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Segovia I walked your aqueducts at dawn. With giant legs they bestrode the landscape Of the Moors. Stick insects. Like Romans On stilts, bearing water across the...

I walked your aqueducts at dawn.
With giant legs they bestrode the landscape
Of the Moors. Stick insects. Like Romans
On stilts, bearing water across the sky.

—Ben Okri, who was born #OnThisDay in 1959! #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4cG1bAS

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1 day ago

The image features an open egg carton on a turquoise background, with six eggs inside. Each egg has a letter spelling "POETRY." Text to the right reads "2026 National Magazine Award Finalist" and "Best Independent Magazine Cover." Additional text includes "ASME" at the top and "June 2025" with a small bird illustration at the bottom.

A carton of six brown eggs arranged in two rows on a vibrant blue background. Each egg displays a red letter with a yellow outline, collectively spelling "POETRY." Text in the top left corner reads "Poetry June 2025" with a small bird graphic above it. Prices for the USA, Canada, and UK are listed in the bottom right corner. The background of the image is bright red.

A broken egg carton inside a sink holds several cracked brown eggs. One egg is fully broken with its contents spilled. The carton is labeled "6 Large," and some eggs are marked with red letters ("T," "D," and "G").

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) chose POETRY magazine's June 2025 issue as a finalist for Best Independent Magazine Cover! 🍳

Did you know you can purchase single issues of POETRY? Get your June 2025 issue while supplies last! 🐣 https://bit.ly/40Y7V5I

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2 days ago

Frank X Walker wearing an embroidered garment. The image includes text: "Poetry Foundation," and "Frank X Walker with Kelly Norman Ellis, Nikky Finney, and Parneshia Jones.

This black and white image features Nikkey Finney with long dreadlocks, wearing glasses, and smiling slightly. She is dressed in dark clothing with her hands clasped. Text reads "Poetry Foundation" and "Nikky Finney.

Kelly Norman Ellis looking to the side against a brick wall background. The words "Poetry Foundation" are at the top, and "Kelly Norman Ellis" is at the bottom.

Parneshia Jones with short, curly hair, resting her chin on interlaced hands. She is wearing a large ring. The background is a warm red hue. Text reads "Poetry Foundation" and "Parneshia Jones.

Join us 3/19 to celebrate the new folio in the January/February issue of POETRY magazine, “Frank X Walker: Kinfolk.”

Walker will read alongside fellow poets from the Affrilachian Poets Collective, Nikky Finney, Kelly Norman Ellis, and Parneshia Jones.

Register for FREE: https://bit.ly/4lksm6x

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2 days ago

An Ode to “Nobody Does It Better” We didn’t care what we did / Time was nothing to us, we were just kids. —Nate Dogg

"For those uninitiated in the ways of Black barbery, a good lineup is like a starched crease ironed into a pair of dress slacks before you step out into the world."

—Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social on Nate Dogg, Black barbershops, and writer’s block.

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2 days ago

Summer Poetry Teachers Institute Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction

ONE WEEK left to apply to the 2026 Summer Poetry Teachers Institute!

📒 FREE professional development
📒 Open to K–12 teachers and community college educators
📒 Runs July 13–17, 2026 in Chicago, IL

Deadline: March 20

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3 days ago

Famous The boot is famous to the earth, more famous than the dress shoe, which is famous only to floors.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

—Naomi Shihab Nye, who was born #OnThisDay in 1952! #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4bdfNVL

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4 days ago

“Curiosity,” Patti Smith told the crowd, “is what keeps us young.”

We were proud to cosponsor this unforgettable Chicago evening of songs, stories, and conversation between 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient Patti Smith and Jeff Tweedy. Read @wbez.org's coverage of the sold-out event.

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4 days ago

A group of people are marching in a demonstration, holding banners that read "Women's Liberation" and "Free Martin Sostre." The atmosphere appears energetic and determined, with signs and buttons visible. Trees are in the background.

Happy Women's History Month!

Explore our collection of poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore women’s history and women’s rights: https://bit.ly/3EZrnHE

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5 days ago

Mayda del Valle sitting in front of bookshelves. Text on the image reads "Poetry Foundation" and "No One Can Afford to Lose Love.

