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Limelight Poetry

Where poetry meets in NYC

Limelight Poetry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting world poetry, founded in 2024 in New York City by poet Wang Yin. It invites outstanding poets and artists from around the world to share their work in various forms, with the goal of showcasing poetry in underrepresented languages. Drawing on the city's rich cultural resources, Limelight Poetry connects poetry with other art forms, fostering a global exchange of poetic expression. It welcomes audiences into a vibrant and inspiring world of poetry, music, and beyond.

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Victoria Chang

Tue. Jun 17, 2025
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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Cecilia Vicuña

Thursday. July 16, 2026 
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Limelight Poetry Series
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Thursday, July 16, 2026 | 6:30 PM
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

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Cecilia Vicuña
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MUSICIAN

Ricardo Gallo
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Patricio Ferrari
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

Join The New York Public Library and Limelight Poetry at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) for our World Poetry Salon! 

Join The New York Public Library and Limelight Poetry at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) for our World Poetry Salon! 

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Hello Friend,

Consider supporting Limelight Poetry, a poetry nonprofit rooted in the heart of New York City.

As 2025 draws to a close, we pause to look back on a year of beginnings. This past year marked the inaugural chapter of Limelight Poetry. From that first step, we were fortunate to gather remarkable voices across poetry and music from around the world. These included poets Nikola Madžirov, Victoria Chang, Colm Tóibín, and Luljeta Lleshanaku, alongside musicians Becca Stevens, yuniya edi kwon, Martin Hayes, and Nava Dunkelman, among others.

In collaboration with the New York Public Library, we presented more than four vibrant World Poetry Salons, realizing a dynamic fusion of poetry and music and fulfilling our original goals.

During this holiday season, your gift is fully tax-deductible. More importantly, your generosity allows Limelight Poetry to continue serving the community in 2026, opening room for deeper exploration, new experiments, and bolder artistic encounters. Our mission has always been to expand the possibilities of poetry.

Thank you for keeping us in motion. It is your support that makes all of this possible.

With warm wishes,

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Founder of Limelight Poetry

Latest Recap

World Poetry Salon V

Aleš Šteger, Jure Tori, and Patricio Ferrari

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Photo by  Tianyun Chen,Shengxuan Yu & Ruoyun Chen

POEM OF THE DAY

HOME

WHEN SOMEONE GOES AWAY

EVERYTHING THAT’S BEEN DONE COMES BACK

I DON'T KNOW

SEPARATED

USUAL SUMMER NIGHTFALL

WHAT WE HAVE SAID HAUNTS US

SHADOWS PASS US BY

THE ONE WHO WRITES

THE EYE

I SAW DREAMS

FAST IS THE CENTURY

The Quantum of the Indian

The broken Indian after having anticipated the “actual science,” the quantum of molecular entanglement, having sustained that image with her life, generation after generation, the image of the rains and flowers each dreaming the song of the other, remembering the place of its counterpart, knowing that in spacetime everything is reciprocal exchange, relation, having sustained it for millennia, now they are erased, destroyed for having held on to this view. 

 

 

Will we arrive on time to embody that vision on earth, as the Yoeme, Wixárica, and Raramuri? Will we ever honor as a species the dream of life dreaming its own transformation?

Cecilia Vicuña

El cuanta de la indiada

El indio roto, pobre y descrestado, habiendo anticipado la "ciencia actual", el cuanta del enredo molecular, habiendo sostenido esa imagen en su vida, generación tras generación, sostenido la vida en la tierra, la imagen de las lluvias y flores soñando las unas el canto de las otras, cada una recordando el lugar de su contrapartida, sabiendo que en el espaciotiempo todo es relación, habiéndolo sostenido por milenios, ahora son borrados, destruidos por haberlo sostenido. 

 

¿Llegaremos a tiempo a re-encarnar esa visión en la tierra, como lo hizo la indiada yoeme, wixarika y raramuri? 

 

¿Llegaremos a honrar, como especie el sueño de la vida soñando su transformación? 

Cecilia Vicuña

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