A quote from Kathleen Jamie. The text is set against a white background and reads: 'This poor, vital, brimming young man, every inch the poet, fallen into the cataclysm of war, honoured and revered.' North Sea Poets. Before Hatred. Northseapoets.substack.com.' The Substack logo is in the bottom right corner.

A mural of a face against an earthly yellow backdrop. The text reads: 'Before Hatred. northseapoets.substack.com.' The Substack logo is in the bottom right corner.

Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊

Before Hatred – Kathleen Jamie discovers the poetry of Miguel Hernández

Read the post and subscribe: northseapoets.substack.com

#AmReading #PoetrySky

And if I’ve led a Dolly workshop for you before, I’m always happy to return—I’ve got a wide range of prompts and won’t reuse the ones from our previous session.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #DollyPoems #DollyParton #poets #poetry

Wildflowers Don’t Care Where They Grow: Barrelhousing with Dustin Brookshire about the Dolly Parton Poetry Workshop, Coming to the Barrelhouse Conference on 4/18/26 — Barrelhouse It was just about the easiest and fastest conference proposal in the history of our long-running Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on Writing. A Dolly Parton Poetry Workshop? At the conference hosted by the literary magazine that literally has a love of pop culture written into our DNA

If you’re curious about how my Dolly generative poetry workshops came together, you can check out my interview with @barrelhouse.bsky.social: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/wildflo....

#poetrysky #poetrynews #DollyParton #DollyPoems #poets

Everything is on 🔥, so self-promotion a little bit strange—but we have to keep showing up & doing our work & the things we love.

I’m grateful to Kerry Jensen Trautman for her thoughtful reflections on my Dolly Parton generative poetry workshop.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #DollyParton #DollyPoems

Flywheel

They rocketed to outer space but have to exercise in place.

#OneLine #poem #prompt #place @epistemiclit.bsky.social
#PoetryPrompt #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetrySky #Artemis

The City of Orlando wants your poems and will display the winners at MCO

orlandoshine.com/the-city-of-...

#OrlandoShine #OrlandoSky #FloridaSky #PoetrySky

Day 10 of #NaPoWriMo2026 ❤️🌌

dreamypoet.substack.com/p/good-grief...

#PoetrySky #KJDreamyPoet #PoetryCommunity #NaPoWriMo

“The maples show their smallest red,
a blush before the leaf unfolds,
as if the tree were not yet said,
still half inside the winter's holds.”
#poetrysky #poetry #beauty

open.substack.com/pub/thecabin...

As Melancholia Draws Nearer
(Øresundsbron III)

#BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #poetry #poetrysky #blueskypoets
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Rust in peace!

#nytspellingbee #nytsb #hivemind
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife
#WritingQ #AmWriting #poetrysky
#booksky #WordLovers #creativesky
#LanguageLovers#EduCommunity
@nytgames.bsky.social

Toxic?

#nytspellingbee #nytsb #hivemind
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife
#WritingQ #AmWriting #poetrysky
#booksky #WordLovers #creativesky
#LanguageLovers#EduCommunity
@nytgames.bsky.social

~unfiltered mind~

ink flows
in a steady drip
the words bloom,
my thoughts—
espresso

#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #micropoetry
#poetrycommunity

Bsky Fam Check out my Spoken Word Single on all music platforms song.link/ksunlight

#spokenwords #poetrysky #blueskypoets #sunlight #kexum #blacksky #blackcreatives #artists #dmvsky

Friday Spelling Bee
#nytspellingbee #spellingbee
#nytbee #nytsb #hivemind #Writers
#Words #WordGames #Puzzles
#Authors #WritingCommunity
#writersky #poetrysky #booksky
#artsky #creativesky
@nytgames.bsky.social

Good News: A poetry prescription to make people feel better

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4g...

#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

Professor of #Poetry talk with A.E. Stallings:

Lisping in Numbers: Poems that Count
🗓️30 April at 5.30pm
📍Theatre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford

All welcome! Tickets are free but booking is required.

#poetrycommunity #PoetrySky

english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/lispin...

Flowers whisper softly in the evening air,
While stars above weave dreams we both can share,
In silent hopes, our hearts begin to climb,
Toward love that blooms beyond the edge of time.
#BlueSkyPoetry
#SkyPoets #Poetry #PoetsOfBlueSky #BraveWrite #Poem #ScreenWriter #poet #poetrysky #poetsky

7/ Other hashtags to follow on a Friday ( and every other day)

#BirdOfTheDay

#FoxOfTheDay

#TreeOfTheDay

#PlantSky

#FungiFriends

#BookOfTheDay

#BookSky

#PoetrySky

7 of 9 #FridayHashtags

Gabriel: A Poem Amazon.com: Gabriel: A Poem: 9780804172875: Hirsch, Edward: Books

Read Edward Hirsch's "Gabriel: A Poem."
amzn.to/4tGCOIx
📖🖊️
An elegy for his son. Sprawling but also painfully intimate and personal. I hate that he had to write this.
#books #reading #poems #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

From erasure to epic: Rivera reclaims space in “Algarabía” UNL and Humanities on the Edge hosted Puerto Rican poet Roque Raquel Salas Rivera to read his most recent publication. The epic poem focuses on the experiences of trans and migrant people.

Poetry News →

tinyurl.com/bdze3wk6

#PoetryNews #PoetrySky

Poetry Recs from the New Poet Laureate of Hawai‘i, Lee A. Tonouchi “Da Pidgin Guerrilla” Lee A. Tonouchi shares the poems and books that have inspired him.

Poetry News →

www.honolulumagazine.com/poetry-recs-...

#PoetryNews #PoetrySky

#DailyHaikews

Today's Spoken Word News report covers the ceasefire, and all the bumps it hit already by the time I woke up thismorning...

#news #PoemsAloud #poetry #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #ceasefire
youtube.com/shorts/sVpwk...

Throughout National Poetry Month, we’re sharing writing prompts. Today, we’re revisiting a 2024 prompt from @evelynberrywriter.bsky.social.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #nationalpoetrymonth #writingprompt #poetry #poets

Setting mind, soul and body ablaze,
my skin ignites beneath your gentle reign;
lost in the pulse of sultry haze,
we dissolve into each other, blissful and untamed.

-sapphra

#poetrysky #vss365 #lyricalpoem #poetry

A quote from Kurt Vonnegut against a dark teal background. The text reads: 'That's the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.' – Kurt Vonnegut, The Paris Review' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.

– Kurt Vonnegut, The Paris Review

#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky

"Stillness of Fear"

God and Goddesses
Still ever be the like
Death and Life they fear

#poetry
#writer
#writersky
#poetrysky
#booksky
#philosophy
#spirituality
#haiku

"Creator"

God the Devil is broken, you see?
It made me to hate me.

#poetry
#writer
#writersky
#poetrysky
#booksky
#philosophy
#spirituality

To wake up and weep
Only to again repeat

#poetry
#writer
#writersky
#poetrysky
#booksky
#philosophy
#spirituality

"Emittance"

Time is simply created, measured, and trapped behind glass
It is never of this world but is a world to and of its own
Meant to stay separately trapped from man
Emittingly, mesmerizingly trapping man in its reflection while being alone

#poetry
#writer
#writersky
#poetrysky
#philosophy

Moving without thought, they might
Somehow bring me back, crashing down

#poetry
#writer
#writersky
#poetrysky
#booksky
#philosophy
#spirituality