Poets Reading the News

Food as Invocation Poetry by Rohan Buettel, Ping Yi, Candice Kelsey, Norma Smith, Alexandra Umlas, George Yatchinsin and more.

"Poetry often begins in the kitchen... It summons lineage. It tells stories even when language fails."

✨→ An excerpt from Kashiana Singh's new editorial on our Food as Invocation collection, featuring 11 poets whose poetry is "layered with tension, spice, and love."

Houston, We Have a Popstar - Poets Reading The News Katy Perry heads to space on a Blue Origin flight funded by Jeff Bezos, but her head never leaves the clouds.

Somewhere, a girl googles dark matter
and Katy Perry launches her into unimaginable
tax brackets, sells her a vinyl
of “Teenage Dream” and a guitar to learn string theory...

New poetry by San Francisco-based poet Riley O'Connell for the #BlueOrigin flight.

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" Somewhere, a girl googles dark matter
and Katy Perry launches her into unimaginable
tax brackets, sells her a vinyl
of “Teenage Dream” and a guitar to learn string theory..."

New poetry by Riley O'Connell for the Blue Origin flight.

tinyurl.com/a3u346ej

A haiku from a weary world on a day that will go down in White House infamy. 🇺🇦💔 By Francisco Castro Videla, a writer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Jed Myers - Next Among the Countless Gales "These sessions sound like hope—hope I’ll need while other wings approach."

"Stiff hands slant up

like racing sails en masse across the west.
They shade the late day’s radiance, pink palms

Roman-style raised to that parade float
cloud that plays king."

- Jed Meyers #poetry

Earl David Freeland - Curriculum Redacted From Black Wall Street to redlining, a writer studies the Black History Month our country does not want us to remember.

"You learned about the New Deal—
but not who got left out,
who pressed their faces to the glass,
who heard wait your turn
in a language that meant never."

- Earl David Freeland #blackhistorymonth #poetry

Sophia Latorre-Zengierski - Poets Reading The News For the late President Jimmy Carter, a man of a common faith.

I’m so honoured to have my poem, “Rotunda Viewing,” published in @poetsrtn.bsky.social today! President Carter’s legacy honours human rights and dignity, inspiring all of us to do better. I encourage you to read the poem as well as the other recently published pieces from these wonderful writers. ✍️

Our open call has been extended - closing on Sunday, February 23! Bring us to your table.

www.poetsreadingthenews.com/open-calls/

Our table is ready and we can't wait to read your poetry!

Submit to our open call, "Food as Invocation," led by Kashiana Singh, by February 16.

#poetry #opencall #submit

Poets Reading the News begins 2025 with an open call led by Kashiana Singh, author, poet and PRTN editor. From the heart of winter, at the edge of change, we turn to the nourishment + connection which will be vital in the years to come.

Submit your poetry at poetsreadingthenews.com/open-calls/

Poetry by Jan Steckel we're reading this January 20, 2025. #inauguration

I Buy a Star Projector - Katherine Riegel It wasn’t easy. It isn’t now. It won’t be, ever.

New poem on Poets Reading the News! It’s about perspective. www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/11/i-bu... #poem #poetry

A graphic design reading "Open Call: Poetry on the 2024 Election" with the Poets Reading the News website, against a background of semi-transparent newspapers.

~* ATTENTION POETS! *~

Our open call for #poetry on the #2024election is closing - tomorrow! We have had amazing work come in (check out our front page) but we aren't done - not until Friday Nov. 15th @ 11:59PM Pacific.

Submit:
www.poetsreadingthenews.com/submissions

My new post-election poem @poetsrtn.bsky.social www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/11/may-...

Poetry for 100 Days of War Poetry by Amal El-Sayed, B.A. Van Sise, Aurore Sibley, Francisco Castro Vedela, Shehrbano Naqvi, David Adés, Noa Silver, and more.

"My hope for this poetry is that it will widen the bridges of compassion in those who read it, especially toward whosoever is beyond your heart's present reach."

- Elle Aviv Newton, Editor in Chief, Poets Reading the News

Read our letter from the editor on the war in Israel-Palestine:

Poetry for 100 Days of War Poetry by Amal El-Sayed, B.A. Van Sise, Aurore Sibley, Francisco Castro Vedela, Shehrbano Naqvi, David Adés, Noa Silver, and more.

Our latest poetry marks 100 days of war in Israel-Palestine.

Read Elle Aviv Newton's letter from the editor, featuring new poetry by B.A. Van Sise, Amal El-Sayed, David Adés, Mary McColley, Francisco Castro Vedela, Aurore Sibley and more.

Poets Reading the News: Journalism in Verse The world's only newspaper written by poets.

BREAKING: We have joined BlueSky! We are excited to connect with poets, writers & journalists from around the world.

We bridge poetry and journalism. Since 2016, we've published over 1,000 poems from writers in 25+ countries. Read our latest below:

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