I'm pleased to have new work forthcoming to Stone Circle Review, Libre, and UCity Review... @stonecirclereview.bsky.social @librelit.bsky.social #poetry #nonfiction #writer

#Poetry Here it is, folks! If you preorder, good things will surely follow. (Or, a book, at any rate.) Thank you thank you thank you! 🎶💯👀🤩☄️

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NEW POEM #270: "Euphoria" by Janis Greve "How could you, I want to say, deprive me of this thing I never asked for, but that gave me a strange euphoria, a flood I could always count on rising, silent, from the depths of me," stonecirclereview.com/euphoria/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Ooh what an intriguing form for this one:

NEW POEM #269: "My mother’s body in old age" by Gail Zing "her wide surprise / jarred by the mirror’s stranger again and again, was that / me, a stupefied bystander, mouth firmly closed?" stonecirclereview.com/my-mothers-b... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Folks seemed to enjoy my offering for Top T***T Tuesday over there on the other place so thought I would share it here as well. Many thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social.

Just in case tomorrow really is the day the other shoe finally drops, here is one of my Rapture-trauma poems. "Angel Triptych" appeared in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social almost exactly two years ago.

NEW POEM #268: "We Almost Lived Somewhere Else" by Vaneeza Sohail 3 Mother of smoke, we can’t breathe so you give us rain we find laughter between sheets of anguish stonecirclereview.com/we-almost-li... #Poetry

NEW POEM #267: "Glass Desert Anthem" by Allison Zhang "I passed a woman grinding glass into salt. Her wrists bandaged in gold. She asked what I came to trade. I didn’t know what I had left. The trees whispered what I should not have known." stonecirclereview.com/glass-desert... #Poem #Poetry

This week’s Sunday Snippet is Needing an alibi by Lee Potts ( @leepottspoet.bsky.social ) A subtle yet striking piece, it captures a seemingly mundane moment and turns it into something quietly unsettling. Read it in Issue 4.

#266: "To the Woman Whose Charred Wedding Dress I Found in a Sandy Ravine" by Paula Brown (@azpaula.bsky.social) "Tell me how your rage fell off a cliff and tumbled into this unlikely scene. / Tell me how betrayal is a brutal beast fit for uncommon consequence." stonecirclereview.com/to-the-woman/

NEW POEM #265: "Thoughts, in the Bath, on Trees & Bears" by Francesca Leader (@mooninabucket.bsky.social) (CW: Suggestions of self-harm/family violence) "like a bear-scarred aspen in your childhood woods, thinking how you’ve become both trunk & claw" stonecirclereview.com/thoughts-in-... #Poem

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "We Can’t Undo the Moment Our Organs Develop a Taste for Fire" by Justin Karcher (@justinkarcher.bsky.social‬) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/we-cant-undo/

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Reading Beowulf, I Remember My Mother’s Address Book" by Candice Kelsey (@feed-me-poetry.bsky.social‬) stonecirclereview.com/reading-beow...

NEW POEM #264: "excuses to mark a day" by Jessica Lee McMillan (@jessicaleemcmillan.com) "how many clinking glasses do you remember or cigarette breaks I remember eating watermelon in the dark one night more than any drink or birthday cake" stonecirclereview.com/excuses-to-m...

NEW POEM 263: "Wishes for Your Wednesday" by Tina Kelley "Prayer has a hot and wet summer ahead, so may your worries be as flimsy as state park toilet paper. May your Wednesday have all the calm hush of this word: grazing and this one: solace." stonecirclereview.com/wishes-for-y... #Poem #Poetry

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "I Laugh" by Robert Okaji (@robertokaji.bsky.social‬) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/i-laugh/

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Long-distance" by Natasha Moskaljov stonecirclereview.com/long-distance/

NEW POEM #262: "Aubade With Birds" by Samuel Day Wharton (@fakeourway.bsky.social) "when the crows crack against the morning often they are chasing a hawk from some other world to this one & often the magpies in turn chase the crows" stonecirclereview.com/aubade-with-... #Poem #Poetry

Delighted to share this new poem with y'all: "Aubade With Birds" in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social ! This one is extra special: my first new poem accepted after 12 years of not writing/submitting. Thank you @leepottspoet.bsky.social for putting it out there! #poem #poetry #writing

NEW POEM #261: "When Friends Ask If I’ll Ever Marry Again" by Michael Boccardo (@mboccardopoet76.bsky.social ) "My sudden storm. My arched cathedral. Our tongues unburdened of every oath like the slow scratch of crows clotting the sky." stonecirclereview.com/when-friends...

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "On Your Way Out" by Jaci Schreckengost (@jacischreckengost.bsky.social‬) stonecirclereview.com/on-your-way-...

