☀ Today's Poem: From "there were real officers in the streets" Deborah Landau

On September 12, a new tri-weekly video series debuts which combines the reading, screening and discussion of poetry. Poet Paige Lewis curates the videos, along with series producer and novelist John Green, and special guest and poet Kaveh Akbar. The series will capture, "the intimate experience of holding a poem in your hands and hearing it read by a distinctive—sometimes unexpected—voice."
via POETRY FOUNDATION

"In a 1987 interview that appeared in the Partisan Review, the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert said, 'It is vanity to think that one can influence the course of history by writing poetry. It is not the barometer that changes the weather.' With that metaphor, we are asked to see poetry as a gauge, a measure, a tool, a way of understanding the nature of phenomenon."