RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Today is San Francisco poet Bob Kaufman's B-Day. In 2020, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University organized an epic digital celebration of his Collected Poems. The nearly two-hour video tribute is worth watching. I appear around 1:44:08 diva.sfsu.edu/collect.../p... (photo: A.D. Winans)

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Happy bday poet Bob Kaufman, b.1925, New Orleans. “Remember not to forget the dying colors of yesterday As you inhale tomorrow's hot dream, blown from frozen lips. Remember, you naked agent of every nothing.” “Let the voices of dead poets ring louder in your ears...

An opportunity for poets in Chicago:

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In the 92 years since the state began naming poets laureate, Amanda Johnston is the first Black woman to earn the title. Here's how she's using her position to elevate other poets, and unsung stories of our state:

April is National Poetry Month. Here are two projects that NEH helped fund with the Library of America: Lift Every Voice: www.africanamericanpoetry.org Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home: www.latinopoetry.org

The Associated Press said in a court filing on Wednesday that the Trump administration had defied a federal judge’s order requiring the administration to restore the wire service’s full access to the White House.

I hear that registrations for this event are high. You might want to register, and if you like sitting rather than standing, arrive early.

Poets and poetry lovers join us this Thursday, April 17, at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco. It will be a unique night that includes bilingual poems and pairs a few poets who have never read together. Our books will be available. If you cannot make it, invite your poetry-addicted friends.

Poets and poetry lovers join us this Thursday, April 17, at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco. It will be a unique night that includes bilingual poems and pairs a few poets who have never read together. Our books will be available. If you cannot make it, invite your poetry-addicted friends.

“Write one poem at a time and resist knowing where you are going.” In today’s Ten Questions, Arthur Sze discusses his writing process for Into the Hush, out now from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. at.pw.org/10Q4Sze

This definitely looks like something the original Enterprise crew encountered.

Healing only comes when we tell the truth

Hopefully, human decency dictates outrage against all torture. However, with trumped-up charges of criminality, promised "retribution " (another word for crime)," and...

Fortunate to have met and participated in bringing this towering intellectual of the people to Chicago back in the day. I consider him a mentor.

Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on April 29 for a virtual conversation with three prominent curators, who will share their thoughts on what they’re looking for in studio visits and how artists can build healthy relationships with curators in the field.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Prisons Must Fall 🌱 Happy Publication Day to this beautiful, hopeful book by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball, illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social! 💐

A coalition of attorneys general from 21 states filed a lawsuit against Trump and several senior administration officials to prevent the dismantlement of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and two other federal agencies.

LIVE NOW! Trump's Hammer, Our Hope 🌱 Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social , @chenjerai.bsky.social , @keeanga.bsky.social , & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the cascading crisis and how we can fight back. Stream here:

AWP 2025 # VII -- Chun Yu and I had a few events at the Associated Writers & Writing Program conference in Los Angeles. We caught a moment on the exhibit floor with globe-trotting poet sensation Matt Sedillo.

AWP 2025 # VI -- A few images of the Red Hen Press (at least one side of the three sided booth):

AWP 2025 # V -- I had a signing at AWP for all my Tia Chucha Press titles and the anthology Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton) at the Red Hen Press booth. If there were awards for best booth Red Hen would have taken the crown.

AWP 2025 # IV -- We made a great tag team at our panel on translation collaborations. Two Languages / One Community was thrilled to share the Association of Writers & Writing Programs stage. Photo by Mike Puican (left to right, Michael Warr, Sandi Wisenberg, Chun Yu, and Mary Hawley).

AWP 2025 # III -- It was a blast to have my Tia Chucha Press titles side-by-side with the family of Tia Chucha poets at the Red Hen Press booth, which stood out like a bright yellow moon at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Los Angeles last week.

AWP 2025 # II -- Poet (Tongo Eisen-Martin) and poet baby at AWP.

AWP 2025 # I -- What a surprise to look up from signing a book at the Red Hen Press table and see Jen Morea with her new/ first book, "The Hyacinth Letter," in her hands. It is a beautiful debut collection. Get yours now.

The Poetry Society of America is pleased to announce that Nikki Giovanni is the 2025 recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. Named for Robert Frost, and first given in 1930, the Frost Medal is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in American poetry.