My latest poetry collection, Dawn's Incision, from @icefloepress.bsky.social - available here👇

It's issue day! This issue is full of incredibly creative, raw, and vivid pieces. A huge thanks to everyone who sent in work this window, and a super huge thank you to all the contributors! Cover image: Edward Michael Supranowicz You can check it out here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026

hello everyone! today is #smallpoemsunday and it’s also the first day of March, the month at the end of which my new book MOUNTEBANK will be out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social :) each day in March I’m planning to share a #soapboxpoem, a small series of poems(/etc.) named for the origin of the…

POEM 314: "Winter on My Feet" by David Hanlon (@vespertine4.bsky.social) "Yes, I’m in my head all day again. It’s cold in here—arctic, even. Every inward road looks identical, erased beneath unbroken ice. That’s why I’m shaking." stonecirclereview.com/winter-on/ #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

Joe and I are busy getting ready for submissions for our Sunday Poetry Series, and I can't wait to read your poems!!!! Submissions will open on Tuesday 3, March and close at midnight on Saturday 7, March. Links to our guidelines and submission form will be posted early next week.

we're gonna open 4 subs tomorrow at 12 noon, texas time xraylitmag.com/submissions/

This is an Amazing deal for a truly Glorious collection!

For another five days, the eBook version of This Joyful Interlude is available for 99p / 99¢! UK amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FWKQBX77 US amazon.com/dp/B0FWKQBX77 CA amazon.ca/dp/B0FWKQBX77 FR amazon.fr/dp/B0FWKQBX77 DE amazon.de/dp/B0FWKQBX77 AU amazon.com.au/dp/B0FWKQBX77 #poetry #poetrylovers #books

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

We have no grand metaphors, just an insistence to say where we come from without shame. The plain and direct language is the emotional core of the piece He acknowledges facing your past is difficult and that the bravest thing is not reinvention, but recognition. #poetry #poemoftheday

#obsessed #vss365

🌔 Dear moon never speak of what you’ve seen me do 🌖 Dear moon you are sworn to secrecy #haiku #senryu #noai

Featured on Haiku Commentary weather forecast neighbors discussing which tree might fall where — Anthony Lusardi train from Ukraine her nesting dolls full of scars — Cezar Ciobîcă scraping fish a few scales fall back into the river — Jacek Margolak #haiku #poetry #poem

Poetry enjoyers and other weirdos! My first chapbook of poetry is available via Bottlecap Press! Doomscroll is a frenetic little mish-mash of introspection and cultural commentary. Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell Your enemies' friends! Grab a copy today! bottlecap.press/products/doo...

For one week, the eBook version of my collection This Joyful Interlude is only 99p / 99¢ Here’s a poem from the book, ‘Below the Buddleias’ Book links UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330 US amazon.com/dp/1068432330 CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330 DE amazon.de/dp/1068432330 #poem #poems #poetry #books 1/2

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Just bumped into this lovely little review of This Joyful Interlude on Goodreads. Thank you so much @samanthaterrell.bsky.social! ❤️ Some book links: UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330 US: amazon.com/dp/1068432330 CA: amazon.ca/dp/1068432330 The Ebook is also on sale for a week from Thursday. #poetry

"Here is a celebration of clouds, here, a wake of robins here, ghosts drift beneath February’s skeleton branches..." Beautiful words for sad times by Merril D. Smith. Contemplation merrildsmith.org/2026/02/23/c...

Yet another former OKD contributor, Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social (August 2024), has her first full-length poetry collection on the way! You can pre-order Allison’s collection, All That Blue, at www.finishinglinepress.com/product/all-.... Out March 20th.

