Lee Potts
@leepottspoet.bsky.social
EIC of Stone Circle Review (stonecirclereview.bsky.social) | Poems in various places | Pushcart & BotN Nominee. New chapbook, We'll Miss the Stars in the Morning: https://tinyurl.com/wellmissthestars
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Lee Potts
@leepottspoet.bsky.social
· Apr 9
One year ago today, my chapbook, We’ll Miss the Stars in the Morning, was published. It's a book about yearning and complicated grace. If you've read it or shared it, thank you.❤️ If you missed this when it came out you can find out more here: bottlecap.press/products/stars
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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "The Years of Girl Cheese Sandwiches" by Meia Geddes
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The Years of Girl Cheese Sandwiches
by Meia Geddes
Those were the years of eyeing honey sticks
at the farmer’s market under the highway—
clover, orange, wildflower. Family friends with
a pomegranate tree—the trick is to open them
und...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "The Years of Girl Cheese Sandwiches" by Meia Geddes
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POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social )
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
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#Poem
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
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#Poem
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social )
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
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#Poem
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/
#Poem
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POEM 281: "Nostalgia, 1997" by Natalie Marino (@nataliemarino.bsky.social)
"I see myself
young and cunning because the war
is over and I can go wherever I want.
I walk away before the end"
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#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"I see myself
young and cunning because the war
is over and I can go wherever I want.
I walk away before the end"
stonecirclereview.com/nostalgia-19...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
POEM 281: "Nostalgia, 1997" by Natalie Marino (@nataliemarino.bsky.social)
"I see myself
young and cunning because the war
is over and I can go wherever I want.
I walk away before the end"
stonecirclereview.com/nostalgia-19...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"I see myself
young and cunning because the war
is over and I can go wherever I want.
I walk away before the end"
stonecirclereview.com/nostalgia-19...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
Reposted by Lee Potts
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Before the Event" by Garth Pavell
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Before the Event
by Garth Pavell
We sat in the April afternoon
waiting for the moon’s round
ass to fit into a blue sundress.
Neighbors I had never seen,
picnicked in the courtyard;
even the mail-lady chatted.
I s...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Before the Event" by Garth Pavell
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Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-...
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-...
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
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POEM 280: "What Matters" by Camille Newsom
"picnic phrases
like why believe and when
is soft-and-dead coming
to hold our stupid hands"
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#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"picnic phrases
like why believe and when
is soft-and-dead coming
to hold our stupid hands"
stonecirclereview.com/what-matters/
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
POEM 280: "What Matters" by Camille Newsom
"picnic phrases
like why believe and when
is soft-and-dead coming
to hold our stupid hands"
stonecirclereview.com/what-matters/
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"picnic phrases
like why believe and when
is soft-and-dead coming
to hold our stupid hands"
stonecirclereview.com/what-matters/
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
I have a poem in the new issue of @RogueAgent.bsky.social. Thanks to Jill, Jen, and Kate for putting it out into the world. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lpotts
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have a poem in the new issue of @RogueAgent.bsky.social. Thanks to Jill, Jen, and Kate for putting it out into the world. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lpotts
Reposted by Lee Potts
i wrote this poem at a really fraught, vulnerable time in my life that has only intensified in some ways since writing this. it still remains one of my favorite things i have ever written.
POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social)
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
i wrote this poem at a really fraught, vulnerable time in my life that has only intensified in some ways since writing this. it still remains one of my favorite things i have ever written.
Reposted by Lee Potts
POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social)
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
November 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social)
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
Reposted by Lee Potts
RA 128 is here! Ft poetry by Emily R. Daniel @haleydirenzo.bsky.social Heather Emmanuel @loriaharris.bsky.social Nadeen Murhaf Maida, Chenxi Meng, @carynmg.bsky.social @leepotspoet.bsky.social Sonya Schneider, and @fairingforward.bsky.social w art by Donald Patten // rogueagentjournal.com/issue128
Issue 128 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
rogueagentjournal.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
RA 128 is here! Ft poetry by Emily R. Daniel @haleydirenzo.bsky.social Heather Emmanuel @loriaharris.bsky.social Nadeen Murhaf Maida, Chenxi Meng, @carynmg.bsky.social @leepotspoet.bsky.social Sonya Schneider, and @fairingforward.bsky.social w art by Donald Patten // rogueagentjournal.com/issue128
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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Live Inside the Burn [American sonnet in American sentences]" by Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social) #TBT
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Live Inside the Burn [American sonnet in American sentences]
by Edie Meade
Pressed on through a drift of Styrofoam pebbles on my way to the beach.
Felt like crying but didn’t; cranked the radio to live with the burn.
Live inside the burn. The sky is acid-was...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Live Inside the Burn [American sonnet in American sentences]" by Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social) #TBT
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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Dame School" by Damaris West
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Dame School
by Damaris West
The dame was ninety-nine, never reached
a hundred, or hatched the balled-up tissue egg
on the blue cushion of her chair.
It was serious business being my parents’ child.
I had a fo...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Dame School" by Damaris West
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So I started writing my life one golden shovel at a time—and @stonecirclereview.bsky.social published this one yesterday. All the rest of you poets help me be brave. Thanks, y’all 💕
NEW POEM 278: "heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social)
"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"
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#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"
stonecirclereview.com/heart-as-dou...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So I started writing my life one golden shovel at a time—and @stonecirclereview.bsky.social published this one yesterday. All the rest of you poets help me be brave. Thanks, y’all 💕
Reposted by Lee Potts
NEW POEM 278: "heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social)
"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"
stonecirclereview.com/heart-as-dou...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"
stonecirclereview.com/heart-as-dou...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
October 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
NEW POEM 278: "heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social)
"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"
stonecirclereview.com/heart-as-dou...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
"words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness"
stonecirclereview.com/heart-as-dou...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
Reposted by Lee Potts
POEM 277: "How Can You Have Any Pudding..." by Susan Grimm (@sjgrimm.bsky.social)
"The dead crowd the table thickly, criticize our meat. They give / off a low dark buzz. Floating like stodgy balloons, they wobble- / perch on their usual chairs."
