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"Run low to ground. until your hairs unseat. and your cheek full of shotgun howls. and sags. and, and touches its own blood to light." francine j. harris reads from her recently published collection Here is the Sweet Hand (@fsgbooks) at 12EST this Fri! https://t.co/QvqaNw4UTO

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Now on the Open House archive: esteemed poet Linda Pastan discusses her most recent collection, Almost An Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems, with co-host Cornelius Eady. https://t.co/sNB6T8DDVt

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Heid E. Erdrich presents a craft talk on the urgency and vitality of an Indigenous First curatorial praxis, underscoring her role as editor of the anthology "New Poets of Native Nations," and as author of "Little Big Bully." Captions on our website. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1DXxyAdXoXbxM

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Myra Shapiro, poet and longtime Poets House board member, performs in today's #HardHatReading. Watch her read her mentor Robert Bly's "The Black Hen" and a poem from her new @BooksKelsay collection, When the World Walks Toward You. https://t.co/r6NlAF7S9L

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Heid E. Erdrich presents a craft talk on the urgency and vitality of an Indigenous First curatorial praxis, underscoring her role as editor of the anthology "New Poets of Native Nations," and as author of "Little Big Bully." Captions on our website. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1DXxyAdXoXbxM

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Watch @Adeebaloo in today's #HardHatReading, performing a poem by Agha Shahid Ali, work from her @tupelopress book Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved, and two new poems. https://poetshouse.org/video/hard-hat-reading-adeeba-shahid-talukder/

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Now on the Open House archive: esteemed poet Linda Pastan discusses her most recent collection, Almost An Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems, with co-host Cornelius Eady. https://t.co/sNB6T8DDVt

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From the archive: Poet and teaching artist Shyanne Figueroa Bennett reads from Aracelis Girmay’s book the black maria and shares her own recent poem “LAKE GATÚN,” first published in Issue Six of Oversound. https://t.co/Op976yrf3n

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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess, author of Leadbelly and Olio, reads his own work and talks with host Cornelius Eady. https://t.co/yGhXpYXOX5

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Writer and poet Asiya Wadud reads from Inger Christensen’s Alphabet, and her own poem “L” from No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. https://t.co/4ZY3eNwJG5