Christina Daub

REMEMBRANCE We must answer each question with another question. We must erase our first sorrow. How shall we hope? We must hope. Do you remember the prayer we said bent over, the giving of body to ground? We must shape ourselves first to shadow and then to infinite, the wait of such hunger in every cell. No matter the hours. I'll tell you everything. I'll tell you the silence. Poem by Lauren Camp from her book, 100 Hungers, Tupelo press, 2016

from Remembrance
by Lauren Camp
#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#poetry

I’m standing in front of the Shō Poetry Journal table holding up issue #4.

Reading off site at @greedyreads bookstore in Baltimore.

Pizza with poets Kelli Russell Agodon, Susan Rich and Saddiq Dzukogi. Note how we carefully guard the bag of poetry books.

Best AWP ever. Got to spend time with old friends and new. Went to some excellent panels and hiked the book fair trails several times. Read at @tupelopress.bsky.social 30/30 event at @greedyreads.bsky.social

Photo of three poet friends from left to right: Tina Daub, Kelli Russell Agodon & Tina Kelley.

Had fun with @kelliagodon.bsky.social at her new book signing today at @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
“Accidental Devotions.” Here she is flanked by two Tinas! #AWP26 #poetry

Will we be seeing you at #AWP in Baltimore?? We hope so!!
And always find us at www.washingtonwriters.org
#writers #poets #AWP26 #writingcommunity 💙🌈🏳️‍🌈✍️✍️💕

And you!

Will definitely stop by to say hi!

Image of the right corner of an office building against a purple sky. Overlaid on the top right of the image in black lettering it reads: for Early-Career Translators Apply by February 28, 2026 Words Without Borders announces the fourth annual MOMENTUM GRANT.

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The cover of MOUNTEBANK by Tom Snarsky, out March 31st from Broken Sleep Books.

hello everyone! today is #smallpoemsunday and it’s also the first day of March, the month at the end of which my new book MOUNTEBANK will be out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social :)

each day in March I’m planning to share a #soapboxpoem, a small series of poems(/etc.) named for the origin of the…

AWP SCHEDULE Thursday, March 5th 2:00-3:00 PM Author Signing Trio House Press Booth #1248 Thursday, March 5th 6:00-7:30 PM Trio House Press 2026 Authors Reception Homeland Room Renaissance Harborplace Hotel All Day, Every Day Catch me anywhere else at the conference, and I'll sign one of my own copies of More Flowers or Dressing the Bear just for you and as a gift (while supplies last)!

It’s official! See you in Baltimore, friends!

@triohousepress.org 💜💛

…fighting to un-hear…

Here’s Catch by @burgi.bsky.social
for #smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

The photograph is of the covers of two new books of poetry: True Blue by Susan Scheid, and White Door by Burgi Zenhaeusern.

Looking forward to being the guest poet of @burgi.bsky.social at her book launch today of her new poetry collection, White Door. She’ll be reading with Susan Scheid, who is also launching her new book,True Blue.
Join us at @thewriterscenter.bsky.social
at 2 pm.
#poetry

that’s how
I want to live on this planet:

alive to a rabbit at a glass door—
and flower where there is no flower.

#poetry by Arthur Sze
excerpted from “Unpacking a Globe”

Another Unfortunate Choice I think I am in love with A.E. Houseman, Which puts me in a worse-than-usual fix. No woman ever stood a chance with Houseman And he's been dead since 1936. by Wendy Cope

Another Unfortunate Choice

by Wendy Cope

#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing both @burgi.bsky.social and Susan Scheid launch their new collections of #poetry next Sunday and read a few of my own new poems too!

…little flakes of water…

Snow Buntings
by Mary Oliver
#poetry

A rustling shower passes, and now fiery suns as small as seeds hang suspended on the point-tips of every spear of forest pine. Galaxies, I say, and a wraith appears, an actual apparition of bestowing beside me in the glittering forest. I know it. Prayer in the shape of the wind rises. Galaxies fly, a rain of galaxies in motion, a ringing crescendo of light. Who is it who makes music with falling stars of water? Who is it who tunes the art of benevolence? Is it burning water that creates rainlight in falling pellets of sun? Is it sunlight that creates the voice of galactic rains? All of those deaf suns are singing in chorus together: This is so. The Word (Sun after Rain) by Pattiann Rogers from her book, Quickening Fields,2017.

Prayer in the shape of the wind rises.

~Pattiann Rogers

#poetry
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

THE UNDERTAKING The darkness lifts, imagine, in your lifetime. There you are—cased in clean bark you drift through weaving rushes, fields flooded with cotton. You are free. The river films with lilies, shrubs appear, shoots thicken into palm. And now all fear gives way: the light looks after you, you feel the waves goodwill as arms widen over the water; Love, the key is turned. Extend yourself— it is the Nile, the sun is shining, everywhere you turn is luck. by Louise Glück from her collection, The House on Marshland, 1971, The Ecco Press

The darkness lifts

#poetry by Louise Glück

Swimming in the clouds

#poetry by Amy Lowell

Every card

#poetry by Timothy Liu

Our March 26 reading is set, and it will be 🔥. Join us to hear @dlassell.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @janezwart.bsky.social, @hollicarrell.bsky.social, & Robbi Nester read from their newest books!

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The copier wept

#poetry by Mary Ruefle

#hunger
#poetry

So good

Here’s to Ai vs AI🙏

Great reading yesterday!

Great cover!!

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🌸 Happy Pub Day 🌸 to MORE FLOWERS! None of this happens alone & I’m grateful to so many for their support in bringing this book to life!

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July Orbit by Christina Daub Under the branch shawling the top of the tomato plant: ladybugs-spotted planets, little Marses-wings tucked in or half out, chewing aphids— a feast constellated on the hairy stalk— no breeze to break the heat. Here is some shade to eat en famille, I say, as if l'd invited them, as if I'd strung the plant with tight-skinned globes— welcome lanterns of greenish red— a summer party I'd been longing for— my boys at home again.

“As if I’d invited them”

Here is a🐞of a poem
for #smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky

With thanks to Silver Birch Press
and their Bugs & Insects series
#poetry
#motherhood

Sonnet 23 from part two of the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rilke translated by Polikoff Call me to that one amongst your hours that resists you ever and again: close as a dog's beseeching eyes but always turning away just then when you think you've finally grasped itso! What's thus withdrawn is most your own. We are free. We were let go where we thought we'd first been greeted, and so less alone Anxiously, we yearn for anchorage some sure hold, we who are too young, sometimes, for what is old and too old for what has never been. We, just only then, when we praise despite being afraid, for we, alas, are the branch and the iron axe-blade and the sap of sweet danger ripening within.

“…the sap of sweet danger ripening within”

From Rilke’s Sonnet 23 of part 2 of the Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by Daniel Joseph Polikoff. #Rilke
#poetry

#rilke