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The Sharp-Breasted Snake

By Louis Little Coon Oliver

Read by Jennifer Elise Foerster

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Like Coins, November


By Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck

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Instructions on Not Giving Up


By Ada Limón

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Skinology

By Adrian C. Louis

Read by Jake Skeets

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Autumn Botany


By A. E. Stallings

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Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation


By Natalie Diaz

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Pine Wind


By Peter Halstead

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My Fancy


By Alexander Posey

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What Any Lover Learns


By Archibald MacLeish

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Wellspring: Words from Water

By Kimberly M. Blaeser

Films

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Our Bodies, Our Rules

By Sky Hawkins

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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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August update: 60 poems by 23 poets

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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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