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Arranger of syllables, words. Work here and there - Parentheses Journal, @rustandmoth.bsky.social, @theshorepoetry.bsky.social, @oneart.bsky.social, @stonecirclereview.bsky.social, @ballastjournal.bsky.social, MudRoom, others.
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John Ashbery "Naw, that's / all in some book it seems."

Small poem~

Jack Gilbert 🫶🫡

Louise Glück

Mark Strand:

Assemblage Material no. 3, Ink and Colored Pencil on Paper, 11" x 11", 2023

Just wanted to remind you that poetry submissions are open—including micro poems.

You are welcome, you are welcome, you are welcome. Omotara James

“First you lose Romance, then Fiction, History.” A poem by Kaveh Akbar.

Stone Circle completes its second orbit around the sun today! 🌍✨ Thanks to all the contributors, visitors, and social media sharers for joining us on the journey. Stone Circle couldn't exist without your generosity and support. And we're just getting started! #anniversary #poetry #poetrycommunity

had a dream about one of those family YouTube channels where the everyone is all perfect and the kids open toys or whatever, but the dad has a Cthulhu head and instead of being all sweet and sing songy he just growls and occasionally, like, eats a whole chair in the background

This mythical photograph is by Charlie Gross the late and famous neuroscientist and husband of Joyce Carol Oates.

@toluini.bsky.social has quietly (or maybe not-so quietly) become my favorite poet... tolu oloruntoba DERMATOSIS PAPULOSA NIGRA from their collection, 𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘈 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘦

Yes, this.

Czeslaw Milosz "I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder."

Louise Glück:

If you haven't subscribed to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 's newsletter, you're missing out. Today's essay on Jane Kenyon had me weeping at my morning desk. poetrynotesfromhan.beehiiv.com/p/of-jane-ke...

"Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable." -- Jane Hirshfield #quote

A.R. Ammons:

Friends! This is the 2nd of the 5 poems in my Portfolio of Poetry in the brand new issue of Tupelo Quarterly: "We Quote Unquote Believe In"

Todays poem from the Paris Review - Lisa Russ Spaar

Today’s Featured Poem: “Pleasure” by Rick Barot, from Moving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions.

Congrats to The Shore contributor Brian Satrom on being featured on today’s Verse Daily!

Last year I received one of the most intimidating and meaningful invitations of my life, to contribute an essay to this West Branch retrospective on Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s SONG. westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

The course of you tying back your raving hair to go out The course of course of me Bill Knott 🖤

i’m proud to say i’ve got a poem in the latest issue of @bluestemmag.bsky.social. it’s from a project i’ve been working on for a bit that feels new and a little scary but also, like, exactly the work i need to do right now. bluestemmagazine.com/w25/emma-bol...

Jim Harrison

HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are officially open for subs! Start it off right by sending some fresh new poems our editors way! Excited to see what the new year brings. ✨🪩 Submission Guidelines: https://buff.ly/3W1hQpe

overwhelmed and ecstatic to find out I was the most-read poet in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social this year, a venue that has consistently published some of my favorite poets and is always sharing amazing work!!! thank you Shannan and Karan and everyone reading along, I am so grateful!!!!

I’ve been writing this poem for weeks now, With a pencil made of rain, smudging my face, And my friend’s face, making a language where nothing stays . - Charles Wright, “Portrait of the Artist with Hart Crane”

Thank you for this!

Lisel Mueller.

One of the many, many gems from our conversation with Dean Rader.

Dean Rader!

If you couldn't join @toddedillard.bsky.social and I last Friday for our release reading to celebrate our new poetry published by @variantlit.bsky.social - you can watch/listen here! Enjoy! youtu.be/M_fiHi_dkA0?...

Thrilled to have a poem up with The Inflectionist Review today! Link: www.inflectionism.com/19-bethany-j...

anyway, craft isn’t how you should do things, it’s just one of many ways you can reach that part of you that has brushed against the mystery and knows more than what you, absent craft, would find to say

A poem in the Epiphany Literary Journal's fall winter issue (my first print magazine - it's in a book, on paper!). Thank you to the editors and all at Epiphany.

‘We work in this building and we are hideous’ - Denis Johnson

Ted Kooser "house dresses of mist, blue aprons of rain"