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Our #PoemoftheWeek is “Verso 14” by Dionne Brand, from 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙠, shortlisted for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.
👉 Read the full poem: https://t.co/dKro7gbNNb
How does this poem change the way you listen?
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Our #PoemoftheWeek is “Love Toward the Ashes,” translated by Joanna Trzeciak from the Polish of Tadeusz Różewicz. The poem appears in 𝙎𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 (W. W. Norton), shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize.
📖 Read: https://t.co/M9pRUXH83n
This week’s #PoemoftheWeek is “Bigger Than” by Liz Howard, from her debut collection, 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙩, winner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.
@McClellandBooks
📚Read: https://t.co/UMLzrf7ZFy
“Although there is no paper yet, no ink / There is already the hand / That moves, needing to write.”
Our first #PoemoftheWeek offering this year is “Come back” by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin—a meditation on beginnings, on what exists before form, language, or technology fully arrive.
“We move with the lightness of being, and we will go / where there’s a place for us.”
As we turn toward a new year, this week’s #PoemoftheWeek is “Sunrise” by @JoyHarjo, from 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙮 𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 (@wwnorton). We share this poem as a wish for the year ahead—for light, and for a welcoming place for us all, together.
📖 Read the full poem on our website: https://t.co/UefemUbT11
Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016, 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙮 𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 was praised by the judges for offering “guidance and empathy, ceremony and admonishment, wisdom, comfort and song” in the midst of profound personal and global change.
What are you welcoming with this coming sunrise?
Artwork: Sea Wolf, Chloé Griffin, photograph, 2016
Poem of the week: Now winter nights … by Thomas Campion | Poetry | The Guardian https://t.co/lgB1Xnp6ak
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #ThomasCampion ##poemoftheweek #winternights #winterpoetry #ClassicLiterature #
“I perfected my English. That is not what I am.”
This week’s #PoemoftheWeek is “Skin” by Canadian poet Soraya Peerbaye, from her collection, 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙡: 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙜𝙞𝙧𝙡𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙 (Pedlar Press).
📖 Read the full poem on our website:
https://t.co/17K0sHLmcv
In selecting this book as a 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist, the judges wrote:
“Peerbaye’s language becomes a vehicle not just for exploring what others in the world may be capable of, but also of drawing readers into excruciating proximity with our own adolescent longing, fear, shame and rage.”
Have you read this collection? Let us know in the comments!
'Prime' by Theresa Muñoz
The Scotsman's #PoemoftheWeek
“Today, I am a new man, / a stranger in the town that bore me.”
Our #PoemoftheWeek is “Stranger” by `Scottish poet John Glenday, from his Griffin Poetry Prize–shortlisted collection 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 (@picadorbooks).
As the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize judges wrote:
“In John Glenday’s work we hear a calm, confiding voice. This is a mature work, Glenday writes slowly and out of necessity, and in 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣, his third collection, he has achieved a work of wry spiritual authority which never preaches or instructs.
Have you ever felt like a stranger in a place that once felt like home?
#poemoftheweek is "The Cynic" by Samuel Adeyemi.
Remembering Fanny Howe ❤️ An visionary poet, Howe received our Lifetime Recognition Award in 2023 and was twice shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize: in 2001 and 2005.
This week’s #PoemoftheWeek comes from her 𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨 (@ucpress), which the 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize judges praised for its ability to "articulate the inquisitive grace and courage of a secular contemplative, restoring to language its power to question the sacred in the interests of corporeal joy."
✨ Read the full poem on our website: https://t.co/0cYHdP9ron
#poemoftheweek is Richard Siken's "Scheherazade"
#poemoftheweek is Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese*
#poemoftheweek is "I Will See You in Another Life" by Onyekachi Iloh
@summabis @jonnysaysOMG @andreagibson @friendlypoet @RamirezPoet This poetry playlist is part of the Poetry Coalition's 2025 summer programming, inspired by the theme Poetry & Shelter.
#PoetryAndShelter #PoetryCoalition #PoetryPlaylist #SplitThisRock #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Poems
"That one day shrank, as we touched, to a single hour"
This week’s #PoemoftheWeek is “Mimosa” from 𝙋𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜, translated by Karen Leeder (@KarenLeeder1) from the German written by Durs Grünbein — winner of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize. Read it now: https://t.co/5c2Mmwg03M
✨ Save the date! This Wednesday, Karen Leeder will be in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama (@duanalla).
📺 Watch the live premiere of this exclusive interview on Wednesday, July 30, at 12:00 PM ET on our YouTube channel! https://t.co/sv7SzHMuKl
🎙️ Karen Leeder is a writer, scholar, and translator of contemporary German literature. She has received many accolades for her translations, including the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for Durs Grünbein's 𝙋𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 (@seagullbooks), the Stephen Spender Prize, the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation, and two Schlegel-Tieck Prizes. Leeder is the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of the German Language and Literature at the @UniofOxford.
🎙️ Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet with interests in language, violence, power, and religion. He is the host of @onbeing's 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙐𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 and has published volumes of poetry, essays, a memoir and theology. This year has seen the publication of 𝙆𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙃𝙮𝙢𝙣𝙨, a volume of original poems, and the anthology 44 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙀𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧; 𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙐𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. He lives in Belfast and New York City.
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#poemoftheweek is "An African Elegy" by Ben Okri.
the invisible birth waters
rain from our past
already bewater our future
Poem of the Week is “Water Birth” by JoAnn Balingit @jabalingit
Poem as audio & text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: https://t.co/ity58ELBfd
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