quote of the day: excerpt from "How Can I Bring This Poem to a Halt" by Garous Abdolmalekian trans. from Persian by Siavash Saadlou "I write, 'Door,' and open it so that you can come in." poems.com/poem/untitle...

poem of the day "Who" by Abe Louise Young "Where are the other / animals that wallow / in purple fringed regret / like I do?" poets.org/poem/who-1

"Dry pages saved me / Often from wet pain" Shay Willis www.coolbeanslit.com/shay-wills

"I tell every forest you will always be my favorite tree." - Leigh Chadwick onlypoems.substack.com/p/the-first-...?

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"I was having a moment, / so I went home / and covered myself in princess stickers." - Matt Broaddus

"How could anybody be glum / in this superlative weather? Well, / I'll tell you. The day is a young / bubble, with a tiny fire at its core." - Amy Gerstler

"...how can the oceans / swallow so much color / and remain so terrifically blue?" - Amy Gerstler

"You were inside me like my pulse" - Marilyn Hacker

"in the mirror there are murmurations/ and inside the murmurations there are starlings" - Jose-Luis Mocetzuma

"Words are the only victors." - Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"History is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness" - Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"Is the poem an ember, a lake, or a hole I run my tongue through?" - Kyle Okeke from "Butterflies" in Poetry, Oct '23

"Will anyone lessen the losing? Will anyone lessen the loss?" - Jay Bernard from "Losers" The Slowdown Show www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2019...

"What song made us ask the wrong questions? What joke made us laugh closing doors on our true selves?" - Gabriel Ramirez from "Abuelo," in Poetry, Oct 2023

"Is the soul hairless? Does it never secrete or flake?" - Molly Peacock from "Question"

"The length of ideas? Infinity's stride. Translucent." - Molly Peacock from "The Widow's Crayon Box"

"What word would you use to describe me now. Imperishable? Imperishable." - Lucy Brock-Broido From "Still Life with Aspirin" - Trouble in Mind

"Who would I be if Ruth had never hugged me back into myself?" - Omotara James from "Ruthless" - American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 24

"I step on dry topsoil but sense moisture beneath. In this life, if you do not know what you are looking for, how can you find it?" - Arthur Sze from "Mushroom Hunting at the Ski Basin" - The New Yorker Mar 24, 2025

"Has anyone seen a scorpion? No worries if not. He's one of the tiny ones, which means he's really poisonous while also being hard to see." - TJ Klune The joys and dangers of magical children... from Somewhere Beyond the Sea (212)

"You rise before the sun for the sake of what? An event? Like an echo, the owl's faint bark." - Sally Keith from "Spent" in The American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 24

"This is not the worst possible outcome, in astrological time. What's one little asteroid the size of an ice cream truck?" - Tolu Oloruntoba from "Ways to Describe an Asteroid" in The American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 24

"'Isn't it dangerous to hold them in your mouth like that?'" - Catherine Barnett from "Untitled" in the American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 2024

"Why is the body still working, if it knows what's to come-- Isn't it cowed?" - W.J. Herbert from "When Knowing Is the Same as Late Winter Waiting" AQR winter/spring 2025

"Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrow?" - TJ Klune from Somewhere Beyond the Sea (171)

"Why wouldn't you fear the thunder, the night, the ocean?" - Charlotte Pence From "Primordial" AQR winter/spring 2025

"Do orchids cry when colliding With grief?" - Sarah Parmet From "I Dreamt of Orchids That Night" The MacGuffin Nov '24

Can artists be minimalists? Explore this idea with me: allisonburris.substack.com/p/can-artist...

Quote from poet Asa Drake