Battles Or How do you watch someone you love live with chronic pain? by Jessica Arron Battles follow you where you goIn soft places where harm seems hidden butyou know it lingersin small shadowsThese battles follow you closelyAnd, oh, how you fight them!Soldiering through, onward and a...

"Battles or How do you watch someone you love live with chronic pain?" by Jessica Arron

www.fruithanginglow.com/post/battles...

#PoetryMonth

The Haiku Foundation An Indispensable Resource for English-language Haiku

‪It's International Haiku Day!!
thehaikufoundation.org

the leaves are budding
as sunshine warms new branches
shy in so much light

#April is #poetrymonth #haiku 📚💙

Your turn!!

It's International Haiku Day!!
thehaikufoundation.org

new leaves are budding
as sunshine warms new branches
shy in so much light

#April is #poetrymonth #haiku 📚💙

Your turn!!

Cover of the 2025 Denny Middle School poetry anthology.

It’s #CelebrateTeenLiteratureDay! We’re taking the opportunity to highlight the 2025 #DennyInternationalMiddleSchool poetry anthology.

You can purchase the book at: bit.ly/4cwyQLv

#Poetry #YouthPoetry #Seattle #TeenLiteratureDay #PoetryMonth

No excuse for boredom this weekend, #YEG word lovers!

#PoetryMonth

🌿 It’s National Poetry Month…

Poetry isn’t always meant to be understood—
it’s meant to be felt.

Read something slowly. Let it land. 💜
#PoetryMonth #Dreams

PROTOCOLS: An Erasure - Ayin Press PROTOCOLS: An Erasure transforms the world’s most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and langu...

P is for PROTOCOLS: AN ERASURE by @daniela-naomi.bsky.social (@ayinpress.bsky.social 2025)

“apparently the bearer of a whole mind may observe the whole world. Beware!”

ayinpress.org/protocols-an...

#poetrymonth #atoz

; how-to haiku - hike
mountain; reach peak; join cable
car line // high-five!

- 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱-𝘣𝘺-𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘶𝘦𝘴.

#haiku #haikuday #internationalhaikuday #haikupoetryday #poetrymonth #poetry #micropoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #writing #writingcommunity

Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter Gabriella Garcia. Text is “Milky river, the color of memory as you dip your ear to it."

Here's a peek at #JackStrawWriter Gabriella Garcia's poetry ahead of her reading on May 1st. Swing by and hear more!

Topographies (Excerpt)

#JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2026 #Poetry #RecordingStudio #SeattleRecordingStudio #Seattle #PoetryMonth #PoetryMonth2026

Sun rays shining through the dusty air, Breaking through the rain clouds, Are Earth-maker's eyelashes. ---Native American, Bella Coola

#poetrymonth
Sun rays shining through the dusty air,
Breaking through the rain clouds,
Are Earth-maker's eyelashes.
---Native American, Bella Coola

Minus the gossip
I’m flibbertigibbety
And I like haikus

#poetrymonth

Rubin Observatory Stuns and Awes With Sprawling First Look Images - Eos Wow. Just wow.

Huzzah, it’s one of our favorite days… International #HaikuDay! (also: Friday) We’re celebrating with some Earth and space science-inspired entries. 🧵

Telescopes galore
Sensing across space and time
Share cosmic wonders

eos.org/research-and... #haiku #PoetryMonth

International Haiku Poetry Day - The Haiku Foundation April 17 is the day the whole world honors haiku. Registered by Sari Grandstaff in 2007 and initiated as a project of The Haiku Foundation in 2012, International Haiku Poetry Day occurs in the heart o...

It's National Haiku Day!!
thehaikufoundation.org/internationa...

new leaves are budding
as sunshine warms the branches
shy in so much light

#poetrymonth #haiku 📚💙

Your turn!!

Floating in a Boundary Waters
nameless lake, Loon
surfaces at arm’s length.
A red eye, a blue eye
locked in curiosity,
adrift together in Minnesota quiet
until Loon disappears into
depths I wait to discover –
and I pretend salvation
exists only in the heavens.

#boundarywaters #poetrymonth

I always miss that place!
#SanFrancisco
#NorthBeach
#Citylightsbookstore
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social

#AllenGinsberg
#Howl
#bookstore
#booksky
#poetrymonth
#poetry
#fujifilm
#nightphotography

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked

Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman. Recognized with: ★ School Library Journal, Children’s Book Council’s Hot Off the Press list. Themes include: Marine Biology Animal rehabilitation Finding Home Moving Friendship Divorce Music Enviromental Advocacy STEM

Middle Grade Novel-in-verse 2025 titles include: 13 Ways to Say Goodbye A Sea of Lemon Trees Aarzu All Around (Aarzu Raza Extra No More!) Its All or Nothing, Vale All the Blues in the Sky Away Glitch Girl Green Promises Hannah Backwards If Elephants Could Talk Kimmy Carson is Not Scared Lilac and the Switch Back (Lilac Lost and Found) Little Bones Little Bones Neshama Octopus Moon (formerly Mermaids and Other Signs of Life) Oh Give me a Home Please Pay Attention Radiant Safe Harbor Spark The Burning Season (Formerly: Fire Finder) The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez The First Year The Girl in the Wall The House at the Edge of the World The Oasis The Only Branch on the Family Tree The Poetry of Car Mechanics The Midas Trees The Song of Orphan's Garden The Trouble with Heroes Trapped: The Entombed Miner of Bonnie Vale Zarina Divided

📚👍
#PoetryMonth Day 17
Safe Harbor by @padmatv.bsky.social

As a girl navigates her parent's divorce, an international move, and finding safety and home, her emotionally journey becomes entwined with a seal pup she helps to safety at an animal rehabilitation center.

