I read this again and cried this morning. So of course, I now share it with you.

This little cactus

From Pushcart L “that blue-veined arrhythmia in a corncob of stars”

Nice poem @rustandmoth.bsky.social published last year. This is exactly what my oldest son used to do, list of people who loved him. It’s a nice practice for everyone, really

“As soon as you begin to ask the question, Who loves me? you are completely screwed, because the next question is How Much?” @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

Kids getting ready for bed, brushing teeth. My wife goes in and soon I hear (in angry voice) WHAT IS MICROPLASTICS???

In a new encyclical, Pope Leo XIV weighs in on artificial intelligence: “We are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Y2oE2a

“Is it winter in our city? The city with no name? Is it long ago?” D.Nurske

This is cool to see. William McRaven, a retired four-star admiral, has a poem in The Atlantic this morning: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

This 32 Poems issue is amazing. Every poem is my favorite. But this David Kirby poem is sooo good

I love this poem by Nick Lantz @rattlepoetry.bsky.social awarded their prize for metaphor. “A woman married a skull. He had a beautiful singing voice but had never cleaned a toilet in his life.” rattle.com/dolorimetry-...

I have to tell you

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

A 3D-printed ear trumpet

Grist has such beautiful issues. Cool to be in it with other writers I admire like @janezwart.bsky.social (whose book just arrived yesterday) feels like ages ago I wrote this but thanks to the journal for selecting it!

“Let me at least fail at my life.” -Jack Gilbert

New poem up on BOOTH. Thanks to the editors for publishing this! booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/t...

This poem… But also, the reading of this poem So good podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

My 6 yo made all these little books and I realized they’re all haikus. A taster: Heavy, sad, down low, Caleb walked across the pine needles. His dog did not like it.

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Unsurprisingly, some work from the last decade seems once again to speak to this moment

Just a kid reading to his dog

Spent the last 2 weeks being astonished by this James Tate poem from a book I checked out from the library (his “Shroud of the Gnome”):

“It's today. And death tolls continue to climb. You think I want the truth?”

Love this one from @josephfasano.bsky.social

Mary Oliver

I’m sorry but shitposting Amanda Gorman as a person for trying to write after a tragedy is pretty close to the lowest we can be as poets. Don’t do this.

Jack Gilbert

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

"Today’s poem is about fathers and sons, and about loss. It is also about the small, shining parts of our lives that survive us and get passed down to the next generation," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1424 of The Slowdown. Read "White Hot Star" by W. Todd Kaneko: bit.ly/4q25OsO

“And the dream has a pain in its heart” poets.org/poem/dream-4

It was a big year for rejections, ending with a bang!

15.8 billion miles away from earth. 😳 Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.

Literally how most editors describe picking the work in their journal:

Jim Harrison

Is this how you do #smallpoemsunday

If the New Yorker poetry anthology is representative, my favorite decade for poetry was the 80s

A #Skydiver Appears to Fall from the #Sun in a Stunning Image #photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...

I must say one disturbing thing I’ve noticed in the poetry community is many people think they have deep knowledge of something bc they “researched” it for their poem. Don’t do this. If anything, poetry should make us more humble about our lack of understanding.

“It can be so hard to accept help from others, especially if you pride yourself on being self-sufficient," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1387 of The Slowdown. Read “Different Kinds of Sadness" by @jennymolberg.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4oIADBE

There are many, but I think this is my favorite Sharon Olds poem. From “The Father”

Very excited to have a new poem in "Image"... ...big thanks to the editors!

Sneakretly (Adj) def: a certain degree of sneakiness, usually referring to the act of obtaining secrets or forbidden information

My recent poem in I-70 Review, alongside some gems from Ted Kooser, Rob Cording, and others

A section of The Times, a shallow tub, A chamois cloth, a sickle slip of pumice, Green oil from the least expensive jug, A dry wreath’s worth of eucalyptus ~from "A Homecoming" by Daniel Bosch AGNI Online

Thanks to @kencraft.bsky.social for featuring my @havehashad.com poem “Depiction of the Afterlife as a Frantic Search for Car Keys” in a recent blog post. Check it out: www.kencraftauthor.com/when-before-...