"The Electoral College is
a lullaby designed to put us
back to sleep."
@mobrowne.bsky.social performs "If 2017 was a poem title" in a NYC poem film.
www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/if-201...
"While God licks his kin, we
sing until our blood is jazz,
we swing from June to June."
@cvrpoet.bsky.social performs Terrance Hayes' poem "The Golden Shovel" as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami
"Vast sky, sky blue. Placid dry ocean
sky. I count four cirrus clouds.
I open every window I have
wide. Spring air races through rooms:
a joyous child."
Happy birthday to Michael Kleber-Diggs!
"Blood on a pitchfork, blood on chaff and hay,
Rats speared in the sweat and dust of threshing—
What is my apology for poetry?"
Seamus Heaney was born #OnThisDay in 1939.
www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/glanmore-sonnets
From Franz Wright's book, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375710018
#poem #booksky #writing
On May 3, Strokestown Poetry Festival will feature a screening of our poem films curated by Luke Morgan
The event will feature performances by Irish poets and actors such as Jess Traynor, Sarah Clancy, Seán Hewitt & Olwen Fouéré.
"Nature is a forest where the living limbs
Of trees drop clues like dying leaves
On anyone underneath them who believes
In such familiar passing whims."
Charles Baudelaire was born #OnThisDay in 1821.
"The picture of elegance, my grandfather.
I wanted his photograph in the dictionary."
Tom Healy performs his poem "Sonnet for the Chickens" as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami.
Introducing the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows! Haymarket Books and @mellon.org are honored to recognize these 20 writers and their remarkable work. Read more here:
"It is no woman’s job,
though no one ever said it was.
You learn it from your father."
From "Palm Wine Tapper" by Nithy Kasa, from Palm Wine Tapper and the Boy at Jericho, published with Doire Press
A man in a bright shirt and white suit sits on a sidewalk bench with a park behind him. The image has a vintage look, as if it had been shot on an old camera.
The discussion will include poets Jaswinder Bolina, Tom Healy, and Caridad Moro-Gronlier and director Eric Felipe-Barkin. We'll be screening films featuring all three poets as well as @cvrpoet.bsky.social and Ruben Rabasa.
Join us!
A woman in a tiara and a blue top solemnly faces the camera. Behind her, a forest floor and foliage are visible.
We are thrilled to announce the premiere of the Read By Miami film series at The Bass, in partnership with O, Miami!
On April 16th at 6pm, join us for a screening and discussion of these ten new Miami poem films.
www.eventbrite.com/e...
DANDELIONS We were fabulously lucky. We became dandelions. Before we were even born We kept wishing to be dandelions. Next we found ourselves traveling Out of the great unknown. We rode down in a train Sixteen coaches long, We sat prim and proper In our golden yellow dresses. Others came as black widows, Little monkeys, and red birds, And of course many ants, Snuggled together and looking glum.
Charles Simic
A poem for today.
From Kevin Young's Book of Hours: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375711886
#poem #booksky #writing
"One morning—and so soon!—the first flower
has opened when you wake. Or you catch it poised
in a single, brief
moment of hesitation."
Denise Levertov, "The Metier of Blossoming"
“I understood Barbie called the shots.
That Dreamhouse was hers.”
Caridad Moro-Gronlier performs her poem "In Defense of My Mother Who Never Bought Me a Barbie Dreamhouse” as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami
www.brinkerhoffpoetr...
"Hard-pressed to reach the shore, the river’s rush
Stronger, as though dangerously deep,
The air become a storming in the trees
And all of April havocked."
Maurice English, "The Weaving"
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-weaving
Tomorrow, we launch Read By Miami, our second collaboration with O, Miami!
Join us as we release ten new poem films featuring Miami poets Jaswinder Bolina, Tom Healy, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, and Christell Victoria Roach and actor Ruben Rabasa, premiering every Thursday from April 2nd on.
The moonlight falls upon the path,
The shadow of a cloud upon the house.
And that’s symbolical; study that tree,
What is it like?
- Yeats, "Purgatory"
I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together for the first time
Frank O'Hara, born 100 years ago today.
"I shall have a house in Cornwall
//
My a’m bydh chi yn Kernow"
Edward Rowe reads Tim Saunders’ Cornish-language poem “Chi Yn Kernow / A House in Cornwall” in a new poem film.
www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/chi-yn-kernow-a-ho...
"Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes"
Marianne Moore, "A Jelly-Fish"
Congratulations to Hala Alyan and Willie Perdomo, whose poem films with us were selected by Cadence Video Poetry Festival at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social!
Catch "Light Ghazal" and "That's My Heart Right There," both directed by Jake McAfee, at the festival starting April 17 in Seattle and online.
"Out in the copse after rain
(too late after dark to be here).
Warm soil, woodlice dripping
from the underside of leaves.
"
Seán Hewitt, from "Wild Garlic"
Happy first day of Spring!
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/wild-garlic
"I leave this at your ear for when you wake,
A creature in its abstract cage asleep.
Your dreams blindfold you by the light they make."
Chloe Endean performs W. S. Graham's poem "I Leave This at Your Ear" in a new poem film.
www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/i-leave-this-at-yo...
"I will not sing.
Not when the dust cloud of war skins the iris for its hue—
When the thunder of guns tears out the tongue from the nightingale—"
Nādim was born on this day in 1916.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poets/nadim
the last stop is also a beginning point
on the C at 168th POETRY IS HARD
catches my eye before we depart
against the reflecting neon signs
Randall Horton performs his poem "Flashback to the Cell" in a 2025 poem film created with Haymarket Books.
"Wednesday. Exhausted with hauling myself around the upper air in cloud masquerade, I decided on Wednesday to sit at my desk, use the telephone and do an interview. I interviewed pebbles and small rocks."
- Anne Carson
