A row of colorful poetry spines on a bookshelf
This #NationalPoetryMonth, I’m celebrating by sharing a poem I love from an indie-published poetry collection or literary magazine every day! Read on for poems ⬇️
Have you rsvp'ed yet? Come NAWP it up with me and these wonderful poets!
A little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens is set to expire, and we’re worried some Democrats could join the GOP to reauthorize this civil liberties disaster.
Urge your Members of Congress to vote NO on any legislation that reauthorizes Section 702.
Trump posted an image on “Truth Social” that appears to depict him as Jesus Christ.
The President of the United States has lost (what’s left of) his mind.
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
What on earth is Mike Johnson thinking? When does life go back to "normal" at our nation's airports?
🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today.
That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings
No ICE.
No war.
No Kings.
R&M is delighted to announce that contributor Ziqr Peehu’s poem "Every Grave Starts as a Hole" has been included in the 2026 Best of the Net Anthology! Ziqr’s volta is a masterclass on how to end an already brilliant poem.
With gratitude to the good folks at: @sundresspub.bsky.social
The 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Check out all of this year's award-winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art plus our full list of 2026 finalists! https://bestofthenetanthology.com/
🚨 Some Democrats might fully cave in the DHS funding fight and back a new "deal" struck by Trump and GOP senators to fund Border Patrol and some ICE operations — potentially without any reforms.
That means we need to flood Democratic phonelines today.
![(a graph showing the event totals from No Kings 1 in June 2025 [1,400 events], No Kings 2 in October 2025 [2,096 events], and No Kings 3 in March 2026 [3,000 events]) WE’RE CURRENTLY AT 3,000 NO KINGS EVENTS AND COUNTING!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrfwruhud4ovela3oe6isre5/bafkreib75kdp7rjrvm3pqqfmmlu5agkes2ejeyke4vgho7svcw4wkepsva)
(a graph showing the event totals from No Kings 1 in June 2025 [1,400 events], No Kings 2 in October 2025 [2,096 events], and No Kings 3 in March 2026 [3,000 events]) WE’RE CURRENTLY AT 3,000 NO KINGS EVENTS AND COUNTING!
Saturday is already set to be the biggest No Kings Day yet — and like the last two, we’re expecting a massive increase in interest this week. Chip in if you can to help us vet new events, provide safety and security trainings and support protests around the nation: secure.actblue.com/donate/nokin...
Today (3/20/26) is the last day to submit poems for our summer issue! These pages are waiting for you and they're already glowing solstice-bright.
rustandmoth.com/submit/
“I never got to hold her.”
Those are DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco's words. He was driving to visit his baby in the NICU when ICE detained him.
Juan told agents his DACA status. They said, "that doesn’t matter."
Trump is abandoning Dreamers.
Congress can't let this go on.
The SAVE Act has nothing to do with stopping voter fraud. It’s a poll tax to stop legal voters from casting their ballots.
It's how Trump is laying the groundwork to block certification of any election results he doesn’t like.
Tell your senators to vote NO: (202) 224-3121
[@brennancenter.org]
No wars of aggression.
No terrorizing our communities or yours.
No tyrants, no conquests, no kings.
Please join us on March 28 for the world-historic day of protest that this moment demands: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
Make sure you know your rights before taking to the streets on No Kings Day. Join an @aclu.org training to learn about your constitutional right to peacefully protest and best practices for reducing risks.
For the Student Who Said Grammar Doesn’t Matter When People Are Dying What can kill is unclarity. The misplaced modifier, for instance: Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. Did the wind have no hope? Clearly the writer meant, Having no hope, he wasn’t moved by the wind. But someone no doubt had told the writer about the passive voice, to avoid it at all costs, like passion, and the writer, feeling with a chill how costly life can be when we are passive (the lover’s last knock unanswered at the door), opted for this construction. Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. The difference is between mystery and confusion, between the wind’s stillness and a soul that won’t be opened. And why not? Why can’t the wind hope? I don’t know. I just know it matters. Everything matters. What is erasing what. Who is bombing whom. It took me all day to misunderstand correctly: Forgetting their children, the conquerors destroyed them. —Joseph Fasano
It matters.
We’re glad that Kristi Noem has been fired and she should face real accountability for DHS’ rampant violence.
But Noem’s firing doesn’t suddenly solve the crisis at DHS. Swapping personnel without changing course is not accountability — it’s a spin tactic. What we really need is structural change.
And another one I've been excited about out now from @rustandmoth.bsky.social rustandmoth.com/work/inherit...
#poem #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Whether you’re represented by Democrats or Republicans, it’s extra important for your Members of Congress to hear from you right now.
Urge your elected officials to use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate stop to Trump’s illegal war with Iran.
OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.
My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️
New #poetry from Robert Fillman: "The Other Side of Danger".
New #poetry from Betty Stanton: "Inherited Altars".
New #poetry from Trystan Popish: "Butter Baby".
New #poetry from Youtao Cao: "The Window".
