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This one is for the artists, which is many of you. I do so appreciate so many of you artists on BlueSky. In so many ways, it's the artists who hold humanity together. Stay in tune to the mysteries of life, each & everyone of you. #Poetry #Mystery #EastCoastKin #Poem

‘Remember spring my love, hold tight with me’ 💚 The snowdrops lift lime-green lined umbrellas’ @suefinch.bsky.social from our Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

My rescheduled #poetry reading at the Newtown Bookshop is Wednesday evening Jan 28. newtownbookshop.com/event/2026-0...

‘Two headless snowmen— glove-craft: sculpted stone and swan-ice’ ⛄️ ⛄️ 🪓 @vespertine4.bsky.social from our Christmas-Winter anthology. 🦢 🧊 blackboughpoetry.com/news

Week 1 submissions are open. • Submit one poem • Read peer poems • Judge them thoughtfully That judgment matters. Submissions close tonight (Sat, Jan 3). 👉 Submit here: airtable.com/appsXqILiOKL... Your poem. Your judgment.

"Minor Roads". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Why The Poetry Thing exists Poetry gets written more than it gets read. The Poetry Thing is a weekly experiment: if you submit a poem, you also read poems. Week 1 opens tomorrow.

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. -Jack Gilbert #Poetry 💙📚👀

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 780: Don't ask yourself if you used the right words. Ask what you made the reader feel.

We’re launching a weekly poetry contest soon. Poets submit one poem. Poets read and judge one another. Judgment is the point.

Hullo #vss365 and to #struggle An old one today…

What an incredible surprise! This chapbook is officially out next month but apparently it's available already at www.cutbankonline.org/2026-chapbooks Thanks to the fabulous editors at CutBank books for being so stellar at every point along the way.

So pleased to take silver in @glynmaxwell’s superb advent competition with ‘Wholegrain Entitled’. All poems selected are outstanding so v glad to be among them. Do yourself a favour, follow him on substack & check them all out. #poetry #adventcalender open.substack.com/pub/glynmaxw...

Sticking with the astronomy theme with this poem by Maggie Smith from her collection Goldenrod What I love about this poem is the child like interpretation of the science and that the poem is about something else entirely, but this is only mentioned in the title #poetry #poemoftheday #astronomy

The Poetry Thing is a weekly, community-powered poetry competition. Poets submit poems, read other poems, and rate what works. The system automates logistics, not judgment. Strong poems rise through human readers. Better poems. Better feedback. Real audiences.

Week 1 is coming together. Still building. Still pressure-testing. More soon.

NEW RELEASE! Living with #deafness means living in a noiseless world. NOISELESS by Dawn Colclasure is a collection of #poems ranging from personal experiences as a Deaf person as well as what life it's like to be #deaf. Available in print and ebook. www.amazon.com/dp/B0G918YSM... #books #disability

A quick write for #poemsabout #money: greed destroyed our communities in the first clearances, now the same greed takes our houses for trophies and holiday homes! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Off to the school church service and will check in with others later! #poems #poetry

Been reading poetry submissions for the Seneca Review & I just wanted to say that there are some serious magicians/musicians of language out there. Thank you to everyone who submitted this last round! Our submissions closed Oct 31, but they re-open Feb 1st, so keep @senecareview.bsky.social in mind!

Delighted and honoured to have two new poems out in Same Faces Collective's SHAPE/SHIFT issue. Huge thank you to EIC Deanna Whitlow and team for including my work 🙏 Sharing "Re-visitation". Check out "Libertarian" at the link: samefacescollective.com/post/re-visita… (Alt text included below)

I'm thrilled to announce that @emilyskaja.bsky.social has won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry for issue 41! Here's her stunning poem, "Goodbye to All That."

I’m giving a reading in 57 days.

Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j

This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...

I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!

What if emotion IS knowledge? @khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi... @uofmpress.bsky.social #Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics

The Poetry Thing is a weekly engine for poems. Poets submit work. Poets read and rate each other. The strongest poems rise. A small public audience helps pick the final winner. Built on merit, transparency, and human judgment.

In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse offers readers 64 new, beautifully-written, profound poems. https://loom.ly/d0VuKgc #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

I did not crumble today. 🫂 #poem #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poet #Blacksky #writingcommunity

The internet rewards speed, noise, and reach. Poetry needs care, judgment, and clarity. I’m building something that takes poetry on its own terms.

Disappearing like snowflakes All those hours All those days Can’t catch a break You did it With your lies But they stick Like webs On the twigs of a bare tree This is just a goodnight To the echoes of you Haunting lullaby 🎶🎶🎶 #poetry

I like the kind of mornings where you read something small and it changes your whole mood. Poetry does that better than anything else.

The Poetry Thing is getting closer. This week I built the submission and rating engine. It now auto-routes poems, links poets, and handles scoring behind the scenes. My goal is simple: make the poetry the only hard part.

Building this thing in public means some nights you hit walls, fix them, and keep moving. Still obsessed with the idea: better poems, better feedback, better shot at getting seen.

Year's final full moon illuminated and cold we are stars recharged #poetry #haiku

‘Obituary’, from my forthcoming poetry collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’. Sharing for National Grief Awareness Week (2-8 December) and sending solidarity to anyone experiencing grief, no matter how long ago you were bereaved x #bereavement #griefawarenessweek @theemmapress.bsky.social

On December 20 I'll be the featured poet at the online Wordhive poetry series. Hope you can join. wordhiveorg.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/g...

Evening bump! Please share far and wide, and give it a listen!

Hello Bluepals, we are open.

Delighted to have a poem in the new #RitesandTrials anthology out today. Huge thankyous to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk Many great pieces by Sam Szanto @pdevonald.bsky.social @louisepoetical.bsky.social Rachel Burrows and many others: amzn.eu/d/8lSpOBI

Looking for a great deal on Tree Fall with Birdsong. @bookshop.org has free shipping all day today for #cybermonday! #poetry bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Exciting news! My debut poetry collection, GIRL FILLING THE SKY, arrives Feb 2026! You can either pre-order via the link in my bio or join my book launch event at Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Saturday, Feb. 28. More details soon! #PoetryCollection #BookLaunch

December 1st— "I don’t feel the sharpness of the word friend when I’m asleep and I forget how awful it is of me to be so obsessed, so infatuated, so in love, with this man who is my friend." #NotQuiteOut relinks.me/B08BS2GM9Z

There’s no shortage of talent. What’s missing is the kind of sharp, timely feedback that actually moves a poem forward and a system that helps the strong ones find their readers.

Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for last week's prompt! This week I'm hosting #PromptCombo & the prompt is #ThisPoem. You can interpret that however you wish, but I dare you to try something a little different 😇 All welcome to join, replies until Friday.

Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st! More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions

I’m reading a lot of poems across platforms right now. The gap between good and great is almost always feedback. Most poets don’t get enough of it.