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#Poem #Poetry
"The dead crowd the table thickly, criticize our meat. They give / off a low dark buzz. Floating like stodgy balloons, they wobble- / perch on their usual chairs."
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#Poem #Poetry
October 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
POEM 277: "How Can You Have Any Pudding..." by Susan Grimm (@sjgrimm.bsky.social)
"The dead crowd the table thickly, criticize our meat. They give / off a low dark buzz. Floating like stodgy balloons, they wobble- / perch on their usual chairs."
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#Poem #Poetry
"The dead crowd the table thickly, criticize our meat. They give / off a low dark buzz. Floating like stodgy balloons, they wobble- / perch on their usual chairs."
stonecirclereview.com/how-can-you-...
#Poem #Poetry
Reposted by Lee Potts
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window (and so slowly you unwind me ’til I fall apart)" by Ankh Spice (@seagoatscreams.bsky.social) #TBT
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Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window
(and so slowly you unwind me 'til I fall apart)
by Ankh Spice
It’s decades since. We’d absconded from the ward,
two not-deads gone wanderwild. Some nights you hear
the unspool, the moment the han...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "Snapped tapes got chucked out the car window (and so slowly you unwind me ’til I fall apart)" by Ankh Spice (@seagoatscreams.bsky.social) #TBT
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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "That Christmas I Ate Moonshine Cherries and Became a Fortune Teller" by Beth Gilstrap (@bettysueblue.bsky.social)
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That Christmas I Ate Moonshine Cherries and Became a Fortune Teller
by Beth Gilstrap
CW: death, addiction, alcoholism
You had beaten the cancer once, taken up the pink bunting of survivors, made it your whole personality—folks with borderline move through them l...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "That Christmas I Ate Moonshine Cherries and Became a Fortune Teller" by Beth Gilstrap (@bettysueblue.bsky.social)
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POEM #276: "Keepsakes" by Lana Hechtman Ayers (@lanaayers23.bsky.social)
"what the heart holds it holds
despite rebuttals from blurred photos
home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws
& there are chrysanthemums
growing in the past
that move like a storm blowing in"
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"what the heart holds it holds
despite rebuttals from blurred photos
home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws
& there are chrysanthemums
growing in the past
that move like a storm blowing in"
stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes
October 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
POEM #276: "Keepsakes" by Lana Hechtman Ayers (@lanaayers23.bsky.social)
"what the heart holds it holds
despite rebuttals from blurred photos
home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws
& there are chrysanthemums
growing in the past
that move like a storm blowing in"
stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes
"what the heart holds it holds
despite rebuttals from blurred photos
home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws
& there are chrysanthemums
growing in the past
that move like a storm blowing in"
stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes
Reposted by Lee Potts
Your Sunday needs this. Really. Trust me.
POEM #276: "Keepsakes" by Lana Hechtman Ayers (@lanaayers23.bsky.social)
"what the heart holds it holds
despite rebuttals from blurred photos
home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws
& there are chrysanthemums
growing in the past
that move like a storm blowing in"
stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes
"what the heart holds it holds
despite rebuttals from blurred photos
home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws
& there are chrysanthemums
growing in the past
that move like a storm blowing in"
stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes
October 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Your Sunday needs this. Really. Trust me.
Reposted by Lee Potts
NEW POEM #275: "Northern Midsummer Night" by Arda Ohannessian
"On the slow deep shoulder of your hill
cedar tree moon silhouette and the bear's
nocturnal climb is deliberate and slow"
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#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"On the slow deep shoulder of your hill
cedar tree moon silhouette and the bear's
nocturnal climb is deliberate and slow"
stonecirclereview.com/northern-mid...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
NEW POEM #275: "Northern Midsummer Night" by Arda Ohannessian
"On the slow deep shoulder of your hill
cedar tree moon silhouette and the bear's
nocturnal climb is deliberate and slow"
stonecirclereview.com/northern-mid...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"On the slow deep shoulder of your hill
cedar tree moon silhouette and the bear's
nocturnal climb is deliberate and slow"
stonecirclereview.com/northern-mid...
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
Reposted by Lee Potts
🙏 #Poetry -- This poem is also collected in *Becoming Altar*, soon to release from @subpresspoetry.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing it!
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "So It Goes" by Kyla Houbolt (@luaz.bsky.social) #TBT
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So It Goes
by Kyla Houbolt
The beetle sleeps with her cheek on the branch,
if beetles can be said to have cheeks. She looks
so comfortable there, like a Christmas tree ornament
that has found its perfect plac...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🙏 #Poetry -- This poem is also collected in *Becoming Altar*, soon to release from @subpresspoetry.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing it!
Reposted by Lee Potts
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "So It Goes" by Kyla Houbolt (@luaz.bsky.social) #TBT
stonecirclereview.com/so-it-goes/
stonecirclereview.com/so-it-goes/
So It Goes
by Kyla Houbolt
The beetle sleeps with her cheek on the branch,
if beetles can be said to have cheeks. She looks
so comfortable there, like a Christmas tree ornament
that has found its perfect plac...
stonecirclereview.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "So It Goes" by Kyla Houbolt (@luaz.bsky.social) #TBT
stonecirclereview.com/so-it-goes/
stonecirclereview.com/so-it-goes/