Image of a Black woman with eyes closed, smiling, holding a cascade of white and yellow blossoms to her face with a quote in bright yellow, "let me enter another April with hope dancing between my ribs" by Jessica Thiru.

From “April as a synonym for beginning” by Jessica Thiru

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Image of massive stacks of books chained up and held behind bars with a quote in bright yellow "It looked like a balcony for a finch but turned out to be a jail for language" by Sarah Carleton.

From “Cajole: A Brief History” by Sarah Carleton

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Image of a woman's profile in silhouette against a glowing purple blue pink pattern from a ferris wheel. Quote in bright yellow "Love--enters the room like some special guest" by Summar West.

From “The Good News” by Summar West

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Image of a purple-pink night sky with neon pink daggers of lightning and a quote in neon yellow "You're putting God through the wringer right now" by Holiday Noel Campanella

From “Wringer” by Holiday Noel Campanella

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Image of a peach and grey cloud-filled sky and a tree and a field of sunflowers with sunlight coming through the tree leaves and clouds and a quote in bright yellow "I am saying the words, let me in, I want to shake the sky with you" by Miranda Beeson.

From “I Pretend To Know How Everything Would Unfold” by Miranda Beeson

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Image of two women standing beneath an orange light on cobblestone reflecting light and the quote in bright yellow "Delight and fear twinned in our hearts" by Veronica Kornberg

From “Susan, Gone” by Veronica Kornberg @vkornberg.bsky.social

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Image of lemon tree with green leaves and multiple bright yellow lemons against a bright blue sky with a quote in bright yellow "the most beautiful thing - the lemon tree, he salvaged from trash and replanted" by Gwenyth Wheat

From “Maybe you hold it like a fruit” by Gwenyth Wheat

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Image of an open journal on a desk with ribbon bookmarks hanging out and a window curtain in the background. A quote in bright yellow reads "your impossible words piled on the desk waiting to be pressed" by Jennifer Franklin

From “To Sylvia Plath” by Jennifer Franklin @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social

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Image of tree roots and branches with a quote in light blue "Who are those people born of strong, sinewy roots" by Michelle Geoga

From “Winnowed by Waters” by Michelle Geoga

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Image of a broken cigarette butt on pavement with the quote in bright blue "The bent butt is a broken bird" by Dorian Kotsiopoulos

From “Secondhand Smoke” by Dorian Kotsiopoulos

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Image of birds flying over a sunset or dawn beach, rose pink and turquoise sky and reflection in the water, with the quote in light blue "Even flying is born out of nothing" by Janet MacFadyen

From “Plum Tree Cento” by Janet MacFadyen

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Image of laundry drying in a window with palm trees with the quote in bright blue "She left them so long the water dried up" by Sarah Seybold

From “Depression” by Sarah Seybold

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Image of blue horizon with the quote in pale blue "finally blue spills like hope over the horizon" by Abigail Michelini

From “Morning Blue” by Abigail Michelini

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Image of giant iceberg over ocean with the text "the ocean hushes against ice-rocks, enduring the wind's chisel" by Taylor Light

From “The Icebergs” by Taylor Light

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Image of girl's profile with hair blowing around her in a moving car with the quote "Your child burns with venom. All you need is for her to stop hurting" by Jennifer L. Freed

From “While Driving Your Daughter” by Jennifer L. Freed

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Black and white image of woman with a finger over her lips with the quote "Sometimes the danger of disclosure overcomes the need to tell" by Ann Keniston

From “Self-Portrait in a Winter Landscape” by Ann Keniston

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Image of sparrow with the quote "perhaps i come back a small sparrow sit on the ledge" by Ronna Magy

From “Perhaps” by Ronna Magy

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Image of magenta velvet fabric with the quote "Leaving is trading one skin for another" by Sarah Carey

From “A Duplex for the Day After Retirement” by Sarah Carey

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Image of streetlamps with the quote "A hometown I have never been to before" by Yo Heekyung translated by Stine An

Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair 2025! @miamibookfair.bsky.social

From “November 4th” by Yoo Heekyung, translated by Stine An @stine.bsky.social

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Image of outer space with the quote "All my circulating garbage and nowhere for it to go" by Natalie Shapero

Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2025! @miamibookfair.bsky.social

From “Spacewalk” by Natalie Shapero

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Image of a horse with the quote "What's thrown, bounces, shakes everything?" by Hélèlene Sanguinetti tr. by Ann Cefola

From “Broken Songs That Remain 1 and 2” by Hélène Sanguinetti tr. by Ann Cefola

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Image of ocean and mountains and a quote that says "open to the infinite reaches of the planet she loves" by Béthany Pozzi-Johnson

From “She Who” by Béthany Pozzi-Johnson

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An image of apartment doorbells with the quote "my ears roar with the sounds of unending doorbells" by Sabina Khan-Ibarra

From “boys:” by Sabina Khan-Ibarra @sabinaki.bsky.social

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silhouette of a woman with a quote that says "the skills I'd conquered for her pleasure" by Alexis Rhone Fancher

From “Paternity” by Alexis Rhone Fancher

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Image of a river with rocks and trees and a quote that says "I want a name thick with salt and hard consonants" by Allison Zhang.

From “I Tell My Mother I Want Another Name” by Allison Zhang.

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Photo of a fox with quote "I am more animal than I'd ever sensed" by Summer Hardinge

From “What I Found Out in the ER” by Summer Hardinge

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Picture of hands with quote "I keep my troubles in my hands" by Iris Rosenberg

From “Muse” by Iris Rosenberg

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

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From “Hand Apologia” by Jennifer Martelli

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(Poetry) A Kiss Without Words Along with reams of short stories, and longer attempts at fiction, I’ve written countless poems over the decades. The bulk were written in my teens and twenties and I literally have folders full of…

This weeks featured poem is "A Kiss Without Words".

If you like the poem you can buy my Poetry Anthology, "Wild Card Symphonies", from Lulu (link on blog page).

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