We had a squirrel over for Sunday dinner.

POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social ) "where contestants had to pretend to be living statues, staying very still as pigeons landed on their heads and arms." stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/ #Poem

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with and empathy so fatal #52 & #56 (written on the same day in 2020, as this project was written in 7 poem blocks, every day for 12 days) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).

I have a new post up this week: "The world offers itself to your imagination." * It's about a walk in the forest, an encounter at a coffee shop, and the realization that grace can reach us wherever we are. *words from Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" jeannieprinsen.substack.com/p/the-world-...

Tonight!

POEM 281: "Nostalgia, 1997" by Natalie Marino (@nataliemarino.bsky.social) "I see myself young and cunning because the war is over and I can go wherever I want. I walk away before the end" stonecirclereview.com/nostalgia-19... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

One week from tonight!

Many thanks to the editors of Plainsongs for including my poem Emily as a Blue Canary in their new issue.

“Reality is the basis of all great art. Without it there is no life, no substance. Reality is the ground under our feet and sky over our head. Everything the artist creates has its point of departure in nature.” -- Yvan Goll, “Surrealism Manifesto”

Look what arrived in the mail! ARCs of Mouth, my fifth full-length poetry collection, due out in January from Cornerstone Press. Preorder link coming soon —

Cover reveal! Excited to share this upcoming anthology I'm in, edited by @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social and featuring a slew of brilliant essayists! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816934...

One week from tonight!

Very happy to be in the spotlight today, courtesy of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social ! Find my poem "Our Mothers" in Issue 7: The Urge below alongside too much additional 🔥 writing to list here.

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Greyhound" by Caroline Shea (@therealcshea.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/greyhound/

“I'm the kind of poet who thinks in the opposite manner, tending to see first what a thing resembles, and only afterward-almost reluctantly-do I see it for what it actually is.” -- Carl Phillips

Oh sweet summer child...

What a beautiful piece of mail I received this afternoon, all the way from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 💕 📖 🍀 Grateful to the editors of The Storms Journal for treating my weird little poem so well, and for paying a ridiculous sum to post me a copy of their gorgeous publication. 🥰 🙏

thanks for all of the readership & support!💛

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Before the Event" by Garth Pavell stonecirclereview.com/before-the-e...

“An image must be transformed by contact with other images as is a colour by contact with other colours. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.” -- Robert Bresson

Tough to match the joy of an author’s copies mail day! So cool to hold months of work in your hand like that! Huge thanks to Jeff and Tobi Alfier at Blue Horse Press for bringing this one into the world. 🥊 (Please check it out at Amazon.com if you can.)

A week from today, my new book of Texas stories comes out from the great press @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!

“Let the collector's motto be 'trust nothing to memory' for the memory becomes a fickle guardian when one interesting object is succeeded by another still more interesting.” -- Charles Darwin

It's a good thing I didn't get a chance to read this yesterday because it's a delicious little morsel to savour on a blissfully solitary Monday morning.

Very grateful to have a new poem from my Ruskin series up at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social this morning. Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/ruskin-and-the-struggle-of-revelation/

“Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject. Write about it by day and dream about it by night.” -- E.B. White

Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of The Interpreter's House alongside @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @moette.bsky.social! My piece 'Fourpence', narrated by the women of Whitechapel during the time of Jack the Ripper, can be read here: theinterpretershouse.org/hainsworth-84

The cinema's progress towards self-awareness has always been hampered by its equivocal position, hanging between art and the factory: the original sin of its genesis in the market-place. Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker, from his book Sculpting in Time #writer #poetry 📽️🎬

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I have a poem in the new issue of @RogueAgent.bsky.social. Thanks to Jill, Jen, and Kate for putting it out into the world. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lpotts

POEM 280: "What Matters" by Camille Newsom "picnic phrases like why believe and when is soft-and-dead coming to hold our stupid hands" stonecirclereview.com/what-matters/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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i wrote this poem at a really fraught, vulnerable time in my life that has only intensified in some ways since writing this. it still remains one of my favorite things i have ever written.

POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social) "the pulse my body so spitefully insists upon is surging and burning and twisting through every vessel and then some like sneaking out like letting go" stonecirclereview.com/all-night/ #Poem #Poetry

Two All Soul's poems from @havehashad.com last year 🖤 Why I prefer All Souls to Halloween The day the license expires some revelers decide to never give up their wigs knives beards talons glitter www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...

The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death… Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker, from his book Sculpting in Time #poetry #writer 📽️🎬

Make sure that you have a library card! Even if you don't use it very often, # of cardholders is one metric that helps libraries obtain grants and other funding!

Support your local library! #DeweyDecimalDash #haverford

Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which all too often a person will pass by… Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker, from his book Sculpting in Time #writer #poetry📽️🎬

collage postcards with aphorism from @dinalrelles.bsky.social

bouquet of light

“What would it mean, exactly, for poetry to be magical? If poetry were to re-enchant the world, it could surely not do so by communicating something: in a disenchanted world, enchantment could have nothing to do with knowledge.” -- Joshua Landy

might be biting off more than I can chew here but I started one of these today to share some writing, mostly about poems but maybe also some other stuff (philosophy, math, music, fiction, etc.)! there’s a little intro post now and the first “real” post goes out within the hour :)

My poem "A letter to my friends in bad relationships" is up in Luna Luna! I love this magazine www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-... #poetry #writingcommunity

Making jars in the studio. Here’s a new one in marbled blue and cream.🩵 #pottery

“Leaving the refuge of silence demands the willingness to be seen, to be judged. It demands that we turn away from our desires to please, to fit in..... Risking seeing that we are lesser beings than we had hoped.” --Jane Hirschfield