Happy birthday to Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry winner, Toi Derricotte, who was born #OnThisDay in 1941. 🎊 bit.ly/3IQOaEa

Sábado 20 de abril, únete a nosotros para una conversación entre los poetas del festival internacional de poesía en español, Poesía en Abril: Lazos.

Aprende más y regístrate: bit.ly/3Vr3mj5

(evento en español/Spanish Program)

My name is old—
my name

means  jewel girl.

—Bo Hee Moon in the April issue of POETRY.
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Expo Chicago is back for its eleventh anniversary this week.

Here is a snapshot of the must-see events happening around the city on April 11-14 and in the days after.

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Forget the Emily Dickinson you think you know. Behold, instead, a woman who baked a lot; who was very often funny; and who used a prodigious number of exclamation points in letters to her family.

—Dr. Maya C. Popa on the letters of Emily Dickinson bit.ly/43XIxOj

Bring more poetry to your classroom!📝

Join us for the Summer Poetry Teachers Institute. This FREE event includes seminars, workshops & small sessions where attendees craft poetry lesson/unit plans to bring back to their students.

Apply by March 21: bit.ly/4cmGV4m

On the latest episode of #PoetryOffTheShelf , April Gibson speaks with host Helena de Groot on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother..

Listen here: bit.ly/3PWfcy9

TONIGHT join us for the Open Door series, which highlights poetry as an expansive & relational art form practiced by Midwest writers & their collaborators.

Featuring Flor Flores with Maricela Guerrero Reyes & Érika Ordos with Jules Zinn.
Register: bit.ly/49n5T12

This week on #HarrietBooks , Janani Ambikapathy reviews EVERY MINUTE IS FIRST by Marie-Claire Bancquart, translated from the French by Jody Gladding, published by Milkweed Editions (Milkweed Editions).

Read the review: bit.ly/4aKllFu

Join us in celebrating Poetry Month with:

🌷 A free download of the April issue of POETRY magazine
🌷 Free events, including a 50th anniversary celebration of Graywolf Press
🌷 KARA WALKER: BACK OF HAND exhibition in our gallery
🌷And more!

Learn more: bit.ly/3VKKDix

The death
of beauty is diagnosed by no flower. How afraid I am
of your outstretched hand, its petals
white and black and falling fingers.

—Reginald Shepherd was born #OnThisDay in 1963. bit.ly/3TNgMo1

The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce Gwendolyn Perry Davis as its new board chair and to thank outgoing board chair, Caren Yanis.

Read the announcement: bit.ly/49ufF19

THURSDAY join us for an installment of the Open Door reading series, featuring Flor Flores with Maricela Guerrero Reyes and Érika Ordos with Jules Zinn.

Register: bit.ly/49n5T12

Dixon’s work has been with me for the last fourteen years, and this is my first opportunity to share what I’ve long loved with a wide audience.

—CM Burroughs in the April issue of POETRY, which features a folio on Melvin Dixon.
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We'd love to hear about forthcoming poetry collections, & are especially interested in work published by small & independent presses, poetry in translation, & chapbooks.

Please send us your recommendations at least two months ahead of publication date: bit.ly/2vzyvnm

You are invited to watch. The body
in complete dark casting nothing back.
The thing turns and flicks and opens.

—Ann Lauterbach with our #PoemOfTheDay for the total solar eclipse that will be visible across much of North America. bit.ly/3xMlCa3

THURSDAY join us for an installment of the Open Door reading series, featuring Flor Flores with Maricela Guerrero Reyes and Érika Ordos with Jules Zinn.

Register: bit.ly/49n5T12

She pulls
And the notes fall
Into her molten mold
Of flaming sound.

—Frank Marshall Davis with our #PoemOfTheDay for Billie Holiday, who was born #OnThisDay in 1915. bit.ly/3x5pfdF

Visit the Poetry Foundation to engage with KARA WALKER: BACK OF HAND, our latest exhibition. On display until May 18.

Learn more: bit.ly/3Ub5QRI
📸: Sarah Joyce