"You know / I always need to save something, to control it." 'Aubade as Fuel' from LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Sheer brilliance 🤍 #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollections

Art, as I said earlier, affects a person's emotions, not his reason. Its function is, as it were, to turn and loosen the human soul, making it receptive to good. -- Andrei Tarkovsky

On occasion, the poet leaves the isolation of her room, her literary duties, her various wild and broody selves...and heads to the city. Tonight, celebrating the blessing of being “caught between cultures” — the way she’s always been. Joy, reflection, heritage. #Midautumnfest 🏮🌕✨️ #eastmeetswest

Jenny George—

On occasion, the poet leaves the isolation of her room, her literary duties, her various wild and broody selves...and heads to the city. Tonight, celebrating the blessing of being “caught between cultures” — the way she’s always been. Joy, reflection, heritage. #Midautumnfest 🏮🌕✨️ #eastmeetswest

This poem is stunning. If you haven't read Dressing The Bear, it's a must-read. Clean ~ Susan L. Leary -I often worried when I got the call, I'd be unprepared. But the morning my brother dies ——💙

We’re all dreamers; we don’t know who we are. Some machine made us; machine of the world, the constricting family. Then back to the world, polished by soft whips. We dream; we don’t remember. Louise Glück #poetry #writer

Roses for Susan @susanlleary.bsky.social, I hope you are doing well, Susan—this is probably the last bloom of the year, and therefore the most precious.

"...the poet evokes the sacred through place and seasonal migrations that mark the fluid nature of identity, juxtaposed with the duties and footholds of tradition." My review of the luminous 'Drench Me in Silver' by @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social (@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social). #poetry #reviews

Here's a list of journals that folks recommended: Long Poem Magazine (UK), The Broken Spine (UK), Last Syllable, Missouri Review, Literary Imagination, Blackbird, Ploughshares (for Fall reading period), Adroit, Cincinnati Review, Lothorian Poetry Journal (1/2)

Today’s poem is selected by Tomás Q. Morín as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Meditations in an Emergency” appeared in Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich, published by Persea Books, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.

L.A (2023) (c) Robert Frede Kenter #photo #photoart #image #LosAngeles #photographsofbluesky #street #queer #lgbtqia @icefloepress.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social

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"The fictive ones, the far gold of a rain-blessed prison, where people play to live, and sentences seem gentle and so on." Here, researching, reimagining, invoking spirits for a special project – one woman, one room, and the mind's potential... #nationalpoetryday #goldenhour #poetrycommunity

"The fictive ones, the far gold of a rain-blessed prison, where people play to live, and sentences seem gentle and so on." Here, researching, reimagining, invoking spirits for a special project – one woman, one room, and the mind's potential... #nationalpoetryday #goldenhour #poetrycommunity

Delighted and honoured to receive an acceptance from @upthestaircase.bsky.social , a beautiful journal with a high calibre of work. Thank you to EIC @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for selecting my poem "Childhood" for inclusion in the next issue, due out Nov 1st ✨️ #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

I've got 3 new poems in this sparkling issue ✨️ Thanks so much to the editors for including my work 😊 You are a bright spot in a dark world.

A ridiculous little run of luck on the poetry front this week. Thank you, Jamie Poissant, for several benisons: giving this poem a spot in Aquifer & for nominating it for the Best of Net anthology. And thank you, Dean Ward, for letting me borrow this sweet corn & pet moth.

NEW POEM #270: "Euphoria" by Janis Greve "How could you, I want to say, deprive me of this thing I never asked for, but that gave me a strange euphoria, a flood I could always count on rising, silent, from the depths of me," stonecirclereview.com/euphoria/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!

Today’s poem is selected by Ayokunle Falomo as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. "won’t you celebrate with me" appeared in Book of Light by Lucille Clifton, published by Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Honored for a BOTN nomination (& for a poem dear to me).Ty @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for opportunity to be Silver Branches feature (poems & images) lovingly curated @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & now this Unexpected & delighted. 💐 To other nominees, all formidable incl. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social

October Favorite parts from Louise Glück's poem October.

Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for nominating 'Philosophy Fragment' for Best of the Net. Such great company too. Congratulations to all the nominees! ❤️ #poetrycommunity #BOTN

'Philosophy Fragment' by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social has been put forward from the #SilverBranch project for the 'Best of the Net'. What a talented creative. blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1

Our #SilverBranch project 'Best of the Net' nom's this year. Special mention for our posthumous award for Ivor Daniel.🕊️ Julian Cason @hool415.bsky.social Vikki C @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @ivordaniel.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com

So thankful to have spent time with this collection from @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social, and to see it out in the world now!

