#poets forum

[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

[poetsorg]

This October 20-22, for the first time, the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets— Elizabeth Alexander, Mark Doty, Linda Gregerson, Juan Felipe Herrera, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Nelson, Alicia Ostriker, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, Arthur Sze, and Anne Waldman—will all be a part of the Dodge Poetry Festival. Take a look at the newly announced lineup: http://bit.ly/2aVzlkT

[poetsorg]

"When shouting exhausts itself, poetry is language that stays on, listens, renews." Read a Q&A with Academy Chancellor Jane Hirshfield who will be among the featured poets we’ll present at the Dodge Poetry Festival this October 20-23: http://bit.ly/2aFzeHX

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"Whenever any person or group lays down the law that poetry 'should' do some particular thing, I want to run in the opposite direction." Read a Q&A with Academy Chancellor Alicia Ostriker who will be among the featured poets we’ll present at the Dodge Poetry Festival this October 20-23: http://bit.ly/2aIrZAk

[vocasandwhen]

Sometimes the things you're criticized for as a young person can be your deliverance. And that's a miracle.

Marie Howe, Poets Forum, 10/9/15

[vocasandwhen]

Quotes from the Chancellors’ of the Academy of American Poets Reading.

“I’ve been writing autobiographical things all my life. Recently I’ve been thinking, why have I done that? It’s just no fun.”

Toi Derricotte

“Theology is bunk, but the springtime wind is real.”

Alicia Ostriker

“The border is a real crack in an imaginary dam.”

Alberto Rios

*rustling a book* “This poem is called: book sounds.”

Juan Felipe Herrera