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.

“I don’t have many plots and perhaps as a justification I sometimes think: If I want a plot I’ll watch Dallas. I think it’s mood. No, I mean tone. Tone arrived at by language." - Elizabeth Hardwick on 'process'

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

Grateful to Gabriela Denise Frank and @therumpus.net for this chance to speak about my new poetry collection published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. 🫶 therumpus.net/2025/07/17/u...

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.

“When at last we invent it, the Time Machine / won’t have any flash—not forward, not back—“ Today’s poem is Time Machine by Jane Zwart. Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-tim...

Mary Ruefle

"Everyone, including the father," in the UK's Poetry Review and forthcoming in my next book, Althea: Poems, from Graywolf Press in 2027. poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/everyo...

“It was I who drifted away.” A poem by Paul Muldoon.

sonnet

Maybe it felt better then, but you were not better. You were smaller, as the rain gauge must fill to the brim with its full portion of suffering. Diane Seuss

"The boomerang released / for its returning" I so love the images, the sounds, the line-breaks &&& in this & so many other poems from @violetagm.bsky.social's SONGS FOR THE LAND-BOUND (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024)! 🌟🥰🌟 #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

an afternoon of incoming rain, rejections, and a bike ride with pelicans

The way Dean Young works his small craft warning into the movement from "All poetry is about hope." to "All poetry is a form of hope." The way he *moves*— dance of a Dean Young poem. 🖤

A Speech at the Lost and Found -Wisława Szymborkska

Aracelis Girmay "This is the only kingdom."

An ode to "Skateaway" www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/6/21/skateaway