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#PoFest 2024 Headliners: PSNY's Poetry Picks

This post features poems from each of the Headliners of the 13th Annual New York City Poetry Festival: Ilya Kaminsky, Safia Elhillo, Kazim Ali & Katie Farris.

#PoFest 2024 Headliners: PSNY's Poetry Picks
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PSNY's Place to Write #1

Carve out some you-time and head down to this month’s PTW spot & give this Prompt a free write.

PSNY's Place to Write #1
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Black History Always (Not Just a Month) - ...

Although Black History Month is coming to a close, we must remember that the influence  of Black art and culture in the poetry world and the world beyond deserves acknowledgment and  utmost appreciation 24/7/365.

Black History Always (Not Just a Month) - Written by Faith-Marie McHenry
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twenty-one ways to prosper as a child of a ...

twenty-one ways to prosper as a child of a dying world | Clickbait is a blog designed to shamelessly attract attention to poetry. Using devices typically reserved for online “clickbait” like listicles, how-to’s, trending topics, SEO, hashtags, hyperlinks, hyperbole, sensationalism, puff, and fluff, the poets at The Poetry Society of New York are having a little fun.

twenty-one ways to prosper as a child of a dying world
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Ten Poet Pairs Who Would Have Been Best Friends ...

Ten Poet Pairs Who Would Have Been Best Friends If They Were Born in the Same Period | Clickbait is a blog designed to shamelessly attract attention to poetry. Using devices typically reserved for online “clickbait” like listicles, how-to’s, trending topics, SEO, hashtags, hyperlinks, hyperbole, sensationalism, puff, and fluff, the poets at The Poetry Society of New York are having a little fun.

Ten Poet Pairs Who Would Have Been Best Friends If They Were Born in the Same Period

6 Healing Crystals for Crafting Your Next Poem

6 Healing Crystals for Crafting Your Next Poem

A love token, the soft rose hue of rose quartz fosters tender energy of compassion, self-love, and forgiveness. Rose quartz is known for bringing about calming effects, reassurance, and strengthening empathy skills. This crystal is therefore perfect for dissolving emotional wounds and stimulating inward reflection to spur a poem that comes from the heart.

WHAT DO JIM MORRISON, ARTHUR RIMBAUD, AND THE 2019 THE NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL HAVE IN COMMON?

The very fact of taking place is something to celebrate. To exceed existence or being, but only marginally. To dwell in our edges and crevices: the fold of a page, the frame of a canvas. Here, things happen. They happen because they begin to take on a strange, distinct life of their own, unplanned and voluptuous births seeping forth to make the shape of art.