"So, I wrote my own poem, continuing a conversation I was only just realizing women poets had been having for centuries, and I felt very sad," writes Nikki Ummel in her homage statement to Diane Seuss. You can read her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nikki-ummel-v

"I think that I am very tender for category errors. And footnotes," writes @minxmarple.bsky.social in the opening of her homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. You can read and hear her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...

On April 18th, Mnemosynes is proud to host French poet, translator, and critic Lénaïg Cariou for a reading from her new collection, les dires (Éditons MF, April 2026). 14h at Rerenga Wines!

This month featuring @fahmidangroup.bsky.social @thin-skin.bsky.social @desperatelit.bsky.social @verseofapril.bsky.social @valeriavescina.bsky.social @offassignment.bsky.social & more

Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.

"Rich’s expansive outlook has helped me feel like I too have permission to bend [the word poetry]." See @jstoneking.bsky.social's full homage to @richardinlelot.bsky.social on our site: www.verseofapril.com/jason-stonek...

Just opened an Internet window, and, man, does it feel better in here. Send us your FR>EN or EN>FR translations of living poets’ work. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by Baptiste de Chabaneix)

Yes, give us more poet-on-poet. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by @dechabaneixbaptiste)

Here is the fourth of my Text Embodiments series, in which dancers and other movement artists interpret my words with motion. It was such a pleasure to collaborate with dancer Marie Grillo 🤩, and thanks as always to Leslie McAllister for the 🎥🙏 #poetry #dance #ballet youtu.be/CSfPI-IFgfA

Mnemosynes — ❤️‍🔥. We have events on the horizon. More updates soon.

Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)

Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️

A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi. Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org

Join us for our 5th Anniversary party, Dec 16th at @pointephemere.bsky.social! Poetry, Music, DJ Sets and lots of surprises 🎉 Featuring Heretics artists @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social @lesteria.bsky.social @richardinlelot.bsky.social + friends and special guests! Don't miss it!

On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.

"The beauty of friendship (and the similarly-weighted tragedy of its dissolution) as a young adult is something I am intimately familiar with, and [Patterson's] poem captured it so beautifully," writes nat raum. Read (and listen) to their full entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nat-raum

you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today! I.i am A. writing 1. an ars poetica i. in which i bury you, ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, 2. a farewell. https://www.havehashad.com/t727h

PARIS: Next Tuesday, with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom; Laura Mullen and Stéphanie Chaillou; Sandra Mousssempès, Amanda Murphy, and myself. Hosted by Ivy Writers and The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. Would be nice to see you there.

This is the first in my new series, Text Embodiments, in which dancers and other movement artists interpret my words with motion. It was a privilege to collaborate with Sylvaine Soldano of liebemdance.com 💝 Thank you Leslie McAllister for 🎥+✂ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_D...

Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...

The last Mnemosynes reading of the 2024-2025 year with gorgeous poems from Rhoni Blankenhorn and Lindsay Turner. Thank you, dear poets, for the pleasure and real questioning of your verse. It has been an honor to share these moments with you all this season. See you soon in September. GROSSES BISES.

Of her homage to Liliane Giraudon, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social writes, "These are the fragments I first envisioned painting onto glass. I eventually decided to reduce the amount of text inside the window itself, but the original selection has since coalesced into a found poem."

Hand fans, orange wine, backless chairs, legs, « portes béantes », car-gripping hands of curious children, peal of motor scooter, bus, rumble of Pride, Wet Hot European Summer, « negative capability » of the floor, as our guest named it, & speaking of her, Catherine Barnett. 🩵

We are expecting a good turn-out for this event, so please try to arrive on time to secure a place. It might also be a good idea to bring a hand fan! Chilled wine will be for sale by the glass at the store.

