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Robin Turner
@robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
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Poet. Mother. Teacher. Maker. Third Culture Kid. Ambivalent Texan.

Chapbooks:
Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay)
bindweed & crow poison (Porkbelly Press)
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Delighted to have one of my Ethan Frome erasures in the new issue of Unlost. My thanks to @unrealdalewisely.bsky.social & team. Check out the entire issue at the link in comments.
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.

—Fanny Howe, RIP
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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My thanks to @versedaily.bsky.social
versedaily.bsky.social Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 9
Today's poem is "When My Mother Forgets the Word for Dahlia"
by Robin Turner
from Elegy with Clouds &
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July 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I have so enjoyed spending time with the beautiful new issue of Anacapa Review and am over the moon to have work included. Such amazing company here. Thank you Chryss Yost and David Starkey.

anacapareview.com/robin-turner/
Robin Turner
Even Now Scattered across grey pavement,                    a spill of spent petals, somehow still           ghostly whole & vivid, whiteas snow. Even now, in summer,      a soft June          morning...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
My thanks to Christine Klocek-Lim for featuring my new chapbook at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily today. I'm a lucky poet. 💙
chrissiemkl.bsky.social Christine Klocek-Lim @chrissiemkl.bsky.social · May 3
Saturday book feature — Elegy with Clouds & by Robin Turner

Flight by Robin Turner from Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books 2025)
Saturday book feature — Elegy with Clouds & by Robin Turner
Flight by Robin Turner from Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books 2025)
autumnskypoetrydaily.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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rustandmoth.bsky.social
“Look for the helpers,” his mother would say to him whenever there were scary things in the news. “You will always find people who are helping.”
A Time for Rivers | Rust & Moth
Things are pretty dark right now, America. There aren’t enough pages in the history of our journal to detail every horror taking place in the world right now, and even if there were, further broadcast...
rustandmoth.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
My thanks to the amazing Sally Rosen Kindred for her words of support for my new chapbook, Elegy with Clouds &.
April 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday, "For a Coming Extinction" by @victoriachang.bsky.social (from The Trees Witness Everything) and one from me, "Chime", first published at @oneart.bsky.social.

#poetsofbluesky
March 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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sjane.bsky.social
Stay tender somehow

a valentine from me and @dinalrelles.bsky.social
old postcard of couple in a rowboat, surrounded by collage of red lopsided semi-circles
February 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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chrissiemkl.bsky.social
every social feed by mk zariel

Editor's Note: This poem's list of online interactions feels very on point as we all move into the future while trying to maintain genuine connections.

Read the rest at AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY.com

#AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY
January 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
a poem is an invitation to be (once again) (actually) alive
January 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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rattlepoetry.bsky.social
Praise the weirdos because if anyone can save us
it will be us.

—Alison Luterman
“Praise the Broken Promise of America” by Alison Luterman
Praise deep mineral veins under rich dirt, and fossilized remains of dinosaurs turning themselves into gas for our benefit. Praise the exhausted earth, miles and miles of subsidized corn and cattle…
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January 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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heatherchristle.bsky.social
At the end of the world all the snow angels finally get to stand up.
January 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Yes
toddedillard.bsky.social Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · Jan 20
today is a good day to go unbridled into yourself and write the thing you have been hesitating to write, to invent a new way of getting lost, to discover a different way back
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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markdanowsky.bsky.social
This Erin Murphy poem in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social is a must-read

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“Insomnia Chronicles XXVI” by Erin Murphy
The night is full of insomniacs googling insomnia. Some of my friends are trying Dry January. Dryuary. Others are sober curious. There’s a mock cocktail called a Phony Negroni. It’s made with non-a…
www.rattle.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
True story, y'all.

My thanks to the wonder that is Christine Klocek-Lim for selecting this one. Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (link in comments) has been a journal for nearly twenty years now, ten of those as a daily. That's devotion. An ongoing gift for all of us. Brava, Christine! ❤️
January 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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One of my favorite anthologies ever. So many beautiful poets in its pages. And how about this gorgeous cover? Perfection.
December 27, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
Put the dead into your poems without garbing them in your grief. Give them cake, put on their favorite music. Listen to their gossip. Let them tell you how they've learned to bake bread. To carve clarinet reeds. Let them comb your hair. Help them remember the color orange. The scratch of wool.
December 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
witness it 🕯️
A World Without Children for the victims of every school shooting There's no one running in the museums. And that's just the beginning. There's no one beautifully out of tune in the church choir, no one spinning on the thing that spins in the park. See? It doesn't even have a name, because children have to name a thing like that. No one breathes on the window of a school the week before winter break, writing their name in the mist. What's a school now anyway? A place to keep the dead. That's all. History knows that. It stands a mother before a ditch and it hands her her child, and she has three seconds, three seconds to say to him all she would have said in their life. Everyone knows when the guns come the children go first, as saplings bow to the first snows of a winter, and silence did this. We did this. We're winter. Come, let's walk awhile through the ruins. You can still hear their voices, in the coldness: there, in the places they hid in—a safe-room, dark barn, a cellar, a closet at the back of a classroom— wondering what sound that is, what power, wondering where all the grownups are. —Joseph Fasano
December 17, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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victoriachang.bsky.social
Something to look forward to in 2025, The Essential C.D. Wright.
December 17, 2024 at 8:16 PM
robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
New work in Arkana from the amazing Lana Litvinchuk.
December 7, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Three prose poems in Pithead Chapel's new issue. My thanks to the editors!
December 2, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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readinstead.bsky.social
@porcupinelit.bsky.social could use more CNF and Fiction submissions! Teacher-writers, send us your work in, around and about education.

www.porcupineliterary.com/submissions
Submissions | Porcupine Literary
www.porcupineliterary.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:59 PM
robinturnerpoet.bsky.social
This piece from Jessica Cuello. Sooo good!
November 30, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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logencure.bsky.social
Today is a good day to share the poem I wrote for the Praisesong for the People project created by Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston! She says it’s important to give people their flowers and I agree! 🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻
Dear Dr. May,
by Logen Cure
www.praisesongforthepeople.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM