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Today's Featured Poem:

"水客" by Caroline M. Mar from Water Guest published by @uwiscpress.bsky.social

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水客
people ask me                      ask people who look like me                   look like anything but the blankness of a page
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October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25

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Burning Down the Waffle House
where is the line between a good tip and a messiah complex?
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October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“The Coming of Fox” by Bernardo Wade from The Sewanee Review, Winter 2025

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The Coming of Fox
my father glides over & you let him steal your bright flag of fur
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October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

“Reading Virginia Woolf in a Women in Literature Class at Bergen Community College" by Carlie Hoffman from One More World Like This World published by @fourwaybooks.bsky.social

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Reading Virginia Woolf in a Women in Literature Class at Bergen Community College
I know it’s October because I wear shoes without socks. The air is good to me & I sweat less through my shirts.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"(FIG)" by Ahmad Almallah from Border Wisdom published by Winter Editions

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(FIG)
And the worst was discovering the fig trees in the city—their leaves die and dry at first contact with the cold.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Rule: Now rewrite from the perspective of the woman in the chair of Peter Blume's 1932 painting Light of the World” by Katrine Øgaard Jensen, translated by Andkjær Olsen, Nakayasu, Machado, Cunningham, Badji, & CAConrad

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Rule: Now rewrite from the perspective of the woman in the chair of Peter Blume's 1932 painting <em>Light of the World.</em>
a sphere of lightgrief     bodydust    and a wish
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October 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Traceable Relation” by Kimberly Alidio from Traceable Relation published by @fonografeditions.bsky.social

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Traceable Relation
I want to go freely of so many pouches of what-ifs and later-ons to stumble in the bardo, losing what must be lost
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October 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Chipping Sparrow" by Susan Howe published by Poetry Magazine

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Chipping Sparrow
On the subject of assurance I should have I should have
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October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Springtime Again" by Alison C. Rollins from Black Bell published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

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Springtime Again
When judgment comes, ain't nowhere to run. April snow is how time disciplines its children.
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October 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Schrödinger" by Katie Erbs published by @pinchjournal.bsky.social

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Schrödinger
It is my mother's turn in the box she is alive she is dead
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September 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day" by Erica Dawson published in @commonmag.bsky.social

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The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day
The month is February and that means nothing because winter in Tampa is
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September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social

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Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian
lessons in methodology, how to pluck each detailed monument to her private suffering from its noxious and stifling stem.
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September 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"tryouts" by Gary Jackson from Small Lives published by @unmpress.bsky.social

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tryouts
The boy's brown fingers hold tight to your emblem, leave wet impressions on your chest.
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September 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Bangkok Traffic" by Nida Sophasarun from Novice published by Louisiana State University Press

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Bangkok Traffic
The cars line up in the night's waiting room, and it's another hour before I get out of the car
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September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"It's So Idyllic Here" by Sasha Debevec-McKenney from Joy is My Middle Name published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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It's So Idyllic Here
until you realize no one else cares about the new Mission Impossible movie. It’s safe to walk alone at night.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"I bring poets from Lviv, Ukraine to my college class in Arkansas" by Julia Kolchinsky from Parallax published by @uarkpress.bsky.social

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I bring poets from Lviv, Ukraine to my college class in Arkansas
through the computer screen           a loud                     bang           a bomb           a fist perhaps
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October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"I Went Out to Hear" by Leila Chatti from Wildness Before Something Sublime published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

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I Went Out to Hear
In the absence of anything else, my own breathing became obscene.
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September 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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go read @daybreakjung.bsky.social’s fantastic essay, “A Trivial Translator of Trivial Poems”! poems.com/features/wha...
September 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Today's Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: @daybreakjung.bsky.social on "Nurse II"

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Nurse II
Even though it seems unlikely that I see myself in their lines, I do,
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September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"So Grateful I Turn to the Art" by @henkaipantomime.bsky.social published by Fence Books

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So Grateful I Turn to the Art
I'm so sacred the only thing left is the altar
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September 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Congratulations to Arthur Sze for being named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate!

We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.

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Papyrus Pantoum
under a rising moon,       we step along a ridge of white sand—
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September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"107 Water Street" by @henricole.bsky.social from The Other Love published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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107 Water Street
September is a time to feel the light, write, scratch out, write, nap, walk, begin again.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
Birth Control - phoebe
Rebecca Hawkes “why suck the strap” why look at a sunset. why listen to your favourite song. why stop to smell the flowers. come on now – Tumblr user @bloodpups To live ethically in the present moment...
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May 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Hi everyone:
There’s a new submission deadline for phoebe, on October 8! Thank you for understanding and make sure to make note of the new date so that you can get your submissions in on time 🙂
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM