Poets Reading the News

The home of journalism in verse since 2016. We bridge poetry and current events via our online journal and events in San Francisco and beyond.

[Poets Reading the News @PoetsRTN]

Hiya! We're discontinuing our Twitter profile because we don't like this platform anymore! You can still tag this account with your fresh-pressed PRTN poetry :D

We're still alive + well, just elsewhere!

Find us on Substack, Instagram, and our fav way:
https://t.co/k1GlxuxyGO

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Our open call on the Poetics of Artificial Intelligence is OPEN through August 30!

Poets are invited to respond to the rise of AI, its impact on labor and economies, and how it is poised to change our lives as poets, creatives and human beings.

Submit: https://t.co/gAWhC32ffF

[Poets Reading the News @PoetsRTN]

We're SO excited to share our open call on the Poetics of Artificial Intelligence!

Send us your poetry on the rise of AI, its impact on labor and economies, and how it's poised to change our lives as poets and people.

Submit by Aug 30 on @submittable
https://t.co/71Ll1a6B4U

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New poetry by Dick Westheimer for #Gaza.

Find the full poem on our front page.

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"My Body Resigns" by Catherine Esposito Prescott, a breaking poem on the 6,000 American women lost to gun violence each year:

I am in the center; 
no, my body is centered, though erring, 
lilting in its thoughts from left to right,
from earth to cosmos

https://t.co/qZnxk3kpHb

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New poetry by Megan Merchant on the question driving a viral TikTok query: would you rather be in the woods with a man or bear? There's nothing abstract about it.

https://t.co/cOVXAzUE1U

[Elle Newton @elleavivnewton]

Poet Christine Rhein took my breath away with her words; read it NOW

'my doctor—rushing in, out—shouting for
                              an operating room.
If it happened now, a hospital could
                    turn me away—doctors
afraid of arrest—bans insisting on delay'

[Poets Reading the News @PoetsRTN]

@LindaKSienkwicz Thank you so much for sharing Linda!

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We here at Poets Reading the News are honored to publish this brave new #poem, "Miscarriage," by Christine Rhein: a letter to the #SupremeCourt justices who overturned #RoeVWade , on how deadly it is to #miscarry a pregnancy under today's #abortion bans.

https://t.co/NCv46JOe8g

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✨It's Friday - and the last day to apply for our editorial cohort! 📷 It closes at 11:59pm PST.

Writers, our poetry submissions are open through 5/20.

Learn more + submit: https://t.co/5WRsOzRJBH

[Poets Reading the News @PoetsRTN]

Calling emergent editors! Here's your chance to sharpen your editorial skills and collaborate with a dynamic poetic newsroom. Check out our open call for associate poetry editors - and submit by Thursday:

https://t.co/YJ7ZoY0Igh

@submittable #poetsreadingthenews

[Elle Newton @elleavivnewton]

Sharing some very exciting news! Looking forward to reading some amazing writing with @nikki_ikani & @Kashianasingh & Michel Krug, and welcoming a new cohort to our editorial team 🤠

[Poets Reading the News @PoetsRTN]

@justin_karcher Thanks for sharing Justin!

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✨ Breaking news, writing community! ✨

We're open to poetry submissions & thrilled to be forming our next cohort of Associate Poetry Editors.

Find us on @submittable & https://t.co/k1Glxuy6wm

[Poets Reading the News @PoetsRTN]

Today we're thinking about that one time Úchèńnà Ogbújí recorded his poem "Totality" in front of a live solar eclipse in Nebraska for @PoetsRTN

https://t.co/yAzJHLzqEC

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@justin_karcher @PurpleInkPress @GhostCityPress An epic read to this day. Congrats Justin

https://t.co/OGXNInMO8I

[Justin Karcher @justin_karcher]

Cool news: my poems about Mac Miller and Kanye West will be featured in ‘50 Years of Hip-Hop Anthology’ from @PurpleInkPress. The poems were first published by @PoetsRTN & @GhostCityPress

[Aunt Lute Books @auntlute]

The Home in the Bay ebook is here!

Download the free ebook that brings together pieces shared and inspired by Aunt Lute Books’ Home in the Bay project, honoring voices impacted by gentrification, colonization, migration, and homelessness. Download now: https://t.co/W0w0Q9SRiP

[Nikki Ikani @nikki_ikani]

The amazing @elleavivnewton writes to about the latest issue of Poets Reading the News. "My hope for this poetry is that it will widen the bridges of compassion in those who read it, especially toward whosoever is beyond your heart's present reach." https://t.co/9EZwSjROtU

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"I look out at a stampede of pines over the rubble of uprooted olive trees.
We never learned the Yiddish word for “forest”.
Beneath it all, the seed of the one I planted —
my envelope baring its teeth."

- Noa Silver for @poetsrtn
https://t.co/gbZZjbsjTu