One of my new favorite prose poems has entered the chat Hedgie Choi, from her debut collection Salvage (2025)

vinod kumar shukla ji's passing feels oddly personal, an unnavigable grief. his words are the closest i've come to feeling understood by poetry. grateful i had the fortune of interviewing him earlier this year. rest in peace, vinod ji. this loss is monumental. blackbird.vcu.edu/interview-wi...

Introducing Banshee 20 poets! We're delighted to be featuring work by @colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)

trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.

Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one

Poet Talk about Trees featuring @farahghafoor.bsky.social! Tune in for talk about trees, snails, time and more. Available where you listen to podcasts: poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...

My gawd I love this poem: "When you place a wet kiss on my nape while washing my back in the shower, I think of all good things and forget I am wounded. " ~ T. De Los Reyes @andhow.bsky.social waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

On 16 July, The Poetry Society was delighted to present the launch readings for the Summer 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Kaveh Akbar, Bonnie Hancell, Jacob Polley and Martha Sprackland. In this one-poem extract, Martha Sprackland reads (...)

Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

My second book of poems, LO-FI CITADELS, has been accepted at Wayne State University Press and will be published in 2026. Very grateful and excited to share with you. Here's a poem from the book, "Bus Stop Promenade," originally published a while back in @kenyonreview.bsky.social

A typical Bangalore July!

From Franny Choi's book, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: bookshop.org/a/862/9780063240087 #poem #books #writing

Lucky to have two new poems in the just-dropped Spring issue of @kenyonreview.bsky.social 🖤 I also have audio up on the website. You can log in & read the whole stellar issue (so many of my faves!) & hear each of us read here: kenyonreview.org Many thx to the editors!

This poem by Carl Phillips. Like whoa.

Tickled to be featured on the Best American Poetry blog with this poem: blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback on this post, so I’m sharing it again: How to Read Poetry like a Poet: open.substack.com/pub/joseoliv...

I am so sorry to hear of Martha Silano’s passing. Celebrate poets while they are with us. Remember them after. Read them, always. ❤️

Grateful for this review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD by brilliant Canadian writer, editor, and literary citizen @robmclennan.bsky.social!

Gorgeous poem by Lily Brown in her new collection from parlor press.

Anthony Borruso 💙 from SPLICE (Trio House Press, winner of the 2024 Louise Bogan Award, forthcoming July 2025) Day 27 - National Poetry Month @triohousepress.bsky.social

here's a poem of mine published in @sixthfinch.bsky.social about playing Animal Crossing during the peak of the pandemic

whenever someone says writing efficiently means using the least amount of words possible remind them how we all say “jobs where you get to work with your hands” instead of “hand jobs”

Daphne Gottlieb.

There is a story I like to tell about Jericho Brown, because it demonstrates (I think) that his superstardom (which brings me GREAT joy) is rooted not just in his remarkable poetry, but his ways of being in the world, of attending to it.

Heather Christle. 💫💫 @heatherchristle.bsky.social

Denise Levertov reminded me that Galway Kinnell worked in Louisiana as a civil rights activist…and that’s of course Kinnell on the cover of Vievee Francis’ incredible The Shared World. nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014519...

I had a great discussion about the Diane Seuss poem "Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath's Braid." Shout-out to two other brilliant books: Sandra Simond's Assia and Heather Clark's Red Comet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Zb...

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Taking a moment to celebrate our 2025 Best Microfiction nominations from @ianli.bsky.social (coming to the Universe in just a few days!), Amelia K., Satya Dash, and Joe Gallagher.

Sunshine and a sonnet by ⁦@satya043⁩ . ✨ https://www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-sonnet-and-a-half-for-conceit-of-the-heart-by-satya-dash/

We’re excited to present the Summer 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Jill Kitchen, Ben Kline, Claire Scott, and Satya Dash among others; fiction by Sarah Haufrect; CNF by Diane Gotlieb Cover image by Igor Morski Read the collection at the link below: buff.ly/3QXMtcA

oh heart, soft as a small goat's hoof there was sweetness there a sip of honeysuckle you never said there was not —from my poem “Ars Poetica with a Gun” in the Spring 2025 issue of @westtradereview.bsky.social www.westtradereview.com/spring2025ed...

Eric Gamalinda. ✨✨

Fanny Howe

The winner of the MCC Wisden Cricket Photo of the Year 2024 ... Nathan Lyon appeals for lbw against India's Mohammed Siraj, 4th Test, MCG, December 30th 2024 (Quinn Rooney)

You can order the Spring 2025 issue of West Trade Review here, with work by @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @emmabolden.bsky.social, @anthonyframe.bsky.social, @jillkitchen.bsky.social, @satyadash.bsky.social, and others! 📚 🌸 I also have an “Ars Poetica with a Gun” in it, from my Ars | Ours project…

Keith Leonard with this unforgettable poem. 💫

By Joe Carrick-Varty in @poetrysociety.bsky.social ! 💫💙

Wayne Holloway-Smith’s editorial for the current issue of The Poetry Review on Rachael Allen’s legendary essay for TL/TH ❤️✨ @poetrysociety.bsky.social Also a beautiful conversation between Rachael & @prototypepubs.bsky.social

Returning to this beauty:

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "September" by Satya Dash (@satyadash.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/september/

Really enjoyed watching The Paper Kites perform in BLR.

“How can snow fall without falling in love?” So in love with this poem #poetry #poem yalereview.org/article/hua-...

poets! curious to know what you think: does the last line of a poem have a line break?

In a new Behind the Byline interview, NER staff reader Maria Pavlenko talks with poet Perry Levitch about anticlimax, approximating transness, and their poem "nobody's cis at the airport" from issue 45.4. sites.middlebury.edu/newenglandre...

'My big love' Olesya Hudyma, contemporary Ukrainian painter

haven't shared this perfect poem on here yet: "Suggested Donation" by Heather Christle: "...there’s no difference between flying and thinking you’re flying until you land."

“waves, and the receding fact of them as they again / come back;”

Rubicon by @cphillipspoet.bsky.social 💫💫

“Well, syntax is the thing that allows for manipulation in a sentence, in a way that grammar doesn't […] To me this is very erotic. It's like seeing someone across the room and deciding you want him.” Carl Phillips, Paris Review #Syntax