On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.

"The beauty of friendship (and the similarly-weighted tragedy of its dissolution) as a young adult is something I am intimately familiar with, and [Patterson's] poem captured it so beautifully," writes nat raum. Read (and listen) to their full entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nat-raum

The last Mnemosynes reading of the 2024-2025 year with gorgeous poems from Rhoni Blankenhorn and Lindsay Turner. Thank you, dear poets, for the pleasure and real questioning of your verse. It has been an honor to share these moments with you all this season. See you soon in September. GROSSES BISES.

Of her homage to Liliane Giraudon, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social writes, "These are the fragments I first envisioned painting onto glass. I eventually decided to reduce the amount of text inside the window itself, but the original selection has since coalesced into a found poem."

Hand fans, orange wine, backless chairs, legs, « portes béantes », car-gripping hands of curious children, peal of motor scooter, bus, rumble of Pride, Wet Hot European Summer, « negative capability » of the floor, as our guest named it, & speaking of her, Catherine Barnett. 🩵

Parisians, this Saturday, June 28th, from 14-16h, we'll be hosting American poet Catherine Barnett at Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series. Join us at Rerenga Wines in the 10th for natural wine, books, poems, and intimate exchange!

An excerpt from Barbara E. Hunt’s homage to poet-musician Joni Mitchell. Hunt contributed three homage poems, all to Canadian influences, to Volume V of Hymn for the Living Poet. www.verseofapril.com/barbara-e-hunt

Lillian Davies writes after Maira Kalman in Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V. Her full entry: www.verseofapril.com/lillian-davies

An excerpt from one of @selizabeth.bsky.social’s homage poems in this year’s Hymn for the Living Poet, Vol. V. Their full entry: www.verseofapril.com/sterlingelizabeth-arcadia-v

Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V is on its way. Here is a teaser of what's to come, featuring « Feu », a paper percussion piece from LA MASSE PRQT, directed by Baptiste de Chabaneix. Please stay tuned. We have some beautiful entries (and more music) coming soon for your reading pleasure.

To celebrate Verse of April’s 10th year, we are proud to invite you to a roundtable discussion and reading with Lénaïg Cariou, Malik Ameer Crumpler, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social, Kristin Sanders, and @jstoneking.bsky.social. More information on our website: www.verseofapril.com/news/2025/4/...

We are open for submissions to Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V, our final installment. If you haven't been able to send in your homage works over the last four years, now is your time. All information on our site.

@selizabeth.bsky.social contributed three poems for Sofie Wise to Volume IV. We ♥️ this series & listen often to their lines to remind ourselves of the beautiful artists we stumble across with whom we find we can share not only our writing lives but also all other intimacies of being & survival.

Merci beaucoup à Sylvie Kandé de nous avoir apporté ses vers musicaux et la fine piqûre de ses poèmes. Nous avons été parfaitement touchés d’être plus près de votre atelier de pensée et restons reconnaissants d’avoir partagé un après-midi dans votre présence. À bientôt.

We are open for submissions to Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume V, our final installment. If you haven't been able to send in your homage works over the last four years, now is your time. All information: www.verseofapril.com/submissions

"Bled Reckoning" is a poem Sofia Melka wrote for Anne Carson for Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume IV. Of her inspiration, Melka says, "With Anne Carson, mothers run rampant, myths were never myths but, people — humanity." Read her entire entry at www.verseofapril.com/hymn-for-the-living-poet

Join us December 7th for a reading with Sylvie Kandé!

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Verse of April is really excited to share its 2024 Best of the Net Nominations! You can read and see all of our nominees in Hymn for the Living Poet, Volume III: www.verseofapril.com/hymn-for-the...