This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

Happy Canada Day from this Alaskan.

Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak rose to prominence in the 1950s with her experimental printmaking and is one of many indigenous women artists who have employed the medium to create intriguing and important artworks #ReframingWomenPrintnakers

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows

From Dave Bonta: Dispatch from the Front woodrat.vianegativa.us/2025/05/04/d...

That kinda weekend.

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @grimalkingerry.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @kerstenak.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/04/poet...

Tariffs by Gary Soto oneartpoetry.com/2025/04/21/t...

When the editing calls for a red pen.

Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.

An oeuvre d'oeufs by Tom Gauld

Missing the Sunday morning sunshine vibes.

Happy International Women's Day from Ada Limon

International Women’s Day! Support women’s poetry—Old Woman With Berries in Her Lap. 📕 upcolorado.com/university-o... #AlaskanPoet #womenpoets #poetsofbluesky #AlaskaBlueSky #Alaska #poetry #Internationalwomensday #AlaskaSky #SamiDiaspora

Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

R U feeling lucky? 🍀🙂

Issue 34 Spring 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is available for pre-order. Our next issue features the creative works of 50 contributors from all around the world. www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/sprin... #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #writingcommunity

I’m a poet, of course I’m writing lines during staff meetings.

Doge or Douche?

I love this.

Seems that way

COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY by this review of my chapbook by @lowermelody.bsky.social in the @phillychapbook.bsky.social!!! Thank you for spending time with my work and explicating it so wonderfully!!! phillychapbookreview.org/dancing-with...

Denali. Period. No further discussion.

12 Sunday swans a’ sleepin’. And poetry never sleeps.

“What a little moonlight can do. Wait a while ‘till a little moonbeam comes peepin’ through.” —Billie Holiday 🌝

Happy to have a poem included!

Happy J.R.R. Tolkien Day! Today is the author's birthday, so if you're having a group of rowdy dwarves and an old wizard over for cake, be sure to sing, "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates! So, carefully! carefully with the plates!" www.britannica.com/biography/J-...

Starting things off quietly, with this poem by Jill Osier…

NYE was a flashy occasion in SE Alaska.

I count, this first day of another year, what remains. —Jane Hirshfield

Morning. January (with Blue Tits, a Great Tit and a Coal Tit), Edith Holden.

No poem is just its autobiographical content. No poem is just its embroidery of language. As a reader, I favor poems that have multiple textures, moving freely from plain-speech, to silken [...] But all poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling. —Henri Cole

Gorse and furze are two favorite words. Right up there with krummholz and bearberry.

Every weekend I think about the best diary entry ever.

Writing about contingency plans and the paper fortunes collected in a hand-pottered bowl. Merry morning of the eve! 😉🎄❤️

All I want for Christmas is to pull a loose book from a bookshelf and finally, at long last, find that it opens a hidden door.