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Poetry Foundation
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The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of @PoetryMagazine
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL
Joined July 2009
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    Temporary Job
BY MINNIE BRUCE PRATT
Leaving again. If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t be
grieving. The particulars of place lodged in me,
like this room I lived in for eleven days,
how I learned the way the sun laid its palm
over the side window in the morning, heavy
light, how I’ll never be held in that hand again.
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    Today is the 40th anniversary of the first open-heart surgery. #PoemOfTheDay bit.ly/3NTdhJO
    [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
BY E. E. CUMMINGS
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                      i fear
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    We are proud to announce THE SLOWDOWN, a new poetry podcast and radio feature hosted by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith! Learn more and listen on November 26. poet.ly/3Sbj30m43NQ
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    How alone I am, but in music my desolation is my rejoicing. —Louise Glück (1943-2023) bit.ly/3FeqKaf
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    The Poetry Foundation and @PoetryMagazine are excited to announce Adrian Matejka @adrian_matejka as the new editor of POETRY! 🎉 🎉 🎉 bit.ly/3vdln6S
    Red and black text “Poetry Editor - Adrian Matejka” with abstract red swirls and gray dots. Matejka’s headshot is black-and-white with him, a man with close-cropped hair, wearing a suit jacket and a pendant necklace; he smiles slightly.
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    Say surrender. Say alabaster. Switchblade. Honeysuckle. Goldenrod. Say autumn. Say autumn despite the green —Ocean Vuong, whose birthday is today! poet.ly/oagD30mcVY1
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    🎊 The Poetry Foundation is thrilled to announce the 12 finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships! Thank you to all of those who shared their work with us! 🎊 bit.ly/3zKA6se
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2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalists

Gabrielle Bates
Tianna Bratcher
Tarik Dobbs
Diamond Forde
torrin a. greathouse
Ae Hee Lee
Tariq Luthun
Peter Mason
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Troy Osaki
Alan Pelaez Lopez
Julian Randall

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    Congratulations to @Danez_Smif for winning this year’s @ForwardPrizes for Best Collection! 🎊 #ForwardPrizes poet.ly/1u6B30lSk3k
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    Please join us in congratulating the five 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows, Bhion Achimba, Roda Avelar, Ariana Benson, Chrysanthemum, and Willie Lee Kinard III! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 bit.ly/45yqn5X
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    The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce Marilyn Nelson is the winner of the 2019 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Naomi Shihab Nye is the 2019–21 Young People's Poetry Laureate, and Terrance Hayes is the winner of the 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism! 🎊 bit.ly/2DPUydF
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    The heart is a skinny piece of paper. —Shani, age eleven What poem would you write on the “skinny/ piece of paper” that is the heart? #NationalPoetryMonth 📚 poet.ly/mURf30jgOlW
    Text of the poem "The Love" by Shani, age 11. Full poem after link.
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    We are saddened by the passing of David Berman. Spend a little time with his thoughts on writing in this interview with @travisjnichols. bit.ly/2ScwMyP
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    Congratulations to Louise Glück on winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature! Revisit Claire Luchette's interview with Glück on writing process, her 13th book of poems, and why she experiences a ‘kind of grief’ upon publication. bit.ly/34FmCNJ [📷 Katherine Wolkoff]
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