On Short Poems and how they can say so much

New Substack up in which I share three of my favourite short poems. open.substack.com/pub/creative...

Be Brave. Be a Poet. Renee Nicole Good was, among other things, a poet.

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Image of beach stones with the quote "your eyes at once sparkly beach stones, raindrops & holes" by Susan Michele Coronel

From “To the Ukulele Player on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida Who Asks Passersby, What Are You Grateful For?” by Susan Michele Coronel

#SWWIMEveryDay #Poem #WomenPoets #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #SusanMicheleCoronel #ThursdayPoem

I love this essay—and yes, there’s milkweed in Illinois, but not as much as when I was a child due to herbicides, alas.

Thank you so much, Sarah. ❤️

A wonderful Zoom poetry reading today by @katierpoet.bsky.social, coming at us from Scotland with several remarkable, devastating poems from her new collection, Our Bodies Are Mostly Water (May 2025, Cornerstone Press.) An unforgettable tribute to her late sister & the love they shared.

But... also love, also beauty

New Substack up that acknowledges the awfulness but also acknowledges the beauty. #poem #poetry #onlineworkshop open.substack.com/pub/creative...

2025 SWEET POETRY CONTEST RESULTS We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2025 Sweet Poetry Contest. Ninefinalists (one potential finalist had been withdrawn) were selected from a strong pool by poetryco-editor…

So happy to announce the winners and finalists of Sweet's 2025 Poetry Contest! You'll be able to read them on June 17. As the final judge, I can tell you they are amazing poems. #poems #poetry sweetlit.org/2025-sweet-p...

A vibrant illustration of a diverse group of people, including men and women of different ethnicities, engaged in various activities related to social media, such as using smartphones, laptops, and tablets, set against a colorful background.

two great new Natalie Warther shorts today!

here's one.

click through for the other!!

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I'm thrilled that my lyric memoir about my sister and grief is up for preorder from Cornerstone Press! #siblinggrief #sistergrief #grief #memoir secure.payconex.net/paymentpage/...

A Beautiful House with a Hot Tub and Pool I miss my magnolias, miss my maples, think

Amazing poem from Academy of American Poets today. So many lines to love!

"I miss my magnolias, miss my maples, think
Where did they go?, think, Oh yes, to the past,
that place where everything goes and can I visit?
No, but also Yes..."

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#poem #poetry #loss

14 Houses in 10 Days on leaving and adventure

New Substack up on moving to the UK. I know that platform is problematic, and I'm happy to hear about a different one that you've used and liked. But anyway, here it is: open.substack.com/pub/creative...

Anya Kirshbaum Press Play to hear the author read their piece. Letter From the Edge of Every Known Thing Dear Ginkgo, are we so different? You at the edge of undress—I, undone, unkempt, infant at my breast. I hav…

I have a couple of poems out in the lovely journal: Sweet: A Literary Confection. Many thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social and @chelsdingman.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their important work keeping the poetry fires burning. #poem #poetry

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“Beginning again and again is the actual practice.” —Sharon Salzberg #buddhism #meditation

You were hilarious! And you made me fresh salsa.

Eating Poetry what we nurture becomes part of us

New Substack up—and yes, I know that platform is problematic. Still I hope you’ll take a look. It’s free! open.substack.com/pub/creative...

"Those days you wait like a dog at the door"
Three striking poems -- absolute heart punchers -- from @katierpoet.bsky.social | #poetry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Katherine Riegel — Does It Have Pockets What Life is Like Here on Earth | My Entrance to the Otherworld is in Illinois | She Couldn’t Understand My Words but I Still Wish I Could Unsay Them

I am so grateful to Does It Have Pockets for publishing 3 of my poems! The 1st is the title poem of my new manuscript, the 2nd expresses my longing for the farm where I grew up, and the 3rd is about the dog park. #poem #poetry #poems www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe...

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I'm so grateful to have 2 new poems up at Bear Paw Arts Journal. The links go to each one, so I'll post them separately. There's such beautiful work in this issue, writing that affirms the dignity and beauty of everyday life. #poem #poetry www.bearpawartsjournal.com/poetry2/reig...

To Know the Dark by Wendell Berry To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.

Happy winter solstice!

Awesome to wake up to my poem, "Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness" from my new book, The Grief Committee Minutes, on Verse Daily today!
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This is from a poem by Andrew Lang called “Ballade of the Midnight Forest” and I now recognize that my true childhood ambition was to be a 19th century Scottish poet and folklorist (and also a wood nymph of course).

Thanks so much!

Read this brilliant poem! Dog parks are good places to think.
www.versedaily.org/2024/howefar...

...This year is closing down.
What I lost I will
never regain...

#poem #poetry #dogs

I'm recommending my friends' books! Today it's a wonderful poet who was part of a workshop of grad students I led years ago. Buy his book--and discover others at the wonderful Meadowlark Press! www.meadowlarkbookstore.com/s/stories/tu... #poetry

My gorgeous boy welcomes everyone who’s new here with sugar-face contentment. May you have your favorite ball and a hooman to cuddle.

poem by Susan L Leary

You know a poetry book's great when you just open it at random and the poem is really good. random pick from @susanlleary.bsky.social Dressing The Bear.

I Buy a Star Projector - Katherine Riegel It wasn’t easy. It isn’t now. It won’t be, ever.

New poem on Poets Reading the News! It’s about perspective. www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/11/i-bu... #poem #poetry

Photographer Kristie Kohn's 2024 aurora photo was photobombed by a ghostly image of her cat. The photo shows stars, above red and then bright green aurora, and the cat shadow, looking right, is in the bottom third of the photo, with the aurora appearing to go right through her

Photographer Kristie Kohn says

"While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo."