From Wendy Xu's book, You Are Not Dead: bookshop.org/a/862/9780986025723 #poem #books #writing

Omotara James from Song Of My Softening #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Czesław Miłosz

Jon Boisvert #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

“When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.” Richard Siken #poetry #booksky @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Hannah Arendt —

All poetry is hostile to capitalism can dry out and go hard not from being poor but so as not to add to official wealth Juan Gelman, trans. Erín Moure @eulaliabooks.bsky.social #booksky

—Frank Stanford

Please help me raise money for tents. The cold is starting to eat away at our bodies at night and the tent is very, very worn out. Please, if you can donate, donate through this link or the one at the top of the page. chuffed.org/project/1229...

I survived the genocide in Gaza, but I found myself facing a huge void after losing everything my home, my job, my city Starting over seems like an impossible task, but I'm trying hard. If you can help me rebuild my life, even the smallest support would mean a lot to me tinyurl.com/SupportFarha...

When I was so close to reaching my goal, everything suddenly stopped. Donations stopped. It’s like the world went silent right when I needed it most. too drained to ask, too heartbroken to try again. It feels like watching hope fade right in front of me, painfully. 😔 chuffed.org/project/help...

All transition is a dying into life. We break through like rays in order to shine. The arrow flies, the bow shatters. -– Hans Jürgen von der Wense

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

how do I explain to my cat that running into another room where she is alone does not constitute an emergency

What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist? New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨ 100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Czesław Miłosz

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water: bit.ly/howtocarrywater #poem #books #writing

I can’t deal with fascism AND prose chopped up into “poems”

The wrong ICE is melting.

“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

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

"To walk away from this system is to speak the only language the system will ever understand." Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

When someone dies, we go searching for poetry. But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings. —Jenny Zhang

After months of fear, silence fills what used to be home. I’m trying to hold my family together, to give my little brothers a place to feel safe again. We don’t need much just a bit of peace. 💔 Please donate and help us rebuild the life war took away. gofund.me/daadfd07a

“‘Poetry,’ says Lehman, ‘is freedom.’ The emptiness of this freedom is unsettling.” // so good; do read!! 🙏

The time is now. Right now. Time for literally all of us to push back against fascism. You don't have to and literally can't do EVERYTHING. Don't worry about that! Just pick the one or two issues/things you know and care about and join the people who are doing practical things to help.

Amos Kennedy mail. 💛

“Stop him! He’s getting away with that Maoist bicycle!”

Read poem “Dysmorphia (Autumn)”: harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/donna-vorrey... Listen to Episode 78: Donna Vorreyer (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts): share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033 💫 🎙️ @djvorreyer.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social

psst.... we open for chapbook submissions in two days (October 1). www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

Write into the honey. ... Write into the rain. —Rick Barot

From ‘You Better Be Lightning’ (2021) —Andrea Gibson #poetry #poems #booksky

When nothing softens the grief, may grief soften me. - Andrea Gibson

From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything. Get it here: bit.ly/treeswitness #poem #books #writing

From Rudy Francisco's book, Helium. Get it here: bit.ly/rfhelium #poem #books #writing

I wish more people understood that we are spiritually meant for more. We are meant to be in loving communities, grow our own food, be outdoors and have support systems. Not sit behind desks for most of our lives slowly rotting away and wishing things were different.

but making anything you have explored time, and exploring time you have created the world, even if it is only a little cairn of broken bricks —Mary Ruefle, from "Rumors of Earth"

Small press books are such a joy—Animal Heart Press, Loblolly Press, Belle Point Press here! 📚💙 “formed by the grit / of the heart” indeed. I cannot say how important it is to support small presses right now directly. Many have alternative distribution models; they are the life of literature.

Why do I have 3 copies of Mitchell's Selected Rilke translations? One is the rainbow of my Rilke readings: yellow markings made in my 20's; green in my late 30's during the nursing-while-returning-to-Rilke days. His "Elegy” for Marina Tvsetaeva is a forever favorite. — “flower on the same stalk” 🖤

"I return to this point of wonder." From Katie Farris's book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive: bit.ly/farrisstanding #poem #books #writing

📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. —Lucille Clifton

If the only thing we have is each other, that is so so much. Live. #AndreaGibson @andreagibson.bsky.social

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha