On July 18 & 19, join us at the New York City Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island for screenings of 22 of our poem films! Stop by Filmshop House at Nolan Park House 4B from 11am–5pm both days to catch our films and escape the heat. The festival is free to all to attend.

New on The Glimpse: Mimi Khalvati speaks with host Hannah Lowe about Dylan Thomas’ reckless life, poetic forms as an antidote to modernity & learning to pronounce her own name. Mimi reads her poem “Coma” & Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”

This is not enough William Corbett

"On a tough journey, a few words will do to ensure the future will be fed." Rafael Mendes performs Brendan Kennelly's "Herself and himself" in a new poem film created in collaboration with Bloomsday Film Festival.

Joelle Taylor appears on this week's episode of The Glimpse, speaking with Hannah Lowe about the heterogeneity of queer culture, female eroticism without the male gaze & poems as movie trailers. Joelle reads her poem “Psalm” & part of Danez Smith’s poem “summer, somewhere.”

Belfast Book Festival may be over but you can now watch Susanna Galbraith's poetry film online-- "singing lessons" has been brought to life by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social @su-anna.bsky.social and Matthew Thompson www.youtube.com/watch?v=59CF...

"I grew a rose within a garden fair, And, tending it with more than loving care, I thought how, with the glory of its bloom, I should the darkness of my life illume." From "Promise" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, born on this day in 1872.

"Shed these bedclothes! Pull apart the dirty cream curtains! We spill out beneath a bald, dimming sky in search of an affordable meal." Kwaku Fortune performs "Devotion: 4. Impromptu Evening" by Mícheál McCann in a new film created with Bloomsday Film Festival.

A wonderful in-depth interview with Welsh poet Menna Elfyn is featured on The Glimpse podcast from @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social, hosted by fellow Bloodaxe poet Hannah Lowe. Menna was speaking about her own poetry and also discussed a poem by RS Thomas. www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/podcast/seas...

I’m thinking of how mushrooms will haunt a wet log like bulbous ghosts; of how a mushroom may be considered a travesty of a flower in the way that a wolf may be a travesty of a grandmother. Padraig Regan, from "Rehydrating Mushrooms." https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/rehydrating-mushrooms

New episode of The Glimpse today! Menna Elfyn chats with host Hannah Lowe about writing in Welsh and English, overturning syntax, and finding common ground through shared language. Menna reads her poem “Let the World’s People Sing” and R. S. Thomas’ “Don’t Ask Me.”

Wanderer moon smiling a faintly ironical smile at this brilliant, dew-moistened summer morning,— William Carlos Williams, from "Summer Song." Happy Summer Solstice! https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/summer-song

Our film "American Cheese (1994)" has been selected as a finalist by the film festival La Poesia che si Vede, taking place June 27 in Ancona, Italy! Congratulations to director Jean Coleman and poet and performer Kate Durbin for this recognition of their cheesy collaboration.

"Oh mother, mother, where is happiness? They took my lover’s tallness off to war, Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess What I can use an empty heart-cup for." From "the sonnet-ballad" by Gwendolyn Brooks. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-sonnet-ballad

From Marie-Claire Bancquart's book, Every Minute Is First. Translated by Jody Gladding. Get the book here: bookshop.org/a/862/9781639550906 #poem #booksky #writing

On The Glimpse this week, Arji joins Hannah Lowe to discuss rabbit holes of natural wonder, how power can go wrong & what it takes to write a poem for the Princess of Wales. Arji reads his poem “The Crocodile” & Matthew Dickman’s poem “Goblin.”

"1. To reach a place, especially at the end of a journey: as in, Ulysses arrived at the airport, and walked up to the terminal as a gust struck his darkskinned face." Rafael Mendes performs his poem "Arrive verb" in a new poem film created in collaboration with Bloomsday Film Festival.

Congratulations to all involved with our film "Saturday Night Blues," winner of the Goethe-Institut's "Art of Utopia" award at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival! Cheers to director Jean Coleman, poet and performer Brontez Purnell, and the film's crew. And our thanks to Berlin's Haus für Poesie!

We're delighted to share that our film "Good Girl" won the live-action grand prize at the Weimar Poetry Film Award! Congratulations to director Matthew Thompson & actor Sidonie McLaren, as well as Kim Addonizio & Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Our thanks to Guido Naschert & Poetryfilmtage!

From The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons: bookshop.org/a/862/9780393308501 #poem #booksky #writing

"Light small fires / in the middle of your poems." Susanna Galbraith performs her poem "singing lessons" in a film created with the Belfast Book Festival. With thanks to publisher Macha Press.

Here's a sneak peek at our film of "singing lessons" by Susanna Galbraith, now on view at the Belfast Book Festival and releasing online tomorrow!

This week on The Glimpse, Liz Berry joins Hannah Lowe to speak about joy and resistance, making the poems you’re desperate for, and the secret language of friendship between poets. Liz reads her poem “The Republic of Motherhood” and “Childbed” by Fiona Benson.

“Gather your ghosts, and listen to this lineage.” Christell Victoria Roach performs her poem “Overture” in the final film in Read By Miami, our ten-film series created with O, Miami https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/overture

"My thoughts turn, as they often do in this season of absence, to my wife, and how tired a god can get when called, and too often, for little reason but loneliness." Donika Kelly, from "In the Chapel of St. Mary's." https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/in-the-chapel-of-st-marys

Join us on June 13 at Bloomsday Film Festival for a showcase, reading & talk highlighting poetry films inspired by Joyce's concept of Dublin as "Universal City." Catch films of Kwaku Fortune, Rafael Mendes & Stephen James Smith, a live poetry performance, and more! www.eventbrite.ie/e/...

"So there are the poems that need to be written...but there's also just the act of making, which is deeply humane and connects us to each other." Meet Hannah Lowe, our host for this season of The Glimpse, on this week's new episode, "The Act of Making."

We're excited to be part of the Belfast Book Festival again this year! From June 4–11, join us at Crescent Arts Centre for programming with Poet-in-Residence Susanna Galbraith and screenings of new films and old on loop at the Centre's café! https://belfastbookfestival.com/

“The neighbors dream of shooting me. The poets dream of writing me elegies.” Ruben Rabasa performs Frank Báez’ poem “Self-Portrait” as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/self-portrait

Our podcast, The Glimpse, is back for a season of the UK's poetry, hosted by Hannah Lowe! Join guest poets Liz Berry, Arji, Mimi Khalvati, Menna Elfyn, Joelle Taylor, Mimi Khalvati, Richard Scott, jason allen-paisant, and Niall Campbell for new episodes releasing each Tuesday beginning June 2nd.

Maged Zaher, from Illness

"About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters." Tom Healy performs W. H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami.

"The Dawn’s awake! The dawn of a thousand dreams and thrills. And music singing in the hills A pæen of eternal spring Voices the new awakening. " Otto Leland Bohanan, "The Dawn's Awake" https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-dawns-awake

"There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted who disappeared into those shadows." Adrienne Rich, born #OnThisDay in 1929.

"No pharaoh does miss his kitty any more than I miss the dive bars of Chicago, 1998." Jaswinder Bolina performs his poem "Palace of Amenhotep (or 20th Century Elegy)" as ‬part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami.

"give me neon-glare, greenlit sushi places, low-calorie, calorie free asian noodles; what can be more asian than a noodle, more asian than me" Annie Fan, "Sonnet Which Is Not a Sonnet" https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/sonnet-which-is-not-a-sonnet?=ck123

Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.

Silent silent falling flowers Wang Wei, translated by G. W. Robinson

"In the dusky path of a dream I went to seek the love who was mine in a former life. Her house stood at the end of a desolate street." Rabindranath Tagore was born on this day in 1861. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-gardener-62

“Tell me what it’s like to live without curiosity, without awe.” Caridad Moro-Gronlier performs Matthew Olzmann's poem “Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America” as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami.

"A one-sided relationship is developing quite well between you and me. I know what a leaf, petal, kernel, cone, and stem are, and I know what happens to you in April and December." From "The Silence of Plants" by Wisława Szymborska. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-silence-of-plants

"Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero // I grow a white rose, in June as in January" Ruben Rabasa performs José Martí's poem "Cultivo una rosa blanca / I Grow a White Rose" as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with @omiamifestival.bsky.social.

Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower And casually glance Would scarcely cause one to suspect The minor Circumstance Assisting in the Bright Affair So intricately done Then offered as a Butterfly To the Meridian — Emily Dickinson, "Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower"

For anyone interested, here's a little film of David Berman's brilliant poem "Snow" that I got a chance to do—with many thanks to director Eric Felipe-Barkin, @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social, and @omiamifestival.bsky.social

"When it's snowing, the outdoors seem like a room." @jaswinderbolina.bsky.social‬ performs David Berman's poem "Snow" as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with @omiamifestival.bsky.social.

We're proud to share that we have been named 2026 Leadership Award Honorees by @poetsorg.bsky.social! We & Arthur Sze will be honored at AAP's free virtual benefit on 4/28, hosted by Tracy K. Smith and featuring Louise Erdrich, Nick Offerman, Chloé Zhao & more. RSVP now! poets.org/pcm2026

"The Electoral College is a lullaby designed to put us back to sleep." @mobrowne.bsky.social performs "If 2017 was a poem title" in a NYC poem film. www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/if-201...

"While God licks his kin, we sing until our blood is jazz, we swing from June to June." @cvrpoet.bsky.social performs Terrance Hayes' poem "The Golden Shovel" as part of Read By Miami, our new series created with O, Miami

"Vast sky, sky blue. Placid dry ocean sky. I count four cirrus clouds. I open every window I have wide. Spring air races through rooms: a joyous child." Happy birthday to Michael Kleber-Diggs!

From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375703805 #poem #booksky #writing