From: Bruce Taylor, No End in Strangeness: New and Selected Poems (Cormorant, 2011).

RIP Liverpool’s own Brian Patten 💔 #TheMerseyPoets

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

For You Who Are About to Give Up

This absolutely stunning poem from @jaxxi.bsky.social has won the Artemesia Arts poetry competition…

Wincing at details of a choppy 20s then lol at "Torn". From v good Joy is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney via @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

the deep / rosined bow sound of the living Dorianne Laux, “Cello” #smallpoemsunday

Last swim in the outdoor pool: chlorinated leaves and the steam, rising…

This doesn’t fade. Musée des Beaux Arts by Auden.

Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?

open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore.... Really happy to be included in Kim’s reading list. Thank you so much @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social for your thoughtful reading and kind words. We are missing you in Cumbria!

My poem about the Manhattan field hospital in Central Park (2020):

Mid-August submission deadlines alert! 44 literary journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 Sept, 14 of which are closing over the next week. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

poem by @danushalameris.bsky.social and posted on fb by @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Both worth following for their poetry and their insight into the poetry of others

Hear poetry come to life! 🎧 The Children’s Poetry Archive is full of poems read by the poets themselves—perfect for young readers & listeners! Explore now → childrens.poetryarchive.org #ChildrensPoetry #PoetryArchive20

News: issue nine of Finished Creatures opens for submissions tomorrow - for the month of August. The theme is Trespass: verb and noun; sin and action; rights and wrongs. Please see the website for more information. xx

By @bigstevepoet.bsky.social

Truly cried with happiness when I read @dustintriplett.bsky.social's comments on my work 🥹

www.engineidling.net/donations How to donate to this fantastically generous literary project and pay the poets

Haiku July, Day 17

Can’t quite get over the fact that this chapbook is free. A stunning collection that resonates with me in many ways. Download it!

bsky.app/profile/the-... ! What an amazing online lit mag and beautiful discovery for me today.

Allison P. Brown @apbrown.bsky.social takes us on a scavenger hunt for reprieve in Remedy for Birth Trauma. From her collection Small Remedies, available as a free download: buff.ly/9FlWnFl! #poetry #poetrycommunity #writers #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #authorscommunity #booksky #poem

Wonderful to see this poem from Charlotte Eichler's collection of the same name as the Poem of the Day on @poetrydaily.bsky.social last week! poems.com/poem/swimmin... Order your copy here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017137...

“Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.” Jean Cocteau, The Necessity of Art, 1959 #happybirthdayjeancocteau pic: Magnum

I started to read a book which quotes this poem by Eavan Boland as epigraph and it blew me away. “Night and day / words fell on me./ Seeds. Raindrops./ Chips of frost”. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

—Franz Kafka, 1914 Me too, bud.

A glance back over June's bestselling books at the bookshop counter... uk.bookshop.org/lists/sam-re...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you feel so inclined, you can post small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by Kess Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social, from their Apt. 9 Press chapbook Gavel sound. Gravel sound. 💫

2 new poems about "work-life balance," video games, and most importantly, going goblin mode. 👹

Our haiku prompts for June 7-14 Remember, the prompt is just a suggestion. Use it, or not, as you like. North South 06/07 Pollen Oatmeal 06/08 Hot Night Holly 06/09 Shaved Ice Short Days 06/10 Flies Overcoat 06/11 Tall Grass Breath 06/12 Mosquito Cold Night 06/13 Spring Water Dark 06/14 Green […]