A literary nonprofit bringing you great poetry from across places, eras, and traditions. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/https://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mwt32pyafp2lI work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Stephen Fry performs "Aubade" by Philip Larkin in this week's new poem film. #NationalPoetryDayUK https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/aubade01 Oct 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt32pyafp2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mwqnx2j5g72b"Tonight, holding a stranger in my arms— Suddenly a downpour, a late Summer storm." Larry Levis was born #OnThisDay in 1946. Watch Anthony Anaxagorou perform Levis' poem "After the Blue Note Closes." https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/after-the-blue-note-closes30 Sep 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqnx2j5g72bhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mwgkgcf3z42c"Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards." T. S. Eliot was born on this day in 1888. Watch Giannina Braschi perform an excerpt from his poem "The Waste Land."26 Sep 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgkgcf3z42chttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mwbjhfnfzw26"Exile. Ration-book pudding. Bowls of dripping and the fixed smile of the school pianist playing "Iolanthe," "Land of Hope and Glory" and "John Peel."" Eavan Boland was born #OnThisDay in 1944. Watch Martina Evans perform her poem "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951." https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/an-irish-childhood-in-england-195124 Sep 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbjhfnfzw26https://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mw4lwz6qfg2gIn your imagination of their crimes, for you have already imagined them, there must be a bronze bell. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo performs an excerpt from his poem "Eclogue: A Field Guide and Cure." https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/from-eclogue-a-field-guide-and-cure22 Sep 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4lwz6qfg2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mvqehhupks2y"It is a willow when summer is over, a willow by the river from which no leaf has fallen nor bitten by the sun turned orange or crimson." William Carlos Williams was born on this day in 1883. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/willow-poem17 Sep 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqehhupks2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mvpukwix4m2f"Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light..." Freddie Fox performs W. B. Yeats' "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" in this week's new poem film.17 Sep 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpukwix4m2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mvkryslifr2q"You cannot know this yet but it is the last hike you will ever take with your dog." CMarie Fuhrman performs her poem "Beargrass" in a 2023 poem film. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/beargrass15 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkryslifr2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mv6jod3ehj2y"The dreams of the dreamer Are life-drops that pass The break in the heart To the soul’s hour-glass." Georgia Douglas Johnson, from "The Dreams of the Dreamer" https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-dreams-of-the-dreamer10 Sep 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6jod3ehj2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mv6bbcy53c2j"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk..." Stephen Fry performs John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" at Keats House in this week's new poem film. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/ode-to-a-nightingale10 Sep 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6bbcy53c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mv23ft7avq2n"September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child beside the Little Marvel Stove, reading the jokes from the almanac, laughing and talking to hide her tears." Elizabeth Bishop, from "Sestina." https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/sestina08 Sep 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv23ft7avq2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mumo2hupgs2o"Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling, Where my dark lover lies. Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling, At grey moonrise. " Ruth Negga performs James Joyce's poem "She Weeps over Rahoon" in a new poem film created with Bloomsday Film Festival.03 Sep 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumo2hupgs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mui65iipbc25We are saddened to hear of the passing of Wendell Berry, a poet, novelist, farmer, and steadfast advocate for the environment and agrarian values. Read his poem "The Peace of Wild Things" and watch a performance of it: https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-peace-of-wild-things01 Sep 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mui65iipbc25https://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3muhoqpa2sa2eSix of our films will appear at REELpoetry Int'l Film Festival starting 9/18! Congratulations to directors Matthew Thompson, Jean Coleman & Savannah Acquah + performers Olwen Fouéré, Brontez Purnell, Marjorie Lotfi, Sin à Tes Souhaits, Kate Durbin & Adeeba Shahid Talukder! https://reelpoetry.org/2026-program/01 Sep 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhoqpa2sa2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3muckhkxgtp2u"It's a great day, Sunday, when we pile into the car and set off with a purpose – a pilgrimage across the city, to Wembley, the Lahore Karhai. " ImtiazDharker, "At the Lahore Karhai" https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/at-the-lahore-karhai30 Aug 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3muckhkxgtp2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mtykbij6lq2v"Ghost-bike couriers skid through puddles, vanish into night. Nothing stands still. Not here. Not anymore. " Leah Minto performs Stephen James Smith's poem "Universal City" in a 2025 film created with Bloomsday Film Festival. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/universal-city26 Aug 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtykbij6lq2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mtvy5bvx2h2pIn shallow nests among pebbles most of the eggs survived the high tides. August slips into September. Fledglings, light as whelk shells, get ready to fly. Jane Clarke, from "Little Tern Colony, Kilcoole," published in A Change in the Air by Bloodaxe Books https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/little-tern-colony-kilcoole25 Aug 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvy5bvx2h2phttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mtlzmuwatj2mI hate poetry, the officer says, I only like writing where you can make an argument. Anything he asks, I must answer. This, too, he likes. I don’t tell him he will be in a poem where the argument will be anti-American. Solmaz Sharif, "He, Too" https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/he-too21 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlzmuwatj2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mtgvg73vj727"There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background." Li-Young Lee was born #OnThisDay in 1957. Watch Rachel Bower perform Lee's poem "From Blossoms." https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/from-blossoms19 Aug 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgvg73vj727https://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mteiaxj6fk2aCongratulations to Tommy Creagh, whose film of John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" was selected by Aesthetica Film Festival! Performed by Stephen Fry, this film will be screened at Aesthetica in York, UK, beginning November 4th. Catch our online release of the film coming up on September 10th. 18 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mteiaxj6fk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mt2ge7wbhc25We're proud to have our films screened as part of the The Park Series: Living Canvas by IPUT at IMMA from August 27 through September 9. Sept. 2–4th from 12:30–2:30 PM, stop by IMMA's Front Lawn for six poem films read by Irish poets and performers. https://imma.ie/whats-on/living-canvas-at-imma/14 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2ge7wbhc25https://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3msxuanpolw2u"When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies." Simon Callow performs William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 138" in our latest poem film. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/sonnet-13813 Aug 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxuanpolw2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mssuy4ngud26"And let the lesson be — to be yersel's, Ye needna fash gin it's to be ocht else. To be yersel's — and to mak' that worth bein', Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en." Hugh MacDiarmid was born #OnThisDay in 1892. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/from-a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle?=1 https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/from-a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle?=311 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssuy4ngud26https://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3msgaz3bcak2j"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age forever." Kwaku Fortune performs Rabindranath Tagore's "Unending Love" in a new poem film created in collaboration with Bloomsday Film Festival.06 Aug 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgaz3bcak2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3msds6wgkkg2xWendell Berry was born #OnThisDay in 1934. Here, Friedli Walton performs Berry's poem "The Peace of Wild Things" in a poem film created with RADA.05 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msds6wgkkg2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3msbhc34pnq26"Already a mooted goal and tomorrow perhaps an arms base, a livid sector, the full moon dominates the dark." Robert Hayden was born #OnThisDay in 1913. https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/full-moon04 Aug 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbhc34pnq26https://bsky.app/profile/brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social/post/3mrxdanrb7z24Look at you, sitting there being good. After two years you're still dying for a cigarette. And not drinking on weekdays, who thought that one up? Happy birthday to Kim Addonizio! https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/good-girl31 Jul 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:6uj5liigyvk5vp2xrmyyiuzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxdanrb7z24