“Carry me out / reel me in” A poem by Kevin Young.

"Belief gave way / to grief, its purgatories. Who will look out for you / after you are grief enough / to believe in?" A poem by 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻 @chelsdingman.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

It is true there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use. —Louise Glück, from "October"

Listen to Episode 79 with @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/23bf7d41 And read the full poem “Apostrophe” here: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sa... 📚💙🎙️ #poetry #podcast #booksky @uakronpress.bsky.social

Today's Featured Poem: "The Bear" by @amiewhittemore.bsky.social from Nest of Matches published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-bear/

"My child stops me: Can a four-letter word hold all of these?" #TodaysPoem #poetry What Is Home? by Mosab Abu Toha (2023 Literary Hub) lithub.com/where-is-mos...

Ellen Bryant Voigt 💙

Rest easy, Ellen Bryant Voigt. Love her poetry, but these two offerings got me through my MFA thesis, and I'm forever grateful.

From ‘This is from Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006’ (2007) —Ellen Bryant Voigt 💔 #poetry #poem #booksky

Ellen Bryant Voigt. 💔

the transcript is up for the conversation with Diana Arterian: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...

Q: Why are my electricity bills going up? A: You are likely (a) in a region impacted by Trump tariffs and retaliatory price hikes in electricity from Canada, or (b) in a region subsidizing billionaire-owned data farms for AI or crypto mining. It’s not because of immigrants or drag queens.

PUSHKIN TOWN It has rules. And love. And the first rule is. The love of chance. Some words of yours are very probably ore there. Or will be by the time our eyes are ember. - Anne Carson

Two new Atomic Sonnets in Cream City Review :: Whenever I think of the element Europium, I think of Ultravox’s “Vienna” and is dedicated to my dear friend Jared Harel. As the element Indium, ALLEGEDLY it gives a high-pitched “scream” when bent, o the soft girl era she is.

“Let’s fix our bed it’s in splinters and I want to stay all year.” Thinking of this Jean Valentine poem a lot lately.

“the way a name, any name, Is empty. And not empty. And almost enough.”

Today’s poem is selected by Joshua Nguyen (@joshuanguyen03.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Notes On Staying” appeared in Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen, published by Coffee House Press, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.

"You can fail this relentless every day of your life." 2025 Best New Poet, Cate Lycurgus, from "Deliverance" SEACLIFF is available now! Get your copy of this gorgeous collection TODAY: buff.ly/ZhPYVJl

—Frank Stanford

Czesław Miłosz

Of Absence Linda Gregg #Smallpoemsunday Of absence. Of things broken. To see if the moon is a mouth. To see if I am what it wants.

From @elaineequi.bsky.social' book, Out of the Blank. Published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #poem #booksky #writing

Mikey & I are tucked in for the weekend with @djvorreyer.bsky.social’s new book!

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

Hi friends - I have a series of photos in the new issue of the @amsterdamreview.bsky.social, described as "Monochrome Cinematic," along with an insightful descriptive essay by the editor. See it & the other fine works here www.amsterdamreview.org/monochrome-c... #amsterdamreview #amsterdam #photos

New poem up! Thanks to the editors @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for including my work. Follow their link to read the issue in full:

“The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

They ruined Google search for nothing

There’s a very good reason polls show Republicans are being blamed for the shutdown.

Adrienne Rich

Chelsea Dingman, "Microchimerism" @chelsdingman.bsky.social

Taught John Balaban’s great poem “A Finger” to my students this morning. I can’t think of a poem that captures the immediate, terrible aftermath of living through the events of September 11th more movingly. Here it is: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152030...

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

We go on. We do not turn back. The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake, into a glance cast across the room, a finger raised to the lips. Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs. ‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Everyone who's alive should be reading Essex Hemphill "Who dares to tell us we are poor and powerless? We keep treasure any king would count as dear."

Last day of summer and reflecting on the grim weather, this came to mind. The worst that could happen me today is that I got a little bit wet. This is weather on a different scale. 'Katrina' by Patricia Smith, from Blood Dazzler #poetry #poemoftheday

The grasses are light brown and ocean comes in long shimmering lines under the fleet from last night which dozes now in the early morning from "September" by Joanne Kyger buff.ly/2BU7N9S

Bhanu Kapil

Ellen Bryant Voigt

For TERMINAL SURREAL's video trailer, we're creating a chorus of voices reflecting #MarthaSilano's influence. To participate, record yourself reading Silano's “Death Poem” w/a voice memo/recorder app on your phone & email us at [email protected] for where to text the file. Due: Fri., Aug 22.

—D. Nurkse

"It was starlike, the small, reflective slug crouched in its own echolucent shine." #TodaysPoem #poetry ER S/P GSW by Paul Hlava Ceballos (@paulhlava.bsky.social‬) (2023 Academy of American Poets) tinyurl.com/yancmncz

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

"It's like a PhD in every field!" "Can it reliably do college-level work, such as accurately identifying and summarizing pertinent information?" "No." "So what is really does is sound like an expert to people who aren't experts in that field?" "Yeah! That's what everyone wants, right?"

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

Larissa Szporluk

For @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #11 The Brush (2024) by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Columbian poet. A striking narrative long poem, documenting a rural atrocity through different POV: witnesses, investigators, victims & nature itself. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Lucie Brock-Broido