phillip crymble

The first of two new poems in the fall issue of @eventmags.bsky.social, this one an elegy for a childhood friend. Thanks to @raoulfernandes.bsky.social and all involved for welcoming my work.

Me and the regular group who like my posts

What does / your [master] do / with obedience — Ben Mirov

Lucille Clifton, from My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget: A Collection of Quotations by People of Color (1993)

A favourite John Berryman passage from his poem "Recovery." Berryman was born on this day in 1914.

Lucille Clifton, from Lights, Camera, Poetry! American Movie Poems, the First Hundred Years (1996)

Still waiting for the second print run of our summer disability issue to arrive in The Fiddlehead office. Copies remain available in the wild, though, like these ones at the Manulife Centre in downtown Toronto. @fiddlehd.bsky.social

Keep telling me about the good life Charlie Brown, cause it makes me puke.

Another poem by Geraldine Clarkson, this one from The Lion Tamer Dreams of Office Work: An Anthology of Poetry by the Hibernian Writers (2015)

What has it come to? Marie Howe

and William, / surreptitious as a fish Geraldine Clarkson in the new issue of @badlilies.bsky.social

An uncollected poem by James Schuyler

A humble wreath for someone I revere Wendy Cope

Chase Twichell

Robert Pinsky, born on this day in 1940

Simon Armitage

Hòa Nguyễn

So many poets I admire in this issue!

To choose is to erase. Michael Prior, from Shadows Under the Trees (2026) @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

The violence waits / for someone to approach Kay Ryan

Douglas Dunn, RIP

Marie Howe, summing it up

Two new poems from @phillipcrymble.bsky.social

try to be popular, / pretty, and charming Mary Jo Bang

Fanny Howe, born on this day in 1940

Marie Howe

There isn't time enough, my friends— Kenneth Koch

This J.D. Salinger poem was found among the collected papers of Charles Hanson Towne. Towne was Salinger's instructor at Columbia University, and the poem, as far as we know, represents the sum total of his writing in verse.

Just got word that our Disability: The Revolution issue has sold out and that we'll be doing a second print run! This has happened only once before in the magazine's 81 year history. So proud to have played a part in bringing this to our readers.

Robert Bly

Unlean against our hearts. Kay Ryan

Transcription of the postcard Seamus Heaney dashed off to Ted Hughes shortly after learning he'd won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Literary friendships like these are everything.

Drop a film you saw on a first date. Still slaps.

Ted Kooser

My word, Frank Bidart

Anne Carson's "Short Talk on Gertrude Stein About 9:30" as it appeared in Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (2005)

Linda Pastan, from "Late Love Songs"

Today at 4pm Naomi, Jessica, Cory, & me. LaHave River Books

Reminded, today, of this poem by Thomas Lux

You must confront things as they truly are Richard Wilbur

Stanley Plumly

Don't you see / It's all we can do? John Ashbery

Phillis Levin

A.R. Ammons

From far out in the center of the naked lake A loon's cry came-- It was the cry of someone who owned very little. Robert Bly, Fall

David Lehman

Winter is coming, folks W.S. Merwin, born on this day in 1927

A poem for the opening night of the regular season featuring Maple Leafs legend Tim Horton