🌸 Happy Pub Day 🌸 to MORE FLOWERS! None of this happens alone & I’m grateful to so many for their support in bringing this book to life! In honor of the release, I’d also like to offer some light where we need it most, so please consider donating or ordering a book from @triohousepress.org! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Read beautiful poetry by supporting Minnesota, and a Minneapolis-based publisher….this is such a hope-filled, heart-full offer! 🌸🪻🌼 #MinnesotaStrong #MoreFlowers #MoreLight ✨

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🌸 Happy Pub Day 🌸 to MORE FLOWERS! None of this happens alone & I’m grateful to so many for their support in bringing this book to life! In honor of the release, I’d also like to offer some light where we need it most, so please consider donating or ordering a book from @triohousepress.org! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Celebrating pub day for these two amazing poetry collections by @susanlleary.bsky.social and Anthony Ceballos. Order direct from @triohousepress.org or your favorite local or online bookstore! triohousepress.myshopify.com

Alice Oswald in the key of k.

Submissions open today for the 2026 Aurora Polaris Award in Creative Nonfiction! Judges are previous winners @debkossmann.bsky.social, @snajmi.bsky.social, and @jasonprokowiew.bsky.social. Check out the guidelines — we would love to read your work. www.triohousepress.org/submissions

The thing about grieving an artist is that can lead you to discovery and a renewed love of their work. And I think that’s beautiful.

Again, today

Can't stop thinking about this Raymond Carver poem

Joseph Donahue

I've admired the podcast Poetry for All for a good while, and its co-hosts, Abram VanEngen & Joanna Diaz, are the berries. Grateful to hang out with them for an episode: poetryforall.fireside.fm/104

White Dog -Carl Phillips First snow—I release her into it— I know, released, she won't come back. This is different from letting what, already, we count as lost go. It is nothing like that. Also, it is not like wanting to learn what [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92011/...

“I am waiting, like an animal, // For poetry.” — Katy Lederer . . . This poem appeared in The Heaven-Sent Leaf by Katy Lederer, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2008. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social / @fencebooks.bsky.social

A poem in honor of Marvin Bell's Dead Man poems. In my poem, the dead man is an immigrant who has become a ghost to the old country. Huge thanks to editors Jose Angel Aragus, Quintin Collins, and others at Salamander for supporting my work!

"but hope? / No highway" 👏 @amorak.bsky.social

Book of Flower Studies, Master of Claude de France, c.1510–1515.

Hey, Mouth is out. If you’re interested in a review, I can send you a digital ARC. If you’re looking for someone to interview or appear on your podcast or zoom with your class or read poems online or in person, let me know.

The Problem with Early Warnings ~ Charles Rafferty

Each / just the once / An ontology of hearsay. #moodflowers #myth #spring #spirittwin #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity @photohour.bsky.social

SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, & Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry present “Off Site. On Purpose,” featuring many of today's most inspiring women poets! Join us for a night of life-affirming poetry on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM (doors 6:30 PM). @merliterary.bsky.social

Slow / to learn, William Bronk

—Naomi Shihab Nye Advice

Nathalie Handal ♥️

A wind came. It blew across the land. The pile of leaves that Frog had raked for Toad blew everywhere. The pile of leaves that Toad had raked for Frog blew everywhere.

COVER REVEAL & PREORDERS ARE OPEN! I’m thrilled to share to the cover for my forthcoming hybrid/micro CNF collection from @riverriverbooks! Thank you to @han.vanderhart & @amorakhuey for believing in my odd, sad bird & my eternal gratitude to brilliant designer, @albyfischer for this gorgeousness!

"There’s a sense of relief when we realize we’re looking at an object, not a dead creature," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social notes in episode 1446 of The Slowdown. Read “Mistake” by Heather Christle: bit.ly/3Z9Xc7t 📖: @weslpress.bsky.social

Periodic reminder that @janezwart.bsky.social is one of the best out there right now. This from @sixthfinch.bsky.social.

Nathalie Handal ♥️

Poem for your Friday - ~ Franz Wright, in God's Silence — Walking home, for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.

less said the better, John Ashbery

I’m a big fan of Trio House Press. My heart is with them & the literary & larger community in Minneapolis. Love the virtual vigil they are holding space for. I’m also a big fan of Susan L. Leary. Sending @susanlleary.bsky.social & @triohousepress.org gratitude for being lights in the darkness. ♥️💐

New post! Check out a preview of Candice Kelsey's new poetry collection: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/into-the-w... @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social

With the same six letters you can be silent and listen

Calling #LarryLevis fans! @droderick77.bsky.social has put together a terrific feature at @adroitjournal.bsky.social celebrating the publication of the #poets' Collected and reissue of Winter Stars! Glad to have an essay on competing tensions in Levis's work and the San Joaquin Valley included. 💙

No matter who lives / or who dies, I'm still a woman

Tom Clark

'How can you write poetry in the midst of terror?' A poem shared for TTT's theme of thought police, fascism and resistance. Thank you for reading. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

From The Essential W.S. Merwin: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556595134 #poem #books #writing

A very thoughtful review of Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) in @worldlittoday.bsky.social! 🌙

“I am always struck by the juxtaposition of the biology and science of illness versus the life of the person living with it...” Read five #poems by Colleen S. Harris (@warmaiden.bsky.social), along with a few words. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b...

Every day there are new horrors, and disgust, and despair. But also, beauty... As @susanlleary.bsky.social writes in her poem Idle: "Despite madness, beauty. Despite common sense, an idyllic / garden, which in time, makes us ignorant once more." You can talk about the human heart without apology.

Richard Wilbur

Check out our latest newsletter: 2025 annual appeal update & a note of solidarity for our extended community; APOSTASIES press, events & honors; Jaia Hamid Bashir in the BIWOC Poet Spotlight; blog & video features from Amanda Auchter & Megan Peak; & welcoming new board member Kristin LaFollette!

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

“What I know about form couldn't fill a thimble. What form knows about me will be my end.” - Dean Young www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...

So chuffed about this wonderfully thoughtful review of my latest chapbook, Circulaire, by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social! 💛 I still have signed copies available. If poetry about home, love, and womanhood is your jam, drop me a DM! (£10 via PayPal, I cover p&p) ☕️ paulwritespoems.com/2026/01/25/t...

Today's poem is for my father, JB, who died on this day in 2017. Miss you always. ❤️🕊️ —One moment you were here And then you weren't/Dreams die when a parent dies. No amount of anything can help that,/But you were here —and You were —My father And I was your little girl

On a January morning— "I want to lie down with the snow. I want the wild lilies to break their silence." (by Daniel Simko, from THE ARRIVAL)