
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.
UPCOMING

POET
Forrest Gander

interdisciplinary artist
Georgia b. Smith

interdisciplinary artist
Zelda Smith

HOST
Patricio Ferrari

Location
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!

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,

Founder of Limelight Poetry
Latest Recap
World Poetry Salon VI
Cecilia Vicuña, Ricardo Gallo, and Patricio Ferrari














Photo by Tianyun Chen,Shengxuan Yu,Ruoyun Chen & Jonathan Blanc/The New York Public Library
POEM OF THE DAY
Mission Thief
Picking up toward evening
bay breezes quicken
The Mission and
fuchsia petals plop
onto slabs of root-tilted sidewalk
a local tectonics we maneuver
you and I fecund with our
renewed vows en route
to La Cumbre with its Aztec
mural and gorditos
at the curb, windows opaque,
a black 75 Cadillac
rocks high up and drops
back on pneumatic shocks
a whiff of carne asada
poles mummified with posters:
Has Visto Este Niño / Thrash Polka at Slims
while—...
Forrest Gander
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




