two of my translations of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, wonderful medieval Hebrew poet from Islamic Spain theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

In the blue distance Nelly Sachs In the blue distance where the red row of apple trees wanders ... the longing is distilled

On a personal note, huge and sincere thanks to everyone who came along last night – poets, listeners, host @louisepoetical.bsky.social and of course special guest Penelope Shuttle. And to all who visit, read, listen to and share pages from @iamb.uk, thank you. This journal is a team effort. 🥳🎂🎉

Sad news today. XJ "Joe" Kennedy—a giant of poetry and great friend to Light—has died at 96. We’ll share more about him and his work soon. For now, here’s one of our favorites of his: #XJKennedy @aestallings.bsky.social @colemanglenn.bsky.social @juliekanepoet.bsky.social @allisonpoet.bsky.social

Today’s Featured Poet: Jahan Khajavi (b. Fresno, 1986) is “the best kind of pervert” (Farid Matuk) who composes “wildly amusing and explicit queer poetry” (Hamish Bowles, Vogue) “with elements of swagger and sex” (Rob McLennan) that “luxuriates in the labor of the real” (PJ Lombardo, Tripwire).

X.J. Kennedy, RIP

Two poems today in Shot Glass Journal from Muse Pie Press. www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/be... #poem #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting

I cannot wait to read/hear what comes of this...

"If modernism sought to break with the past, and postmodernism to recycle it in irony, necromodernism inhabits its graveyard." —David Vichnar on @louisarmand.bsky.social

Imaginary gardens with real toads in them

Šodien mēs sākam...

submissions for our new music+sound section are now open details here: minorliteratures.com/submissions/

Contributor's copies of the Winter 2026 issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social have arrived in Latvia. Many thanks to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and the team for including my humble poem among such luminaries.

חיים גורי

Writing toward the endless horizon: Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane roughghosts.com/2026/01/26/w...

Contributor's copies of the Winter 2026 issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social have arrived in Latvia. Many thanks to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and the team for including my humble poem among such luminaries.

Poesia di Yadollāh Royāi, tradotta da Faezeh Mardani e Francesco Occhetto. Da Poeti iraniani dal 1921 a oggi (Mondadori 2024).

Responses to “A Defense of LLM-Assisted Poetics” open.substack.com/pub/chbernst...

Very pleased to have this story in Soft Union. softunion.online/library/them...

In memory of Louis Zukofsky, born on 23 January, 1904, here are my Five Love Sonnets with Rhymes Stolen from Louis Zukofsky's "A"–9. From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.

In memory of Louis Zukofsky, born on 23 January, 1904, here are my Five Love Sonnets with Rhymes Stolen from Louis Zukofsky's "A"–9. From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.

Two English Literature students leaving a tutorial with Geoffrey Hill, Leeds University, 1973.

In @stonecirclereview.bsky.social, a poem I wrote as I was finishing the manuscript for An Absence of Sea—a poem of flesh and hours, about the porousness of the human and time experienced as sensation rather than sequence. stonecirclereview.com/vessel/

ALSO! introducing a new section, under the aegis of Max Ardito details and submissions info coming soon ...

“We must be bilingual even in a single language, we must have a minor language inside our own language, we must create a minor use of our own language… Proust says: ‘Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language…’ That is the definition of style.” — Deleuze, Dialogues

Leng Mei (1669-1742) A tired reading lady. From the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

Ceramic piece by Sukhburen Narankhuu (Mongolia). From the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

Very pleased to have this story in Soft Union. softunion.online/library/them...

Today's post.

"Stemming etymologically from the same roots, these languages have branched out and the distance from their roots, the connections, may have been severed—or, this poem asks, perhaps there is still some collective soil?" Jennifer K. Dick minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...

“We are pleased to announce the publication of the debut work by this fine, cultivated mind in our publishing house” - book trade magazine advertisement by the Rowohlt Press for Kafka’s debut, Nov. 1912

As humans, our basic currency is our lifespan. In the digital world, this is seen in the exchange of our attention, our presence before the screen, not for money but information. We pay with the amount of time we spend in front of our computers. - Alexander Kluge (tr. WORDKUNST)

"L’unità compositiva per me è la nudità radicale della parola, della voce, del canto." Intervista con Antonio Moresco “Non sono un uomo e uno scrittore pacificato”: Un’intervista con Antonio Moresco — Tobias Ryan minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/n...

"Everyone loses some part of themselves when they move from the past, and their nostalgia absolves them of guilt. But I’m neither so self-assured nor complicit ..." Apocalypso in Dreamtime — @zissenberg.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/01/08/a...

Today's post: The Red River Book of 21st Century Hindi Poetry.

“I am not a peaceful man or a peaceful writer”: An Interview with Antonio Moresco — @tobiasvryan.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/i...

A Short History Corn planted us; tamed cattle made us tame. Thence hut and citadel and kingdom came. Richard Wilbur

"L’unità compositiva per me è la nudità radicale della parola, della voce, del canto." Intervista con Antonio Moresco “Non sono un uomo e uno scrittore pacificato”: Un’intervista con Antonio Moresco — Tobias Ryan minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/n...

Buon compleanno a Paolo Conte! youtu.be/xvwoK7TwP6U?...

What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?

Eugenio Montale Da Le occasioni

A new verse from returning contributor Mark Young: 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁 terse terser tercet — Mark Young

In my teens, I used to visit an old lady, Lilian, who had advanced dementia. I talked to her, hoping to spark something. If I talked to her about politics, she suddenly piped up: "Rogues do die" she said, "Rogues do die".

Given the present imperialist incursion in Venezuela, reposting this dialogue on metapolitics, cultural-political expansionism, higher Ed and its poetries, "Latinx", Whitman, explorations of decadence. Also great intro to two poetry books. jacket2.org/interviews/p...

The poet is necessary for the creation of the poem, and (except, perhaps, with regard to the poem intended only for performance by its author) irrelevant to its functioning.