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So pleased to have a new piece out in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social today. Thank you @leepottspoet.bsky.social!

POEM 353 "Under the Blaze of August" by Charles Hensler "Under the blaze of August the car simmers in the driveway. The late sun ricochets off the pearl-grey hood, through one eye and out the other, finding every seam." stonecirclereview.com/under-the-bl... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Where not everything is present, but each word, each look, each movement has things underlying. -- Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "The Idea of Lightning" by Kimberly Gibson-Tran (@kdawn999.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/the-idea-of-...

So, tomorrow! MAPLESS will finally be out in the world, in the wild of readers who, I hope, will love it and share it. That's YOU, I hope! Friday, tomorrow, July 17. Wheeeeee! 🎉

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Euphoria" by Janis Greve stonecirclereview.com/euphoria/

The reason I use such crude words is that I don’t know any better, nobody taught me how to talk about the unspeakable things.” -- Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

This stanza is a marvel. First notice how cinematic it is. This whole poem has been movie like; the passage of the procession into and then out of the frame of the poem. -- Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

Delighted to have this piece, using Year 1 spelling list vocabulary, out in the world.

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POEM 352: "Alma Mater Omnium Vulpes" by Laila Amado (@amadolaila.bsky.social) "Time hurries back across the quad. Fingers searching for the truth find lies, quips, quivers, candy wraps, and leeches in the mud." stonecirclereview.com/alma-mater/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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POEM 351: "Book of Agenesis" by Valerie Tirado "Ask me where it hurts and I’ll sing from the mouth of a dehiscent wound, where God once thought it wise to cleave flesh holy." stonecirclereview.com/book-of-agen... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Here's round 2 of Stone Circle's new series, now simply called "Three Poems." I wanted more flexibility to describe how the poems are related. It includes work by Lynne Ellis, Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social), and Paula ([email protected]). Enjoy! stonecirclereview.com/collections/...

First time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything. —Steven Wright

A dictionary resembles the world more than a novel does, because the world is not a coherent sequence of actions but a constellation of things perceived. -- Edouard Lev

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "We Almost Lived Somewhere Else" by Vaneeza Sohail #TBT stonecirclereview.com/we-almost-li...

She laughed and turned into smoke. / Not all lessons come clean.

Glass sings only when the sun forgets its name.

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Glass Desert Anthem" by Allison Zhang stonecirclereview.com/glass-desert...

That is one of the problems with reading great writing: you can lose sight of the fact that you really don’t like it. -- Kay Ryan

I spent much of the last year unable to write. When I tried to Listen to my interior, what I heard was a cacophony of accumulated voices telling me what a poem should be... should do -- and, more disturbingly, what it shouldn't. -- Leila Chatti

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POEM 350: "Conditions" by Jan Hassmann "The rain barrel is full, and the wasps are thriving, feasting on the lustrous wine." stonecirclereview.com/conditions/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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POEM 349: "Asterixis" by R.C. Blenis (@hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social) "The liver thinks yellow thoughts. Ask anyone in hepatic failure— blood becomes philosophy" stonecirclereview.com/asterixis/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

angels pepper his half-sleep / with air defense

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. -- Doris Lessing

⭕️The Circle is always open. Send your best poem. I'm looking for work that reminds the reader not everything can be measured or explained. No fee. Four-week turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "To the Woman Whose Charred Wedding Dress I Found in a Sandy Ravine" by Paula Brown (@azpaula.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/to-the-woman/

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Thoughts, in the Bath, on Trees & Bears" by Francesca Leader (@mooninabucket.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/thoughts-in-...

⭕️The Circle is always open. Send your best poem. I'm looking for work that reminds the reader not everything can be measured or explained. No fee. Four-week turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

The world is not magical anymore. They have left you. You will no longer share the clear moon, nor the slow gardens. There is no longer a moon that isn't a mirror of the past, crystal of solitude, sun of agonies. -- Jorge Luis Borges

I love this. As ever, I’m a sucker for Dad poems!

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POEM 348: "Don Simms Has a Message for You" by Darren Morris "My father, yet alive but without purpose, loosens his mind like a botched windsor or the rope of a dinghy on a lake at night." stonecirclereview.com/don-simms/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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What a fabulous idea!

POEM 347: "Errand, with Jar and Fox" by Lee Fraser (@leefraser.bsky.social) "No one can see but there is a fox, low in my bag, and it says I have got to get the kite. It says the kite is the best and we can take it to ride gusts, tall and bold, up with the birds." stonecirclereview.com/errand

Today on Backlist Lit, a roundup of astounding queer work in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social @manyworlds.place @beestung.bsky.social and more! backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/p...

If you have any ideas for future collections that you would like to see, let me know. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I'm launching a new feature today called "Three Poem About..." Every so often, I'm going to pull together three related poems from the archives and post them as a permanent collection. The first, Three Poems About Mothers, is now up: stonecirclereview.com/collections/... @moritherapy.bsky.social

Extreme clarity is a mystery. -- Mahmoud Darwish

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "excuses to mark a day" by Jessica Lee McMillan (@jessicaleemcmillan.com) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/excuses-to-m...

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Wishes for Your Wednesday" by Tina Kelley (@tinakelley.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/wishes-for-y...

In effing the ineffable, language fails, has to fail, should fail, and should go on failing, loquaciously failing. Failure is the aim, an apparently aimless aim, which shoots at a target it cannot see, cannot know, and cannot even conceive. -- Simon Critchley

Delighted to be part of the lineup in the terrific new edition of En•Trance Journal that dropped today. Many thanks to Addie, Jeremy, and Dion. The full issue is available here - www.entrancejournal.net

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry. -- John Ashbery