Posting a poem by Wisława Szymborska, who was also an amazing collagist. #poem72 #amwriting

Why Patti Smith's songs and poems have chimed with Irish artists www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

On the Beach (1946) by Andrew Wyeth

Poem 71 is Ingeborg Bachmann's "Every Day." About to write my poem. Bachmann (1926-1973) was a phenomenal Austrian poet. Paul Celan was one of her brief and intense loves. We saw an exhibition on her life and her works at Goethe's House last August.

It is Anne Sexton's Death Anniversary, today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42567/...

For our daily poetry challenge, I picked this poem by Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa named "While Bleeding." Just wrote my #poem66.

One of my poems in translation has been accepted by Beloit Poetry Journal. "Winter Interior" by poet Maria Grazia Calandrone will appear in a forthcoming issue. I am over the moon! 🌕

🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵 To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website. Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com

" A combination of both witch and ghost, perhaps." Sylvia Plath --- Letters (1940-1956)

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

Today's poem for our daily challenge is Antonella #Anedda's "Tongue," translated from Sardinian by poet Jamie McKendrick. John and I stopped to say hi to Antonella before her class at Short Theatre, yesterday. I am very fond of her.

I just heard today that the Professor who introduced me to American poetry passed away. I am so thankful for all her work, for bringing Robert Creeley and John Ashbery to Rome. I must also thank her for my love for Uncle Whitman. Grazie di tutto, Annalisa. [Photo: Patti Smith]

Congratulations to Patricia Smith, Richard Siken, and to all!

"And Yeats. Yeats has influenced me, but not enough…" Diane Seuss

Diane Seuss, from the Summer 2025 issue of Blackbird

⭐ The Poetry Society Annual Lecture/ Liverpool University Allott Lecture 2025 ⭐ Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry with Diane Seuss More info below...

Richard Siken on the Most Fundamental Poetic Device There Is: Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Richard Siken. Siken is… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

1. the apartment came with a table attached to the wall. 2. the center point of my mother’s body. 3. i sit in bed, clean laundry lotused around me. —Franny Choi

“I built a house out of other houses. I stapled them together. / It was makeshift but it kept the wind out.” Read “Paragraph,” a poem by Richard Siken from his forthcoming collection, “I Do Know Some Things”:

The 17 new books out today include titles by Helen Oyeyemi, André Breton, Richard Siken, and more!

Behind the bars. #cat

Today, I picked this great poem by Kim Addonizio, named "Girlfriends." John and I just wrote our poem of the day in response to it. Click on the link to read the poem and happy poeming if you are so inclined! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Resumed submitting poetry after the summertime's hiatus. As always, it takes stamina.

September. Time to submit short stories and poems.

A month of writing a poem a day inspired by different poets together with @jcsmith0919.bsky.social. Today I picked a poem by Gregory Corso.

September brings The World.

Gianni Berengo Gardin, Break During Workday. R.I.P. Maestro.

@jcsmith0919.bsky.social and I are challenging ourselves to write poems. We randomly choose a poem to riff from in turn and write one first thing in the morning. I am loving this process. I hope it may work for others too. #poetrywriting #poems

August with The Magician as a guide. I choose creativity as a goal.

Evans reflects that, while Kane took the play form to a different place, "it's almost like we haven’t gone beyond that yet – no one has discovered what the next stage is." www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1966)

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. —Frank O'Hara March 27, 1926–July 25, 1966

✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... @prototypepubs.bsky.social @theguardian.com

"This empiricism, randomness, individualism, and anarchy must cease. Enough of personal poems, benefiting those who create them much more than those who read them. Once and for all, enough of this closed, egoistic, and personal art." -- Antonin #Artaud

I am so, so pleased to read that Peter Covino’s translation of "What Sex Is Death?" by Dario Bellezza (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025) has won the 2025 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize. Bravo Peter! We must say hi to Dario next time you are in Rome. poets.org/academy-amer...

I libri si vendono di meno, i social network rubano la nostra attenzione e gli intellettuali sono poco ascoltati. Ma la letteratura può avere ancora un ruolo centrale nelle vite di tutti. L'articolo di Giuseppe Rizzo.

Horses from the nearby stables. #morningwalk #home #Rome

Early morning walk near home. Swallows on the wire. The countryside waking up. Four o'clock flowers still in bloom. #earlywalk #countryside #home #Rome

So sad to find a dead little owl on our morning walk. The beautiful bird dear to the goddess Athena. It died with open eyes which reminded me of the beautiful close of Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian: "Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes."

Francesca Woodman, Untitled (1975-8)

Happy Anniversary Monsieur #Proust. UFO madeleines anyone?

Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

The Two Fridas (1939) by Frida Kahlo

Could Prospect taste of Restrospect - Emily Dickinson, constellating from way back

"The Black Widow is with Child," from my forthcoming collection, Althea: Poems, from Graywolf Press in 2027.

"Everyone, including the father," in the UK's Poetry Review and forthcoming in my next book, Althea: Poems, from Graywolf Press in 2027. poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/everyo...

"Are you content with all this content," from my forthcoming collection Althea: Poems, coming out in 2027 from Graywolf Press. poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/are-yo...

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans. Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?

A gorgeous new poem from "Althea: Poems," the new collection by Diane Seuss (@dseuss.bsky.social) out in 2027 by Graywolf. poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-bl...