Susan L. Leary

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!

There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty.

Poem for your Friday 10.23.26 Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror ~ By Kelli Russell Agodon —America breaks my heart some days /I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what I could see was all of us/ Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her...

Denise Levertov, from “Sojourns in the Parallel World’

It's one of those melancholy-weather mornings, and I'm thinking about Strindberg's celestographs—about how his photographic plates, along with or instead of the night sky, captured specks of dust or droplets of dew. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/3/feu...

New jar in tornado sky & sour apple 🩵🩶🍏 #pottery

Denise Levertov

Thank you for sharing, @susanlleary.bsky.social! 🙏💞 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

October is the month of Teresa of Ávila. Her feast day is October 15th; she passed away on October 4, 1582 and was Prioress of the Convent of the Incarnation from October 1571–October 1574. Which is the long way of saying, hey, get a copy of my book of Teresa's poems this October.💙📚 #teresaofavila

What amazing poetry presses don't have reading fees for MSs? Or have one that's under $10? Asking for a tired broke poet.

I know I've said this before but one of my favorite things about my dog is that she doesn't care if she catches her frisbee. She just likes playing frisbee.

Jen Siraganian 💙 from EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD (Perugia Press) @perugiapress.bsky.social

Jen Siraganian 💙 from EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD (Perugia Press) @perugiapress.bsky.social

Neither rain nor sleet nor shelter in place orders could stop today's poem by Acie Clark, so if you haven't read it yet, take a couple of minutes. You won't be disappointed.

The sky is white. It smells of the earth, and it is not there. The sky is white like the earth, and it smells of yesterday. All this was tomorrow. All this was a hundred years from now. Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

Grief—I've seen her at night; the way she dresses up, my god, she sparkles, she shimmers. I can't blame you. I'd go to her too. Who wouldn't want her and then want her again once they'd felt all the ways she makes a body shake. Victoria Redel

Chase Twichell

Lovely to come home to my contributor copy of @rowanglassworks.bsky.social, Fall 2026 issue 🍂 Honoured to see 'Queerness of Our Species' in print. Such a beautifully produced magazine. Thank you to EIC Katie Budris for including me alongside such stellar writers and artists from the US and abroad.

Adam Gianforcaro 💙 “This is what it means to write a poem…” @adamg.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social

Adam Gianforcaro 💙 “This is what it means to write a poem…” @adamg.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social

Poetry proves again and again that any single overall theory of anything doesn't work. Poetry is always the cat concert under the window of the room in which the official version of reality is being written. -- Charles Simic

The wonderful Renee Gladman talks about joy, among other things, at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social . . .

maybe if i scream loud enough a poem will come out

What a GREAT book by Jen Siraganian!!! And that gorgeous cover? 😍🤩😍 inside and out! Let's celebrate EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD (@perugiapress.bsky.social, 2026)! 🎉✨🎊✨🎉 #poetry 📚💙

@kaseyryoen.bsky.social has a new poem in Small Orange Journal's latest issue 💃 😍💃 You don't want to miss it! smallorangejournal.com/kasey-jueds?...

A new short offering written for TTT on themes of "journey", "edge" and "revelation". 'Instead of milkweed, a monarch clings to the windshield' Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the inspiration 🤍 @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #imagist #poetrycommunity #poetry

Submissions are OPEN for poetry, prose (fiction & nonfiction), and art! We pay a small honorarium for accepted work. For more details on what we're looking for and how to send it our way, please visit the link in our bio.

The open submission period for Boa's 26th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize remains open now through November 30th. The winning manuscript will be published by Boa Editions in Spring 2028 and the winner will receive a $1,000 prize! For more information, visit boaeditions.org.

Birch swans, from a morning walk

From Yrsa Daley-Ward's book, Bone: bookshop.org/a/862/9780143132615 #poem #booksky #writing

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel." ― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“Always in life, when it comes to the important matters, things go well when you make a real decision.” ― Éliane Radigue

Larry Levis 💙 Happy #smallpoemsunday! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Always funny to realize that your personal favorite pieces among your own writing are sometimes (often?) not what other people gravitate toward. It's like, Are they wrong? Am I? Do I just have more of an emotional connection to these? But these *are* the best! Are they, though?

Kenneth Patchen from Selected Poems #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Open for Submissions: The Fourth Annual Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize soflopojo.submittable.com/submit

“I want the violence of my love / To leave my sleep and my lover alone.” — Roger Reeves . . . This poem appeared in King Me by Roger Reeves, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2013. Shared here with deep gratitude.

"Where I was born / and born backwards again out of my mouth / into haze and sweet airs." Revisiting this beautiful collection interfacing the more-than-human world. From INMATES by Sean Borodale 🤍 @jonathancape.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.” — Albert Camus, A Happy Death

Stay with me, A little Simic #poetry for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Who knows? perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening… Rainer Maria Rilke; tr. S. Mitchell

two poems by Bill Knott

"How did you survive it?" I didn't I'm somebody else ~ Amanda Kloots

The work of Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt

grateful to have this little poem, & another, in the new issue of NOON, which editor Philip Rowland has designed to be read as its own renga-like chain of poems... The effect is lovely, & I'm linking to the issue in the comments, if you'd like to spend a little time w/ it...

Marie Howe, summing it up

POEM 379: "City Pastoral with Crash Scene" by Chrissy Stegman (@chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social) "Juliet was already horizontal backstage, pinned beneath silk and hot pink municipal flowers. Her beauty had the stunned look of love taxidermied." stonecirclereview.com/city-pastoral/ #Poem #Poetry

From Adam Falkner's book, The Willies. #poem #booksky #writing