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Paradise


By Jennifer Elise Foerster

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The Fisherman

By W. B. Yeats

Read by ATMOS Collective

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Little Prayer


By Mona Arshi

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Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera


By Natalie Diaz

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The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower


By Dylan Thomas

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Why I Can’t Swim


By Allison Joseph

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Thunderhead


By Archibald MacLeish

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Hope


By Georgia Douglas Johnson

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A Jelly-Fish


By Marianne Moore

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Girls Bathing, Galway 1965

By Seamus Heaney

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Blizzard

By Carl Phillips

Read by Bernard Ferguson

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Programs & recordings

Ghosts from the Recent Past: Poem Films

A collaboration with IMMA and Poetry Ireland, 7/20–9/26

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News

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Daydreams poetry installation at Tippet Rise

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April text archive update: 54 new poems

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Brinkerhoff Poetry films at St. Patrick's Festival 2021

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January text archive update: poems from 28 poets

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Digital event 12/4: Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place

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