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A Poem-A-Day Celebration

Throughout the month of April, Alfred A. Knopf and Tumblr are celebrating poetry in this space. So for a steady stream of poetry, follow this blog, read and share the poems, and be sure to submit your own.

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Last night’s PACKED #poetryparty house, panorama by Joshua Kristal.

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This is me in all my post-performance glory!
I got both of my books signed, I got hugs from Tracy K. Smith AND Philip Levine, oh and I even got...

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métaphorique

thorny fingers flick the flesh
and i have thought
iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou

and you’re there but i cannot touch you
i cannot touch you

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“This — For the Moon — Yes?” by Carl Sandburg.

from Slabs of the Sunburnt West, published in 1922.

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“The Sound of the Trees” by Robert Frost.

Mountain Interval, 1916.

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Posts tagged "D. Nukse"

Win a signed copy of D. Nurkse’s A Night in Brooklyn

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… And she who was driving said,
We know the coming disaster intimately but the present is unknowable.

Which disaster, I wondered, sexual or geological? But I was shy:
her beauty was like a language she didn’t speak and had never heard.

From “The Present”

As promised, Alfred A. Knopf is hosting a giveaway for D. Nurkse’s beautiful new poetry collection, A Night in Brooklyn.