Poem/song for #nationalpoetrymonth! #music #blueskymusic Come...we'll break all the rules - Patti Smith www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzXn...

Charles Wright

in the sanity of your friends. Lucille Clifton

"Why some people be mad at me sometimes..." —Lucille Clifton #poem #poems #poetry

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The MCMP's Professor Hannes Leitgeb wins a Leibniz Prize of the DFG. Many congratulations! www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Sylva Fischerová, translated by the author with Stuart Friebert

C. D. Wright forever and ever.

How to do a rock-n-roll-style poetry reading... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8i...

this i think is the poem I’m most known for, and probably will be for the rest of my life

And the kink in the line and the kink in general is attention. Han VanderHart (Poetry Northwest)

* Please share * we are a press that platforms diverse, imagistic work. We spotlight well known and lesser known writers. Anyone who makes it new, with wow factor! Inventive metaphor and jolting imagery are our thing! We are anti-discriminatory and against bigotry.

Wendell Berry #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

I’m so honored and thrilled for this amazing news! A huge thank you to @arwpoetry.bsky.social at @eastridgereview.bsky.social. Congratulations also to @kiptain.bsky.social Betsy Mars and Julian Cason, …just brilliant writers!

'Winter field' by Yorkshire born printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt

Hawking my bloody book again, before heading out to reattach various bits to my car, which hasn’t enjoyed the modifications made to my track by the storms. ‘Counter Offensive’

What a gift to be in the first #Untamed #Wave1 series. #TheWhiskeyTree, brainchild of @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social presents 14 #poems about #UntamedLove. More about this & the waves to come: bit.ly/4gfgQFR My blog about the folklore of love: bit.ly/3xPDjbZ

I made a starter pack of Logic folks go.bsky.app/Q6NbAiN

Don't edit violin and piano sonatas by Bach on a rainy day, Debussy warned, or you will feel the rain inside you. "He is unbearable except when he is admirable," Debussy said of Bach's fastidious "joyless measures… with ever the same little rascal of a subject countersubject."

Trauma says, "You can't." Recovery says, "I'll learn."

Toyen - Sleep Breaths

"I've exhausted my cruelty." Jenny George:

A new poem posted today for Top Tweet Tuesday, a platform for imagist poetry hosted by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social over on X. 'In Polzeath, I’d split my body for him' Thought I'd share it here too. Thank you for reading 🙏🤍 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #imagist

Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK

Louise Glück

Our Silver Branch project: 🔥 WRITER OF THE MONTH 🔥 Saraswati Nagpal with stunning poems. Check this feature out, bookmark, boost. Let's get this writer's words across the planet. www.blackboughpoetry.com/saraswati-na... #poetry #writing #poet #readers #poetic #readers

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

‘Their Gift’, published by Atrium. Hope you get something from it. #writingcommunity #poetry #poet #writerslife

For poets & artists, Bluesky right now feels like a family reunion, but a mythical one you *actually want to go to* & by this I even mean us introverts, a double miracle.

'enough shoulder, enough hip, to carry a whole fucking life' (thx always to Beavermag for giving this love poem with teeth its forever home)

This one I'm holding as a self-birthday-gift, from Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social

“The wastelands languish like barren seas of love…” Barb by Matt Guntrip Even love fades. #LastLight #ApocalypsePoetry

An unpublished piece, written for a TopTweetTuesday challenge and read by the incredible Marc Woodward on Sendcastle radio nearly two years ago.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Akira Kusaka

'...for a while we live in that strange land of another person's sadness' ~Sugar Magnolia Wilson from The mourning pool (Sweet Mammalian #10 - 2023) #poetry

'I mean fragile. I mean, it is.' Hey you, off-balance? This one is for you, wherever it, or you, might land today. from ~The Water Engine (2021)