Deborah J. Shore
@deborahjshore.bsky.social
Poetry. Free verse & form. Severe ME/CFS. The London Magazine, Columbia Journal, Nashville Review, THINK, Thimble Lit, ballast, Pensive, Prelude, Ekstasis, Reformed Journal, Amethyst Review, Christian Century, Christianity & Literature, Relief Journal...
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Three Poems by Deborah J. Shore — Columbia Journal
Sometimes you are carried by the wreckage of your own ship—as helpless to direct this flotsam as you were when it was floorboards that lurched beneath disquiet cries of shorebirds.
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So grateful to have three poems up at Columbia Journal! Poetry editor Oana Nicola ensured a communicative, smooth experience.
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My ear would be so pleased if more contemporary poets heeded Annie Finch’s observation in A Poet’s Craft when giving iambics a whir. #poetry
October 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My ear would be so pleased if more contemporary poets heeded Annie Finch’s observation in A Poet’s Craft when giving iambics a whir. #poetry
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I know a fae trap when I see one
September 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I know a fae trap when I see one
September 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“Indian Love Song,” Sarojini Naidu. A perfect way to orient the ear toward anapests—& this close could double as a hymn!
“For Love shall cancel the ancient wrong and conquer the ancient rage,
Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age.”
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“For Love shall cancel the ancient wrong and conquer the ancient rage,
Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age.”
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A V-Day Gift: Scanning the Rhythms of Passion and Peace in Sarojini Naidu's "Indian Love Song"
Anapests and bacchics, ghost cups and half wands, ...and a note on reading aloud!
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September 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Indian Love Song,” Sarojini Naidu. A perfect way to orient the ear toward anapests—& this close could double as a hymn!
“For Love shall cancel the ancient wrong and conquer the ancient rage,
Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age.”
open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...
“For Love shall cancel the ancient wrong and conquer the ancient rage,
Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age.”
open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...
One thing I wouldn’t have realized about Plath w/o picking up her collected: She was obsessed with slant consonantal end-rhymes. Might this correlate to her first love being visual art? Versus, say, singing (assonantal rhyme being so woven to the ear)?
June 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
One thing I wouldn’t have realized about Plath w/o picking up her collected: She was obsessed with slant consonantal end-rhymes. Might this correlate to her first love being visual art? Versus, say, singing (assonantal rhyme being so woven to the ear)?
May 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“Daughter” by @danushalameris.bsky.social, from Blade by Blade, published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
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“Daughter” by @danushalameris.bsky.social, from Blade by Blade, published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/daughter/
Daughter
Daughter, I say, and I mean a list
of what-ifs, a cacophony of sorrows.
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May 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“Daughter” by @danushalameris.bsky.social, from Blade by Blade, published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/daughter/
“Daughter” by @danushalameris.bsky.social, from Blade by Blade, published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/daughter/
I decided to explore #AnyaKrugovoySilver via the bookends—her first and her posthumous last volumes. From the first:
May 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I decided to explore #AnyaKrugovoySilver via the bookends—her first and her posthumous last volumes. From the first:
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Often in the free verse, I will start out with accentual lines. As the lengths start to alter more, often the natural phrasing within the sentences across the lines either maintains or chronically reverts to the previously set beat count—one subtle way that free is rarely free.
May 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Often in the free verse, I will start out with accentual lines. As the lengths start to alter more, often the natural phrasing within the sentences across the lines either maintains or chronically reverts to the previously set beat count—one subtle way that free is rarely free.
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Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes."
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
May 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes."
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
My unread #poetry stash was already substantial and is growing embarrassingly fast (with Merwin, Kooser, more James Richardson, Anya Krugovoy Silver, Li-Young Lee, and some translations en route 😳) while I slowly rotate through a few thick tomes… and relish the elegance of #RichardWilbur again.
May 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My unread #poetry stash was already substantial and is growing embarrassingly fast (with Merwin, Kooser, more James Richardson, Anya Krugovoy Silver, Li-Young Lee, and some translations en route 😳) while I slowly rotate through a few thick tomes… and relish the elegance of #RichardWilbur again.
Matthew Wickman’s interview w the husband of the late Anya Krugovoy Silver is astounding. I must sheepishly admit that every time I read one of her poems I think, “I really need to buy one of her books,” and yet, I haven’t. That will change this year! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Ep. 105: “Among the Losses”: Remembering the Poet Anya Krugovoy Silver, with Andrew Silver, Mercer University
Podcast Episode · Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast · 05/13/2025 · 1h 12m
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May 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Matthew Wickman’s interview w the husband of the late Anya Krugovoy Silver is astounding. I must sheepishly admit that every time I read one of her poems I think, “I really need to buy one of her books,” and yet, I haven’t. That will change this year! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
#RichardWilbur has many fine translations.
May 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
#RichardWilbur has many fine translations.
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Jim Harrison, "Another Country"
April 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Jim Harrison, "Another Country"
One of the problems with writing ecological poems or poems with nature metaphors when you aren’t a biologist is that things you’ve been misinformed about sometimes sneak into the core of a poem you’ve slaved over, ruining it. Happened to my latest effort--but I'm glad I caught it.
May 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
One of the problems with writing ecological poems or poems with nature metaphors when you aren’t a biologist is that things you’ve been misinformed about sometimes sneak into the core of a poem you’ve slaved over, ruining it. Happened to my latest effort--but I'm glad I caught it.
A poem from #WisławaSzymborska about sea cucumbers (and a lot more): entropypost.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/a...
The translation used is from the collected that came out when she won the Nobel Prize, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanaugh.
The translation used is from the collected that came out when she won the Nobel Prize, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanaugh.
Autotomy
Wislawa Szymborska is a philosophically inflected poet who investigates unanswerable questions with immense élan and delicacy. This particular poem has deeper meaning and inferences in philosophy, …
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April 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A poem from #WisławaSzymborska about sea cucumbers (and a lot more): entropypost.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/a...
The translation used is from the collected that came out when she won the Nobel Prize, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanaugh.
The translation used is from the collected that came out when she won the Nobel Prize, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanaugh.
Reposted by Deborah J. Shore
Poets!! I'm excited to announce that i am the guest editor for the Spring 2026 issue of @pshares.bsky.social. It is an honor and a joy! If you want to add to the vibrant, healing rhythmical chorus I'm creating, send them along!y I'd love this issue to sing, especially with a diversity of meters.
March 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Poets!! I'm excited to announce that i am the guest editor for the Spring 2026 issue of @pshares.bsky.social. It is an honor and a joy! If you want to add to the vibrant, healing rhythmical chorus I'm creating, send them along!y I'd love this issue to sing, especially with a diversity of meters.
A phenomenal human and a self-giving leader in a time when that feels in short supply. Enter your rest.
April 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A phenomenal human and a self-giving leader in a time when that feels in short supply. Enter your rest.
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From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 282, our March - April 2025 issue.
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April 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 282, our March - April 2025 issue.
Read the full editorial on our Substack: carcanet.substack.com/p/pn-review-...
Read the full editorial on our Substack: carcanet.substack.com/p/pn-review-...
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March 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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