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Give the gift of POETRY to your loved ones this holiday season, and they’ll thank you all year long! 📚 bit.ly/4eS9BCm
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John palpitating love notes in a lost-found nation within a nation His music resounding discovery signed Always John Coltrane —Jayne Cortez in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3CctFSl CW: Strong language

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Again, what’s wrong here is exactly right, and thus irritation is our gateway to poetry’s pleasure. —Graham Foust in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/4ftORSc
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sie braucht sich nur fallen zu lassen Kirschen und Trauben she just needs to let herself fall cherries and grapes —Annette C. Boehm in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/48DD5Ti

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Biliyorum benimle gelen gemi Benimle gitmeyecek. I know the ship I came on Won’t leave with me. —Rüştü Onur (trans. by @slyter90 and @huseyinalhas) in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3Af6Qgs
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Congratulations to the 2024 POETRY Magazine prize winners! 🎉 Ishion Hutchinson 🎉 Tayi Tibble 🎉 Jackie Sabbagh 🎉 Henneh Kyereh Kwaku 🎉 Monika Cassel 🎉 Danielle Vogel 🎉 Joe Alicea 🎉 Melvin Dixon 🎉 Kate Asche Read their prize-winning work: bit.ly/3CAFKRF
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I failed to measure how many steps it took to walk my heart’s wanting back to front, though I paced it over and over. —Jane Hirshfield in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3C7QIO8

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His poems are busted by history and fractured by time. The past doesn’t stay in the earth where it belongs, and when you dig up a piece, it holds anything but neat archaeological layers. —Alexander Wells (@ajbwells) on the German poet Lutz Seiler. bit.ly/3AFjpS7

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Tell him Miss Dinah’s back in town and she’s waiting just for you —Jayne Cortez in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/4fozPxi CW: Strong language

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I’ve always admired poems that dare me not to be there, as if my being there was of no consequence; poems that fail to notice me; poems that even actively deride me. —@randallmannpoet in the November issue of POETRY. CW: Sexual content bit.ly/3YxcWko
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I wander the streets, a stranger to my own slowness. All the neighborhood cats reel in —Darius Atefat-Peckham in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3Cesulp

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Joy Harjo will be joined in conversation by our very own, Adrian Matejka!
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, CPL is pleased to welcome the 23rd United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo as part of our Voices for Justice Series! Click here to learn more: bit.ly/cplharjo
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& the goal is to get there again & again. —@maireadsmst in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3CeMswm

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She mirrored a deep Blackness that had little to do with color and everything to do with being a diasporic Black descendant of slaves brought to America. —Sapphire on the firespitter, Jayne Cortez. bit.ly/4fukHOK CW: Racial violence

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I waited for the snow but it never snowed it just got colder & colder —Josh English in the November issue of POETRY. bit.ly/4fb0IoB
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Today's Featured Poem: "Phusis" by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, from the September 2024 Issue of Poetry (@poetrymagazine). Read here: poems.com/poem/phusis/
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