Well, that's a wrap for 2025. Many thanks to the poets published, to those who submitted, and to all the readers who sustain Stone Circle Review. I couldn't do this without you.️💖💖💖 Here's a round up of all 102 poems published this year: stonecirclereview.com/2025-roundup/

#Poetry -- 2 train poems. The first I wrote when I was in my 20s, the second is from last January. Both are collected in *Becoming Altar* (available from Asterismbooks.com) Interesting to see them together.

I got three new poems published in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social. A nice way to end the year. Here's one of them

old snow poem of mine I never got to sending around

ICYMI I have work from my forthcoming hybrid/CNF collection in the latest issue of Cleaver.

“The word must have been in the beginning a magic symbol, which the usury of Time wore out. The mission of the poet should be to restore to the word, at least in a partial way, its primitive and now secret force.” -- Jorge Luis Borges (tr. by Alastair Reid)

Well, that's a wrap for 2025. Many thanks to the poets published, to those who submitted, and to all the readers who sustain Stone Circle Review. I couldn't do this without you.️💖💖💖 Here's a round up of all 102 poems published this year: stonecirclereview.com/2025-roundup/

#poemoftheday this poem/micro by Jared Beloff in @havehashad.com: "What if all of our doomscrolling was narrated by Werner Herzog?" "Here a child’s hand emerges from under rubble. In your surrender, you are unable to reach out so you keep scrolling." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/wha... #poetry

If you're in the Philly area, I strongly suggest catching the Surrealism at 100 exhibition at the art museum.

A poem is made of words and not of hewn stone. It is humble, of small spatial dimensions, pinned down on paper, fragile, forever linked to an individual life and its visible and palpable inadequacies. -- Joachim Sartorius

In case you missed it this morning...

Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.org on February 1st, 2026! 🌺 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

I’m honored to see (and hear!) this poem featured in Naomi Reads a Poem!

I got a new poem published in @thimblelitmag.bsky.social

Dear AHC family, we are so happy to announce that we will be returning from our year long hiatus in the New Year! We are currently running a fundraiser to help facilitate our return and hope you'll consider donating or sharing with your network. Much love! donate.stripe.com/bJe3cw7H99v1...

“a pearl disguised as grief.”

Grateful to have this short and, I think, unsettling? new poem in the current winter/spring issue of @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social. 🦊🖤 www.broadkillreview.com/post/by-cath...

My poem "What if all doomscrolling was narrated by Werner Herzog" was published by @havehashad.com today. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/wha...

POEM 296: "Elegy for the Missing Constellation" by McLord Selasi "Without it, Orion leans: a drunk at the bar of the cosmos. The hunter’s belt unbuckled, his arrow lost." stonecirclereview.com/elegy-for-the/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

According to Bachelard, "there will always be more things in a closed box" than in an open one. This is because the opening verifies - and the verification "kills" - the image. And it is "more enriching to imagine than to experience."

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quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small ♡ My debut poetry collection was accepted for publication ♡ first poet interview (Only Poems) ♡ BOTN nom ♡ poems in Only Poems, Identity Theory, RHINO, Stone Circle Review, Asterales, & Dish Soap Quarterly ♡ made bean brownies

so honored and thrilled 🫶 thank you!

How was I to know that someone else wore your skin?

POEM 295: "Callisto on Artemis's Betrayal" by Sirrudeen Nahar (@sirrudeen.bsky.social) "It was no fickle thing to swear myself to you. I was unmoving, I rejected a hundred hands just to keep my own laced to the bow, notching arrow after arrow in your name." stonecirclereview.com/callisto-on #Poem

I have been savoring Donna Vorreyer’s Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025). Took her with me to Bela for one of their last evenings open. Here she is in candle glow with ginger lemon tea and holiday lights, and yes, she was accompanied by cake.🍰 📖 @sundresspub.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social

Grateful to @somewordslit.bsky.social for my final publication of 2025, “Spoons”🙏 This kicka$$ new litmag’s message board format gives the most appealing early internet vibes - check them out! 😊 Direct link below 👇

Yet another ekphrastic poem in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social inspired by both the 19th century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and the 21st century masterpiece America's Next Top Model. stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/

#12DaysofPoetry Day 2: “The Confession” in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. I wrote this after binging the entire Conclave ao3 tag. Still one of my favorite poems I’ve written all year. stonecirclereview.com/the-confessi...

“I have a wider range as a human being than as a writer. (With some writers, it’s the opposite.) Only a fraction of me is available to be turned into art.” -- Susan Sontag

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Learn to Pray" by Chandler Garcia #TBT stonecirclereview.com/learn-to-pray/

“The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible.” -- Andrei Tarkovsky

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "New Wherester, Maine" by @Matt_Stefon (@mattstefonpoems.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/new-whereste...

“Nothing has really happened until it has been described.” -- Virginia Woolf

So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉 Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

I could not be more proud of our press, our authors, our designer Alban Fischer, our printer Bookmobile and distributor Itasca—truly among the very best to work with, all of them. Jennifer is our first author to return for a second title with us, and what a gift. ❤️🙏🎉🎉🎉

“One must have traveled a great deal to discover the obvious. One must have thoroughly rubbed and exhausted one's eyes in order to get rid of the thousands of scales we start with from making up our eyes.” -- Hélène Cixous

Many thanks to the editors of Salamander for including two of my Emily as poems in their new issue.

I've been doing #sixtyodd for a few years now. Here is the #Christmas #poetry compilation from 2023.

Treat yourself to a surprise item from @stanchion.bsky.social, because Jeff is awesome and did this BY REQUEST 🤩

Thrilled to share that my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social won the 2025 Door is a Jar Award for book reviews! You can read the full review for free here: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/diaj-awards

Happy to have two poems in this big, beautiful, double anniversary issue of Sugar House Review—AND is has eight book reviews MY HEART! 🩷🥰📚🎉🎉🎉 @sugarhousereview.bsky.social

My poem “Two Men Who’ve Gotten Vasectomies Go to the Abandoned Children’s Hospital Where They Were Born” has been accepted by @somewordslit.bsky.social

I like that mistletoe increases the odds of being kissed. More plants should offer temporary environmental status. Brawling under lingonberries. The soft yearning of a love that dare not speak its name beneath the nightshade.

Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! https://somewords.boards.net/thread/32/jack-bedell

so excited to share two excerpts from an ongoing collaboration between @benkline.bsky.social and myself, debuting via the Palette Poetry Pen Pal prize -- here are "Excerpts from the Pinocchio Interviews" www.palettepoetry.com/2025/12/22/e...

“To find a kinship between image, sound and silence. To give them an air of being glad to be together, of having chosen their place.” -- Robert Bresson

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Zooey and Franny watching the holiday hubbub

POEM 294: "Still Life Preceding CDMX" by Elisa Luna Ady "I dream of movie theaters populated with non- playable characters Orderly seats opening to our asses Always there’s a delay" stonecirclereview.com/still-life/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity