PoetryNow

A project of @PoetryFound, publisher of @poetrymagazine

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The final episode of @PoetryNow came out last week, the podcast I’ve been producing for several years for the Poetry Foundation. I’ve loved working on this project! It gave me space to do the things I love most… 1/ https://t.co/9YiS2HzUei

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@Vsthepodcast @poetrymagazine And, tune in weekdays to former US poet laureate Tracy K Smith on @slowdownshow 5/5

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Announcement: On December 30, 2019 we will publish our final episode of PoetryNow 1/5

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Poets confronting the ideas that move them on @Vsthepodcast; @poetrymagazine editors on The Poetry Magazine Podcast. https://t.co/LFDY18Tfwe 4/5

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they went packing, and packed off with them
went all the miserable low-paying gigs

–Evie Shockley (@seminewblack) reads "anti-immigration" for #PoetryNow https://t.co/HVwaBhAc1N

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Yet, as clear as memory of pace, of smell, of movement made— / strange: where is the sound of us as we moved with one another?

–Matei Yankelevich meditates on the nature of poetic language and lingers over events from his past for #PoetryNow. https://t.co/A8Cc2lqDq1

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I don’t think that it’s necessarily bad or necessarily scary or awful. It just is. It’s just a fact that mother’s are makers of death.

–Alyse Knor on her poem "Quiescence" for #PoetryNow. https://t.co/sYTkPzbKXL

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A marble heaven built over hill & tomb reaches everywhere

–George Abraham (@IntifadaBatata) reads "Ekphrasis with Toothing Chainsaw in Unnamed Halhul Vineyard" for #PoetryNow https://t.co/zyt8hrcJHK

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they drained the well that leaves your body behind

–Divya Victor (@sugaronthegash) reads "Beds" on this week's #PoetryNow https://t.co/VfJz7SPjGV

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Afternoons alone
are labyrinthine.

–Listen to Jennifer Foerster read her poem "The Other Side" from this throwback #PoetryNow episode. https://t.co/LLrBfpOV6h

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Love infests the brain like seedless
Melon.

–Wendy Lotterman (@wendylotterman) reads her poem Pearl on this week's #PoetryNow https://t.co/Cspx6A6bbL

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they cured my frequency got it aligned
with godliness or the choirs of them

–Emmalea Russo (@emmalearusso) reads "Skype Healer" for this week's #PoetryNow https://t.co/HWxhLPGfyN

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Imagine if
afterwards everything can be pure sensation:

–From "As If To Misread Song " by Lotte L.S. on this week's #PoetryNow https://t.co/TEnVMCF2eK

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What is the sum
when you add

cut flowers in cellophane
to teddy bears and prayers

–@DoraMalech reads her poem Standards-Based Assessment for the newest episode of #PoetryNow https://t.co/PRGLMkUWyv

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when I squint I see that there are girls all over the floor with varying amounts of soup clinging to their clothes (you didn’t think they were naked, did you?)

–@sawakonakayasu reads her poem "Girl Soup" on this week's #PoetryNow https://t.co/uW9GP8Z2vx

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Oh he’s marking
terrain right there—
right there with his

unmade song.

–@emily_skillings pays tribute to John Ashbery who died #onthisday. https://t.co/9E3Y0j8NJS

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This poem is about friendship, too, or at least it came out of friendship. So maybe in a small way, it’s me trying to get onto the caboose of New Narrative a little bit.

–Rodney Koeneke reads his poem "poem for bruce" on this week's episode. https://t.co/6idgLBJv5P

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Who am I to embrace this life? We are saying yes to one thing—to build a new world and a happier world, a happier nation.

—@kmattawa on his poem “We Are Saying Yes But Who Are We to Say" https://t.co/opLaMhT2hi