Up on the ridge purple thistles
snare a silver thread of starlight
and try, until dawn,
to shake it free.

—Nance Van Winckel (1951—2026) https://bit.ly/4y2acLq

“The voices and forms gathered here, collectively, insist on an America that is diverse, that celebrates poetry in many registers.”

—Maya Marshall

Explore the “Radical Poets of the Midwest” folio and read or listen to the full poems in the October issue of POETRY: https://bit.ly/4zm47L1

Sting in the silver.
Ōe says
many children were told and some believed that when the war was over
the emperor would wipe away their tears
with his own hand.

—Anne Carson, who received this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4hT8bet

Meet Tariq Thompson, one of our 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! 🎉

Tariq's poetry treats language as a time capsule, carrying grief, memory, and connection across the distance between writer and reader.

Read more about Tariq: https://bit.ly/47FubET

"Ariadne" by Adrienne Su.

Read the rest of the poem in the October issue of POETRY: https://bit.ly/47I1LtP

In the latest episode of #PoetryOffTheShelf, Sanam Sheriff and host Helena de Groot discuss pronouns, looking proper, and making an American decision.

Listen here: https://bit.ly/4794Nay

I am learning
how to call my

self, how to put my mouth
on whatever i like.

—Destiny O. Birdsong with the #PoemOfTheDay on International Lesbian Day https://bit.ly/4rlTkgW

Thank you @poetry.foundation, shout out #tilsaotta & @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Rainbow, by Manny Loley (translated by himself from Diné), in the October 2026 issue of Poetry magazing from @poetry.foundation

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Down a road
where people are asleep. Towards
the moon or the shadows of houses.
Towards the songs’ pretended sea.

—Amiri Baraka was born #OnThisDay in 1934. #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4yQ2ViK

This is a fantastic interview with Ada Limón www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/182882...

Congratulations, Nikki! The Poetry Foundation has appointed poet-children’s-YA author Nikki Grimes the next Young People’s Poet Laureate. @poetnikki.bsky.social @stacyvwells.bsky.social #KidLit

Nikki Grimes appointed 2027–2028 Young People’s Poet Laureate | Poetry Foundation buff.ly/zFxH26o

]"Battle Prayer" by Marcie R. Rendon. Read the rest of the poem from the October issue of POETRY: https://bit.ly/4z2d5wE

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

–Emily Brontë with the #PoemOfTheDay 🍂 https://bit.ly/4AhI610

You can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.

—W. S. Merwin with the #PoemOfTheDay on World Teachers' Day. 🍎 https://bit.ly/2W4vpTe

If you sing a song enough,
it can go to your head that way.

–Carole Boston Weatherford with the #PoemOfTheDay to start Banned Books Week.

The December issue of POETRY will include a folio curated by her featuring poets whose work has been banned or challenged. 📚
https://bit.ly/4hwUHVH