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Christina Daub
@christinadaub.bsky.social
610 followers 450 following 260 posts
Poet
Founded The Plum Review
Taught poetry at George Washington U,
Writer’s Center & poets-in-the-schools
Translates poetry from Spanish & German
Supports PoetryXHunger
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“…when grief weighs you down like your own flesh…”
#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#poetry
The Thing Is a poemby Ellen Bass. You can listen to it here: https://youtu.be/JONWgsZ6vm8?si=xtEqW09O-U4cTM57
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Basho
#haiku #poetry
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Because I try not to revel but I revel

Poem by Martha Silano
#poetry
@whaleroadreview.bsky.social
Poem by the late Martha Silano in Whale Road Review.
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Fun poem by @kelliagodon.bsky.social
starting with the title and all the way through “your gurgling stanzas, your lyric sigh.” #poetry
Poem by Kelli Russell Agodon from her book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press, 2010
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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What is a Poem?

(what she did
with “these few blocks…”)

#poetry
by Ruth Stone
Ruth Stone’s poem, “What is a Poem?” from The Essential Ruth Stone published by Copper Canyon, 2020.
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Jane Hirshfield
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Someday, if I am Lucky

#poetry
by Matthew Nienow
@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
Short poem by Matthew Nienow: Someday, if I am Lucky From his book, If Nothing Alice James Books, 2025
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Again I’m Asked if I Glow in the Dark
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
by Kathleen Flenniken
from her collection Plume
University of Washington Press

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Poem by Kathleen Flenniken: Again I’m asked if I glow in the dark.
October 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Marianne Moore’s poem about the father she never met.
“Silence”
#poetry
Marianne Moore imaginative poem about the father she never met.
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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—when the fruit is “difficult to reach”

Martha Silano’s
“I have thoughts fed by the sun,”
from Terminal Surreal
#poetry
Martha Silano’s I have thoughts fed by the sun, from Terminal Surreal, Acre Books, 2025 #poetry
September 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Happiness itself
#poetry for #smallpoemsunday
The Breathing by Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov poem, The Breathing, broadside with a deer eating grass… “ …happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.”
August 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Poetry+ readings tonight @politicsprose.bsky.social
Celebrating the launch of @wwph.bsky.social
Hot off the press anthology:
America’s Future
with readings, workshops & more.
Come find us in the Den
starting at 5:00.
#poetry #fiction
WWPH launches its new anthology, America’s Future with readings, workshops, etc. tonight in the den at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Ave., NW, DC.
August 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Remembering Linda Pastan

“in the pure blue
of insight”

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
August 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

#smallpoemsunday
#poetryintranslation
An excerpt from the poem Ways of Loving (IV) by Carmelia Leonte translated from the Romanian by Mihaela Moscaliuc.
August 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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A bit of beauty from Norwegian poet, Rolf Jacobsen, translated by Robert Bly.
#poetry
Poem: A Path though Grass by Norwegian poet, Rolf Jacobsen, translated by Robert Bly.
August 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry by Pierre Reverdy
“Roof Slates”
August 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Is this what Yes feels like?

Mark Irwin’s #poetry
Poem called Toward Where We Are, by Mark Irwin. First published in The Southern Review.
August 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Happy Anniversary!

Here’s a haiku celebration:

#smallpoemsunday
#poetry from @wwph.bsky.social
TINY POEMS AMERICAN HAIKU
A celebration haiku about bees in the fireworks of flowers, just published in Washington writers publishing house, haiku anthology titled: TINY POEMS AMERICAN HAIKU. https://www.washingtonwriters.org/2025/08/09/wwph-writes-issue-103/
August 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Friends in the DMV, join us!
#Poetry on Sunday afternoon
Aug 10 at 4 pm Kensington, MD
Join us for a poetry reading with Christina Daub and Dylan Tran, August 10 at 4 PM in Kensington, MD!
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Local friends, join us for some poetry on Sunday at 4:00. I’ll be reading with Dylan Tran at Modena in Kensington, MD in the Words out Loud reading series. #poetry
August 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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“Anything can be born.”

Martha Zweig #poetry

@epochliterary.com
Poem by Martha Zweig: The Particulars. @epochliterary.com Read another here: https://oneartpoetry.com/2024/09/22/finesse-by-martha-zweig/amp/
July 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Keep swimming…keep singing.

#poetry by Gregory Orr

from How Beautiful the Beloved
Poem by Gregory Orr from his book, How Beautiful the Beloved, Copper Canyon
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Have we finally become a visionless people?

By Alison Davis in Mystery Light.

From Poets Respond, 3/26/23
#poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social
You can hear Alison Davis read her poem, Mystery Light, which opens with Have we finally become a visionless people? https://rattle.com/mystery-light-by-alison-davis/
July 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Mary Ruefle’s erasure poem of Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Rvening by Robert Frost
#poetry #smallpoemsunday
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Thanks to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social
for introducing it to me.
An erasure poem by Mary Ruefle titled Stopping created by whiting out much of Robert Frost’s poem: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.
July 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Simic, because his “something like repressed laughter” brings a smile.
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
Charles Simic’s poem “The Road in the Clouds,” from his collection “Walking the Black Cat,” 1996, Harcourt Brace & Co.
July 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM