I've enjoyed this #poemoftheweek this morning and the link to
#MilesBurrows reading The fun of poetry shouldn't be forgotten #carolrumens
#poetsofbluesky
#poetry
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This poetry playlist is part of the Poetry Coalition's 2025 summer programming, inspired by the theme Poetry & Shelter.
#PoetryAndShelter #PoetryCoalition #PoetryPlaylist #SplitThisRock #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Poems
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An amazing poetry film too
#naomifoyle
#carolrumen
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of JoAnn Balingit in a circular frame. JoAnn Balingit, a Kapampángan German American woman, smiles. She has olive skin, black hair, and large round glasses. Behind her are blue ocean, sky, and palm fronds.
the invisible birth waters
rain from our past
already bewater our future
Poem of the Week is “Water Birth" by JoAnn Balingit @balingit.bsky.social
The poem is available as audio and text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4eH1E4y
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets
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We’re delighted that ‘Poem in which I'm a transnational drug smuggler’ by Bethany Handley has been chosen as the Guardian's #PoemOfTheWeek. Carol Rumens describes ‘Cling Film’ as “a collection that lifts many veils and lets in much-needed light and air” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Ashley Hajimirsadeghi in a circular frame. Ashley Hajimirsadeghi stands outside. She has medium-length brown hair and wears a buttoned-up short sleeve blue blazer.
If I could do my life all over again, I would leave footprints in / the mud every time a storm drifted past.
Poem of the Week: “APOTHEOSIS: DROUGHT" by Ashley Hajimirsadeghi. The poem is available as audio & text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/3IiBWXY
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Ajanaé Dawkins in a circular frame. Ajanaé Dawkins has brown skin with curly afro textured hair. She wears a blue and white striped dress and red glasses. Behind her is a soft pink wall with a black-and-white photograph in a frame. Ajanaé's chin rests on her hand and she's looking directly at the camera.
O anything is possible in water’s memory. we could be ‘bout anything.
Poem of the Week: “Last Century, Last Week: Holy Will" by Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social
Poem available as audio & text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4jTJIot
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Yanyi in a circular frame. Yanyi smiles slightly toward the camera as a beam of morning sun shines on him. He has short black hair and wears glasses with thin black frames and a navy blue collarless buttoned shirt.
Then the dish in the air touches
down at its place on red carpet
Poem of the Week: “Immigration" by Yanyi @yanyiii.com
The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/45WBzMw
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets
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As the incredibly dangerous & flawed Assisted Dying Act has passed it's third reading this week's #poemoftheweek, D!GN1T@RSE™ is a reflection on a society that has lost it's moral compass.
#poetry
#writerscommunity
#poetrycommunity
#poem
#poet
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Adrian Gaston Garcia in a circular frame. Adrian Gaston Garcia speaks into a microphone on a stand. He has short, neatly groomed dark hair and a trimmed beard. He wears a simple black V-neck shirt and a small star-shaped earring in his left ear.
Content Notice: cancer
I cannot remember the last time we held hands
Poem of the Week: “Cutting my dad’s fingernails" by Adrian Gaston Garcia. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4lbHq53
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #DCPoets
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Jzl Jmz in a circular frame. Jzl Jmz, a Black woman, poses with one hand at her cheek and the other on the side of her neck. Jzl wears her hair in long waves with bangs, a black-and-white leather jacket off her shoulders, a silver septum nose ring, and several rings.
I AM NOT / ALWAYS FIXED - I AM
TRYING ALWAYS NEW
MOVEMENTS
Poem of the Week is “Obligation #25 (TRANSACTION)" by Jzl Jmz. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4mOLwlh
@jxzzhndz.bsky.social
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This week's #poemoftheweek introduces a new sc@bart character you'll be hearing a lot more of, Lesley Miserable. She's a kind of everyone struggling to navigate a largely indifferent & hostile world. I hope you like her, or at least, empathise with her.
#poetry
#writerscommunity
#poem
#poet
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Lehua M. Taitano in a circular frame. Lehua M. Taitano, a CHamoru woman with dark, wavy, shoulder-length hair, smiles warmly while standing outdoors in front of lush green foliage. She wears a black shirt and a black blazer decorated with a white daisy floral pattern.
Soft numb resilience, wing me a story. Scratch me a skin poem. Chase the sparrow’s tail, roll the boulder.
Poem of the Week is “Cedar Waxwing, Pyracantha II" by Lehua M. Taitano. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: bit.ly/4jvygPJ
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A heartfelt poem. Thank you, Larry Jaffe. #publication #beatlife #poemoftheweek
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This week's #poemoftheweek Splitbrain is about digital exhaustion, commercialised interactions and a brain that's always on alert.
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Hope your Sunday is as sweet as this Wendy Cope poem! 🍊
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#poetry #poemoftheday #poemoftheweek #happypoem #favoritepoem
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Quenton Baker in a circular frame. In a black-and-white portrait, Quenton Baker faces forward. They wear glasses and a black hoodie.
