I ask my love for you often. #poetry by Burgi Zehnhaeusern from her new collection, White Door

Dear #Poetry Friends, I am offering signed copies of Becoming Altar; if you'd like one please message me! I'll also be happy to dedicate/inscribe if you wish. I'll give you my PayPal info and you pay only the cover price of $20. I cover postage. US only for now, dang tariffs! Hit me up! 💖 📖 🙌

. From 'The Fun of Speaking English' (2012) —Dorothea Grossman #poetry #poems #poem

From Paul Tran's book, All the Flowers Kneeling: bookshop.org/a/862/9780143136842 #poem #books #writing

“Chaos is how we know we're in love.” Truly an honor to have two short love poems in the new issue of The American Poetry Review. Here’s one —

Ahem! We are officially just *three weeks* from book day for CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL 🌱✨ Check out the nice things @eugenialeigh.bsky.social had to say about it! And don't forget to preorder a copy for the rad aunties and childfree cat ladies in your life 💚 @gameoverbooks.bsky.social

My only syllabic poem! Written when I had my students write a syllabic poem for a prosody class! (And then I dismantled it, years later, and saved only one line, which appears in a different poem…) #revision

“The closets brim with winter clothes.” A poem by Michael Bazzett.

Aracelis Girmay ♥️

Aracelis Girmay ♥️

Poem for your Monday ~ by Dr. Maya C. Popa After a Vase Broken by Marcel Proust —our lives measured in latitudes of loss, the longest distance between any two points in time./ like a page from a book we once wrote, its single copy, in a library that burned.

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

I love the playfulness of @alextretbar.bsky.social's According to the Plat Thereof where sonnets get bi-tri-or nil-furcated & poetry seems to wink at itself. Go over to @the-ethelzine.bsky.social, get yourselves a copy, & start playing. ☺️🌟💫🌟☺️ Also: I ❤️ @the-ethelzine.bsky.social! #poetry #bookSky

ChatGPT / an LLM will never have angst over its writing and that’s why it will never be as good as you, a fallible human, wrapped around the coil of your own anxiety and heart muscle

“Please: a word so short / it could get lost in the air” — Ellery Akers . . . This poem appeared in Practicing the Truth by Ellery Akers, published by Autumn House Press, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Maybe you want some poppies despite—

Registration is now open for my new round of 3-in-90 workshops! NOTE: The Early Bird Special is a GREAT deal! All three workshops PLUS a FREE bonus REVISION workshop from @litmatchcollective.com for $125! That's a $70 discount! Go here for more info: www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90?ut... 💙

This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

You know what? Not everything scales. And that’s okay. Better than okay. Write poems that reach a few people, maybe. Then write some more poems.

Would love to see you here (and it's on my birthday). Please bring a poem to read as it includes an open mic! So generous of Judy Ireland and SoFloPoJo for this opportunity! Please register to receive your link to the Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Jane Hirshfield 💙 Happy #smallpoemsunday! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.” – Susan Sontag

Coming January 5th!! Very thrilled to have a small experimental (well, for me, anyway) hybrid piece in this brand new Ice Floe project!! Thank you so much @rfredekenter.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social for curating! 🩵

A servant of this paradise, not a God In front of a screen, naked, lonely, asking— No more a God than the crown of vultures Frightened by a hiss that was a tire deflating? Why would you trade Paradise for an argument About Paradise? - Roger Reeves, "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

Oh what a perfect poem. From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's book Good Bones. #poem #booksky #writing

some Linda Pastan for #smallpoemsunday

When I fall in love, it will be forever. ~ Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

& so to tenderness I add my action. Aracelis Girmay

Sarah Rose Nordgren @upittpress.bsky.social

For #smallpoemsunday, a poem from "Hotel Almighty." @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Lord.' you, kept right on going downhill badly slurred -- The road you were on

For #smallpoemsunday and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social a new poem for 2026 – 'Even after grace'. Thank you so much for reading 🩶 #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

denise duhamel gets it and has always gotten it. blessed to have been exposed to her work as a teenager by an early mentor. #shortpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

happy first #smallpoemsunday of 2026! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) in the spirit of new beginnings, here’s one I love by Steve Scafidi~

Two poems today for #smallpoemsunday A perfect Franz Wright 🖤 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

More from Chessy Normile ♥️ “…it’s terrifying to realize / anything all at once…”

“Someday, you say, you’ll be glass in a window / that looks across a landscape of wilderness” — Michael Hettich

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W.H. Auden

This is how / I love you. Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) in @stanchion.bsky.social

Here’s a little morsel from Éireann Lorsung’s Pattern-book

I will be selecting the winner of the Ashland Poetry Press' Richard Snyder Prize for a full-length collection. Submissions open today. Final deadline is the first of May. ashlandpoetrypress.com/2026-richard...

“Trust me. I, who have neither / head nor heart, whose name is not mine but Girl.” the opening poem in More Flowers by @susanlleary.bsky.social, coming soon from @triohousepress.org

Another perfect New Year's Day poem. From Jane Hirshfield's book, After: bookshop.org/a/862/9780060779191 #poem #books #writing

A joy to start the year seeing one of the very first poems toward my new project about faith(lessness) and the divine. Thank you, Allison Blevins, for believing in my work again and Jill Khoury for again giving my work a home at @rogueagent.bsky.social: www.rogueagentjournal.com/tlau

Mark Rothko and I wish you all available serenity in the new year.

“The line is the device upon which the poem spins itself into being.” -- Mary Oliver

that was beautiful Hilda Morley

May 2026 bring more calm and stability — the physical and mental space to reflect, create, commune, grow, realise, and journey on. Thank you for the art, books and music 🩶 'Washington Square, New Year's Eve' — published in the Sunday Mornings at the River 2026 Poetry Diary. #poetrycommunity

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." Happy New Year. From The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. #poem #booksky #writing

We are bridging the turning of the year with poetry

RA 130, guest ed by Allison Blevins, is here! Including poetry by @seanthomasd.bsky.social @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social @travisclau.bsky.social @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social & @amiewhittemore.bsky.social 🪶 rogueagentjournal.com/issue130