The home of journalism in verse since 2016. We bridge poetry and current events via our online journal and events in San Francisco and beyond.
Oakland, CA
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Poet Christine Rhein took my breath away with her words; read it NOW
'my doctor—rushing in, out—shouting for
an operating room.
If it happened now, a hospital could
turn me away—doctors
afraid of arrest—bans insisting on delay'
We here at Poets Reading the News are honored to publish this brave new #poem, "Miscarriage," by Christine Rhein: a letter to the #SupremeCourt justices who overturned #RoeVWade , on how deadly it is to #miscarry a pregnancy under today's #abortion bans.
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Sharing some very exciting news! Looking forward to reading some amazing writing with @nikki_ikani & @Kashianasingh & Michel Krug, and welcoming a new cohort to our editorial team 🤠
✨ Breaking news, writing community! ✨
We're open to poetry submissions & thrilled to be forming our next cohort of Associate Poetry Editors.
Find us on @submittable & poetsreadingthenews.com
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Cool news: my poems about Mac Miller and Kanye West will be featured in ‘50 Years of Hip-Hop Anthology’ from @PurpleInkPress. The poems were first published by @PoetsRTN & @GhostCityPress
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The Home in the Bay ebook is here!
Download the free ebook that brings together pieces shared and inspired by Aunt Lute Books’ Home in the Bay project, honoring voices impacted by gentrification, colonization, migration, and homelessness. Download now: auntlute.com/home-in-the-bay
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The amazing @elleavivnewton writes to about the latest issue of Poets Reading the News. "My hope for this poetry is that it will widen the bridges of compassion in those who read it, especially toward whosoever is beyond your heart's present reach." poetsreadingthenews.substack…
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"Beneath the rubble
A jar of olives—selected one by one,
Scattered like fallen stars, dispersed like seeds."
- Amal El-Sayed, a poet based in Cairo, writes for @PoetsRTN about the thousands buried in rubble by Israel's airstrikes on Gaza.
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We are back with humility and heart
@elleavivnewton
@PoetsRTN is currently hosting an open call for poetry about the conflict in Israel-Palestine. We are interested in reviewing a range of poetic approaches, including about the developing crisis, its history, and the human loss.
Submit here: tinyurl.com/prtnopencall
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RSVP to see this incredible lineup from collaborators around the Bay in the third Home In The Bay event on 7/20 at 5 pm: tinyurl.com/HomeinBay3
@auntlute , @_Tongogara_ , @7thSFLaureate , @po_etry_ , @poormagazine , @PoetsRTN , @blackfreighter1 , EK Keith, & devorah major
ANNOUNCING: The lineup for the third event in our Home in the Bay series!
On July 20th at 5 pm, we will hear from @_Tongogara_ , @7thSFLaureate, EK Keith, devorah major, @po_etry_ and the POOR Magazine Poverty Skolas. RSVP for the 3rd event here: tinyurl.com/HomeinBay3
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Poets Reading the News publishes original poetry about current events from around the world. They are currently open to submissions through Nov. 15.
@PoetsRTN
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The first in the reading series is happening tonight! I'm thrilled that @PoetsRTN is partnering with Sogorea Te' Land Trust, @auntlute, @poormagazine and @antievictionmap for "Home in the Bay", on gentrification, colonization, houselessness & migration. ✨ Join us at 5pm PST ✨
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ANNOUNCING the lineup of Home in the Bay Event 1! Sep 15 @5pm, Corrina Gould, Phyllis Bowie, Arnoldo García, Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Jan Steckel, Inés Ixierda and POOR Magazine Poverty Skolas will share works on the theme of Home. ow.ly/ZBCQ50G55sc
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Excited to read in the Home in the Bay series! On September 15th, 2021 at 5 pm, with Corrina Gould, Phyllis Bowie, Arnoldo García, Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Jan Steckel, Inés Ixierda, and POOR Magazine Poverty Skolas RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/home-in-the…
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Aunt Lute Books is pleased to present Home in the Bay, a California-based reading series on Home.
Join us for the first event in the series, a virtual reading September 15th at 5 pm PT.
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Reflecting on the recent “year,” in conversation with a poem from the past. I’m grateful and delighted to have this work appear in Poets Reading The News. Audio included. poetsreadingthenews.com/2021…
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Congratulations to Five Minutes contributor @MaryAnnHonaker1 for publishing "Wisconsin Hunters Kill Over 200 Wolves in Less than Three Days" in @PoetsRTN.
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American Tanka
I heard the neighbors
in Virginia called the cops
on the cicadas.
They sounded like car alarms.
For real. You think I’m joking.
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Three years ago today I had my first poem published. My bio had literally nothing in it.
Thank you @PoetsRTN for giving me that massive confidence boost and making me think that maybe my writing wasn’t shit. ❤️
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When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
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How I fought for success in the corporate world. From my forthcoming book, AN INSOMNIAC’S SLUMBER PARTY WITH MARILYN MONROE @pankmagazine 🙏@PoetsRTN #WomensHistoryMonth #feminist #poetrymonth #NaPoWriMo2021 – at Washington, USA
But I bury my lede as women often do,
fashion a story—
charm becomes armor—
We were armed. They were
disarmed.
-Heidi Seaborn
#WomensHistoryMonth
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I wrote a poem about the cat lawyer. It's either light or rather dark verse, I'm not sure! A little of both, maybe. 😂😭 Thanks to @PoetsRTN for publishing it!
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