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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 14h

"Good Morning — Midnight —
I'm coming Home —
Day — got tired of Me —
How could I — of Him?"

Emily Dickinson, from "Good Morning — Midnight —"

Emily Dickinson - "Good Morning — Midnight — "

Good Morning — Midnight — I'm coming Home —

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 5d

"My heart is like an opal, flashing fire
And flaming gleams of pointed light
At thy approach; or lying cold and white
When thou art gone."

Ruth Muskrat Bronson, born #OnThisDay in 1897.

Ruth Muskrat Bronson - "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"

My heart is like an opal, flashing fire

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

"Every old man I see
In October-coloured weather
Seems to say to me
'I was once your father.'"

Declan O'Connor performs Patrick Kavanagh's "Memory of My Father" in our latest film created with @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social.

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P.W. Bridgman, Writer @pwbwriter1.bsky.social · 7d

"...'you're not in Ireland now.'"

Such deep feeling in Martina Evans' reading of Eavan Boland's poignant childhood memoir, beautifully framed and filmed, as always, by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social.

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much for your kind words! We agree, Martina is a wonderful reader.

Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Push me higher until I am all stomach,
until my eyes are like that fist of muscle,
tight and hungry. Fill me with green fields for sky.

Victoria Kennefick, from Eat or We Both Starve (@carcanet.bsky.social)

Victoria Kennefick - "Swing"

Push me higher until I am all stomach,

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 8d

"Tonight, holding a stranger in my arms—
Suddenly a downpour, a late
Summer storm."

Larry Levis was born #OnThisDay in 1946. Here, @aanaxagorou.bsky.social reads Levis's poem "After the Blue Note Closes."

Anthony Anaxagorou reads "After the Blue Note Closes" by Larry Levis

Tonight, holding a stranger in my arms—

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 9d

How exciting! Congratulations on the new book!

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 9d

The love of wicked men converts to fear,
That fear to hate

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 9d

O, glorious is this night!
The Summer sweetness fills my heart with songs,
I can not sing, with loves I can not speak.

George Marion McClellan, born #OnThisDay in 1860.

George Marion McClellan - "A September Night"

The full September moon sheds floods of light,

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 12d

"I do not find
The Hanged Man. Fear death by water."

T. S. Eliot was born #OnThisDay in 1888. Watch Giannina Braschi perform an excerpt of Eliot's "The Waste Land" in this poem film directed by Williams Cole.

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 14d

I have a word for it—
the way the surface waited all day
to be a silvery pause between sky and city—
which is elver.

Eavan Boland was born on this day in 1944.

Eavan Boland - "Cityscape"

I have a word for it—

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 16d

From Rita Dove's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780393354935

#poem #books #writing

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 16d

I want Ireland to know

whose son I am / And that I am

also its son

Happy birthday to @akasomeguy.bsky.social! Here, Shane McCrae performs his poem "Loving Ireland" in a film created with the Irish Arts Center.

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Shane McCrae reads "Loving Ireland"

Loving my father I love Ireland

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 18d

This is the island.
It is small and vulnerable,
it is a woman, calling.

Happy birthday to Tiphanie Yanique!

Watch Selina Nwulu perform Yanique's poem "Dangerous Things."

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 20d

"Swans lightly pass
Oh the aching nature of September evenings
The colours of the daytime blend"

Peter Doolan performs his poem "Scrambling the Number Stations" in a new film created with @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social.

Peter Doolan reads "Scrambling the Number Stations"

I like to look at the birds

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 21d

It is a willow when summer is over,
a willow by the river
from which no leaf has fallen nor
bitten by the sun
turned orange or crimson.

William Carlos Williams, born #OnThisDay.

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William Carlos Williams - "Willow Poem"

It is a willow when summer is over,

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 23d

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 27d

"I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother."

Obioma Ugoala performs Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too" in the second film in our new series with @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social.

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 28d

"Why not let the pears cling
to the empty branch?
All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit—"

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), born #OnThisDay in 1886.

H.D. - "Sheltered Garden"

I have had enough.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 29d

From Sierra DeMulder's book, Ephemera.

#poem #books #writing

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 29d

"We used to say,
That’s my heart right there.

As if to say,
Don’t mess with her right there."

Willie Perdomo performs his poem "That's My Heart Right There" in a 2024 film created with @poetsorg.bsky.social.

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 5

I can't stop looking. You can't get over
whatever has happened, so shell-shocked
that birds could land and roost.

Kamilah Aisha Moon, born on this day.
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social

Kamilah Aisha Moon - "Watching a Woman on the M101 Express"

You sit in a hard blue seat, one

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Airless, humid dark. Leaf-noise.
The stirrings of a garden before rain.
A hint of storm behind the risen moon."

Martina Evans reads Eavan Boland's poem "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951" in the first in our new series of poem films with @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social.

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Water is heavy silver over stone.
Water is heavy silver over stone’s
Refusal."

Archibald MacLeish, from "What Any Lover Learns."

Archibald MacLeish - "What Any Lover Learns"

Water is heavy silver over stone.

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