sun out in november thus a walk in the woods

I have a new poem in @havehashad.com that answers the burning question of "what is the opposite of an 'eating poems' poem" "it's all coming up now, milkweed and mango..." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...

NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)

The Poetry Society was delighted to host Diane Seuss on Monday 10th November for the latest in the prestigious Kenneth Allott / Poetry Society Annual Lecture series The lecture is now available to view on the Poetry Society's Vimeo channel at vimeo.com/1135802263 or see link in bio

I don't know if people know this but good poems are hard to write

last of fall around here

a fall walk in the park

The Shore contributor Catherine Pierce is now offering online poetry workshops! 🌊🌊🌊 Check it out here: www.studioandcraft.com

Thrilled to have my poem “In Christ There Is No East or West” in the new issue of @antiphonyjournal.bsky.social Huge thanks to editor/founder Ann Pedone not only for accepting the work but for wise, wise edits. For optimum reading due to long lines, turn your phone landscape-wise, or read on laptop.

a spooky ghost poem I forgot I had written -

Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.

Our Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #finearts #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Louise Glück, on fall. "Or was the point always to continue without a sign?"

Our newest issue is out now!! Find it online here: northamericanreview.org/magazine

the unspoken gem of writing a bad poem is knowing it's a bad poem, what a relief, what a gift, what a treasure to know this effort didn't get there and, because you failed to build a bridge the right amount of far, you are that much more aware of where "there" is

a late dahlia

“This is how poems happen for me. Bits and pieces, glimpses and strokes, hints and imagistic nudges, and at some almost-accidental moment it all flies together--not to make sense but to induce a feeling. I call these gifts.” -- Yusef Komunyakaa

gigantic HAD energy

In general, my go-to editing tips/thoughts: 1. Read the piece out loud, preferably loudly. Where your tongue trips is where it's awkward for readers too. 2. Familiar language is bad and is often the result of a familiar tone dragging the piece toward said language. Be different!

Happy Friday with this gorgeousness by James Schuyler Song The light lies layered in the leaves. Trees, and trees and more trees. ... The violet hour: the grass is violent green

Molly Brodak

Robert Hass, "To A Reader" #smallpoemsunday

Here's one for fall - and thank you @mayacpopa.bsky.social for picking this up in Poetry Today's August poems. 🙏 🙏

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Thank you to Wendy Lesser for making a spot for "Being and Time" (my poem, not Heidegger's treatise) in Threepenny Review. Extra happy because my poem gets to hang out with one by @toddedillard.bsky.social.

It is 2025. You get a push notification from a bird reminding you to drink water. Hurry, before the robots drink it all.

I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

“as if the Iliad had finally done them in.” Adam Zagajewski translated by Clare Cavanaugh I hope to one day be this type of funny sad

This lovely @hanvanderhart.bsky.social poem popped up when I clicked the random poetry generator on the SHR site this morning. The use of present tense, setting up a memory - the pond a stillness between past and present (maybe? - for me anyway). www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/523-hannah-v...

I love it when a poem earns the normalization of its oddness such that its final line, viewed in isolation, is alien, perhaps indecipherable or flat, but within the context of the poem it's huge, bigger than the words its made from ("...The heart dies of this sweetness.")

Robert Bly "they wag but can't explain"

I have four new poems in the just-launched Summer Issue of Blackbird, link below:

Henri Cole

today is #smallpoemsunday and it is also my & Kristi’s wedding anniversary! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else — & bonus points today for love poems :) here’s a little love poem from my first book @ornithopterpress.bsky.social ~

so I have some news

Natalie Shapero 💙 from POPULAR LONGING (Copper Canyon Press) Day 2 - #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

My first book for the Sealey challenge (in which we read a book of poems a day in the month of August) is @j-tkelly.bsky.social’s More of How to Read the Bible.

Charles Wright

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “New Baroque Derangement” by Gabrielle Bates: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

I'm going to have to watch again - on the first pass the dioramas were all I could take in.

a good morning to lean and loaf - relieved of my cranky gallbladder the other day

here's a little unpublished poem of mine that's been moored in my drafts file for a few years

I love this beautifully surreal poem by Alaska's Frances Klein orangeblossomreview.org/journal/some...

here's a poem I published in Ruminate 5 years ago about something my wife said 12 years ago: "Perhaps death is the self journeying into a larger self."

My writing advice is keep it in the oven until the center isn’t gooey / the toothpick comes out clean.

Every experience that is personal is simultaneously an experience that is supernatural. -- Fanny Howe (rest in peace)

Sometimes when I edit the image in isolation of the rest of the poem I think it is well-rendered, but when I see how the image is working in concert with other language I see how that image repeats some work/move from earlier lines and thus is overwrought. Seeing this has helped me “level up” a lot.