NEW POEM #260: "Quaternity Prayer" by Krystle Eilen "Oh you virgin mother, most sorrowful, you are the last breath of every prayer, you are a withered flower crushed underfoot, you are tragedy’s silent witness," stonecirclereview.com/quaternity-p... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

NEW POEM #259: "Demeter’s Fury" by Rachel Pittman "Even divine wrath has its season. I know nothing born of winter can bear fruit in spring. My mind turns to sticky pulp. I let each fig kiss the earth and rot." stonecirclereview.com/demeters-fury/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

"it’s always good to have an angel and a train and a hat and a graveyard" #TodaysPoem #poetry The angel in massachusetts by Justin Lacour (2025 @stonecirclereview.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/49t7uxu3

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Waterless Canals" by M.E. Walker (@texasnotranger.bsky.social‬) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/waterless-ca...

Always lovely to have a poem replay. Thanks so much. This poem will be in my new pamphlet The Gods of Misrule, due out soon from Stoat Books.

🌊NEW REVIEW ALERT!🌊 Check out another fantastic review by Tyler Truman Julian on WE’LL MISS THE STARS IN THE MORNING by Lee Potts. www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...

Thank you so much, Tyler, for this kind and insightful review of my book. I'm glad you enjoyed it. If anyone is interested in getting their own copy, you can find out more here: bottlecap.press/products/sta...

I was lucky to have an essay in The Hinge of a Metaphor, pub by @richardnskinner.bsky.social Pre-order The Carbon Arc, with essays by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social here richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car... richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-hin...

Jessica's right. ❤️

NEW POEM #258: "The Queen o' the Cats" by Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social "You see them both clearly, or perhaps you do not. Again, she asks "What do you wish for?" and you try to remember all that you want but then she says "I may grant your wish or I may not" stonecirclereview.com/the-queen-o-...

NEW POEM #257: "The angel in massachusetts" by Justin Lacour "asks me to stand next to him so the cops will let him be maybe he is an angel / it’s always good to have an angel and a train and a hat and a graveyard" stonecirclereview.com/the-angel-in... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

Just found out I was a Best of the Net finalist this year! Thank you @sundresspub.bsky.social, and to @stonecirclereview.bsky.social editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social for the nom 🌼

Congratulations to Chiara Di Lello for being named a Best of the Net finalist. A well-deserved honor. I'm especially excited because the poem first appeared in Stone Circle. 🎉🎆

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Shipping" by Malene Lotz #tbt stonecirclereview.com/shipping/

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Excavation / Psyche" by Wren Donovan (@wrendonovan.bsky.social‬) stonecirclereview.com/excavation-p...

Day 7: “How Inadequate Our Language for Love Keeps Turning Out to Be” by @amorak.bsky.social in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. “a whole season in your hands, / my heart already on its way.” ❤️ stonecirclereview.com/how-inadequa...

NEW POEM #256: "Animals I invent" by Ali A. Ünal "I refuse to name the animals I invent part human, part baby kicks established gods make fun of me for having the beasts parse the music or invent time before fire." stonecirclereview.com/animals-i-in... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

NEW POEM #255: "Tracings" by Annette Sisson "Sharp as a pen, as an ink-tipped tongue, a horntail snail leaks iridescence in soil" stonecirclereview.com/tracings/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Emily as I Pulled at the Smoked Fish" by Darren C. Demaree (@darrencdemaree.bsky.social‬) #tbt stonecirclereview.com/emily-as-i-p...

NEW POEM #254: "How Inadequate Our Language for Love Keeps Turning Out to Be" by Amorak Huey (@amorak.bsky.social) "I imagine retracing their path — south, toward silence, summer, a whole season in your hands, my heart already on its way." stonecirclereview.com/how-inadequa... #Poem #Poetry

Another day, another love poem with geese.

NEW POEM #253: "Winter Solstice ‘24" by Abigail Eliza (@abigailelizawrites.bsky.social) "you must sleep with your windows open tonight. This will allow the new season to wash over you: remember, everything comes with changes, even the ways you love her" stonecirclereview.com/winter-solst... #Poem

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Passionfruit" by Jen Feroze (@jenferoze.bsky.social‬) #tbt stonecirclereview.com/passionfruit/

NEW POEM #252: "On Our Living Room Floor, My Mother Tries to Forgive Me" by Arushee Bhoja open mouths of clay pots begged for rain. The plants swallowed hard when the monsoon came, and our first day back I couldn’t sleep, our house still as the bed of a lake. stonecirclereview.com/on-our-livin...

NEW POEM #251: "Eden" by Robert Hodkinson "She knows, like a willful thief, her crime was in the fruit as she reached for it; earlier even, swelling on the pregnant branch." stonecirclereview.com/eden-2/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem