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Seth Peterson
@sethpeterson.bsky.social
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New poet here for the awesomeness and inspiration. Work in 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Rattle, etc
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I must say one disturbing thing I’ve noticed in the poetry community is many people think they have deep knowledge of something bc they “researched” it for their poem.

Don’t do this. If anything, poetry should make us more humble about our lack of understanding.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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slowdownshow.org
“It can be so hard to accept help from others, especially if you pride yourself on being self-sufficient," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1387 of The Slowdown.

Read “Different Kinds of Sadness" by @jennymolberg.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4oIADBE
A text graphic featuring a portion of Jenny Molberg's poem. A photograph of poet Jenny Molberg. She has long dark blonde hair and is standing in front of a textured wall. Her hair is covering her face.
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
sethpeterson.bsky.social
There are many, but I think this is my favorite Sharon Olds poem.

From “The Father”
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Very excited to have a new poem in "Image"...

...big thanks to the editors!
Scarecrow - Image Journal
They had left about forty crows in the conference room, as a test.
imagejournal.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
sethpeterson.bsky.social
Sneakretly

(Adj) def: a certain degree of sneakiness, usually referring to the act of obtaining secrets or forbidden information
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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My recent poem in I-70 Review, alongside some gems from Ted Kooser, Rob Cording, and others
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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A section of The Times, a shallow tub,
A chamois cloth, a sickle slip of pumice,
Green oil from the least expensive jug,
A dry wreath’s worth of eucalyptus

~from "A Homecoming"
by Daniel Bosch
AGNI Online
A Homecoming
A section of The Times, a shallow tub, A chamois cloth, a sickle slip of pumice, Green oil from the least expensive jug, A dry wreath’s worth of eucalyptus, Scented lotion samples torn from Vogue,…
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Thanks to @kencraft.bsky.social for featuring my @havehashad.com poem “Depiction of the Afterlife as a Frantic Search for Car Keys” in a recent blog post. Check it out:

www.kencraftauthor.com/when-before-...
When Before and After Share Striking Similarities – Ken Craft
www.kencraftauthor.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Dreams do come true
October 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Don’t have a manuscript yet, but whenever it gets here, this will be a strong contender for the cover
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Love this from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

Diagnosis by Nikita Deshpande

www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/diagnosis-...
Diagnosis by Nikita Deshpande
"I come from a long line of time travellers"
www.onlypoemsdaily.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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John Connelly - Autumn Wey.
Acrylic on Canvas.
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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32 Poems really is a great little journal. Thanks to George David Clark and team for selecting this one
September 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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One of my favorite poems so far in the 2025 Best American Poetry

Alison Pelegrín @southernreview.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Thank you to Wendy Lesser for making a spot for "Being and Time" (my poem, not Heidegger's treatise) in Threepenny Review.
Extra happy because my poem gets to hang out with one by @toddedillard.bsky.social.
See a more accessible version at https://www.threepennyreview.com/being-and-time/
September 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Tiana Clark ♥️

from EQUILIBRIUM (Bull City Press)

Day 16 - #SealeyChallenge

@bullcitypress.com
@sealeychallenge.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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W.S. Merwin
August 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social reads an extraordinary poem that takes us on a turn beyond itself at the finish. Wow. “Bonfire Opera” by Danusha Laméris at @slowdownshow.org www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
1335: Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris
Today’s poem is Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris.
www.slowdownshow.org
August 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
sethpeterson.bsky.social
“When it comes back, there’s no reference at all to your suffering.
So your voice dies away. You stop trying, not just with the sun,
but with human beings. And the small things that made you happy
can’t get through to you anymore.”

-Louise Glück

www.threepennyreview.com/olive-trees/
Olive Trees – The Threepenny Review
www.threepennyreview.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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This is exciting. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social did an excellent job filling the big shoes of this podcast and I loved every poem she selected 👏
August 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Beth Ann Fennelly
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding You ask me for a poem about love in place of a wedding present, trying to save me money. For three nights I've lain under glow-in-the-dark-stars I've stuck to the ceiling over my bed. I've listened to the songs of the galaxy. Well, Carmen, I would rather give you your third set of steak knives than tell you what I know. Let me find you some other, store-bought present. Don't make me warn you of stars, how they see us from that distance as miniature and breakable from the bride who tops the wedding cake to the Mary on Pinto dashboards holding her ripe, red heart in her hands.
August 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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“See how the sky sits like a tombstone on the roofs”
December 31, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Such a good one by Dante Di Stefano

“we have our eyes focused on
our children who are splashing
& turning somersaults &
& cannonballing beside

us in this chlorinated
heaven we are all floating
through”
August 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Jennifer Chang
The Innocent For weeks we watched for hatchlings to come of three smug eggs tucked into a nest, the nest tucked into the crook of a neighbor's honeysuckle. Time nodded, was nodding— the shred of living, how offhand the wind teeters toward erosion. Hard at work, on guard in two backyards, the robins mothered and fathered their territory daily. And beyond, our block's alley stretched, aimless as fields, where watching happens by accident, by nature. They'd squawk on a streetlamp, a cedar fence, our back stoop, warning off the tabby, my two young sons, everyone stuck at home. I lost my mind with watching and thought it grief or egotism, the bruise of yesterday, not least the sky unraveling another season. It was easy to mistake the bared skeletal pinions as lawn clippings, old leaves. That circle in the grass, a massacre of feathers. That terrible cat. It was easy to lose my mind. One neighbor said, Let's not tell the children, why know the world as always fated toward remnant. Another said, Go, take the nest, set it under glass, and make it a lesson. Instead, I watched our habits pass, the honeysuckle fade from sickly sweet to nothing but heat. Call it science. It's summer again, and then everything's remnant. What did we do those days, stuck at home, my sons might someday ask. We lived or tolerated living. We looked away from death.
July 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM