Mary Ruefle

Keep coming back to this poem by Matthea Harvey

Heather Christle

Jane Hirshfield

Mary Jo Bang

A poem by Robyn Sarah as the summer slips away

One more poem by Dorianne Laux, this one about limb difference

Another Dorianne Laux deep cut. This one really got to me.

Dorianne Laux

One more by the late great Dean Young

William Carlos Williams, born on this day in 1883

A nod and corona today to William Carlos Williams (b. 17 September 1883). Out of _Collected Poems 1921-1931_ (The Objectivist Press, 1934). With a Preface by Wallace Stevens: “His passion for the anti-poetic is a blood passion and not a passion of the inkpot. The anti-poetic is his spirit’s cure.”

Another poem by the late Dean Young. Published in 2020, it remains uncollected.

Dean Young

Thinking of my father tonight, who left us on this day in 2020

David Berman, from "In Dave Berman's Tree" (1992).

Kodak invented "the Kodak moment" to teach people they needed cameras to remember their lives. Jason Schneiderman sees poems heading down the same commercial track – and he's having none of it! Read more in NOTHINGISM, out now from @uofmpress.bsky.social: press.umich.edu/Books/N/Noth...

Stephen Dunn

Another poem from the Winter '06 issue of Passages North.

Mary Ruefle

Jane Hirshfield

To commemorate Pierre Reverdy’ s 136th birthday, a poem written many years ago for a friend that first appeared in Passages North.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Here I am / Waiting to hold you

Rachel Hadas

Another by Jenny George

we had the best time at your party

Jane Hirshfield

Emerson

Jenny George

Linda Gregg, born on this day in 1942

Anne Carson, with a riff on Richard Brautigan

Fahrenheit 450 The Crying of Lot 48 Pop. 1279

One more by Maggie Smith

Another powerful poem by Maggie Smith

Just learned that New Formalist firebrand Frederick Turner has died. As Monroe K. Spears remarked of Turner in the 1980s, he “is not averse to the making of large claims.” This passage from “The Neural Lyre" (1983), which Turner co-authored with Ernst Pöppel, speaks volumes.

The world I'm trying to love / is all teeth and need Maggie Smith

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

An elegy for my Volvo 142 from Not Even Laughter (2015)

Diane Seuss, from the Summer 2025 issue of Blackbird

So much to admire about this painterly miniature by Robyn Sarah

My latest Echolocation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...

Wendell Berry ⸻ from Farming: A Hand Book (1970)

Thx, I forgot to post this myself! From this month’s @austbookreview.bsky.social

W. S. Merwin

Jim Daniels, to close out your Labour Day

Natalie Shapero

Pigbag

One more from Marie Howe

Seamus Heaney, who left us on this day in 2013