Oh, thank you for the shout-out @paulwritespoems.bsky.social ! Anyone wanting to come along to @corinnaboard.bsky.social's launch for her stunning @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Mædwe on 3rd March (and why wouldn't you?!), let me or Corinna know and we'll send you the registration link x

Inside, warm and cosy, Gatsby, Elliot and Bugsy ❤️ #cats #catsofbluesky

#Haiku is alive! FYI, our 2026 plan @HaikuCrush is... Profits from our Best Haiku #anthology sales at TinyURL.com/TheBestHaiku will go to increasing honorariums awarded by the judges. Your purchase helps! #poetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #senryu #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #writingcommunity

Many thanks to those who joined us for the launch party of 'For, On, or After' -- from the amazing JC STUDIO Press! Much love to all the poets who read and listened today. I'm so grateful for your friendship and support! For, On, or After is available here: tinyurl.com/yc878296 #poetry #booklaunch

Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate Samantha's beautiful new chapbook, For, On or After. It was brilliant to hear Samantha read. We enjoyed poetry by Aidan Parr, Lawrence Moore, Paul Brookes & Mandy Hayden too. For, On or After is available now, please message Samantha for a signed copy.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Add another 🇺🇸 citizen to ICE’s kill list. Ruben Ray Martinez (23) www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...

Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving in winter:

Are you paying attention?

Introducing my brand new book FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure. Coming May 2026. You can preorder now through the link in my bio.

Scumbags 👎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#MPPrompt #Poetry

Even if you can't join us for the Zoom launch, keep an eye out THIS Sunday, for #booklaunch news, a free giveaway, and more! Looking forward to introducing 'For, On, or After' to the world! #poetry #poetrynews #booklovers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Coming soon...THIS Sunday...my new chapbook For, On, or After (from @janes-studio.bsky.social Press) . Join us if you can! #poetry #booklaunch #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

Wait, did the SAVE Act already pass and they forgot to tell voters? No! I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary. Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.

Listening to Radio Solent at the moment - the BBC Upload show with Leo Ulph. They're currently playing a Duran Duran record. I think my poem 'My Soul Need Know' is on in the next 20 minutes 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Here’s ‘Lost Embers’ from my new poetry collection ‘This Joyful Interlude’, out now ✨ Book links (or pm me for a signed copy) UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330 US amazon.com/dp/1068432330 CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330 FR amazon.fr/dp/1068432330 DE amazon.de/dp/1068432330 #poem #poems #poetry #books

Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. Remember this.

So happy to learn I've been accepted at BBC Upload for the first time! 'No Soul Need Know' from This Joyful Interlude is aired this Thursday on BBC Solent, Dorset, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Oxford and Berkshire at 7-8pm on 96.1 and 103.8FM, on Digital and here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #poetry 1/2

Of gardens and violence, of Marie Antoinette and blueberries, of mothering and gendered labors, of climate crisis and poetic form and holding onto words you love and more. Join @esylviapoet.bsky.social on Episode 84 and she reads from her new collection SCYTHE (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social!) 📚💙🎙️

ICE is detaining LGBT+ asylum seekers with no criminal record and separating same-sex families, even when people are following the law. This is happening right now. I just signed this petition – can you add your name too? a.allout.org/s/O53MQ/

How long will we stay Circling each other? This Deadly dance of chance. #FromOneLine #Prompt406 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @fromoneline.bsky.social @megwaf.bsky.social

Like living music notes upon the evening sky - the blackbirds leave to wherever it is they go to dream their nightly dreams #DailyHaikuPrompt #note #haiku #tanka #birds #grackles #poem #poetry

Friendly Greylag Goose. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things. 💚 -Mary Oliver #BirdOfTheDay #BirdButt #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin

Sorry Wild Walk #writers I am a little distracted at the minute... the Olympics does that to me... I'll try and get back on schedule #Lush Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post with #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

hospice care every new day a pilgrimage #DailyHaikuPrompt (pilgrimage) #3lines #senryu #micropoetry

Happy Valentines to you all. What better way to celebrate than with a Cat Book out now? www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=the+cat+... Huge thanks to Rough Diamond and Charlotte. Amazing work and so many talented writers I include my poem as it's available in the sample on amazon: #roughdiamond #catpoetry

One month ago this poem was Highly Commended by Daljit Nagra But is it a nature poem? A people poem? Or what? ” … whoever they are, with their duplicitous sideways gait and wearing their bones outside, they prompt us to gasp at life, at Life in spate …” johnlooker.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/t...

I’m delighted to be February’s featured poet on Paul Short’s site, The Book Bag: Poetic Voices. I’m touched by Paul’s kind appreciation. Two poems are featured here, Late Summer Walk & Graduation, with a couple more later this month #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky @paulwritespoems.bsky.social