Content Notice: grief; refers to Transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans
every cloud that rolls off the ocean / pours my dead on me
Poem of the Week is “I AM IN THE WEATHER" by Quenton Baker. The poem is available as audio & text at The Quarry: bit.ly/3Z1WSbs
#Poetry #PoemoftheWeek #Poem
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This week's #poemoftheweek is something different, a Manifesto for a new art movement, Sc@bart It's Year Zero, all previous art is void, it eschews beauty & technique revelling in speed, simplicity & edge. Sc@bart is for everyone or no-one there's no in-between. Enjoy (or not)
#poetry
#scabart
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Malcolm Friend in a circular frame. Malcolm Friend smiles and looks toward the viewer. He wears a bright blue Seattle Mariners baseball hat and a black t-shirt. In the background there is a Puerto Rican food truck.
We are relearning
Spanish or we are practicing Spanglish or
we are remembering that language
is just another tool of empire.
Poem of the Week is “Diasporican Rechristening" by Malcolm Friend. Poem as audio & text: bit.ly/3ZjfAv5
@friendlypoet.bsky.social
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#poemoftheweek
this will not be read
A poem
folded
before the ink dries,
hidden
behind my ribs.
no one ever looks there,
too quiet,
too dark.
but still the words
rustle
like moths
chewing through
the fabric
of who I was.
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a black-and-white photo of Cass Garison in a circular frame. Cass Garison smiles. They wear a black baseball-style hat, a white t-shirt, and a brown jacket. In the background there is a concrete wall and a large window.
Adore the stranger / outside the bar who blew smoke into my face, // the bees humming yesterday’s desire, the cloud / of sparrows that tangle away from recognition.
Poem of the Week: “On Reverence” by Cass Garison. Poem as audio & text: bit.ly/4kcoouX
#Poetry #PoemoftheWeek @cassgarison.bsky.social
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a black-and-white photo of Mia S. Willis in a circular frame. Mia S. Willis, a Black non-binary person with a close-cropped haircut, looks into the camera. They wear rimless glasses, a dark collared shirt, and a gold chain.
Content Notice: state execution
today i am tired of sonnets that are not bricks
today i am tired of villanelles that are not hammers
Poem of the Week is “for imam khaliifah ibn rayford daniels.” by Mia S. Willis. Poem as audio & text: bit.ly/3YfIgVk
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Taylor Alyson Lewis in a circular frame. Taylor Alyson Lewis, a Black man with shoulder-length dreadlocks, stands on a beach during golden hour. He wears brown, rectangle-framed glasses, a collared, navy-blue short-sleeve shirt, and a white t-shirt. His hair blows in the wind.
don’t sink, begged the islanders, at the
very moment their skin had given them
everything, when to breathe was freedom
only Blackness afforded
Poem of the Week is “milk river” by Taylor Alyson Lewis. The poem is available as audio & text at The Quarry: bit.ly/4jXaz3t
#Poetry #PoemoftheWeek #Poem
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#poemoftheweek
2025-1984=This
Greyed clouds glitch—
today's sky is out of service.
A child draws trees
they’ve never seen.
Uniformed pigeons
peck propaganda crumbs,
while hope queues
at an emptied vending machine
marked "Try Again Later."
Submission comes
in subscription tiers.
#poem
#poetry
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#poemoftheweek
#poemofthemonth
Insignificant I
I
a mere
pixel
flick—
er
ing
in /
out
of
being seen
the world
b l i n k s
and I
( )
remain
an outline
of
dustspeech
on
a
white-gnawed
wall
#poem
#poetry
#writerscommunity
#writing
#cubist
#writer
#cubistpoetry
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Jalynn Harris in a circular frame. Jalynn Harris, a Black femme with facial piercings, wears a yellow shirt and a mischievous smile while holding one finger on their glasses.
“I am not alone!” I say out loud. The knocking in my heart / grows fierce as fungi out the mouth of a dead tree.
Poem of the Week is “Druid Hill Park, Baltimore MD” by Jalynn Harris. #Poem text & audio is available at The Quarry: A Social Justice #Poetry Database: bit.ly/3QY7jrV
#PoemoftheWeek
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Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Samia Saliba in a circular frame. Samia Saliba sits at a table in front of a turquoise wall resting her chin on her fist and gazing to the left. She is wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a lavender tank top, and has a tattoo of an orchid on her arm.
history comes to me begging in a nightmare / but i’ve never had enough hands to hold on.
Poem of the Week is “historicity” by Samia Saliba. Poem text & audio is available at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4c7nM6J
@samiathermopolis.bsky.social
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#poemofthemonth
Here's my attempt at a humorous, imagist, metaphorical, inventive poem for #toptweettuesday
Title:" The Optimist’s Guide to Freefall"
#poem
#poetry
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That being said we will post hash tags beneath our #volunteer posts such as: #GameOfTheWeek #BookOfTheWeek #ArtistOfTheWeek #PlantOfTheWeek #FungiOfTheWeek #HikeOfTheWeek #ProtestOfTheWeek #PhotoOfTheWeek #MotorcycleOfTheWeek #WorldRecordOfTheWeek #SongOfTheWeek #PoemOfTheWeek etc...etc....etc...
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