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It is more than our minds can handle: finding at the end of all meadows a mandible, sunwashed and wordless. Today's poem from the $ vault is "Hex Season" by @alextretbar.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/alex-tr...

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Been a minute since I had some new poems published, but I'm thrilled to have these two angry/gentle weirdos out in the world. Many thanks to the kindness and stewardship of @stevendschroeder.bsky.social and the @poetrycurrency.bsky.social crew for giving these works a home. poetrycurrency.com #poems

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The opposite of January is salt. Fear not what your country can do for you, but what you can fear for your country. The new $ feature is by Brandon Amico (@amico.bsky.social), who is also our first repeat poet! poetrycurrency.com/feature/bran...

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yet if I’m predator eyes jutting forward then why do I hide my sickness, grief as surface tension at rim of eyes This $ deep cut is "seeing in stereo" by Shaw Patton! poetrycurrency.com/poem/shaw-pa...

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Find me underneath a live oak tree draped in sea-green moss as I stitch up my skin with a Pilot gel pen and um caderno sem pauta The new $ feature is by Larissa Martins! poetrycurrency.com/feature/lari...

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I’d never seen a sea blush I’d never been so ashamed I’d never felt so preventable This poem from the $ archive is "Factory Ship" by Stephen Danos! poetrycurrency.com/poem/stephen...

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Just plain obsessing over the poems on the @poetrycurrency.bsky.social website 😍😍😍 Start with this one: poetrycurrency.com/poem/sadiyah... #poetry #writingsky #poetrysky

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@poetrycurrency.bsky.social My favorite journal. 🤘💯

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Gävle Goat poetry is always in season, right? 🐐 Thank you, @poetrycurrency.bsky.social !

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For those who stand out in the snow with a field of spikes around them, who wait for villagers to shoot their hearts with flaming arrows... The latest $ feature is by Sarah B. Cahalan! poetrycurrency.com/feature/sara...

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Outside the world turns to ash as I reach for morning. The rivers dry. Lakes dry. The icecaps hurl themselves from their own cliffs. This $ vault poem is "Meditations Upon Waking in a House That Has Not Yet Burned" by @amorak.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/amorak-...

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Are you a published poet and interested in reading and commenting on poems as an editor for $ - Poetry Is Currency? If so, please email [email protected]. Include a bio and links to your poetry online. We look forward to hearing from you!

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I don’t ask what the ribbons stand for. Instead, I worry that I’m supposed to know without asking. On the news tonight—oh, who am I kidding? I haven’t watched the news in years. The new $ feature is by Gary McDowell! poetrycurrency.com/feature/gary...

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When everything here eventually gave out, we got more. Innovations like the cigarette & the percolator competed to keep our minds inventive... This poem from the $ vault is "Come With Me" by Justin Phillip Reed! poetrycurrency.com/poem/justin-...

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The sun is now a gas station in your hometown and the prices are astronomical. Looks like you’ll have to cancel that trip to the grocery store. This $ deep cut is "The moon is on fire" by Delilah McCrea! poetrycurrency.com/poem/delilah...

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am horizon pleated. ancient ridge ribboned & rippled skyward. The new $ feature is by Sandy Longhorn! poetrycurrency.com/feature/sand...

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Goaded near good. From handbell into jest. Kin from kind. Lake and lamb. Mouse to mouth. Name near need. This poem from the $ vault is "An Appendix" by Willie Lin (@chinesesue.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/poem/willie-...

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May we settle on a planet near a lavender sun where nothing is bitter or greedy or cruel. May we stand on a turret-stone on the unbroken planet, and look out at the ruins... The new $ feature is by Lizzy Ke Polishan! poetrycurrency.com/feature/lizz...

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Under the tongue where I was urged for the coin that could pay the boatman I choose to ignore. I’ll no longer know what an island is. A hurricane. A woman. A corpse. This poem from the $ archive is "Tea and Poison" by @margoberdeshevsky.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/margo-b...

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We're interested in adding another reader or two to our team! If you're a published poet yourself and interested in reading and commenting on poems for potential publication, please shoot a short letter and writer bio to [email protected] or through DM!

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@poetrycurrency.bsky.social welcome! I've added you to my starter pack #2 of litmags and small presses. bsky.app/starter-pack... If you check the pinned post on my profile you'll find links to the starter packs & 3 lists - litmags, poets, writers. You can follow a list & it becomes a feed.

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The surgeon hands me a mirror. He says take a journey with me. He asks me to list what parts of me I’d change. The new $ feature is by Rivka Clifton! poetrycurrency.com/feature/rivk...

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I have submitted poems to three journals in the last 24 hours. No fees on any of them. Good journals, all. @nimrodjournal.bsky.social @poetrycurrency.bsky.social autocorrect dot com Hit 'em up, folks.

