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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I Fell
By Heather MitchellI cannot say I knew him
nor did he know me
yet somehow in the silence
between the siren and the stillness -
Reading Between My Lines
By Dorothy PorterPlease, darling, please
read between my lines
I am a fabulous script
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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,