This is an image with the text "Poetry Foundation" at the top and "No One Can Afford to Lose Love" across it. It features a close-up of Mark Turcotte with long hair and a mustache.

Join us on March 12 for readings by Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda del Valle and Illinois Poet Laureate Mark Turcotte. 🎉

Register for FREE: https://bit.ly/3NlklBs

This event kick's off the Poetry Foundation’s spring 2026 season, "No One Can Afford To Lose Love."

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6 days ago

Introducing Jada Renée Allen (@jadarenee.bsky.social), one of our 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! 🎉

Jada will be reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival (@omiamifestival.bsky.social) in April with her cohort. Learn more about Jada: https://bit.ly/4bxcr1g

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1 week ago

A booth at the AWP Conference in Baltimore displays a prominent "Poetry" sign with colorful magazine covers. People are sitting behind the table. A caption reads, "We're at AWP in Baltimore! Come stop by Booth 1048 and say hi!"

AWP attendees! Have you stopped by the Poetry Foundation booth yet? We're here with lots of goodies (and magazines!) at booth 1048. 😊 @awpwriter.org

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1 week ago

A Lifeline From Literary Arts Fund Seven private foundations have forged a new partnership to support literary arts organizations amidst an increasingly precarious funding landscape.

“Literature is in a funding crisis,” writes Adrienne Raphel for the March/April issue. “But a glimmer of hope for writers and publishers emerged recently in the form of a philanthropic supergroup: the @literaryartsfund.bsky.social.” Read more: at.pw.org/LiteraryArtsLifeline

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1 week ago

March 2026 Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

"Poets renew words and phrases poem by poem as they try to uncover the secret, yet communal moments of their lives." 🌱

—Adrian Matejka, editor of POETRY magazine, introducing the March 2026 issue.

Click through to read the issue! https://bit.ly/478Opac

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2 weeks ago

Can you believe AWP26 is next week?! We're excited to be joined by these orgs there for Bookfair Bingo!

This is your chance to win a bundle of recently-published books in translation. Fill out your card by visiting participating orgs and you’ll be entered into a raffle. Booth 1066 to learn more!

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2 weeks ago

Promotional poster for the Poetry Foundation announcing that fellowship applications are open. Features a silhouette of a pegasus with details on how to apply by March 2, 2026, at the website www.poetryfoundation.org/awards

The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. The $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.

Learn more and apply by March 2: https://bit.ly/4pEKkkx

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2 weeks ago

Promotional graphic from the Poetry Foundation announcing that criticism applications are open. Features a white Pegasus silhouette on a red background. Text invites to learn more and apply by March 2, 2026, with a link to the Poetry Foundation website.

The Poetry Foundation annually awards the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, a $10,000 prize to honor an outstanding book-length work of criticism published in the US in the prior calendar year.

Learn more and apply by March 2, 2026: https://bit.ly/4qP7zt2

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2 weeks ago

Document
By Maggie Smith

The day is winter bright. I blink against it.
Each time the sun glints in my eyes,
each time I close my lids & let them go

orange & freckled with light,
my mind files it into a folder
that contains every other time

it’s happened before: folders nested
inside folders going back, I imagine,
to one morning standing in my crib,

waiting for my mother to reach down
& lift me out, the sun keeping me
company until her arms appeared.

In the file: sun, sun_2, sun_3,
sun_75, sun_700. Each a document
I can return to & open, even revising

old experience with new thinking.
As if the eye has its own memory—
not the mind’s eye but the eye’s mind—

cataloging material it claims as its own.
Cataloging as long as I live. Sun_7000,
sun_final, sun_final_revised, sun_final_final.

A person with short hair is smiling at the camera. They wear a black top and a geometric necklace. The image includes text about Maggie Smith, highlighting achievements as a New York Times bestselling author and host of The Slowdown.

“Document” by Maggie Smith (@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social) from the January/February 2026 issue of POETRY magazine.

Link to poem here: https://bit.ly/3ZCVc7X

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) @littranslate.bsky.social works to ensure that diverse voices from around the world are translated, published, and made accessible to readers in the United States and beyond.

Learn more about our grantee-partner: https://bit.ly/46DoBmD

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3 weeks ago

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