We've had some techinical difficulties since the launch of the new website that have, in part, broken the text formatting for many of the featured poems. We working to remedy the problem. Also the Fishouse email remains down, so if you need to contact us, please do so through Facebook or Twitter. 

Welcome to our newly redesigned website! It's been a long time coming, and we're excited about the updated look and feel of the site, but even more so by its greater accessibility and function. Poets and poems are much easier to find and to browse, and for the first time, the site is completely searchable. Visitors can now browse […]

Founded in 2004 by Matt O'Donnell and Camille T. Dungy, From the Fishouse is an IRS-registered non-profit that promotes the oral tradition of poetry. Our free online audio archive showcases emerging poets (defined for this purpose as poets with fewer than two published books of poetry at the time of submission) reading their own poems, […]

When Matt asked me to help with Fishouse’s end-of-year campaign, my answer was an unequivocal yes. I have been a fan of Fishouse for a very long time, and have grown as a reader, writer and educator because of it.

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