NEW POEM #244: "Practice Run" by Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) "'The Rapture! Someone's been yanked to heaven!' The girls argued. How could it be the Rapture if they were still here? How could someone with a mustard-stained t-shirt go before them?" stonecirclereview.com/practice-run/

Today my poem “transmasc marvel girl (sonnet)” is poem of the week at The Missouri Review!!! missourireview.com/arcadia/

Parisians, this Saturday, June 28th, from 14-16h, we'll be hosting American poet Catherine Barnett at Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series. Join us at Rerenga Wines in the 10th for natural wine, books, poems, and intimate exchange!

An excerpt from Barbara E. Hunt’s homage to poet-musician Joni Mitchell. Hunt contributed three homage poems, all to Canadian influences, to Volume V of Hymn for the Living Poet. www.verseofapril.com/barbara-e-hunt

Lillian Davies writes after Maira Kalman in Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V. Her full entry: www.verseofapril.com/lillian-davies

i have deep and abiding love for @verseofapril.bsky.social and @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social, and the work they both create

An excerpt from one of @selizabeth.bsky.social’s homage poems in this year’s Hymn for the Living Poet, Vol. V. Their full entry: www.verseofapril.com/sterlingelizabeth-arcadia-v

My "Portrait of Richard Dailey" which was recently included in Verse of April's Hymn for the Living Poet series, is up on their YouTube channel! Thanks again to @verseofapril.bsky.social and to @richardinlelot.bsky.social 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=weuz...

“The unique thing about writers is that they write.” ~ Margaret Atwood

Say hello to my piece on reading Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. 👇 www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...

I'm very proud to have my handwritten portrait of @richardinlelot.bsky.social included by @verseofapril.bsky.social in their Hymn For the Living Poet, vol V. You can either read or listen at the link: www.verseofapril.com/hymn-for-the...

ICYMI : my piece On A Tenderness for Category Errors is included in Hymn To The Living Poet vol 5 😍

Presenting to you this stunning volume of work, which I’m so happy and honoured to be included in. Here are feeling, connection, challenge and a magnificent & passionate introduction👇 I hope you enjoy!

Good morning! Happy launch day and 10th anniversary to @verseofapril.bsky.social 🎉👏🏻😍

Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V is live, with sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Lillian Davies, Barbara E. Hunt, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social, nat raum, @jstoneking.bsky.social, @minxmarple.bsky.social, Nikki Ummel, & Aras Zeug.

Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V is on its way. Here is a teaser of what's to come, featuring « Feu », a paper percussion piece from LA MASSE PRQT, directed by Baptiste de Chabaneix. Please stay tuned. We have some beautiful entries (and more music) coming soon for your reading pleasure.

This Saturday, back in Paris to attend this event on Poetic Homage at Rerenga Wine! bsky.app/profile/vers...

I'm honored to be included in this roundtable discussion, along with several of my favorite Paris writers, as part of the festivities for @verseofapril.bsky.social 's ten year anniversary. If you're in Paris, I hope to see you there!

To celebrate Verse of April’s 10th year, we are proud to invite you to a roundtable discussion and reading with Lénaïg Cariou, Malik Ameer Crumpler, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social, Kristin Sanders, and @jstoneking.bsky.social. More information on our website: www.verseofapril.com/news/2025/4/...

Happy Poetry Month to the U.S., to poets around the world! We're thrilled to be bringing your our fifth installment of Hymn for the Living Poet later this month! Until, stay tuned. A few other announcements are coming this way as we celebrate our 10-year anniversary!

Final deadline for submissions for Volume V is today. We'll leave the door open for the U.S. folk. Midnight wherever you are. BISOUS.

Final deadline for submissions for Volume V is today. We'll leave the door open for the U.S. folk. Midnight wherever you are. BISOUS.

i know i post about this a lot, but if you are inspired by or write poems after or for *any* living poets, major or unpublished, please submit something to @verseofapril.bsky.social their “hymn to the living poet” is a deeply important, loving project

verse of april is one of the places i’m most proud to call a home for my work. submit!