All last year, I waited for a white dwarf to crash into a red giant’s stellar wind, for the display–electric orange, pink. I studied simulations online. The latest $ feature is three poems by Ja'net Danielo! poetrycurrency.com/feature/jane...

ICE's strategy of escalating peaceful protest situations into violence and then blaming their victims for trying to get away comes straight from the playbook of every cop group in America.

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

Abolish ICE three times in the fucking face

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

They should try circling the earth around something other than the sun this time, just to mix things up

i didn’t mean to get nostalgic; i just have a strange need to be loved like i’ve been shot nowhere fatal. The new $ feature is by Adrián Pachuca! poetrycurrency.com/feature/adri...

A line of wet black birds on the power wire, coal drops, hunker elbow to elbow. I will gun it for the open drawbridge. There is a casket I need to go dancing on. The new $ feature is by @jlyocum.com! poetrycurrency.com/feature/j-l-...

This is what I hope to accomplish with everything I write

Five-ish games to get to know me: Civilization series (IV if I must pick) Fallout series (New Vegas if I must pick) X-COM series (Enemy Within if I must pick) Portal series (2 if I must pick) Baldur's Gate series (3 if I must pick)

We raised ourselves over the starboard side, our shoes soaked from crossing beds of eelgrass. One girl’s face was broad with scars like threaded silk. The newest $ feature is by Kelly Gray! poetrycurrency.com/feature/kell...

We're going to be closed to new work for a while so the editor can take a mental health break. We'll update here and on our guidelines page when that changes. We'll continue to publish our existing queue of poetry features.

The mainline Democrats deeply worried about electing a progressive mayor of New York City are the same ones who came up with the strategy of attaching Kamala Harris to the repugnant Liz Cheney for weeks on end before the election.

A knock on the door deep into night, the door of a house deep in a field, in trees, not a house where one would stop... The latest $ feature is three poems by @carolynguinzio.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/feature/caro...

I have multiple friends whose kids call me "Uncle Steve" even though we're not related AT ALL! I demand an investigation!

who wants to remember how we sat in the rain after playing soccer and could not tell tears from rainwater Today's $ feature is two poems by Jeremy Teddy Karn! poetrycurrency.com/feature/jere...

Lovely new South Dakota Review with three of my poems.

Well, for starters, we eat, we sleep. If we’re going to know it, we’re going to know it this way. It feels like a trick sometimes, how we start and then start again. The new $ feature is by John Gallaher! poetrycurrency.com/feature/john...

Congratulations to our nominees for the Best of the Net Awards!

I saw a large Confederate flag lowered half staff today, driving through rural North Carolina. Lower to the ground, baby.

In the booths lining the exterior they form a protective barrier, write down the worst things they think they’ve ever said on napkins embossed with tiny dots in the shape of a flower. The latest $ feature is by Holly Amos! poetrycurrency.com/feature/holl...

When did "quoting a political activist's own words and correctly describing their political positions is offensive!" become some agreed upon rule?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

On TV, the investment firm ad says there are three hundred and thirty million dreams, all American and therefore all special. The newest $ feature is by Tim DeJong! poetrycurrency.com/feature/tim-...

An event I wrote a blog post about included the note "Catered by Count Porkula" with no further explanation, and I hope it's a guy rather than a restaurant.

"what it must mean / that someone lost their kicks to the telephone wire / or was it relinquishment? / was it banishment? / were they freighted by birds?" The new $ poetry feature is by Elisa Luna Ady! poetrycurrency.com/feature/elis...

As a longtime Colorado Springs resident, I'd like to send a special "rot in hell" to hateful old bastard James Dobson. I bet Satan's already tired of your smug bigot face.

I know quite a lot of music and am dedicated to discovering more, but reading Stereogum headlines is still an exercise in WTF hilarity.

Every mother’s nightgown has a sill and a jamb. Has a child who touches her face and walks through. Each nightgown dreams it’s made of glass or is hungry for a name to hold the wind inside. The latest $ feature is by Sally Rosen Kindred (@sallypoet.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/feature/sall...

One of my issues I'll always have to deal with is that I hate the things I know are wrong and injust with a rage that many other people find offputting and that also tends to damage the other, softer parts of me.

Congratulations to @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, whose poem "IT ISN’T UNTIL I’M LECTURING MY STUDENTS ON FIRE SAFETY AND THEY’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’VE GROWN TWO HEADS THAT I REALIZE MAYBE I’M NOT TAKING YOUR DEATH AS WELL AS I THOUGHT" from $ was a finalist for Best of the Net!

“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable… Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.” —Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD

Were I to guess one thing right-wingers will end up surprised by, it's how many leftists have guns and know how the fuck to use them.

I’ve been waiting lately for my heart to stop. On a phobia survey, fear of a heart attack ranks between fear of long words and fear of being abused, but a bit ahead of fear of moths and butterflies. The new $ feature is by Michael Meyerhofer! poetrycurrency.com/feature/mich...

25 years ago I did not expect to be growing up into a world where my not-at-all controversial basic moral fundamentals and rational statements would be treated as relatively equal to the ravings of wildly obvious bigot lunatics, and yet here we are.

The darkness is a circle at the center. At the center of what. The darkness is a circle in the center of your chest. The new $ feature is by @robertkrut.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/feature/robe...

It's been a bit since something political made me as happy as Zohran Mamdani confounding the pundit class by shitkicking disgraced asshole nepo baby Andrew Cuomo. May he do the same to corrupt cop Eric Adams in the general.

I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

I think of the teenage girl who vlogged her thoughts on the revolution, released from prison so her jailers, knowing she would die from injuries, could claim she killed herself... Today's new $ featured poet is Noor Jafari. poetrycurrency.com/feature/noor...

As always, the overwhelming majority of political violence by those in power against those not in power is right-wing, and the overwhelming majority of lawlessness against poltiicians is also right-wing.

The president of shame has his own flag the president of lies quotes the voice of God at last counted the president of loyalty recommends blindness to the blind -W.S. Merwin, “Presidents” (1970) #everynightapoem

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Don't send us messages like this when we ask you not to BCC us on mass emails of your poems to who knows how many different journals. You're the asshole in this scenario.

The thing about having a substack is that it shows you long to be in community & that you are putting in the time & labor—but if you don’t know about (or acknowledge 👀) the Nazi condoning & profiteering AT THIS POINT, you aren’t really engaged w/ community, & listening, & that = community harm.

The lost things. I went out weeping. Men holding their hats lose their words to the wind. Paper drifts against the curbs. The newest $ feature is by @j-tkelly.bsky.social! And if you like round numbers, this is our 100th feature! poetrycurrency.com/feature/j-t-...

summer is too hot, i propose we just have two falls

I wake up in the dream and there you are packing unpacking repacking there I am unpacking what you have packed repacking what you have unpacked... The new $ feature is three poems by Heidi Zeigler (@zeegirl.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/feature/heid...