In case any poets needed some Dan Beachy-Quick tonight... "When the eye loses the ability to see an object for the fact of its very nearness, then the imagination must alter the lens. A poem may bring us what we see in it just such a way."

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

love this version of Rilke by Delmore Schwartz, written the year before he died

It was not "domestic terrorism.” It was state sanctioned violence. A family will forever live with the pain caused by the admin's reckless and deadly actions. Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Lydia Davis. New Year’s Resolution. ✨

Cover reveal: Shō No. 8 | Winter 2025/2026 Cover art: “Hopi Leia” by Sikuyva Dawavendewa. Our winter issue features 72 poems by 48 poets (names threaded below). Pre-order link: tinyurl.com/shono8 The winners and runners-up of the editors’ prizes will be announced this week!

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 🖤

Every April, I revisit Donika Kelly’s “Love Poem: Centaur” — a creature of marvel in its construction and articulation. Repetition rules. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/4/...

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

Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Czesław Miłosz on the essence of poetry 🐅