Just delighted to be on the Washington Unbound list of recommended books for winter 2025-2026 in poetry! If you’re looking for your next read you’ll find fiction and nonfiction here as well. #DMVWriters www.washington-unbound.com/bookreviews/...

Another exquisite poem by Jane Zwart! #poetry

A creature of water… A Jane Hirshfield gem for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry

Moving to keep things whole #poetry by Mark Strand @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

Not Everything is Spoken Jean Follain #poetry translated by Heather McHugh

Louise Glück #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

We are the absent ones #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry

“One of the scariest poems I’ve ever written” ~Franny Choi on her poem “Introduction to Quantum Theory” excerpted below. #poetry You can hear her read it in full here:

“…when grief weighs you down like your own flesh…” #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry

Congratulations Burgi!!

Giving has many faces… poets.org/poem/when-gi... #poetry by Alberto Ríos

Ross Gay catalog of unabashed gratitude #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Basho #haiku #poetry

Because I try not to revel but I revel Poem by Martha Silano #poetry @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

Fun poem by @kelliagodon.bsky.social starting with the title and all the way through “your gurgling stanzas, your lyric sigh.” #poetry

What is a Poem? (what she did with “these few blocks…”) #poetry by Ruth Stone

Jane Hirshfield #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Poets, please join @poetryxhunger.bsky.social They’ve signed the letter urging emergency funding for WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) federal food assistance program. Find out how #poetry is making a difference @toendhunger.bsky.social www.nwica.org/press-releas...

Yes! Poets raised more than 2.000 US dollars for a food bank during the Oct 12 Online Reading. Thanks to the many, many supporters who helped us "Turn Poetry into Food." Poetry X Hunger's logo below was created by Diane Wilbon Parks.

Such a lit community here. Writers supporting writers. Reminds me of the early Gargoyle, Plum Review, Beltway #poetry, Innisfree days. Thank you, @ladiwoods.bsky.social for this excellent idea! And @peabody.bsky.social @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social @wwph.bsky.social @majda.bsky.social & so many more!

#smallpoemsunday Thank you, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for starting this! #poetry

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. - #GustaveFlaubert

“A poem is a means of bringing the wind in the door, so to speak.” -- Charles Simic

Someday, if I am Lucky #poetry by Matthew Nienow @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

Again I’m Asked if I Glow in the Dark #smallpoemsunday #poetry by Kathleen Flenniken from her collection Plume University of Washington Press @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Presence

“ I have traveled along the contours of leaves that have no name.” 🍁 Arthur Sze, our new US Poet Laureate bringing in Fall. @librarycongress.bsky.social will be hosting his opening address this Thursday. #poetry

An October haiku from way back for #smallPoemSunday, published by UCity Review (also way back). The weather is as clear today as when I wrote this.

Virginia Woolf as “a fabulist unmaking patriarchy’s cultural inheritances through enchanting, surreal impossibilities rather than philosophy or history.”

Marianne Moore’s poem about the father she never met. “Silence” #poetry

“I come into the presence…” timeless #poetry

“My poetry frequently relies on memory, but it is not bound by it; and it is fine if I need to adapt an actual situation or make things up, because my commitment is to the imaginative truth.” ~Arthur Sze in @mcsweeneys.net conversation with Jesse Nathan #poetry

Check out “America’s Future” anthology of #poetry and #prose Grateful to editors @wwph.bsky.social for including a poem of mine!

Poets helping the hungry. It works. Check out PoetryXHunger.com #poetry #hunger #endhunger #stophunger #fighthunger

“Be for me, like rain” The Rain by Robert Creeley #poetry

—when the fruit is “difficult to reach” Martha Silano’s “I have thoughts fed by the sun,” from Terminal Surreal #poetry

From @danushalameris.bsky.social's book, Bonfire Opera. #poem #books #writing

Nothing more precious about a word than its shadow #poetry by Ana Blandiana #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

America breaking… Great #poetry @kelliagodon.bsky.social

Who can tell at this hour seabirds from starlings… Listening to Deborah Digges read “Trapeze.” Love her #poetry You can read it at poets.org as well.

Beyond grateful to @susanlleary.bsky.social for this post on WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST for Day 31 of the #SealeyChallenge. Thank you for the love and all your support, Susan! 💙 @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #poetrycommunity

Such important #poetry! Please read!

Here’s to solace and grazing! #poetry by Tina Kelley

Exciting event last night @politicsprose.bsky.social celebrating the launch of “America’s Future” anthology #poetry and #prose featuring all kinds of talent from DC, Maryland and Virginia! Thank you, Jona & Caroline. The writers community fostered by @wwph.bsky.social is needed more than ever.

Poetry+ readings tonight @politicsprose.bsky.social Celebrating the launch of @wwph.bsky.social Hot off the press anthology: America’s Future with readings, workshops & more. Come find us in the Den starting at 5:00. #poetry #fiction

Remembering Linda Pastan “in the pure blue of insight” @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #poetry

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #poetryintranslation

📅Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open. Send one poem. No fees, no themes, quick turnaround. Full guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-.... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag Photo by Willian Chan on Unsplash

Because we have to celebrate something! Thanks, @wwph.bsky.social for publishing my #haiku #poetry. Looking forward to the almost-launched America’s Future anthology!