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Bluesky, we're always reading poems, and our queue is a little lonely right now. Won't you send us something? poetrycurrency.com/writers-guid...

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Hey, y'all have done such an amazing job migrating over here and following us that we're happily going to delete our account on ex-Twitter!

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This is old news but I am trying to use Bluesky instead of Twitter.

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One of my favorite Twitter memories is Tommy Wiseau liking my poem about him. its also a dunk on “pretty” poetry lol poetrycurrency.com/poem/hannah-...

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Don't send us things like this.

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who knows this unnatural haze, this discoloration, quite as well as I do? every summer afternoon feels cupped by the dismal afterthought of the moon. The new $ feature is by Megan Busbice! poetrycurrency.com/feature/mega...

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Moon represents wisdom, intuition, birth, death, the rhythm of time. Owls who perch in the hollow trees can only speak to the moon in a circular language. Who— The new $ feature is by Iris Jamahl Dunkle! poetrycurrency.com/feature/iris...

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You know how it is. The asterism of hot days. The undoing of the sun. The dried rose hung upside down to symbolize beauty in age. Death in age. The latest $ feature is by Vanessa Y. Niu! poetrycurrency.com/feature/vane...

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I’m just here with five forms of identification I’m just here today, gone tomorrow I’m just here, inexplicably in the mood to refold my t-shirts The newest $ feature is collaborative poetry by Kurt David & Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal! poetrycurrency.com/feature/kurt...

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There’s a pyramid of shoes on the horizon next to another pyramid made out of horses. Adolf Eichmann went to the washroom and he didn’t say much, to our disappointment. This $ archive poem is "The Woman Outside of Oborniki" by Ethan Birch! poetrycurrency.com/poem/ethan-b...

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Eternally thankful for @poetrycurrency.bsky.social for giving my anti-dna company poem a home & for nominating it for Best of the Net❤️🥰

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Congratulations to our nominees for @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net! @hcohen.bsky.social @shawp.bsky.social

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"When I went to the shore near my home on Earth, I stood on the beach and listened to the lap of waves." The new $ feature is two "Dispatch from Planet H" poems by Julie Brooks Barbour! poetrycurrency.com/feature/juli...

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Despite attempts to crease me, I remain a vacant atlas. Today's $ archive poem is "I Do Not Want to Give My DNA to a Third-Party Genealogical Company / Or, Apology for My Future Descendants" by Hannah Cohen (@hcohen.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/poem/hannah-...

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Being naked is not that big a deal Actually it was the easiest part Of the whole Game This deep cut from the $ archive is "Denuding" by Robyn Luk! poetrycurrency.com/poem/robyn-l...

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the rust at the lip of the gutter the taste of iron from a split lip darker than citrus or daylily the serrated copper of a penny on asphalt brick dust Read the new $ feature by Hannah Marshall! poetrycurrency.com/feature/hann...

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Despite what you see on television, the weather is usually very bad. If you like four seasons, please know we have twelve... This poem from the $ vault is "Please Don’t Move to Los Angeles" by @charlesjensen.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/charles...

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What am I going to do with you? I have found no box to put you in. No container that would house your unwieldiness. The new $ feature is by Elizabeth M. Castillo! poetrycurrency.com/feature/eliz...

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Sometime between locking my car and unlocking my office I lost my greatest qualities. Today's poem from the $ archive is "Going Places" by Eloise Schultz (@schmeloise.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/poem/eloise-...

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Oiler seed, safflower, mustard-colored millet. Everything that grows must also feed something else. The new $ feature is two poems by Jennifer A Sutherland! poetrycurrency.com/feature/jenn...

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Something about beauty, about never having the body I’d imagined, something about a body better than I’d ever imagine, not being encumbered... This $ vault poem is "Self-Care in the Summer" by Emily Pérez! poetrycurrency.com/poem/emily-p...

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This is the second time in my life I’ve cried every day for at least a month. I am busy waiting to be born again. The newest $ feature is by Franziska Hofhansel! poetrycurrency.com/feature/fran...

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An egret with a fish speared on his beak. Not your hands wringing out the wet corner of a shirt. Steam from a shower that belongs to our mother. Not a fire scrubbing us all. This poem from the $ vault is "Topographies" by @jennysadreorafai.bsky.social ! poetrycurrency.com/poem/jenny-s...

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In my dream there are junipers, black ants, shovels & mattresses. My dead bury themselves with their limbs facing a slew of stars. The new $ feature is by Prosper C. Ìféányí! poetrycurrency.com/feature/pros...

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Thank you to @poetrycurrency.bsky.social for featuring these poems - sorry I'm just seeing it - finding it hard to manage showing up on multiple platforms.

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