed with the deepening moan of night. i saw winds that traveled across thousands of miles of mothers who were silent now and draped over their flashlights. i saw lands going back to sleep and doors opening both ways. The name Paul Martínez Pompa is in green below a green Pegasus.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 25/09/2026

Get a peek behind the scenes of Poetry Foundation's new look! 👀 The latest installation of our visual experience BOLD TYPE features the poem "Poetry is the supreme killjoy" by Tilsa Otta translated by Farid Matuk. 💗 Not to mention, our facade got a glow up so you know always where to find us. 📍

A glass window of a building displays large magenta letters that partially read: IS THE SUPREME KILLJOY. Inside, workers on a lift seem to be arranging the letters. A tree with green leaves is in the foreground.

Two people on ladders install large, bold magenta letters on a wall. The partially visible text reads: IS THE SUPREME... The setting appears to be indoors.

Individual measuring pink adhesive sheets on the floor, using a yellow tape measure. A blue water bottle is nearby.

A tree stands next to the reflective glass facade of the Poetry Foundation building. The street is visible in the reflection, with cars passing by on the road.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 24/09/2026

J.H. Prynne, a titan of British Modernism who died this year, was at once a poet of political intensity and unexpected slapstick. Read David Grundy's essay on Prynne, "To Darker Fields We Go:" bit.ly/3TLqxpF

Text on a beige graphic: "For Prynne, truthfulness—a human action—as opposed to truth—an abstract idea—requires a vigilance for which he thought poetry uniquely capable. David Grundy on J.H. Prynne. An image of a small pegasus is centered at the bottom.

The image shows a white door with a black nameplate that reads Mr. Prynne. A brass doorknob and a keyhole are visible on the right side. Below is a quote about university occupations and commitment to poetry and a better world.

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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Excellent introductory essay on J. H. Prynne by David Grundy, which pinpoints better than anything else I’ve read the centrality of contradiction to his poetry. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/182...

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To Darker Fields We Go

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"His cigarette smoking itself in the ashtray and the ash growing longer and longer till it crashes like the bridge in that one movie he loves" #TodaysPoem #poetry Long Distance by @briantierney.bsky.social (2026 @poetry.foundation) www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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Long Distance

Midway through, a haunted computer types its own questions: “Would you like to meet a ghost?” “Do you live to shovel sand or shovel sand to live?” It’s…

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 23/09/2026

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: bit.ly/4y3kzPU

A red background with a white outline illustration of books on a shelf. The text "Poetry Off the Shelf" is written in bold black letters on the left side.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 22/09/2026

☀️ 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: bit.ly/3ThjXXE

A person sitting outdoors writes in a notebook with a pen. Text on the image reads: The Poetry Foundation gathered leaders from our Sustainable Futures grantee-partner cohort for a rest retreat in Union Pier, Michigan, just 75 miles outside of the Poetry Foundation's home in Chicago. The logos for Sustainable Futures Retreat and the Poetry Foundation are also displayed.

Attendees at the event are listed with names and affiliations. Mentioned entities include Cave Canem, Chicago Poetry Center, Guild Literary Complex, Indigenous Nations Poets, InsideOut Literary Arts, Noemi Press, O Miami, Poets House, The Watering Hole, Split This Rock, and Young Chicago Authors.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 22/09/2026

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) bit.ly/4dgFV4b

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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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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Beat Poet Ted Joans Connects Poetry, Collage Art, and Jazz youtu.be/eyuGDgVHKIA?...

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Beat Poet Ted Joans Connects Poetry, Collage Art, and Jazz

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 20/09/2026

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: bit.ly/4jbyVZU

A person stands outside near trees, visible through a window. The text on the image reads: Poetry Foundation. Fatima Jafar. 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 20/09/2026

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 bit.ly/4A34rPH

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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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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 20/09/2026

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.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 19/09/2026

Stay tuned for the October issue... 😉

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 18/09/2026

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 bit.ly/4yt0p1p

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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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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 18/09/2026

Jared Marcel Pollen reflects on Ingeborg Bachmann's "plunges into silence" at her centenary. Read "The Edge of the Unsayable:" bit.ly/4haQDu6

Text: With Bachmann, one gets the feeling that it's always 3:00 a.m. (the word night appears in her poems more than any other). Jared Marcel Pollen on Ingeborg Bachmann

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SpudRazor @spudrazor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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...

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Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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 🙏

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Poetry Foundation awards $195k in prizes for poetry craft, service, and criticism www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/182...

