The darkness lifts #poetry by Louise Glück

Swimming in the clouds #poetry by Amy Lowell

Every card #poetry by Timothy Liu

Our March 26 reading is set, and it will be 🔥. Join us to hear @dlassell.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @janezwart.bsky.social, @hollicarrell.bsky.social, & Robbi Nester read from their newest books! Register here! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The copier wept #poetry by Mary Ruefle

#hunger #poetry

🌸 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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

“As if I’d invited them” Here is a🐞of a poem for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky With thanks to Silver Birch Press and their Bugs & Insects series #poetry #motherhood

“…the sap of sweet danger ripening within” From Rilke’s Sonnet 23 of part 2 of the Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by Daniel Joseph Polikoff. #Rilke #poetry

This Friday at the Austrian Embassy in DC: a special evening of Rilke’s #poetry with pianist Senka Brankovic and actor Helmut Mooshammer performing “The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke” by Rainer Maria Rilke and Viktor Ullman. Free. DM for more info.

To speak one word bright with attention. by Tom Andrews #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry

Friends in the DMV! Come on out to the double launch reading of new poetry books by @burgi.bsky.social and @susanscheid.bsky.social Sunday, Jan 25 at 2pm @thewriterscenter.bsky.social See you there!

I Wrote This Poem on Company Time by @isabellewrites.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social with thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social for introducing me to her work on her substack. #poetry

#Poetry: Doesn’t it teach us how to mourn so that we’ll value having lived? @stevenleyva.bsky.social asks in his stirring review of Rara Avis by @blasfalconer.bsky.social in @wirobooks.bsky.social

#poetry by Hayden Saunier in a

Oh Susan—this “boy apocalypse” poem is such powerful #poetry. 💙

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

Big congrats, Burgi! Can’t wait for the inaugural reading!

#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

yes risk joy #poetry by Louise Glück

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.”