✨YOU’RE INVITED! Sat., 9/27 at Art Monster Studio, hosted by Norwalk Poet Laureate Katie Schneider. 🌟🎤 Stick around for limited walk-in-only open mic! 🎟️ Register FREE (space limited—so move fast!). Link in comments. ✨ Light refreshments served + Spacecat Brewery nx door for pre/post-show gatherings!

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Posting a daily poem for Pride Month has been fun, and for our grand finale, here is a video I hope you will enjoy -- Denice Frohman performing "Dear Straight People." 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetrycommunity youtu.be/5frn8TAlew0?...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ On this penultimate day of Pride Month, here’s a double! -- “Pitcher” and “The Base Stealer” by Robert Francis, whom Robert Frost called “of all the great neglected poets, the greatest.” 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Month! Here is "Duplex" by Jericho Brown, from THE TRADITION (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social sky.social‬, 2019). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈#Pridemonth20252#Pride20252#pridemontht#Prided#poetrycommunityty https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/the-tradition-by-jericho-brown/

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month Poems. Here is "Fly" by Richie Hofmann, from SECOND EMPIRE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2015). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #Pridemonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/se...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month Poems. When I'm enjoying the green of summer, this poem comes to mind: "Sonnet to Green," from R. Nemo Hill's WHEN MEN BOW DOWN (Dos Madres Press, 2012). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

It’s hawt today.

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month Poems. Here is "Playing Poker While Female," by Liz Ahl, from NASTY WOMEN POETS: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017). Editors: Grace Bauer & Julie Kane. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Poems. In 1918, at age 25, Wilfred Owen was killed in action -- a week before the war's end. He gave us this haunting war poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est." 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month continues! It was great to hear River Vetter read this at the @poetrybythesea.bsky.social Conference. Here is "Poem In Which My Fake Dick Sets Off Airport Security," which first appeared in Vagabond City Literary Journal. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride! From Kay Ryan (U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010), we have "We're Building the Ship as We Sail It," which first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Poetry. It's also in THE BEST OF IT: New & Selected Poems. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Pride Friday! Here's Ruth Vanita's "Mermaid" from SUPER GAY POEMS by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social Stephanie Burt. Check out the pms & her essays on each! We were delighted to hear her Keynote at the @poetrybythesea.bsky.social Conference.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

"What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy" a video by Heather Cox Richardson www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Ua...

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month. Here's a recent poem from Rickey Laurentiis @rckylrnts.bsky.social, "Trans Loneliness." You can hear her read it at the link, & see her notes. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Month. Here is a stunner from @davidgroff.bsky.social. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry poets.org/poem/dead-deer

Thank you to @markdanowsky.bsky.social & @eboninthehedges.bsky.social at @oneart.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to the conversation. #plagiarism #poetry #poetrycommunity

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ A Pride Month poem for Father's Day. Here is James Crews' "Telling My Father. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Pride Month Poems: Here's "Cremello Horse" by Keetje Kuipers 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 You can listen to her read it here or anywhere you podcast: www.deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemada... #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Friday! Here is Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Departure"--from Ainslee's (August 1919). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44719/...

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Throwback Thursday! Here is James Merrill's "The Octopus"--an excellent example of the use of apocopated rhyme--from a 1951 issue of POETRY. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Do you wish there were more than one Wordle puzzle per day? Are you a member of the LGBTQAI+ community or an ally? Then you might enjoy playing Queerdle! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 xtramagazine.com/culture/meet...

This is so good - not just amusing, but... actually good stuff. I'd illustrate it.

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride! Here is @notquitehydepark.bsky.social Stephanie Burt's "Frozen Is the Most Trans Movie Ever," from her book WE WERE MERMAIDS (Graywolf Press, 2022). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

Efficiency: A Visual Poem

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Here is Danez Smith's "waiting on you to die so i can be myself," from their book HOMIE. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ From @laurencraw.bsky.social, here is "First Day," which originally appeared in @redogrereview.bsky.social. It was a treat to hear Lauren read this poem last year at the Poetry by the Sea Conference. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ From villanelle hype man @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social Brookshire, here is "Revisionist Villanelle," which originally appeared in Oddball Magazine. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ No pride month is complete without him. Here is "Untitled" from James Baldwin. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Friday! Here's Mary Meriam's "Muse of O" from IRRESISTIBLE SONNETS. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Month! Here's one of my favorite prose poems, @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social's "Mango, No. 61" from Best American Poetry (2000). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 My Cuban father-in-law came to the U.S as a refugee, & this poem always makes me think of him. 🇨🇺 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Here's Rafael Campo's "Poem Written at 5 AM on the Sweetness of Life," from his 2014 book, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (Duke University Press). #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Poetry

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Month! Here's Julien Strong's "The Story," from their collection, THE MOUTH OF EARTH (Univ. of Nevada Press). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

💙 I stand with my Jewish friends & neighbors against hate, anti-Semitism, & any threat of violence. There is no place for that here--or anywhere. Love your neighbors. 💙 #stopantisemitism #EndAntisemitism #antiHate (Don't stir up hate in comments or you'll be blocked. Thanks.)

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month! Here's a brand new poem from @kelliagodon.bsky.social, brought to us by @oneart.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth #Poetry #Pride2025 oneartpoetry.com/2025/06/02/t...

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month! Let's begin with this little poem that I've loved for so long. Not only a good example of a bleeding title, but how a title can be crucial in framing a poem. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth #Poetry #Pride2025

This urn in the Yale Peabody Museum tickled me more than most museum pieces I’ve seen. I would like one for my abode. Dig, if you will, the PERIOD they added.

Desperate times call for silly measures! Thanks LIGHT for the invitation to feature in this issue, & to Julia Griffin who did me the honor of writing the appreciation. It's a delight to have comic verse appear alongside writers I respect & admire. Check out the issue. Let's be silly together.

I was paying attention. I was listening. I believed you. I did what you told me to do and I became who you told me to become And that's why I've found myself standing here wondering how you've become someone I no longer recognize, johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/you-raised...

giving weeds the side-eye : a visual poem

That feeling when your buddy is hired as CEO of a prestigious global organization, overseeing a million workers. Wow! And you congratulate him. But it's 2025, & the organization strictly let only men interview for the job. #Conclave2025 #pope #PopeLeoXIV #patriarchy #feminism

May I be loving, open, and aware in this moment; If I cannot be loving, open, and aware in this moment, may I be kind; If I cannot be kind, may I be nonjudgmental; If I cannot be nonjudgmental, may I not cause harm; If I cannot not cause harm, may I cause the least harm possible. --Larry Yang

Living in the United States, but feeling like Gemma Scout in the basement of Lumon, subject to the sadistic whims of Mr. Drummond and Dr. Mauer. #severance

Malignant narcissist. A holy man and humble servant dies, but Trump has to make it all about himself. Is he even Catholic? What would his papal encyclical say, “Grab the by the p***y?”

Just a friendly reminder for those who still support the current president: It is an undeniable fact that he is an adjudicated sex abuser and convicted felon.

How many times does Pete Hegseth need to leak classified intelligence before Donald Trump and Republicans understand that he isn’t only a f*cking liar, he is a threat to our national security?

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

"This is the day of ultimate imperial violence — the execution of one deemed a traitor to the state. Today’s post is a contemporary visual meditation on the violence suffered long ago by Jesus." @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/good-frida...

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (18 Apr 1857-1938)

Andry Hernandez Romero fled Venezuela seeking asylum because he was in danger as an out gay man. Despite entering the U.S. at a legal border crossing and having no criminal record, he’s now being held without due process in one of the world’s largest high-security prisons. #FreeAndry