Text graphic that reads:
That the fact that I’m still reaching out
& up should be enough, that faith
is only faith when there's no proof.
Photograph of poet Emma Bolden.
"If there was ever a time to think about what we know, and how we know it, it’s now," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode number 1474.
Read "Epistemic Distance" by @emmabolden.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Pv631S
12.03.2026 16:07
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Join us Wed to hear Grant Chemidlin, Chloe Yelena Miller, & Isaiah Vianese read for the WPLS.
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
10.03.2026 21:36
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Amorak Huey
Mouth
Saturday March 14
2:30 pm
Gathering Volumes Bookstore, Perrysburg, Ohio
If you’ll be in or near Northwest Ohio on Saturday & wanna come help me celebrate my new poetry collection, I’d love to see you—
facebook.com/events/s/amo...
11.03.2026 11:09
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10.03.2026 12:54
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Please join me at the Marion-Franklin Branch of @columbuslibrary.bsky.social on March 21st (12pm-5pm) for our first History Day!
09.03.2026 15:34
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Join me on March 26th to raise money for the Sundress Publications Light Bill Incubator Microgrant!
01.03.2026 13:09
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Some Other Girl
Has been
asked to watch
my belongings.
She is every
substitute
for handsome.
Girlhood, subject
to assemblage.
When I return,
two sets
of nightclothes
are laid out
on a bench.
Snow rippling
across a pair
of scissors.
In class, the girl
& I learn
the world
inside the world
is flourishing.
A girl suffers.
Form suffers.
Sharing one of mine from MORE FLOWERS for today’s #smallpoemsunday!
@triohousepress.org
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
22.02.2026 16:49
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Trampoline Poetry
Trampoline Poetry
Trampoline #31.2 is excited to have poems by Francesca Leader, Georgi Bargamian, and @darrencdemaree.bsky.social. www.trampolinepoetry.com
Take care.
22.02.2026 13:16
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Temple in a City literary journal
Poem 5/28/25 by poet and editor Darren C. Demaree. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
The kind of poem that makes you go ‘oh,’ and ‘ow’ and some other feels. A perfect way to open the issue. @darrencdemaree.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...
21.02.2026 17:01
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Thank you for reading.
21.02.2026 17:42
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Too short to quote, but this one has a real punch to it. Great to discover a new-to-me poet.
21.02.2026 16:50
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Trampoline Poetry
Trampoline Poetry
Many thanks to @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem Emily as She is Beautiful and She Laughs on their site today.
www.trampolinepoetry.com
21.02.2026 16:05
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“We find things most beautiful
in the act of their dying. Bright
red leaves. A refusal to eat. The child
who goes to school & the mother
who drives back from school
alone. …”
Susan! ❤️
Snow, Almost, Nearly in More Flowers by @susanlleary.bsky.social, published by @triohousepress.org
21.02.2026 03:36
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Temple in a City literary journal
Poem 5/28/25 by poet and editor Darren C. Demaree. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
Many thanks to @templeinacity.bsky.social for publishing my poem 5/28/25 from my No Nation-State Wants Its People to Outlive It manuscript.
templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...
20.02.2026 18:41
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Cover reveal!
My 25th full-length poetry collection...
Got There: Poems on Vanishing
Coming soon from April Gloaming Publishing
17.02.2026 14:46
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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!
Register here!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
11.02.2026 22:06
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Once again, if anyone knows of any remote full-time, part-time, or freelance jobs, I would be extremely grateful.
I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.
10.02.2026 17:25
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More poems and inspiration from @darrencdemaree.bsky.social @mauchmauch.bsky.social @debkossmann.bsky.social and many others! Check them all out on our Virtual Vigil playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
30.01.2026 15:12
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"This work doesn’t need my name anywhere on it. This work needs me to put the name of the community I serve on the cover, and for me to show up as often as I can to help them build the next chapter."
30.01.2026 13:52
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"A Stubborn and Ornery Hope" by Darren C. Demaree
Mini Portraits of America: Day in the Life series
Many thanks to Jen Knox and Unleash Lit for publishing my little essay about working at a public library.
www.unleashlit.com/p/a-stubborn...
30.01.2026 13:42
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Honored to be in this first issue with so many writers I admire. Please check out the issue - it's small and beautiful and a perfect one-sit read. Thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for his hard work in curating a new space for writers.
26.01.2026 20:58
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Loving After Loss
“all night long, the curtain was pulled back
and dawn drew me toward it, through the dark hours
in which, missing you, and feeling the strangeness
of missing you along with her, i swarmed above the pages
of a book searching for a lost syntax that could lead me
to this new form of desire, desire after obliteration,
i shouldn’t overstate this, the death of myself
when she died, i shouldn’t overstate it:
obliteration”
Cass Donish (comp: an interdisciplinary journal)
best of the net 2025: poetry selection
@bestofthenetanthology
Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Loving After Loss" @cassdonish.bsky.social (COMP: an interdisciplinary journal) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/loving-after-loss/
#bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist
26.01.2026 21:02
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Next up on our virtual vigil for Minneapolis: @anamariacaballero.bsky.social, author of Material, with a poem about immigration. So moving…thank you, Ana.
youtu.be/_fPdbLW2G8E
25.01.2026 16:48
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Did you see what’s available? 👀
T4T by Evelyn Berry is here—an electric, tender exploration of queer and trans life right now.
Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4...
20.01.2026 17:38
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Got a new box of Now Flourish Northern Cardinal. Let me know if you’d like a signed copy for $18.
20.01.2026 14:06
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Love Poem to My Brother as He Gives My Father a Shave
Bending over the hospital bed,
my brother brings a blade
to my father's cheek,
hauls its edge across
those iron stalks, erasing
thick froth, dense cream,
rinsing the razor in a pink bowl,
then again, metal pressed
to skin, that sound,
follicle scraped from flesh,
like tearing open
an envelope—its letter
good news—it says
you are alive
and the ones who love you
most are here, touching
your knuckles, wrist,
as if there grows on the body
a kind of Braille—
and in this way
my brother harvests the past
week, reaps it
from the wildling field
of my father's cheek,
and who could not help
but fall a little in love
with one so capable
as to be able to cull time
from flesh, a man
who then tenderly presses
a damp towel to the jaw
of another warm and living man
and says, "You look good,"
and does not want
anything in return
besides the next breath
shaped into a “see you
next week.”
Second page of the poem, starting with the line "and in this way." The entire poem is in the alt text of the first image.
here's a poem from my book which won the Birdwhistle Poetry Prize from Noble Gas Qtrly back in the day
20.01.2026 13:43
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