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Autumn: A Dirge


By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Tulledega


By Alexander Posey

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A Portable Paradise


By Roger Robinson

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Trying to Write Poetry


By Jack Gilbert

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The Book of the Missing, Murdered and Indigenous – Chapter 1


By M. L. Smoker

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The Heart of the Wood

By Augusta, Lady Gregory

Read by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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That the Science of Cartography Is Limited


By Eavan Boland

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Oceans

By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Read by Marie Howe

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23 Madison Avenue


By Maya Phillips

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Poem of the month

Skinology

By Adrian C. Louis

Films

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That's My Heart Right There

By Willie Perdomo

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Programs & recordings

Screen/Print: Screening and Discussion at Poets House, 11/2

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News

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15th Annual PoetryFest at Irish Arts Center

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Film screening at Film and Video Poetry Symposium

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14th Annual PoetryFest at Irish Arts Center

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Spring update: 30 poets, 71 poems

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Films at Bloomsday Film Festival 2023

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Our aim is to expand access to poetry and educational poetry materials, gathering great poems from across places, eras, and traditions.

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«Our mission is to bring the legacy of poetry to a younger generation.»

Sample47 CATHY HALSTEAD – FOUNDER

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Poetry Ireland

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Academy of
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Poet in the City

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92Y and the Unterberg
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