Today's #NationalPoetryMonth selection is Theories of Time and Space by Natasha Trethewey from her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Native Guard. Find copies of this collection and more on our shelves in store or online at SquareBooks.com.
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A poem of mine published in The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls:
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empty teacup
what mornings
used to taste like
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“I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.”
#SundaySentence from “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi (@noorhindi.bsky.social)
Via Read a Little Poem on Facebook. @readalittlepoem.bsky.social
#SmallPoemSunday
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Lightning
striking a chord
on the piano
in the lower chamber
of my heart...
no key
for this lock
homesick
for a land
that never was
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street crossing
the intersection
of our shadows
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In a leafless shadow the line between then and now melts into snow.
Thanks to editor Katie Dozier for including me in the 2026 One Art’s Haiku Anthology oneartpoetry.com/2026/04/17/o...
every word out bracing itself ants
waking
to a setting sun
a dream I’ve dreamed before
how slow unstirred sugar dissolves
in tea
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the d-rift of daffodils from good old fields filling in…
#Oulens
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Is there a rift between the myself and myself, or do I keep holding on like it's a kite, like there's still a string between us?
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When I lived in Cambodia, I taught at a village school near Angkor Wat, which was my student's playground. They showed me a temple in which, if you stood in the right place and hit your chest with your fist, the temple would ring like a bell.
when I strike my chest
the old temple rings
it’s as the children said
in just the right place
you turn to a bell
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boombox caravan
the maples
responding in red
In the latest issue of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social , thanks to the editors @pippaesque.bsky.social et al !
#SenryuSunday
prunejuicesenryu.com/2026/04/01/i...
Today, we are featuring a haiga from one of our favorite contributors, Debbie Strange, for Issue 48.
Read more haiga and the rest of the issue here: www.prunejuicesenryu.com
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PJ is happy to announce the winner of Best in Issue for Issue 48. Congratulations Marianne!
Marianne can be found on IG as @ms.haiku
Read more of Issue 48 here:
prunejuicesenryu.com
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This issue is 🎇🔥
Thanks to editors Orrin Préjean and Pippa Phillips @pippaesque.bsky.social for including my poem in Prune Juice Issue 48.
I see quite a few familiar names. Congratulations to all!
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My latest in Asahi:
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Included in Prune Juice Journal, issue 48: a haiga.
Cutouts. Mixed Media.
(2/5)
Thanks to the Prune Juice editors Orrin Prejean and @pippaesque.bsky.social Pippa Phillips for including my poem in issue #48
wintered out
the distance
of to be
You can download and read the issue here prunejuicesenryu.com/wp-content/u...
I have an article in the latest issue of Prune Juice about Japanese #senryu that don't conform to the 5-7-5 tradition. Thank you to the editorial team @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social. Feel free to check out the issue here:
prunejuicesenryu.com/2026/04/01/i...
It's not so much that senryu only focuses on human nature or foibles, but that its focus is the human rather than the natural world, while haiku's focus is on nature. So your poem does fit that, and it's suggestive of more than it's explicitly about, which makes it linger in your mind. Great work!