"In the Blueprint of Her Iris evokes an expressionist tapestry that echoes the complexities of land, language, and loss." Grateful to prescient poet @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social for beautiful praise of In the Blueprint of Her Iris @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Out now from @icefloepress.bsky.social🔥

"In the Blueprint of Her Iris evokes an expressionist tapestry that echoes the complexities of land, language, and loss." Grateful to prescient poet @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social for beautiful praise of In the Blueprint of Her Iris @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Out now from @icefloepress.bsky.social🔥

Sunday poet / Sunday poem /Sunday market 💐 #boho #studiogibli #flowers #journal #handwritten #poet #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artist #artistcommunity

Joni Mitchell, “Urge for Going” youtu.be/ZvSvTRhAJxg 🎵

A painting that reminded me of this poem by Annie Nazzaro in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social, "After The Poet's Garden by Vincent van Gogh, 1888"

Today’s poem is selected by Maya C. Popa (@mayacpopa.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you.” appeared in The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2025.

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So lovely to see this photo of 'In the Blueprint of Her Iris' out in the arms of nature 🌿 A hybrid collaboration: Poems by me & striking visual art by the talented @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥 Available now from @icefloepress.bsky.social's store: icefloepress.net/in-the-bluepri… #poetrycommunityty

Folks seemed to enjoy my offering for Top T***T Tuesday over there on the other place so thought I would share it here as well. Many thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social.

A poem for toptweettuesday over on X, hosted by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and this week @vikkicwrites.bsky.social, on the brief of ‘inheritance / the more-than-human world. Amid the trials of a world in collapse, what do we get to keep? What must we surrender’

So lovely to see this photo of 'In the Blueprint of Her Iris' out in the arms of nature 🌿 A hybrid collaboration: Poems by me & striking visual art by the talented @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥 Available now from @icefloepress.bsky.social's store: icefloepress.net/in-the-bluepri… #poetrycommunityty

It's available! A new brilliant collaborative work. It combines #writings of @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and #art/vispo of @rfredekenter.bsky.social. A back & forth fine-tuned visionary process of not-programmatic but parallel, converging, image-text pieces making a third. For sale at our website now!

A poem for the first day of autumn. From Good Bones by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social. Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK #poem #books #writing

almost "October Zinnias," transparent watercolor

✨️ Honoured and excited to be hosting TopTweetTuesday again. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🙏 In the meantime, re-sharing my Silver Branch feature from June. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1 Do take a read and explore Black Bough's site and beautiful books 📚✨️ #poetrycommunity

✨️ Honoured and excited to be hosting TopTweetTuesday again. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🙏 In the meantime, re-sharing my Silver Branch feature from June. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1 Do take a read and explore Black Bough's site and beautiful books 📚✨️ #poetrycommunity

Back in the hosting seat of TopTweetTuesday, once more, the poetic star that is Vikki C @vikkicwrites.bsky.social 🖊️ ☄️ Check out her #SilverBranch feature from June! www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1 #poetry #writing #poet #poetic

NEW POEM #267: "Glass Desert Anthem" by Allison Zhang "I passed a woman grinding glass into salt. Her wrists bandaged in gold. She asked what I came to trade. I didn’t know what I had left. The trees whispered what I should not have known." stonecirclereview.com/glass-desert... #Poem #Poetry

“Writing also means not speaking. Keeping silent. Screaming without a sound. A writer is often quite restful; she listens a lot. She doesn't speak much because it's impossible to speak to someone about a book one has written, and especially about a book one is writing.” -- Marguerite Duras

Now available! IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS. An expansive collab on heritage, ecologies & love amid world crises. My poems & stunning visuals by talented artist @rfredekenter.bsky.social Order yours today from @icefloepress.bsky.social icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep... #hybrid #poetrycommunity

NOW AVAILABLE at website! IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS. History, self, ecologies, dystopia, diaspora: a 'talking about' ‘worlds’ natural, human, post-human, magically considered. A 1-year collaboration #poems & #vispo = The #Hybrid collection now available for sale. icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...

Now available! IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS. An expansive collab on heritage, ecologies & love amid world crises. My poems & stunning visuals by talented artist @rfredekenter.bsky.social Order yours today from @icefloepress.bsky.social icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep... #hybrid #poetrycommunity

NOW AVAILABLE. Honored to bring this work to fruition & now offer it for sale at @icefloepress.bsky.social. A year long collaboration w/remarkable widely published #poet Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social, this work expands on a mandate of collaborative convergence. icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...