#VerseNovel #Poetry #KidLit

It's #NationalPoetryMonth and International #Haiku #Poetry Day! We're honored to uncover a new #senryu from John Hawkhead (@haikuhawk.bsky.social).

ammonite spirals
the role of kisses
in survival

Join us next Wednesday for more #PoetryMonth #WolfPack Highlights. #PoetryCommunity ✍️

Happy National Poetry Month! Cover of "Refilling The Well" by Claris Lam is shown. The background of the image behind it is beige with a wavy blue pattern behind it.

Despite leaving D2D, my National Poetry Month sale is STILL ongoing on Itchio! ✍️

Get your copy for 30% off before April ends.♥️
itch.io/s/178460/202...

#booksky #writesky #poetrymonth #poetry #poetsky

April is #PoetryMonth!

#poetrymonth #nationalpoetrymonth

Unknown Muse by Devin Riddle My first plant was a vibrant yellow tulipLeading to my first obsession Wanting to take a sunbath in the pollen;I plucked the flower from the pot And a mush of brown began to appear Swallowing my obses...

"Unknown Muse" by Devin Riddle 🌱✍️

www.fruithanginglow.com/post/unknown...

#PoetryMonth

Silence on the shore.
Lines of waves calming my thoughts
so I can reset.
#haiku #poetrymonth #librarymonth #mentalhealth

Nightlong in the cold That monkey sits conjecturing How to catch the moon ---Shiki

#poetrymonth
Nightlong in the cold
That monkey sits conjecturing
How to catch the moon
---Shiki

Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems by Robert Pinsky

On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy by Robert Pinsky

Next week, April 23 at 5:30 pm EDT, @princetonpl.bsky.social welcomes former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky! He will discuss 2 of his collections with PUP, Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems & On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy.

Register for this free event: buff.ly/oC4Ziiv

#PoetryMonth

BookBreak graphic inviting engagement: “We want to hear from YOU.” Text reads, “The library is quiet, calm, and neat. Until someone decides to…” followed by “Finish the poem!” encouraging readers to complete the line.

Happy National Poetry Month! Help us finish the poem!

We know librarians, teachers, and authors have the best answers… don’t disappoint us.

Finish the poem below!

#bookbreak4schools #readingculture #authorvisits #PoetryMonth #schoollibrary #teacherlife

Home Katrina Kaye I look for you the way I always have. Listen to your voice sing incantations of my youth, eager to hear news of your religion in the cadence mucked in the back of throat. They lost you…

“I miss the way you wrap around me.
A feeling thick as a childhood home,
a place where awkward flows a little more free
and body moves in familiarity.”

#poem #poetry #poemaday #poetrymonth #poetkatrinakaye #NewMexico

poetkatrinakaye.com/2020/09/30/h...

Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. Recognized with: ★ School Library Journal, Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Award, Social Commentary/Justice Category 2025 | Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, 2026 Chapter Book Finalist | Junior Library Guild Selection 2025 | New Mexico Book Award, Juvenile category 2025 Notable Book for a Global Society 2026 | Notable Children’s Book (Association for Library Service to Children) 2026 | Notable Verse Novel (National Council of Teachers of English) 2026 | Oklahoma Library Association Children’s Sequoyah Book Award nominee 2027 | Paul Rhetts Award (Best in Show), New Mexico Book Award, 2025 | Redeemed Reader Book of the Year Honor, Middle Grade Fiction 2026 | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year 2025. Themes include: Historical Black History Civil Rights School Bullying Beatlemania

Middle Grade novel-in-verse 2025 titles include: 13 Ways to Say Goodbye A Sea of Lemon Trees Aarzu All Around (Aarzu Raza Extra No More!) Its All or Nothing, Vale All the Blues in the Sky Away Glitch Girl Green Promises Hannah Backwards If Elephants Could Talk Kimmy Carson is Not Scared Lilac and the Switch Back (Lilac Lost and Found) Little Bones Little Bones Neshama Octopus Moon (formerly Mermaids and Other Signs of Life) Oh Give me a Home Please Pay Attention Radiant Safe Harbor Spark The Burning Season (Formerly: Fire Finder) The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez The First Year The Girl in the Wall The House at the Edge of the World The Oasis The Only Branch on the Family Tree The Poetry of Car Mechanics The Midas Trees The Song of Orphan's Garden The Trouble with Heroes Trapped: The Entombed Miner of Bonnie Vale Zarina Divided

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 16

Cooper wrestles with what “shine” means for a black girl in a 1963 predominantly white community as the Birmingham church bombing, Kennedy's assassination, and Beatlemania sweep the world. She learns of race, class, faith, and finding your place in a loving family.

#kidLit

the word insomnia is written on a purple and pink background ALT: the word insomnia is written on a purple and pink background

Insomniac by Maya Angelou
🫩
There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.

#mayaangelou #poem #poet #insomnia
#poetrymonth #shortpoem #poetry

NoPoMonth, but… April is National Poetry Month; but this year, I am in hibernation mode. I’m not going to readings or writing a poem a day for 30 days, not posting much of my or other people’s poems or…

Latest blog, re: National Poetry Month and etc.
#blog
#poetry #poetrymonth #autism #books
annemichael.blog/2026/04/16/n...

Mr. Melanin by Chuckwuka Chinakwe Melanin Conference without Blacks presentLooking for what they did not keep in meSearching for more ways to label me shitNaming everything bad as blackFrom black list to black bookFrom dark horse to b...

"Mr. Melanin" by Chuckwuka Chinakwe

www.fruithanginglow.com/post/mr-mela...

#PoetryMonth