What a perfect short poem.
From Andrea Cohen's book, Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781945588686
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"Fame offering to others
Chaplets of bays,
I with no crown of laurels,
Only grey days."
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was born on this day in 1861.
"If you cannot, at the moment, give me much joy,
I get it."
Happy birthday to Chen Chen!
Take a listen to Chen's episode of our podcast, The Glimpse, in which he reads his poem "God, Gods, Powers, Lord, Universe—" and one by Kamilah Aisha Moon.
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"The dark village sits on the crooked hill.
There is a plot of impassable paths towards it."
Chloe Endean reads Rachael Allen’s “Kingdomland” in a new poem film.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/kingdomland
"A cold so keen,
My speech unfurls tonight
As from the chattering teeth
Of a sewing-machine."
James Merrill was born on this day 100 years ago.
From Fady Joudah's book, [...]: bookshop.org/a/862/9781639551286
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some part of hope, a continent.
Mirkka Rekola, tr. Anselm Hollo
"Consider rivers.
They are always en route to
Their own nothingness."
Happy birthday to Olwen Fouéré!
Watch Fouéré perform an excerpt of Eavan Boland's "Anna Liffey" in a film created with Bloomsday Film Festival / The James Joyce Centre.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/from-anna-liffey
"I should like to poise
On the very brink
Of the leaf-brown pools
That are your shadowed eyes"
Angelina Weld Grimké was born #OnThisDay in 1880.
That cottage, where my pagan air
And discordant fingering were rooted, was gone from sight,
Beyond hope of excavation.
Edward Rowe reads Jack Clemo’s “Private Pompeii” in a new poem film.
www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/privat...
"Why are you nocturnal
How many cathedrals have you entered
Has cruelty ever saved you"
Happy birthday to Eduardo C. Corral!
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone..."
W. H. Auden was born #OnThisDay in 1907. Here, actor Simon Callow performs Auden's famed poem "Funeral Blues."
"Why had I been so forlorn, when there was so much
just beyond, leaning into life? Even the cart
pushed against a concrete island, the forgotten melon
in its basket like a lost green sun."
Happy birthday to Rick Barot!
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/a-poem-as-long-as-california
A piece from the "Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death".
"How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. "
Jack Gilbert was born on this day in 1925.
Here, Elizabeth Marvel performs his poem "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart."
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-forgotten-dialect-of-the-heart
How do I journey on the way,
When what I seek (my weary travel’s end)
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
“Thus far the miles are measur’d from thy friend.”
"Just lychees bought in the market,
Thirty rupees per kilogram.
Stalks mottled red tied up with string,
Flesh the color of pigeon wings—
Sweet simmering."
Meena Alexander was born on this day in 1951.
"Wherever the world spins us,
home remains the island that
remains in us."
Happy birthday, Richard Blanco!
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/island-body
"A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind."
Sabrena Osei-Tutu performs Anne Sexton's "Her Kind" in a new poem film created in collaboration with Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
"Every day without him
is too long;
she’s waiting
with the tired cows at the gate."
Happy birthday to Jane Clarke!
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/after
"No sun this morning, but the promise of a tilt
and so men on the radio talk about things we can’t see."
Ayesha Ostler performs Jess Traynor's poem "Midwinter" in a 2025 poetry film created in collaboration with Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). With thanks to Bloodaxe Books.
What matters yon unheeding throng?
They cannot feel my spirit’s spell,
Since life is sweet and love is long,
I sing my song, and all is well.
Paul Laurence Dunbar died #OnThisDay in 1906.
Jean Valentine
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From 'Wheels' magazine (1917)
—Aldous Huxley
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From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water: bit.ly/howtocarrywater
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"I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief."
Friedli Walton performs Wendell Berry's "The Peace of Wild Things" in a new poem film created with Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Conduit Club members may attend in person, while the general public can register to watch this special event hosted with @writersmosaic.bsky.social via livestream.
