"I became suddenly very aware of the fact that all of this was happening around me, and I didn’t understand any of it. How could I? I don’t speak bird."
Fascinating interview on communication in the natural world w/ @markantonyowen.com
I think my next #PoemsAloud might respond to the convo here: 🐦⬛
Prynne played an important indirect role in my own education. Around 1992, on the Usenet group rec.arts.books, I made an acquaintance in England, and he sent me some books. One was a Prynne Collected, and I was fascinated, at least by the earlier work I could partly understand.
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Our editor @hardygriffin.bsky.social went to Tokyo with his daughter—and we all need to read this sojourn of love and memory. #travel #essay
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Why would anyone ask a chatbot, which pulls info from all over the place, when there are really good health sites like MayoClinic and WebMD, as well as medical societies and government institutes? I understand wanting to do research before asking a doctor, but be sensible.
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Since moving to the Midwest 20 years ago, drought has been a constant risk. It affects agriculture, horticulture, water supply, animal life, even things like the foundations of buildings. You also feel it in your soul—a sharp anxiety, waking every day desperate for rain.
Lovely to have two new poems in the Amsterdam Review. Both will be included in my new collection Coracle - out Oct. 2026 w @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Can attest to this! I have relatives who still cannot contain themselves from bad-mouthing them in the strangest of ways. Like, “mmmm this pizza is good—you’d never get it at the Obamas!” The obsession is always on the tip of the tongue, waiting to burst forth.
Some recent events have derailed the train of my need to set goals and achieve them. I hope to stay permanently off track from here on out.
Lovely to be accepted into the Sunday Mornings At The River anthology 'For Those Who Despair' with my poem "Mythopoeia".
This will be my *third outing with the press. They produce gorgeous anthologies featuring poetry of urgency to our age.
My thanks to EIC Rebecca Rijsdijk ❤️
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Print featuring a white and gold sunrise through a woodland with tree trunks in silhouette and a forest floor of light purple flowers
'Bluebell Woodland' by contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt
San Xurde volverá a celebrarse en Asturias el próximo 23 de abril
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Me, hugging a tan baby goat in rural Missouri. There this one is a twin.
Everything’s better with a baby goat!
Converted factory in Missouri brown brick, Columbia Missouri
I’m at the Unbound Book Fest in Columbia MO and I have come down with such a bad cold, I can’t attend anything😡I get sick every time I take a little vacation.
The door is open for submissions of poetry—like this open pair of French doors looking out on a gentle green landscape with far away blue hills.
Poets, it’s that time again. I’m poetry editor at @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social, and I am considering work for our Summer and Fall/Winter 2026 issues. Please send 4 to 5 poems in a single Word doc or Google Docs link (no PDFs, please) to dana.cablestreet@gmail.com 💙📚 #poetry
And look at this one from the series—love it! cablestreet.org/issue-11-tab...
A billion bucks a minute just doesn’t buy what it used to.
I am thrilled that @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social has published three longer pieces of mine on the wonderful @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social They’re all #visions Millennial is urban, Worlds’ Ends concerns places & histories, & The Mark is folkloric. @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #poetrycommunity
Give a listen (and a read) to brunson’s amazing poems in Cable Street—curated by the great @janschmidtwriter.bsky.social 💙📚#poetry
and then the wind came up
That is a really interesting take on it💙
It’s an amazing poem start to finish.
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster. —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop with some good advice:
What?! I live about 30 miles east of this. Why do people STILL not care about what these things are doing to the environment and to communities?
A former factory building—now co-ops. It features a decorative copper overhang and geometric tiling under the windows
We published an amazing translation from English to Turkish by Vuslat D. Katsanis of work by Leonard Schwartz—with a great essay on the translation process.
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Great new poems by Jyotish Gopinathan in @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social • these poems get to the very core of our sad world.
rose-pink variety double bloom Granny's Bonnet variety of Columbine
Good morning. Some pretty 🌱 Aquilegia 'Dorothy Rose' (Columbine) to start our day.
Heartbroken. I had a few friends that went to Hampshire (we all graduated from high school in 1975-76), and it was ideal for creative and motivated students. Our nation just can’t seem to support or even make space for independent thought anymore.
