#poemoftheday is another short one, "Not Writing" by Jane Kenyon #poetry

#poemoftheday is this short one by Andrea Gibson, "Diagnosis" #poetry

#poemoftheday is this sonnet by Diane Seuss about death #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Lanterns" by Doug Ramspeck in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social "Years later, I imagined my mother was a mystic, that her fever dreams that summer were whispering deeper truths, that the mechanical thump of her heart was a secret numerology." rattle.com/lanterns-by-...

"In normal times, against a normal candidate, we have no evidence that picking a friendly, relatable, likable candidate without a history of sexual abuse will work. Let’s not read too much into it." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...

when darkness falls I carry the poem like a torch

#poemoftheday is "Homo Will Not Inherit" by Mark Doty "I have been an angel for minutes at a time, and I have for hours believed—without judgement, without condemnation— that in each body, however obscured or recast, is the divine body" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44139/... #poetry

My poem "A letter to my friends in bad relationships" is up in Luna Luna! I love this magazine www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-... #poetry #writingcommunity

#poemoftheday is this sonnet by Diane Seuss from her book "frank" "Did I consume my life in bitter mouthfuls?" #poetry

new post up on my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/torporch...

#poemoftheday is "The Mower" by Philip Larkin #poetry

I hunger to write Alas, I have plans tonight The bud dies still shut

#poemoftheday is "The Weight of Money" by Sean Thomas Dougherty "They could if they could put a price on every breath: one price for the exhale and another for each inhale. A price for opening one’s eyes." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "not an elegy for Mike Brown" by Danez Smith poets.org/poem/not-ele... "think: once, a white girl was kidnapped & that’s the Trojan war. later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. are we not worthy of a city of ash?" #poetry

#poemoftheday is "We Are the Only Poets, and Everyone Else Is Prose" by Kelli Russell Agodon "And when I sonnet my body onto your page and you try to leave me, I emdash you—see the beauty in that fine thin line —a bridge grows between us." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/we-are-the... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Moondrunk on Diwali" by Shivpreet Singh from @rattlepoetry.bsky.social "my mind, the little accountant on the top floor, has surrendered sense. All he is left with now is a sparkler behind the ribs, some electricity finding home." #poetry

#poemoftheday "Social Skills Training" by Solmaz Sharif #poetry

I'm always happy to have a chance to share good news about Stone Circle contributors. Sophia Carroll (@torpor-chamber.bsky.social), who we also nominated for the 2026 BotN, recently published her first chapbook. Find out more about it here: bottlecap.press/products/ith...

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

#poemoftheday is "Epitaph in Three Parts" by Sylvia Plath "Rocking across the lapis lazuli sea comes a flock of bottle battleships each with a telegram addressed to me." allpoetry.com/Epitaph-In-T... #poetry

Two of the poems in my new chapbook have just been nominated for Best of the Net! Come for the poems, stay for the amazing art by @volapardus.bsky.social bottlecap.press/products/ith... #poetry #indie #smallpress #art #writingcommunity #writing #books

I am thrilled to announce that I was nominated for Best of the Net a second time by Joe Pickard at Pulp Poets Press! Thank you, Joe! Check out my nominated poem "Freezer Spell" here pulppoetspress.com/freezer-spel... #poetry

I'm so honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net this year! Thank you @stonecirclereview.bsky.social!

#poemoftheday is this simple but powerful one from K. E. Sermonté: "What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired" "I don't want to die. But I do want to rest in a way the world has never allowed me." #poetry

#poemoftheday is "TIVE" by Gray Davidson Carroll "I go to my favorite coffee shop where all the baristas are terrorists. There, I see my friend from the terrorist knitting group. He makes the most beautiful sweaters, always decorated with flowers." rattle.com/tive-by-gray... #poetry

another personal rejection from @chestnutreview.bsky.social. they are my white whale

issue 2 of M E N A C E is coming together and it's FIRE

#poemoftheday is "O, Sadness Immaculate" by Jay Hopler www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/o-sadness-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is the stunning "How to Live" by Todd Dillard "Two parakeets on my shoulders. They'll fly away if I move. So I move. I love flight." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/how-to-liv... #poetry

#poemoftheday is my brilliant friend Disha Trivedi's "The Mare" in LUNA LUNA "I’m back here, in the slow. Grief howls in like an animal, then stills. Huffing. Uncertain of forms and environs. Time becomes impassable..." www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Baltimore Pride Abecedarian" by Yasmine Bolden from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social "Bless the homegirl whose purse pockets naloxone, water, and grandma candies." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/baltimore-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Lost Glass" by Grady Chambers from @parisreview.bsky.social "Driving through a tunnel, approaching its end: a small circle of the world growing larger." #poetry

#poemoftheday is "When All the Books Are Gone" by Jessy Randall from @rattlepoetry.bsky.social rattle.com/when-all-the... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Chrysalis" by Beverley Sylvester in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social "It is hard to learn the complications of personhood, to learn no one is perfect, to learn that before we can grow we must wrap ourselves into darkness and dissolve." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/chrysalis-... #poetry

#poemoftheday is "War Villanelle" by Shannan Mann "We did think them human before our bombs engraved their eyes." #poetry

#poemoftheday "queer poetry" by gray davidson carroll "If you have to send us a heartbreak poem, make sure it includes a pronoun and not just a feeling" #poem

just sent out an acceptance for a piece i'm SO excited about

BIG news -- my first ever chapbook is out from Bottlecap Press! Please consider supporting it. It's only $10 and features amazing original art by @volapardus.bsky.social bottlecap.press/products/ith... #poetry #art #smallpress #books #writing #chapbook #diy #zine #writingcommunity

#poemoftheday is "On Children" by Khalil Gibran "Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness" www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/on-childre... #poetry

#poetryoftheday is my brilliant friend Disha Trivedi's "be here to mother me at the end of the world" in the latest issue of @luckyjefferson.com "Weather-green, that book, the cover, like chutney, or the slick mint sari for a wedding I won’t have." luckyjefferson.com/fissure/ #poetry

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.” —Ernest Hemingway https://theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/ernest-hemingway-the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway

Accurate.

#poetryoftheday is "Don't Tell Anyone" by Tony Hoagland "that the truest, most intimate pleasure you can sometimes find is the wet kiss of your own pain." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetry

#poemoftheday is this heavy-hitter by David Berman (of Silver Jews fame), from his collection Actual Air: "Imagining Defeat" #poetry

#poemoftheday is "Phone Sex" by Shannan Mann "I kiss missing you I wish I had more body parts to take pictures for you" #poetry

one day the chestnut review will accept a piece of my writing 😂😅

Love this essay in Bloodletter, "Dark Academia for Dark Times" by @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social "...the pleasure of horror lies in the catharsis of seeing the unpleasant truth revealed for what it is." bloodlettermag.com/dark-academi...

#poemoftheday is this one by Richard Siken, "FLEVATO" "I was late and trying to think diagonally, up and around the corners. I wasn’t used to it. I grew up in a flat land where there was no descending." #poetry fourwayreview.com/flevato-by-r...

Newest issue of Four Way Review is up! Featuring poetry by Richard Siken, fiction by Katherine Vondy, and more fourwayreview.com/issue-33/ #fiction #poetry