Robert Okaji

"...If I could cock my head/
to howl, who would understand?"

A warm welcome back to our friend @robertokaji.bsky.social with two epic reprints for our June collection | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/rober... #poetry #wemissyouHippoJessaNashHumphriesandBanjo

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

In case you missed it this morning...

Index This searchable index includes every poem published in SCR. Rows can be sorted and they can be filtered by any combination of Author, Month of Publication, or Year of Publication. Read a random poem f...

In case you missed it, Stone Circle Review published its 200th poem last weekend and they are all well worth reading.

Our index page lists every one them, has a search function, and is filterable. There's also a random poem link if you're feeling lucky.

stonecirclereview.com/index/

Something Small, Every Day (or so): Exhale Slowly Exhale SlowlyAfter the foot departs in theirSearch for meaning andA good woman done wrong,The earth moves and five minutesAgo rain tapped out. Today’s lessonIs humility. Up to down, right to left,I…

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NEW POEM #192: "That Christmas I Ate Moonshine Cherries and Became a Fortune Teller" by Beth Gilstrap (@bettysueblue.bsky.social)

I dug out one of those cherries from the shine ... witchcraft came bubbling up & waited there in the sauce-burned roof of my mouth

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3 of My Chapbooks Reviewed on Only Poems I am honored and thrilled to report that three of my chapbooks have been reviewed by Svetlana Litvinchuk, reviews editor of the literary juggernaut Only Poems. Thank you, Only Poems team!

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Meet Eleanor Rigby, our newest family member.

You will feel sleepy, you will do as I say! 😊

She is a beauty!

I like to place them in little free libraries. 🙂

Absolutely. I’ve been toiling in the fields of small press poetry for 40+ years. Every new poem is a beginning, though not always good. But I keep trying.

Yes, this!

And mine!

Tortoiseshell-tabby cat loafing on a blue comforter.

My girl, Lyra 😍