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2026 Pegasus Awards Celebrate Poetry’s Range

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 14/09/2026

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 bit.ly/4r27CTT

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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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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 13/09/2026

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 bit.ly/4zYe3LD

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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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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 13/09/2026

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: bit.ly/3T0q7LF

The image shows a Xochi Quetzali Cartland with long, wavy dark hair wearing a maroon coat and green top, standing in front of a leafy background. Text above reads Poetry Foundation, and below is the name Xochi Quetzali Cartland. Additional text states 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

A quote on a black background reads: I believe in God, I believe in the universe. This felt like the universe coming together to say, You can do this. Below the quote is the name Xochi Quetzali Cartland and an image of a small pegasus.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 12/09/2026

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. bit.ly/4xPkz5P

A text quote reads: Carolyn Forché has questioned, with unusual insistence for a US poet of her generation, what role the writer might assume in these times. Her poems remain powerful precisely because they confront poetry’s uncertain place without illusion and the poet’s role without self-deception. Attributed to Federico Perelmuter on Carolyn Forché.

A child walks on a sandy street with damaged buildings and cars in the background. The image includes text: Forché’s concern is with a poetry that could capture barbarism specifically, and that, however incapable of action, might register sincerely the workings of a mind confronting it. Below the quote, it says Federico Perelmuter on Carolyn Forché.

A photo of a military vehicle parked on a street in an urban area with residential buildings in the background. The scene appears calm, and there is a car nearby. The photograph is dated 1989 and taken in El Salvador by Luis Romero.

$A text excerpt and a credit. The main text reads: What acts of witness are possible four decades later, in a late world of fractured mediation, of overwhelming and multifarious crisis? Forché has found a new vantage from which to witness the present crisis in its diffuse, imagistic incoherence. Below, it says: Federico Perelmuter on Carolyn Forché. A small pegasus silhouette is centered between the main text and the credit.$

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 11/09/2026

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 bit.ly/4xgwR6t

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 10/09/2026

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 bit.ly/3SjVtwb

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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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Luis J. Rodriguez @ljrodriguez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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...

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2026 Pegasus Awards Celebrate Poetry’s Range

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Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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?

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bucreativewriting.bsky.social @bucreativewriting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🏆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!

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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...

Book cover for NOTHINGISM by Jason Schneiderman, published in the Poets on Poetry Series by the University of Michigan Press, edited by Derek Pollard. The background is deep purple. The title, NOTHINGISM, appears as large, light purple text running vertically down the left side of the cover. On the right side, in gold text that contrasts with the purple background, is the subtitle POETRY AT THE END OF PRINT CULTURE. The author's name, JASON SCHNEIDERMAN, appears in white text below the subtitle. In the bottom right corner is a simple illustration of a tan cardboard box. The overall design is minimal and contemporary, using typographic elements as the main visual focus.

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 10/09/2026

The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 Pegasus Awards! 🎉 Robert Pinsky 🎉 Nikki Grimes 🎉 Luis Javier Rodríguez 🎉 Meg Day 🎉 Jason Schneiderman For more details, visit our website bit.ly/4x9ME6N Congratulations to this year's honorees!

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 09/09/2026

He came to church straight from the stomp dance Wearing moccasins under his wedding dress. Bearded, belled and turtle-shelled He wore moccasins under his wedding dress. –Chip Livingston with "The Other Foot" featured in the September issue of POETRY. Read the full poem bit.ly/4xR6o0g

A dark green background featuring text in white. The text reads: He came to church straight from the stomp dance wearing moccasins under his wedding dress. Bearded, belled and turtle-shelled he wore moccasins under his wedding dress.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“The poem is always in your hometown, but you have a better chance of finding it in another.” Richard Hugo www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/694...

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The Triggering Town

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Clever, funny and beautiful poem here by Allison Funk, about the tightrope walker Blondin www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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The Poetry Foundation

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Things Artificial Intelligence Can’t Do" by Aaron Belz, from the September 2026 issue of Poetry Magazine. Full text here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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Alan @alanallanallen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Took this poem from the new issue of Poetry magazine into class and we read it (wrecked me, personally) and then made our own poems about things AI can’t do www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Sentence strips taped onto construction paper making a poem, on the topic of things AI can’t do, that reads:
Fall in love
Escape a cult
Accidentally call your girlfriend “mom”
Drink all of the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone cause it’s dripping on your hand
AI cannot
Replace
The
Human
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