The beach last night. Awaiting Armageddon.

Smiling moon.

Celestial light over the Gulf.

Thank you to Third Wednesday magazine for including my poem "The Lures of Adulthood" in its upcoming spring edition! thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2026/03/07/t...

Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.

Naples after dark.

Every New Year's I think of this poem from Marge Piercy: "How much have I dared in opposition? How much have I put on the line for freedom? For mine and others? As these freedoms are pared, sliced and diced, where have I spoken out?"

Happy 2026, everyone! I'm off to bed!

“1939 is gone— and good riddance… Moving on… Oh, it left a bitter sting. What will 1940 bring? War, a raging hurricane… The whole world has gone insane…” In an era much like ours, Alexander Voloshin remembers a happier New Year’s Eve: bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...

Thank you to West Trade Review and editor Ken Harmon for publishing my new poem "The Dark Art of Hope" in their Winter 2025 edition, now available. @westtradereview.bsky.social westtradereview.com/onlineexclus...

Grateful to Oatleaf Poetry Magazine for nominating my poem "Inversion" for a Pushcart Prize. www.tumblr.com/oatleaf/8009... And to Epistemic Literary for nominating my poem "There Will Be Warnings." These are my first Pushcart nominations (and both came on the same weekend). Thank you!

Really love this lush & surprising lyric on the Academy's Poem-a-Day today. poets.org/poem/homecom...

The light is on for James Lilliefors! @jameslilliefors.bsky.social💡 “The Purpose of Trees” is a gorgeous poem that speaks to the everlasting nature of trees juxtaposed against human ephemerality. Check out James’s beautiful writing over at the site!

Thank you to Epistemic Literary for nominating my poem "There Will Be Warnings" for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology!

Wendell Berry reciting "The Peace of Wild Things." Happy 91st birthday. onbeing.org/poetry/the-p...

Cover reveal for my chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS, which is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. www.finishinglinepress.com

My poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. Publication date is October 17. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sudd...

To this day, "Monet Refuses the Operation" by Lisel Mueller remains my favorite poem ever written. It is simply beautiful. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52577/...

Thanks to Third Wednesday magazine, and Editor David Jibson, for including my new poem "Seriously" in its upcoming spring edition.

My poem "Edward Hopper. Rooms by the Sea, 1951" was published in @tahomareview.bsky.social today! Thank you @jessicacuello.bsky.social! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/e...

Thank you to Hanna Nielson @hannaswork.bsky.social, EIC of The Belfast Review, for including my poems "Covered" and "The News Was Good" (a tribute to Jimmy Carter, written months before he passed away) in the third edition, which is now available from Amazon and online.

Hopeful words from W.S. Merwin.

LitHub asked some poets what our favorite poems of the year are and I picked two ("A Sunset" by Robert Haas and “The Poets Awoke” by m. nourbeSe Philip) lithub.com/49-contemporary-...

So grateful for @jackbedell.bsky.social endorsement of my forthcoming book A WEATHERED SHIP. Pre-orders coming soon—stay tuned! 🌊📖

"Strawberry Season," a lovely, thought-provoking poem from Susan L. Leary (@susanlleary.bsky.social). www.arkint.org/magazine/sus...

"I am surprised sometimes to hear late-at-night voices through open windows and realize those rooms are still out there." #TodaysPoem #poetry Some Rooms are Prayers by @jameslilliefors.bsky.social (2024 Amethyst Review) tinyurl.com/ykrdy6f4

Thank you to Editor Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social for including my poem "Playing Tennis with the Past" in the new print anthology from Rough Diamond Poetry Journal - on the important theme of Hope! The Hope anthology features about 75 poems.

I love this poem by @toddedillard.bsky.social

Powerful words from Susan Stewart.

"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses... We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." Remember JFK, slain on this day in 1963, with his magnificent speech on the political power of art:

Work as Wendell Berry writes:

Thank you to Amethyst Review for publishing my poem "Some Rooms are Prayers" and to editor Sarah Law @sarahpoet.bsky.social amethystmagazine.org/2024/11/17/s...

"What others found in art, I found in nature. What others found in human love, I found in nature. Very simple. But there was no voice there. Winter was over... Come to me, said the world. I was standing in my wool coat at a kind of bright portal" Louise Glück Friedrich, The Garden Terrace. 1798

“All my friends are finding new beliefs,” by Christian Wiman is sticking with me…

The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens #poetry #WallaceStevens

Here it is, our contributors list for Issue 3, Winter 2025:

This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.

No better way to introduce myself than to link to my page from wave 2 of @iambapoet.com. The first poem, ‘Dark-Haired Hilda Replies to Patrick Kavanagh’ started my journey as a published poet, when it won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize in 2018. I still love it. www.iambapoet.com/georgia-hilton

Greetings, Bluesky!