Justin Rigamonti
@jrigamonti.bsky.social
Poet, Editor & Program Coordinator for the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency
Poetry Coordinator for chatterpdx.org
www.jrigamonti.com
bsky.app/profile/cmwritershouse.bsky.social
Poetry Coordinator for chatterpdx.org
www.jrigamonti.com
bsky.app/profile/cmwritershouse.bsky.social
The Witness, by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. by Mildred Boyer
September 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The Witness, by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. by Mildred Boyer
On a Walk from Heather Christle’s Paper Crown
August 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
On a Walk from Heather Christle’s Paper Crown
Damn, this new Heather Christle book
August 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Damn, this new Heather Christle book
Love when I open a magazine and the first poem is fantastic @bridgetlowe.bsky.social @newenglandreview.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Love when I open a magazine and the first poem is fantastic @bridgetlowe.bsky.social @newenglandreview.bsky.social
We solicited pieces on the theme of love, connection and community from our writer friends 🌈 (& we’re publishing it under our new micro press, Tether Books)
June 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We solicited pieces on the theme of love, connection and community from our writer friends 🌈 (& we’re publishing it under our new micro press, Tether Books)
It’s called City of Bridges & it celebrates love & community & the Portland literary scene, which we’ve been part of for 15+ years
June 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It’s called City of Bridges & it celebrates love & community & the Portland literary scene, which we’ve been part of for 15+ years
Instead of the regular wedding hoopla, my partner and I made an anthology to celebrate our marriage & we’re launching it tonight
June 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Instead of the regular wedding hoopla, my partner and I made an anthology to celebrate our marriage & we’re launching it tonight
I’ve done group sonnets with my intro poetry classes for years, but just did a group ghazal for the first time & it was a lot of fun. Just decide on the radif (repeated word) & the qafiyah (rhyming sound) at the beginning (the students chose both). Here’s the one we did last week!
April 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’ve done group sonnets with my intro poetry classes for years, but just did a group ghazal for the first time & it was a lot of fun. Just decide on the radif (repeated word) & the qafiyah (rhyming sound) at the beginning (the students chose both). Here’s the one we did last week!
Huge crowd in Portland, OR, and the weather was perfect
April 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Huge crowd in Portland, OR, and the weather was perfect
“At dawn and at dusk,
a sky newborn and wet like a dark red calf
standing in straw, then falling.”
-Mary Ruefle
I love it when a metaphor sucks all the air out of my chest.
a sky newborn and wet like a dark red calf
standing in straw, then falling.”
-Mary Ruefle
I love it when a metaphor sucks all the air out of my chest.
February 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“At dawn and at dusk,
a sky newborn and wet like a dark red calf
standing in straw, then falling.”
-Mary Ruefle
I love it when a metaphor sucks all the air out of my chest.
a sky newborn and wet like a dark red calf
standing in straw, then falling.”
-Mary Ruefle
I love it when a metaphor sucks all the air out of my chest.
Amidst the chaos, there’s love, thank god, and I’m grateful to @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for publishing this double-sonnet I wrote for my partner @jessiepaige.bsky.social ❤️
January 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Amidst the chaos, there’s love, thank god, and I’m grateful to @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for publishing this double-sonnet I wrote for my partner @jessiepaige.bsky.social ❤️
Eduardo C. Corral
January 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Eduardo C. Corral
“Fat with insights
sharper than a tooth
I make my Christmas list”
—from December, by Jean Valentine
sharper than a tooth
I make my Christmas list”
—from December, by Jean Valentine
December 27, 2024 at 6:05 AM
“Fat with insights
sharper than a tooth
I make my Christmas list”
—from December, by Jean Valentine
sharper than a tooth
I make my Christmas list”
—from December, by Jean Valentine
A day late, but here’s a poem from Mark Leidner’s Christmas Poems, So They Can Have Been @markleidner.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 9:05 PM
A day late, but here’s a poem from Mark Leidner’s Christmas Poems, So They Can Have Been @markleidner.bsky.social
3 years ago next week my uncle died of Covid—here’s the poem I wrote for him, Failure, with gratitude to Frontier Poetry for publishing it www.frontierpoetry.com/2024/12/17/2...
December 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
3 years ago next week my uncle died of Covid—here’s the poem I wrote for him, Failure, with gratitude to Frontier Poetry for publishing it www.frontierpoetry.com/2024/12/17/2...
Look to the Future, Ruth Stone
November 12, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Look to the Future, Ruth Stone
I love this New Year’s poem from Carrie Fountain’s Instant Winner, the way it twists you around its finger at the end.
December 30, 2023 at 6:36 AM
I love this New Year’s poem from Carrie Fountain’s Instant Winner, the way it twists you around its finger at the end.
I found myself reading Ararat last night, and then it occurred to me that there were very likely hundreds, if not thousands, of others reading Glück across the country at that moment and... that's powerful. Here’s the final poem from that collection. RIP
October 14, 2023 at 5:04 PM
I found myself reading Ararat last night, and then it occurred to me that there were very likely hundreds, if not thousands, of others reading Glück across the country at that moment and... that's powerful. Here’s the final poem from that collection. RIP
I could sit here all night,/ and chances are I will.
August 21, 2023 at 3:30 PM
I could sit here all night,/ and chances are I will.
Finally reading & really loving City of Rivers by Zubair Ahmed (McSweeney’s 2013)
August 21, 2023 at 3:29 PM
Finally reading & really loving City of Rivers by Zubair Ahmed (McSweeney’s 2013)
"And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows/ Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless."
July 5, 2023 at 4:25 PM
"And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows/ Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless."