The leaflets are melting into QR codes and, Ma and ’em live too far So the church van can’t even bring em —Poet of the Week Jay Délise reads their feature poem "Psst" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

myself in the middle of the living room—wiggling my toes deep into the carpet, like roots —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Kaitlin Hsu brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…

Our featured #mentors this week are Grace Bialecki & KB Brookins! Get critiqued: poetsbridge.org/critiques

the rule was that I would only return if she guessed the secret word, so, for many nights, I waited —#PoetoftheWeek Kaitlin Hsu reads her feature poem "As a Child, I Pretended to Be a Tree" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

Our featured #mentors this week are Margaret Ray & Devin Kelly! Get critiqued: poetsbridge.org/critiques

To make all that happen what are you willing to do. I straightened. I straightened the flowers, —#PoetoftheWeek Esther Lin reads her feature poem "Disappearing Act" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

Our featured #mentors this week are Gabrielle Bates & C. (Constantine Jones) (C. (Constantine Jones))! Get critiqued: poetsbridge.org/critiques

that at some point the body ends & stops beginning & stops ending —#PoetoftheWeek Abi Pollokoff reads her feature poem "lilies & these eroded" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

crows scatter like ashes, noiseless in that diminishing taxonomy. let me name you —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Shana Blatt brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…

Our featured #mentors this week are Joan Kwon Glass & Eloisa Amezcua! Get critiqued: poetsbridge.org/critiques

it has been night too long. i must do the work of resetting. presumably, i walk homeward. —#PoetoftheWeek Shana Blatt reads their feature poem "tenor" soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

Now that we are close enough to greet by first name, I look out at the sea of jewelry and see how a game can be a memorial, —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Brittany Rogers (she/her). On Saturday, 5/24, Brittany will teach a lyric poem workshop at our annual Poetry Festival! brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…

Our featured #mentors this week are Sun Yung Shin & Leah Elimeliah! Get critiqued: poetsbridge.org/critiques

Rows and rows of gold pendants thick as fists, gripping portraits of beloveds. —Our #PoetoftheWeek Brittany Rogers (she/her) reads her feature poem "Ice Cam, Little Caesars Arena, February 2023" Catch Brittany's wkshp @ our Festival next wknd (flash sale tix rn!) soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

so when i saw you telling me a book lets you zoom through time & space i became a meteorite —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Anastacia-Renee. This Sunday, 5/25, she'll teach a workshop at our 3rd annual Poetry Festival on constructing new forms! brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…

mr. rogers gifts me a red cardigan. it odors like missing daddy & saltine crackers a white man who can putty all my cracks —#PoetoftheWeek Anastacia-Renee reads their feature poem "Get Home Before the PBS Street Lights Go Out." soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/…

funny how life needs death for it to happen, be compared to. Valued. But you knew this —Our #PoetoftheWeek, Eduardo Martínez-Leyva (Eduardo Martinez-Leyva). This Friday, 5/30, he will be a featured poet at our Friday Night Open alongside Vaughn M. Watson. brooklynpoets.org/community/poet…