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“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.” —Anaïs Nin

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Do poetry and quantum physics speak the same language? In THE IMAGINARY PRESENT, Amy Catanzano explores how poems operate as quantum phenomena—not puzzles to solve, but fields of possibility where meaning exists in superposition. press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Imaginary-Present @uofmpress.bsky.social

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Join us for a reading with Lydia T. Liu and Jan-Henry Gray, drop-ins & free community groups this week! It’s also your last chance to register for workshops with DS Waldman and Seth Leeper. Learn more at mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

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Two poems by @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-geoffrey-babbitt.html #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry

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Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

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“Today’s poem takes up the idea that human cells contain light. This discovery makes it possible for us to theorize about communication between plants and other life forms,” shares Major in today’s episode. Read “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (@ndbooks.bsky.social): bit.ly/3WZZSE4

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Today's poem is "Feral" by Jessica Cuello from The Adroit Journal Subscribe and you'll hear the poet from your inbox! www.versedaily.org/2025/feral.s...

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“When I died my friend came and lay in my grave, cursing the diggers, his words breaking their backs against the earth. and I remember his silent weeping, and darkness dancing on his chest.” — Herbert Scott, “The Friend,” ‘Disguises’ (@upittpress.bsky.social, 1974)

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Giant projections of eyes filled with dazzling constellations. An interactive, augmented reality poetry experience. MIT's inaugural Artfinity festival brings over two months of art-fueled experiences free to the public.

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“I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering…. but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are. ~ James Baldwin

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"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song." - Maya Angelou

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As quantum computers emerge and the James Webb Space Telescope reveals new galaxies, Amy Catanzano's IMAGINARY PRESENT shows how poetry helps us understand these revolutionary discoveries. Now available from @uofmpress.bsky.social: press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Imaginary-Present #Poetry #Physics

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"The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence." --Gertrude Stein, b. 3 Feb, 1874

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Today’s Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Books We’ve Loved, Henri Cole writes on James Longenbach. Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

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Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby with "The Green Light", a digital audio collection made up of poems written during and after the time Fitzgerald was writing. Featuring rare recordings of Langston Hughes, T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams. Listen now via: https://buff.ly/3PsCw5R

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A few years ago, I was looking for a way to feel ok in a world that is not ok, and I sought sanctuary on the NYC subway, using the trains as my writing studio. I rode (wrote) every subway line from end-to-end, and these are the lines that emerged. Coming in March 2025 from Roof Books.

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Get a glimpse of two new poetry collections—The Radiant (Tupelo Press) by Lise Goett and Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press) by Pádraig Ó Tuama—by reading their first lines in our new Page One installment! at.pw.org/PageOne2025x2

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In keeping with our commitment to being a clear and consistent home for immigrant writing, we are proud to announce The Black Lawrence Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors: blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/30130...

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One of the many delights of Stacey D’Erasmo’s THE LONG RUN is Samuel Delaney describing his teaching ethos: “You need to teach people that they’re important enough to say what they have to say.” Repeating for whoever needs to hear this today: you’re important enough to say what you have to say!

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Today’s Featured Poem: “Vice Squad” by Armen Davoudian, from The Palace of Forty Pillars, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/vice-sq...

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One voice. Limitless dramatic possibility. Craft spellbinding monologues that move audiences — from searing soliloquies to raw confessions. Join fellow writers at the Downtown Writers Center, Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm from Jan 22. Register: cutt.ly/we0Ml0TE #WritingCommunity #Playwright #Theater

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What do quarks have to do with quatrains? Pantoums with particle-waves? That’s the question Amy Catanzano poses in THE IMAGINARY PRESENT, which explores the relationship between theoretical science and the literary avant-garde. Available Feb. 2025 from @uofmpress.bsky.social #Poetry #Physics

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#ClipOfTheDay: “Time can but make it easier to be wise.” In this Poetry Hour series reading from the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation, actor Jeremy Irons reads “The Folly Of Being Comforted” by W. B. Yeats. at.pw.org/FollyBeingComforted

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When "imagination threads through all chapters," theory becomes practice. Explore the possibilities in @k-queen.bsky.social's RADICAL POETICS, out from @uofmpress.bsky.social on Jan. 21. #Poetry #Theory #HigherEd

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happy new year to those around the world already celebrating— returning, yes, to this Clifton classic—

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this virtual reading from the Well Versed series hosted by StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, and Open Book, Pádraig Ó Tuama reads from his collection Feed the Beast (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). at.pw.org/OTuama

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What does it mean to find a poem — and then to write the finding? That’s the question at the heart of @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social’s Winter 2025 workshop at the Downtown Writers Center. Click here for more details, including how to register: www.ymcacny.org/sites/defaul...

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Hey now / say now 🤎 PW review below, link to preorder in the comments

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#ClipOfTheDay: “It is the Glad Season / Thunder ebbs to silence and lightning sleeps quietly in the corner.” At the annual White House Christmas celebration in 2005, the late Maya Angelou reads a poem written for the holiday and in the spirit of peace. at.pw.org/AmazingPeace

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this @orbooks.bsky.social Live on Avenue C event, Mosab Abu Toha reads “If I Must Die” by the late Refaat Alareer, which appears in his posthumously published collection of poetry and prose, If I Must Die. https://at.pw.org/ORBooksLive

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Poets & Writers is now on Bluesky! Announcing our new issue, featuring eight authors’ insights into the sources of illumination in their creative lives, our 20th annual debut poets spotlight, a retrospective celebrating the debut poets we’ve featured since 2005, and more. at.pw.org/JanFeb2025

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Interested in video poetry? Want to learn more about how to produce it — and how to use it to enrich your writing process? Join George Guida for his Winter 2025 workshop at the Downtown Writers Center. Click here for more details, including how to register: www.ymcacny.org/sites/defaul...

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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” — Henry David Thoreau

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