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Josiah Nelson
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I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me

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Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada
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Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social · Dec 22
Happy to share a zany story out with Sonora Review:

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And Love Me and Love Me and Love Me and Love | Josiah Nelson - Sonora Review
The man who kept a book in his pants came by it honestly. That is to say, Terrance did not simply see a book and think, And into my pants this must go. Prior to keeping a book in his pants, Terrance n...
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Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.
This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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mosab abu toha #smallpoemsunday
Sunrise in Palestine The smoke of bombs dropped from F-16s has covered the city's sky. Fighters smuggle the sunlight through tunnels beneath our houses.
September 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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irishali13.bsky.social
A poem for your Sunday
~Marie Howe
Annunciation
I thought I'd die from being loved like that...
Annunciation Even if I don't see it again —nor ever feel it I know it is— and that if once it hailed me it ever does — And so it is myself I want to turn in that direction not as towards a place, but it was a tilting within myself, as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where it isn't-I was blinded like that-and swam in what shone at me only able to endure it by being no one and so specifically myself I thought I'd die from being loved like that.
August 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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From @seanthomasd.bsky.social's book, The Second O of Sorrow.

Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/9781942683551

#poem #books #writing
August 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
off to be kissed and changed

Tom Clark
POEM My heart in pieces like the bits Of traffic lost in the blue Rain confused I roar off into To learn how to build a ladder With air in my lungs again To be with you in that region Of speed and altitude where our bodies Sail off to be kissed and changed By light that behaves like a hand Picking us up in one state and putting Us down in a different one every time
August 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"Aware
of time drifting away, as clouds do, moving
overhead, the pewter clouds holding back rain
and slowly tarnishing."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Search Party by @ianletourneau.bsky.social (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yc3vvnne
Poetry pamphlet Search Party by Ian Letourneau (Opaat Press) sits on a wooden table with a pineapple and an elegant container with two red bergamot flowers Poem inside poetry pamphlet Search Party by Ian Letourneau, next to a pineapple
July 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Bill Knott
POEM A kite in the shape of a map floats over the land it depicts, but at night no one sees its roads at the end of which a child feels his hand tugged upward, disappearing in salutations.
June 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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joepositive.wtf
yes.
tomsnarsky.bsky.social Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jun 21
Robert Creeley
“YOU WANT. . .” You want the feel of things in words, of words.
June 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride! From Kay Ryan (U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010), we have "We're Building the Ship as We Sail It," which first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Poetry. It's also in THE BEST OF IT: New & Selected Poems. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry
June 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!
metatronpress.bsky.social Metatron Press @metatronpress.bsky.social · Jun 17
✶❂✷ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟕𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 ✷❂✶

✦ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 ✦
𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐞
❀ A seismic new voice in poetry — raw, mythic, and electrifying.

↠ Read the full announcement ✶
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Announcing the Winner of the 7th International Metatron Poetry Prize
Prairie-based Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye wins the Prize with 'The Goat’s Tongue'
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June 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading.
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June 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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I'm just going to quietly put this here and make some noise later.

Poems. September 15. Brick Books

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June 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

if you feel so inclined, you can post small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :)

here’s one by Kess Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social, from their Apt. 9 Press chapbook Gavel sound. Gravel sound. 💫
a poem is just what light thinks about
May 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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j-tkelly.bsky.social
why do you keep writing political poems?
something got stuck in my throat: I think it’s
Vietnam: millions of tiny little bones
tomsnarsky.bsky.social Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · May 14
two by Dick Lourie
it may not be transubstantiation after all but just two things hitting at once — more like synchronicity: here’s the wine and here's the sink where we’ll wash the wine glasses tomorrow here's the candle let’s carry it upstairs here's her face in the shadowy light and here's the bed we’ve been waking up in for several thousand mornings why do you keep writing political poems? something got stuck in my throat: I think it’s Vietnam: millions of tiny little bones
May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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May 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ronnabloom.bsky.social
I have 3 poems in this brand new beautiful issue of @cv2magazine.bsky.social
Thank you, editors!

Here's "Medieval Feminism."
April 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Robert Billings
May 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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May 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Just came across this lovely poem in my current read, ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM by Akira Ritos (@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social).
May 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
josiahnelson.bsky.social
Pleased to have a couple poems in @cv2magazine.bsky.social spring issue. Sharing one here:
April 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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And because place calls to place / inside us, he is seventy in the kitchen, / even as he is twelve in the farmyard
sheribenning.bsky.social Sheri Benning @sheribenning.bsky.social · Apr 26
A poem from FIELD REQUIEM (@carcanet.bsky.social) for my beloved dad, the many selves of him. After his sudden death in December, I wanted winter to last for years and years, but the prairies have turned to spring, the crocuses are blooming. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...
Minor Doxology
Circle of light on the village street from his kitchen window where he stands in the slowing breath of nightfall, stares through that cold fire into sifting shadow: dusk-blue snow banked against the p...
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April 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM