We're delighted to announce that the winner of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize is Peter Gizzi with Fierce Elegy, published by Penguin Poetry Penguin Books UK

"I feel like the experience of poetry—it's like the only art form that we sort of strap to a gurney and try to beat a confession out [of]." Happy birthday to Kaveh Abkar! Listen to our Season One episode of The Glimpse with Akbar and Camille Rankine: brinkerhoffpoetry.org/the-glimpse-se…

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"If there is a war buried in this gift I'll eat that too" Patrick Rosal performs his poem "Gift" in the eighth and final offering of our NYC-based poem film series produced with Academy of American Poets. brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/gift

“He could not use a pen with his hands.” —Jose Hernandez Diaz, “The True Poet” in THE PARACHUTIST Jose Hernandez Diaz SundressPublications

"Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also. I don’t know where I get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end." --George Sand, (in a letter to Gustave Flaubert)

The dead do      what they want which is nothing— sit there, mantled,      or made real by photographs ––Kevin Young Kevin Young #PoemADay poets.org/poem/mantle

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Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise —Maya Angelou poets.org/poem/still-i-r…

New poem out today ✨ yalereview.org/article/this-i…

"Here I am open, riddled with light, my full year split like a pomegranate, all its days beaded like seeds" Vona Groarke performs her poem "Stansted to Knock, December 21st" in a film produced with Irish Arts Center. brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/stansted…

Sounds wonderful! We'll be tuning into the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation poetry podcast The Glimpse to hear host @seanehewitt and a wonderful line-up of Irish poets open.spotify.com/show/6v0eQ8X7q…

In this stunning Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation /writersmosaic film directed by Savannah Acquah, Marjorie Lotfi is filmed reciting the final poem from her Forward Prizes-winning debut collection The Wrong Person to Ask. writersmosaic.org.uk/insight/the-he…

In the next of our series of poetry films with Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, poet Dr Jo Clement reads, 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah bit.ly/3GRLx7l

.Marjorie Lotfi reads 'Prayer' by John Burnside, the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah bit.ly/3Z2fI24

Joyce’s ‘Universal City’: An Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation / Bloomsday Poetry Film Showcase Friday 13th June at 7pm Belvedere Townhouse FREE EVENT but booking is recommended, book here: bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/bloomsda… Bloomsday Film Festival Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

✨ PREMIERE TONIGHT! ✨ My new poetry film Universal City premieres at the Bloomsday Film Festival x Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation showcase! 🎥🎙️ Feat. Leah Minto 🎭 Info 🔗 bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/bloomsda… 🤝 In collaboration with: The James Joyce Centre #BloomsdayFestival #Bloomsday2025 CWB Management