often the shadow seems more real than the body “After A Death”, Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Robert Bly)

wanting John Ashbery

their smoke will fill your mouth Elizabeth Willis, from “The Witch”💀

June Jordan, from “Poem at the Midnight of My Life” #smallpoemsunday

the owlishness of certain people Heather Christle, from PAPER CROWN

I regret to inform you that Nemik's manifesto is the new Tom Holland “Umbrella.” You have to repost every time. It’s just where we are. #ihavefriendseverywhere youtu.be/-asb8zTiuZ4?...

Who am I, I’ve said Natalie Shapero, from STAY DEAD #smallpoemsunday

the deep / rosined bow sound of the living Dorianne Laux, “Cello” #smallpoemsunday

closing thoughts for James Dobson Wanda Coleman, “Black-Handed Curse”

"ICE will run out of dildos before we run out of posterboard" is not a sentence I expected to ever write, but here we are.

Happy anniversary, Tom & Kristi!💛 Paige Lewis, “When I Tell My Beloved I Miss the Sun” #smallpoemsunday

the ways this Laura Bandy poem builds & culminates & evolves & shifts!! "He was the kind of boy who could be trusted with detailed lists at the grocery store. She was the kind of gel who could swoop your hair into architecturally interesting shapes." https://www.havehashad.com/tpbx5

Anne Carson, from MEN IN THE OFF HOURS #smallpoemsunday

new ginger bestie: (tap tap tap) Can I get in there? Earth’s haunted. me: What? ginger b: Earth’s haunted.

A generalization? Yes. But the evidence is far far far from anecdotal, and so many of us are furious, and so many of us are sad, and so many of us will have less (health care & dignity & money & liveable futures) so that so few of us can have more. Down with the selfish. Up with the shared world.

Out of the spigot / streams a thirsty noncompliance Diane Seuss, from “Coda” #smallpoemsunday

OMG, Jason doesn’t even know he’s an assassin yet. We’re so deep in the lore!!! It’s going to be an incredible day. I’m making chicken nuggets.

Ross Gay, “American Dreaming”

this is what it’s like to dream, to have access to all these stories and be in one unquestionably. –Alice Notley🖤

new candid of my heart

Fanny Howe, “Yellow Goblins”

Michael Ondaatje, from “House on a Red Cliff”

The first word wasn’t love, was it? Alina Stefanescu, from her incredible new collection, MY HERESIES #smallpoemsunday

Sarah, the teacher would report, eschews / the burdens of responsibility. Linda Pastan, “Ethics”

another murder

Robert Hass, from “Faint Music” #smallpoemsunday

Lizzie Riches, “The Gardener’s Assistant”

Remember, green’s your color. Gwendolyn Brooks & Ross Gay

Le sigh.

say you came from the moon Ellen Bryant Voigt, “The Cusp”

Happy National Poetry Month! Here's my first #April3030 prompt (I'll use this hashtag throughout the month) Imagine a factory that, in various strange and surreal ways, manufactures sadness. Now write a poem cataloguing reasons for required maintenance at the sadness factory. Be weird!

“Prayer to Artemis”🏳️‍⚧️ by Diotimus translated by Stephanie Burt

calling me by many names / that are secret and filled with light Denis Johnson #smallpoemsunday

Now THIS is news www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Befuddled sounds exactly like what it is, which is comforting.

It's lonely. Very lonely.

your ill heart Jean Valentine, “I Would Be” #smallpoemsunday

Robert Creeley

Vievee Francis, from THE SHARED WORLD #smallpoemsunday

We were after ever Catherine Wing, “The Darker Sooner”

Five witches

I hold still and you become a blur. Rick Barot, “Thirteen Moons”

Lee Upton

spelt and salt Hoa Nguyen, “January”

Anna Lena Phillips Bell

my darlings, my little birds Dorianne Laux, from “After Twelve Days of Rain” #smallpoemsunday

and I collect books Nikki Giovanni, “Winter”

there is SUCH a bad review of this in the harvard crimson. not to kill the kid but it’s all about how alice notley finally went too far. alice notley can’t go too far bitch. she’s been to the underworld

alice notley scully poem!