New summer issue Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social

He got shot in the head by a tear gas canister, but @acatwithnews.bsky.social reported on three days of escalation and violence by the feds in Los Angeles for Hell World anyway. www.welcometohellworld.com/it-is-happen...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

love that the diet section of "eastern gray squirrel" has this extensive image gallery

Summer is here (100º in Phoenix today! 😅) and so is HFR’s Spring/Summer Issue! Featuring #fiction, #poetry, #translation, and #cnf by @joshuanguyen03.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @mnisinson.bsky.social and more, you can pick up a copy in our store now: haydensferryreview.com/purchase-iss...

30. Daily Darjeeling Black Tea & The Body Problem by our own Margaret Wack (@mhwack.bsky.social)

Is there a better match than a good book of poems and a good cup of tea? To celebrate National Poetry Month, we've paired up some stunning volumes of poetry with our loose leaf tea blends. Discover new books paired with your favorite teas, or try out a new tea matched with your favorite poet!

OBSESSED with the gorgeous cover of our new issue, with art by Phoenix artist Antoinette Cauley and incredible work by authors including @mhwack.bsky.social @mnisinson and so many more!

Linda Gregg 🖤

anne boyer (i feel like we all know this here but i screenshotted it for a discord i’m in so it seemed like an opportunity)

Quince pie, blackcurrant tarts, rye biscuits, and almond cake with candied lilac buds—everything needed for a lovely celebration.

how you respond to the illegal kidnapping of a lawful permanent resident is a pretty good litmus test for your politics and principles. do they extend to someone you view as in the out-group? do you actually believe in the whole "disagree with you but will defend your right to speak?"

a lot of people have said, now is when you find out how you would react to incipient fascism. and what you do is important! but a more salient point might be, how do large institutions, like say, columbia university, react. not looking great so far!

This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.

Margaret Wack, Finalist for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize.

Honored to have been a finalist for @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social’s inaugural Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize! “The Invention of Arithmetic” is live on their beautiful site: www.onlypoems.net/contests/leo...

The moment you all have been waiting for!! Check out our Instagram for the full list— we have some truly wonderful poets!

happy new year to those around the world already celebrating— returning, yes, to this Clifton classic—

Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing schedule is a MOOD

Forever obsessed with this poem by Ada Limón.

“All the Hurry” by Joe Wenderoth

How to touch upon the untouchable? Distributed among an indefinite number of forms and figures, this question is precisely the obsession haunting a thinking of touch—or thinking as the haunting of touch. —Jacques Derrida, On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Christine Irizarry

I have this poem taped up on my kitchen cabinet, and once in a while it just grabs me by the face, lovingly. Denise Levertov, “Prayer for Revolutionary Love”:

In a restaurant bathroom and a woman in the stall next to me is crying and do I just, like, recite the Kim Addonizio poem, or what?

Pieter Bruegel

christ that’s good

"In the Morning Before Anything Bad Happens" Molly Brodak #poetry

Is there a doctor on the flight? Specifically an English PhD? A passenger is attributing the views of the first-person narrator to the biographical author

Denise Levertov

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is the best novel I have ever read.

The duty of the writer… is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet. —Solmaz Sharif * We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. —Toni Morrison

Collaboration tea blend for Deathless with @catvalente.bsky.social now live at www.oldgrowthalchemy.com/collections/...

poets:

Lion Head from a Ritual Vessel https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3497

Czesław Miłosz on the essence of poetry 🐅

“I believed the moonlight could change me” A poem by Denise Levertov.

Ashbery

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

my most recent and first ever pub, in wildness’ newest issue 💗

new followers: welcome. this is what I use my training in Ancient Greek for

what is writing poems if not an advanced form of posting through it

I read this poem again when I woke up. It helped.

Something light by Wendy Cope (Serious Concerns). ##poetry