#dpf16

[dasfreefree]

i can't get a good pic rip me #dpf16

[dasfreefree]

okay so there's a chorus in the main hall and they're singing "hallelujah" and it's beautiful but i'm also thinking about shrek goddammit

[dasfreefree]

one of my favorite events just happened to fall on my birthday this year 😊#dpf16

[mademoiselle-psychosis]

Every Answer is Yes

And guitars burning us up, quick as malaria, strapped into the hind bucket of second hand Buicks, speeding away, always, and always dumbstruck by the drums trundled in our bones the whole interstate home. We love the basement band drenching us cottoneared. We love our pomade and polyester bodies smashing their atoms against other bodies, our habit of becoming massive bumper crops of noise. Sharpened with sweat and honeyglaze, we are kindling, snake hips swerved to iced Ohio hairpins, we are tucked chins and tuned limbs set for everywhere past curfew, past subdivision tree lawns crackling black grackle like alarm clocks. This blood hollers all the linking verbs by heart, the joules inscribed within congruent and uprising integers, the many ways in which we are not small and not sleepy, but born of a pure velocity. We are burning through cassettes and frost-stunted tulips. We love the way we carry powerchords in our teeth and wind loops around the block with time to kill, we love and we love, and it doesn’t ever matter if we get there.

-Nicole Terez Dutter, from If One of Us Should Fall 

[poetsorg]

This year, Poets Forum has partnered up with the 30th Annual Dodge Poetry Festival, happening October 20 - 23 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Our members get 10% off tickets! Get your passes here: http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-events/tickets/

[poetsorg]

"What I discover again and again, and what is always stirring to discover, is how poetry demands, and helps us to imagine, the best of us." Read a Q&A with Linda Gregerson who will be among the featured poets we’ll present at the Dodge Poetry Festival this October 20-23: http://bit.ly/2coAy4f

[poetsorg]

"Poetry can heal others’ hearts, even if it is just for a few minutes and it can move others to write poetry too. It is the key to our new generation." Read a Q&A with U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera who will be among the featured poets we’ll present at the Dodge Poetry Festival this October 20-23: http://bit.ly/2cd1aTt 

[poetsorg]

"Poetry can be the true news. The tragedies of war, violence, and ever more palpable sufferings are elucidated, mourned, through poetry." Read a Q&A with Academy Chancellor Anne Waldman who will be among the featured poets we’ll present at the Dodge Poetry Festival this October 20-23: http://bit.ly/2aVw3jS