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.

The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.

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-...

Dreams do come true

Don’t have a manuscript yet, but whenever it gets here, this will be a strong contender for the cover

Love this from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social Diagnosis by Nikita Deshpande www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/diagnosis-...

John Connelly - Autumn Wey. Acrylic on Canvas.

32 Poems really is a great little journal. Thanks to George David Clark and team for selecting this one

One of my favorite poems so far in the 2025 Best American Poetry Alison Pelegrín @southernreview.bsky.social

Thank you to Wendy Lesser for making a spot for "Being and Time" (my poem, not Heidegger's treatise) in Threepenny Review. Extra happy because my poem gets to hang out with one by @toddedillard.bsky.social.

Tiana Clark ♥️ from EQUILIBRIUM (Bull City Press) Day 16 - #SealeyChallenge @bullcitypress.com @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

W.S. Merwin

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social reads an extraordinary poem that takes us on a turn beyond itself at the finish. Wow. “Bonfire Opera” by Danusha Laméris at @slowdownshow.org www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

“When it comes back, there’s no reference at all to your suffering. So your voice dies away. You stop trying, not just with the sun, but with human beings. And the small things that made you happy can’t get through to you anymore.” -Louise Glück www.threepennyreview.com/olive-trees/

This is exciting. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social did an excellent job filling the big shoes of this podcast and I loved every poem she selected 👏

Beth Ann Fennelly

“See how the sky sits like a tombstone on the roofs”

Such a good one by Dante Di Stefano “we have our eyes focused on our children who are splashing & turning somersaults & & cannonballing beside us in this chlorinated heaven we are all floating through”

Jennifer Chang

Idk if journals like to hear this or not, but I just had one accepted that’s been rejected 34(!) times. I didn’t give up on it bc it felt perfect to me and had some positive feedback. Don’t give up!

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

Poem by Fanny Howe. ❤️

Incredibly I have six sonnets in the new issue of The Missouri Review. I've included two of them here. Thanks as always to the editors for including my work! These ones are full of space and Florida and vanishing, so a good summation of my obsessions.

shout out to this crow who just dunked what seems to be a whole churro in the bird bath

Bob Hicock is like the Chuck Norris of the literary world. He’s in journals that haven’t even launched yet.

Sniffing something that you haven’t encountered in years—Play-Doh, fresh-cut hay, your grandmother’s laundry detergent—can be as vivid a sensory experience as it was the first time, while also being almost psychedelically nostalgic.