Jason Bredle

there is always love. love is always there.

who up yearning today 🌟

poetry prompt of the week: has there been a repeating theme in your life this year that you've caught onto? throw each moment that fell under that theme umbrella into a pot and boil it down to its essence.

Kathy Fagan

the concept of "gates of horns and ivory" that is entertaining my brain writing today

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them. — Richard Siken 💙✍️

“All of this wanting is the wanting of the past, rushing in to destroy the present.” — Sal Randolph

Discussing whether or not humor has a place in his poetry, David Duchovny answers: Humor is just an important element of who I am. It's going to come out in any expression that I do. To me, it's really the touchstone of humanity. 💙

...or a dumb hunch, some beautiful-ass nonsense, or the starting up again of what has never been. ‍ — David Duchovny, Future Perfect 💙 (About Time: Poems - Akashic Books 2025)

Guys, can we please calm down?

friendly reminder: it's ok to get it wrong the first time because you will get it right the next time :)

This Henry Israeli poem we got to publish gives me goosebumps.

There, with his left ventricle pressed against the fence unbored, watching infinite games of rock paper scissors shoot, the Authority finds my heart and places him under cardiac arrest, — David Duchovny, Paper Beats Rock 💙

who up romanticizing rn ✋😔

Emily Dickinson, our queen

*sits down at laptop, cracking my knuckles* time to do EVERYTHING except what i need to

Karan and our POTW, David Duchovny, talk about his poem "Nobodaddy Home": I always liked that phrase: "Nobodaddy." 💙

He is gone for good, the one who left so long ago. — David Duchovny, Nobodaddy Home 💙

reminding myself today: it's all for the plot it's all for the plot it's all for the plot it's all for the plot it's all for

Asking David Duchovny in our POTW interview: What does your process look like structurally, emotionally, spatially? Where do your poems come from? Do you have a writing routine? 💙

They say the big bang happened when the devil told God to go fuck Himself. — David Duchovny, Do Over 💙

does writing feel like this to anyone else or is it just me idk 🙂‍↕️

poetry prompt of the week: tell me where you get your light and where you put it. if it's in your body, is it light in your hands or burning hot on the back of your neck? if it's sourced externally, do you dig it up or does it descend with the rain?

Karan asking David Duchovny in our POTW interview: You call poetry “a doomed mission” which I resonate with. What does poetry allow you to say or confront that prose or performance or even a song does not? 💙

Thank you for the hole in my heart, I spackled in the cracks with art. — David Duchovny, Gratitude 💙

David Duchovny

I turn destruction into creation — over — and — over again. — Anaïs Nin, A Journal of Love 📘

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David Duchovny is our POTW this week and our lovely interview is up on onlypoems.com now! 💙 "...is shadowing something that can’t be said directly." 📝

so sad and so funny, so useless and old, so familiar and new, so full of theft and power that they had to name a god after it. — David Duchovny, A Dream 💙

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Karan and Henry discuss "Ode To The Turtle" in our POTW interview and if humor plays a role in Henry's life: It is the healthiest coping mechanism I can think of. 💙

It’s true that they live longer than we do. Maybe because, more than any other species, they don’t give a shit. — Henry Israeli, Ode To The Turtle 💙

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Maybe the absence of signs is a sign. — Marc Klein, Serendipity (2001) 🎞️

In the dream of money someone says, capitalism is in our blood, and, indeed the ground below us is stained with money. — Henry Israeli, IN THE DREAM OF MONEY 💙

treat yourself to embracing some Peculiar Whimsy today (you know you have it!!!) be esoteric and hard to understand as a treat!!! writers are known as crazy for a reason, at least have some fun with it!!!

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. — Georges Bataille (c. 1952-1957) 📘

Bless these burnt wings. Bless. Would I do it again? Yes. Yes. Yes. — Ross Gay, Praise the Burning, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015) 📘

Money is the greatest delusion we collectively share. No one really understands it, do they? And yet we all pretend it makes perfect sense. — Henry Israeli in our POTW Interview w/ Karan, discussing “In the Dream of Money” 💙

A jet plane stitches the sky closed. I throw another stick in the fire. — Henry Israeli, "DYING OF THIRST, SURROUNDED BY WATER" 💙

you said idgaf? uh yeah ok well

Karan asked Henry in our POTW interview: How do you navigate writing about violence or atrocity (& you do this often) without reducing it to either sentimentality or spectacle? 💙

Why do you not suffer, demand the murdered poets. What kind of justice is this? they ask. A purple butterfly lands on Stalin’s hand. — Henry Israeli, Stalin's Ghost 💙

I confuse instinct for desire — isn't bite also touch? — Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020) 📘

a Modern Love Letter fr (ngl it gets creativity and intentionality points from me, do you SEE that off-center papyrus? poetic license!)

By the time we’ve written down a word, the present has past. — Henry Israeli in our POTW interview 💙

wbu? :p

poetry prompt of the week: december brings golden tears like no other. what visions do you have in your head? are they pretty? scraped raw? like a morning fog?