Emily Dickinson insomnia ✨

The 12th annual Spotlight on the Arts festival was a great celebration of arts programming and research at UGA. Highlights included Grammy-nominated musicians, award-winning authors and poets, a student artist market and a rich lineup of theatre, dance and music performances!

In the ocean gusts before dawn, he yearns for a Mediterranean spray where sunlight tingles eyelashes, where sand releases heat under the stars. - Happy birthday to 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner, Arthur Sze, who was born #OnThisDay in 1950! bit.ly/3GD0TJP"

I walk north across the river, Christmas lights crushed on skyscraper glass, bling stringing Michigan Ave., sunlight’s last-gasp sighing through the artless fog. —W. S. Di Piero, who was born #OnThisDay in 1945! bit.ly/3oZ4J6t

Need a break from finals? Visit the “House Party: Digging Into House Show History in Athens!” exhibit in the UGA Special Collections Building. This exhibit is on display until Dec. 18 and offers a look at selected house show locations from the 1940s through the 2000s.

Don’t forget to write. Don’t forget and write the same word twice. —Rae Armantrout in the December issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3GMP43P

A row of tall skinny candles burns quickly into the night air, the shames raised over the rest for its hard work. —Marge Piercy with our #PoemOfTheDay for the first night of Hannukah. bit.ly/3R0qn8s

Living in time made me almost forget. But I didn’t forget. —Li-Young Lee in the December issue of POETRY. bit.ly/47H1LsG

- Homer, The Iliad

Happy birthday to the brilliant Emily Dickinson:

happy birthday Emily Dickinson 🎈 Mark Kirschen (“We know ourselves by song…”), Mary Ruefle (“Emily Dickinson had an amazing imagination…”), Susan Howe (“Poetry is the great stimulation of life…”), & ED herself

mit Schnee und Hagel zerschlag den einvernehmlichen Schlaf den wir in unseren Betten führen with snow and hail smash through the collective sleep we are all enjoying in our beds —Daniela Danz (trans. by @MonikaCassel) in the December issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3RCi98l

— Mark Doty, "The Death of Antinoüs"

Myers Quad in the snow, circa the mid-1980s. Happy holidays, Dawgs! #UGA #TBT

Today is the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. Start your winter with poems from our Winter Poems collection. ☃️ bit.ly/32VUJRA

— Sylvia Plath

— Beau Taplin, “And You”

— James Baldwin