POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social ) "where contestants had to pretend to be living statues, staying very still as pigeons landed on their heads and arms." stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/ #Poem

POEM 281: "Nostalgia, 1997" by Natalie Marino (@nataliemarino.bsky.social) "I see myself young and cunning because the war is over and I can go wherever I want. I walk away before the end" stonecirclereview.com/nostalgia-19... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Before the Event" by Garth Pavell stonecirclereview.com/before-the-e...

Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

POEM 280: "What Matters" by Camille Newsom "picnic phrases like why believe and when is soft-and-dead coming to hold our stupid hands" stonecirclereview.com/what-matters/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

I have a poem in the new issue of @RogueAgent.bsky.social. Thanks to Jill, Jen, and Kate for putting it out into the world. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lpotts

i wrote this poem at a really fraught, vulnerable time in my life that has only intensified in some ways since writing this. it still remains one of my favorite things i have ever written.

POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social) "the pulse my body so spitefully insists upon is surging and burning and twisting through every vessel and then some like sneaking out like letting go" stonecirclereview.com/all-night/ #Poem #Poetry

RA 128 is here! Ft poetry by Emily R. Daniel @haleydirenzo.bsky.social Heather Emmanuel @loriaharris.bsky.social Nadeen Murhaf Maida, Chenxi Meng, @carynmg.bsky.social @leepotspoet.bsky.social Sonya Schneider, and @fairingforward.bsky.social w art by Donald Patten // rogueagentjournal.com/issue128

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Live Inside the Burn [American sonnet in American sentences]" by Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/live-inside/

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Dame School" by Damaris West stonecirclereview.com/dame-school/

So I started writing my life one golden shovel at a time—and @stonecirclereview.bsky.social published this one yesterday. All the rest of you poets help me be brave. Thanks, y’all 💕

NEW POEM 278: "heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social) "words can’t paint everything this side of the glass :: blood comes with its own poetry & each line leaks iron & loneliness" stonecirclereview.com/heart-as-dou... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

POEM 277: "How Can You Have Any Pudding..." by Susan Grimm (@sjgrimm.bsky.social) "The dead crowd the table thickly, criticize our meat. They give / off a low dark buzz. Floating like stodgy balloons, they wobble- / perch on their usual chairs." stonecirclereview.com/how-can-you-... #Poem #Poetry

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window (and so slowly you unwind me ’til I fall apart)" by Ankh Spice (@seagoatscreams.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/snapped-tapes/

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "That Christmas I Ate Moonshine Cherries and Became a Fortune Teller" by Beth Gilstrap (@bettysueblue.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/that-christm...

POEM #276: "Keepsakes" by Lana Hechtman Ayers (@lanaayers23.bsky.social) "what the heart holds it holds despite rebuttals from blurred photos home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws & there are chrysanthemums growing in the past that move like a storm blowing in" stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes

Your Sunday needs this. Really. Trust me.

Some of my favorite signs from today's #NoKings protest.

A lot more people here this time. Much more energetic too. #NoKings

NEW POEM #275: "Northern Midsummer Night" by Arda Ohannessian "On the slow deep shoulder of your hill cedar tree moon silhouette and the bear's nocturnal climb is deliberate and slow" stonecirclereview.com/northern-mid... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

🙏 #Poetry -- This poem is also collected in *Becoming Altar*, soon to release from @subpresspoetry.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing it!

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "So It Goes" by Kyla Houbolt (@luaz.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/so-it-goes/

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "There’s a guy in my friend’s group chat whose texts about making plans always get ignored" by Zoe Reay-Ellers (@zreayellers.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/theres-a-guy/

NEW POEM #274: "Bested by Charismatic Megafauna" by Christa Fairbrother (@christafairbrother.bsky.social) "I told him I've been to Australia, pet the koalas, and they're really not soft, but scratchy. They smelled like greasy, grey linens." stonecirclereview.com/bested-by/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King "But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles" stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/ #Poem #Poetry

NEW POEM #272: "Lying at your grave," by Christian Paulisich "and say you rise through six feet of dandelions and dirt, the sewers rushing through you now like rivers and byways to a place better than this, or worse?" stonecirclereview.com/lying-at-you... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception. -William Blake

Aotearoa poet Joel LeBlanc has been nominated for Best of the Net 2026 for his magical poem ‘in my dreams i saved us’ Published in Stone Circle Review @cottageinwood.bsky.social @stonecirclereview.bsky.social stonecirclereview.com/in-my-dreams/

Very honoured to be nominated for Best of Net 2026 💚 Thanks @stonecirclereview.bsky.social

NEW POEM #271: "The Idea of Lightning" by Kimberly Gibson-Tran (@kdawn999.bsky.social) "A crack in the crypt, that jolt against mortality, the way the iris closes in. The air is a marriage of mud and the fine fine dust that spills in with the morning." stonecirclereview.com/the-idea-of-... #Poem

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below). And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck. #BotN #BestOfTheNet

Touched to learn my erotic ecosonnet was nominated for Best of the Net by @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social 🩶

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

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! 🎶💯👀🤩☄️

🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open. No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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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