Welcome to Red Room Poetry
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20+ Years
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88+ Major projects
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1,416+ Poets commissioned
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32,356+ Poems created
Featured Projects
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Baraya Barray - Whale Song
Baraya Barray is a cultural immersion experience for young First Nations people, celebrating First Languages through the creation of poetry, song and dance. -
POEM FOREST
POEM FOREST is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries now open! -
Phone-a-Poem
Pick up the landline handset and dial a number to hear a poem.
Featured Theme
With Love, Red Room
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high want stay cool / cold to the touch til you've touched it
By Chloe Alison Escottall circuitry
which is to say:
artificial
cold, false -
for Hansie
By Helen Franzmann, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted LipsI’ve often wondered about the
soft rumble that occurs when you laugh
washing you now I understand -
Things to do (Heart)
By Jordie Albistona. Find heart, and place hand upon it. b. Time
to metronome beat. c. Empty above of all
things earthly. d. Fill with compassion. e. Sleep. f.
Remove heart while comatose, and g. wrap
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Ban Maganindadjyang (My Old People Done)
By Jacob Morris~ poem written in Gumea Dharawal, with interpretations by Jacob
Gumea-Dharawal
Waagl Ngura Ngiagaang, Ban Gili Maganindadjyang -
Listening to Trees
By Jacqueline SuskinI press my forehead against
an old growth redwood trunk,
twisted bark like thick fur
the color of rust. I step inside -
An Heirloom of Love
By Adrian Mouhajer, Princess Arinola Adegbiteafter bell hooks
Here on my table, we share the memory of our countries,
centuries of recipes stitched into the strands of my hair,
