Photo of W.S. Merwin at Ezra Pound's birth house in Hailey, Idaho. Merwin has silver hair and is wearing a brown-green shirt. Photo credit: Seedsman from English Wikipedia.

In which we present "Vixen" by W.S. Merwin, quite possibly the most beautiful poem ever to be written about a fox.

This poem appears in Merwin's 1996 collection THE VIXEN published by Knopf.

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Governor Appoints Ellen Waterston for Second Term as Oregon's Poet Laureate - The Corvallis Advocate Governor Tina Kotek has appointed Ellen Waterston of Bend to a second term as Poet Laureate of Oregon. A celebrated poet/writer, educator and speaker who founded the Writing Ranch and the Waterston De...

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Taking Off the Front of the House: The Power of Humor in Poetry Join award-winning poet Ellen Bass in a special craft class exploring the gift of humor in poetry.

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Tuesday, April 21st, 2:30 - 4:30 PM PT

Online reading: ELLEN BASS "Taking Off the Front of the House: The Power of Humor in Poetry."

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Monday, April 20th, 7:00 PM CT

STEPHEN PAUL MILLER, Barbara Rosenthal, Francisco Delgado, Anthony Haden-Guest, and Dorothy Friedman August. Sulla Luna, 41 Carmine Street, NYC.

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Spring is for renewal,
summer is for living,
autumn is for abundance and growth,
winter is for grieving.

And here I am, through every season,
overthinking, overanalyzing,
always seeking out reason.

#poemsky #poetrysky

Poetry.com Join our active community of poets and poetry fanatics! Promote your poems, enter our monthly contests or explore our growing database of thousands of the best poetry around!

I've joined poetry.com and hellopoetry.com!

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And here: hellopoetry.com/@nomdelamer

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Celebrate Poetry Month by Author Machelle Berglund and 11 others Celebrate Poetry Month: 19 items for $25.00

Looking for some reads for #poetrymonth? Check out this awesome bundle below!

It has a lot of reads I'm excited to dive into!

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“Why We Are Still Singing Dylan” by Beck Duffield and Bob Dylan
Books available at most major booksellers.
#poetry #poetrysky #spokenword #protest #resist #nokings #fdt #bluecrew #fiftyfiftyone #iceout #freepalestine #antifascist

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Book 12 of 2026: “Conjuring the Hurricane” by Sarah Hanson, via ARC. Review will be on my website soon! 💙📚 #booksky #poetry #poetrysky

Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight,

For a meditative day, one of my favourite poems #poetrysky #doverbeach poets.org/poem/dover-b...

Drawing inspiration from these shades for everything we're creating. "Petrichor in Spring." New press, vernal vibe.

👇️ Drop an emoji that matches this mood.

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Day 6 of #NaPoWriMo2026 ✨

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Take Your Poet to School Week is observed annually starting the first Monday of April.

Throughout the week, students and teachers are encouraged to celebrate by bringing a paper cutout of a beloved poet into their classrooms.

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Monday Spelling Bee #nytspellingbee #spellingbee
#nytbee #nytsb #hivemind #Writers
#Words #WordGames #Puzzles
#Authors #WritingCommunity
#writersky #poetrysky #booksky
#artsky #creativesky
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6/ Other hashtags to follow on a Monday ( and every other day)

#BirdOfTheDay

#FoxOfTheDay

#TreeOfTheDay

#PlantSky

#FungiFriends

#BookOfTheDay

#BookSky

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6 of 8 #MondayHashtags

By the lake where silence gently lay,
Our laughter danced in fading light of day,
Reflections held the love we used to know,
Now ripples guard the dreams we let go.
#BlueSkyPoetry
#SkyPoets #Poetry #PoetsOfBlueSky #BraveWrite #Poem #ScreenWriter #poet #poetrysky #poetsky

Aeden Romeyn | Substack Wielding a pen against the darkness. Just trying to make sense of monsters through fiction, poetry, and art.

I really want to get off Instagram, so I’m trying out Substack! If you like my work and want to see more of it, check me out at substack.com/@pyrophobicp... There’s nothing there yet, but there will be soon! #writesky #booksky #poetrysky

The Opposites Game: Poems Amazon.com: The Opposites Game: Poems: 9781636283661: Constantine, Brendan: Books

Started reading Brendan Constantine's "The Opposites Game: Poems."
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Like the previous book of his #poems I read, "Calamity Joe," this has a bunch of good ones so far.
#books #reading #poetry @redhenpress.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky

The Library of America pamphlet for their edition of Hart Crane's Complete Poems and Selected Letters

"There are no stars tonight
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain."

- Hart Crane, "My Grandmother's Love Letters"

Such a touching poem.

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Forgiveness Is Arisen from the Garden’s Grave: Chrysostom’s Paschal Homily in Alliterative Verse ... Death is conquered by our Christ enduring it. / Hell is destroyed by His descent below ...

Before Easter quite rolls out the door ...

Kathryn Ann Hill's alliterative paraphrase of Chrysostom's Paschal Homily

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in the stroke of
a human heartbeat
we are played
by the algorhythm
enshittific(AI)tion

#♡ᝰ.🖋️
#poetrysky #poetry #poem
#blueskypoets #micropoetry
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It did not end.. ✍🏽 #poem #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poet #Blacksky #writingcommunity

Sharing this for the night scrollers. 💙📚 #poetrysky

To the Moon [fragment] Art thou pale for weariness

To the Moon [fragment]

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley #Moon #PoetrySky

Winter Window by C. Ryan Moniz In the morning’s quiet, calm and blue-grey, / when the raucous, black redwing is still away ...

"Winter Window" by C. Ryan Moniz, on Frogotten Ground Regained

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Located another poem from age 20, written during a stay at the Earthquake Center-slash-Franciscan monastery in Weston. Unsure why I dedicated it to, far as I can tell, the late Jim Binder, but they were one of my favourite persons at the time. (cont.)
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Lover With Damp Hair She is not perfect, not a mandala or yantra, more a rock on a cliff worn smooth by rain and snow in their innocent falling; a victim of gravity She is unsymmetrical, one breast slightly larger, a birthmark on her left hip. The eye jumps and holds each beautiful imperfection, tracing an outline; a gospel of soul She is perfectly imperfect as she untwirls the towel, her hair quietly falling, a drop of water shadowing the same silhouette; undefined as she crosses the kitchen One would not want her to be perfect, carved with chisel and awl, carefully curated, among the dead in a museum or garden. She is what brings perfection.

You know when you have people pop in your head from time to time? Have one of them and instead of fighting what the mind does I try to start a dialogue. Sometimes it is more successful than others. Was reading Stevens earlier, so obviously under the influence #PoetrySky #Poem #Poetry

White Owl Irruption: A poem in alliterative verse by Pam Clements First they come flying, fast as Finn at Finnsburgh, / when he laid swift sword · in steady lord's lap / looking for raw revenge ...

"White Owl Irruption" by Pam Clements, on Forgotten Ground Regained

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What the Peepers Say ... As we drift away on our echoes / we are the details / we are the distance and / all calling becomes our calling

"What the Peepers Say" by Margaret Noodin, on Forgotten Ground Regained, a poem in both English and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)

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The inaugural edition of Poet In Verse Journal is now available on Amazon. #poetrysky #poetry

So proud to have my poem "Matryoshka" published in this beauty! 🖤

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