Happening now!

7pm tonight, EST! 7 of our newest Public School Poets share work from this issue--and also get to meet each other face to face for the first time, after writing essays on each others' poetry!

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memento guy tattoo "close your eyes when denethor is eating a tomato"

Def part of the "desperately opening classroom windows in January" group

Listen: there was a goat’s head hanging by ropes in a tree. Before we get into the rest of this poem, if you like this content, please hit the like button and consider subscribing. It really helps the channel. My metrics show just 27% of my channel viewers are subscribers, and I really want to be ab

This...can happen? Every thermostat in every classroom I've taught in has been fully cosmetic! Sometimes they give a nice lil hiss for effect

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Yellowish rocks comprise most of this outcrop scene. Darker, brown rocks cap the outcrop. Trees and vegetation are widespread. There is a person for scale at centre left.

See those yellowish rocks?

They're about 1.4 billion years old.

The rocks on top are around 500 million years old.

This is part of the Great Unconformity, where almost a billion years of Earth's history is just... missing.

So many cool examples from our latest issue, but I'll just post here @mehpoeting.bsky.social writing about @sallypoet.bsky.social's poetry, and Sally's essay on Stephen Legget's poetry. www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/sally-...

www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/steven...

What's a day as a teacher without verifying my identity with passwords with numbers with fingerprints every time I switch devices close tabs open tabs close my laptop reopen my laptop think about one class and then another class in succession blink too hard or look away from the screen for more than

For National Poetry Month I would like to invite people to go outside without a phone and notice when two things are trying to resemble each other. You don't even have to write it down.

If ya'll could boost my game I'd very much appreciate it!

Trying to get to 50 reviews for the Steam algorithm. I already have glowing reviews from the likes of Raigan Burns (N++) and Daniel Linssen (Leap Year) and just need a handful more.

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So excited for this issue! If you haven't seen our unique style of poetry-essay exchange, come check us out

Issue #6 is live! Come for popping-out-of-a-hole-screaming vibes, luminescent creatures yanked into nightmare worlds that still use their muscled brilliance to sing, and for our ten gorgeous poets. @mehpoeting.bsky.social
@sallypoet.bsky.social

www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

ALERT Donald Fagen sends William Gibson youtube music links!

I love discovering that two very cool artists in separate spheres are secret friends

"Stop One Clock" and feel this sharp dagger of love poem from @jessicawalsh.bsky.social

www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jessic...

6 days until Issue 6!

Have you read the roundontini in Issue #5 from @kavetchnik.bsky.social yet?! Be brave. It's for Dallas, Who Bites

www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/jen-ka...

No exaggeration, this is the first poem I've had published in over a decade. What a total delight, to come back to poetry in a journal filled with so many writers I admire!

Posting Issue 5 poems every day until the launch of Issue 6! Here's Carrie Strand Tebeau's electrifying Wolf Day sequence. "You do not choose / the Wolf Day. You have no say."

www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/carrie...

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Congratulations to Shou Jie Eng, whose poem "Shoreline Sketch" (Issue #4) is a 2026 Best of the Net finalist!

"they dug their feet into the sand towards the fire towards the fire the sand was/ warmer they noticed their feet noticed"

www.publicschoolpoetry.com/shou-jie-eng

A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work.

Let's talk about it. 🧵

Issue 5 Contributors | Public School Poetry

Finalizing our contributor's page for Issue #6! This page is always something special and this next issue's gonna melt some cold hearts. Our poets are invited to share a current photo or a photo from some other time gone by.

Bios from our current issue ❤️ www.publicschoolpoetry.com/contributor-...

Dale Elfhardt

Rivendale

All this Matt Berry voiceover is really making me miss What We Do in the Shadows

I couldn't afford an AI companion, so I got a Magic 8 Ball to carry around with me and now we're in love.

if I was running a wizard speakeasy I’d call it STAFF ONLY

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Love to see Severian get sword-hunk status!