Martha Silano

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Martha Silano | Once Strangers on the streets of Seattle and New York read Martha Silano's poem

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I STOP WRITING THE POEM to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.

Oh this hurt. By the brilliant Tess Gallagher.

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Martha Silano in The Indianapolis Review Winter Issue 2025. Read the full poem here theindianapolisreview.com/my-nineteen-...

Our Readers on Poems from <em>Poetry Daily</em> A collection of our readers' responses to their favorite poems from our archive.

Today's Feature:

In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them.

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ANNOUNCING THE 2025 SCIENCE + LITERATURE SELECTED TITLES The National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced selected titles for the fourth year of the Science + Literature program, made possible by a three-year, $525,000 r...

I'll be honest, 2024 was one of my roughest years in memory, so getting this call last month was a tremendous gift and honor ❤️ I hope programs like this--that celebrate art + science together, as both feel increasingly precarious--will continue into this future

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A woodpecker perches on the side of a wide tree trunk, its back blending in well with the bark.

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker demonstrating some impressive camouflage. I heard it tapping away well before I saw it.

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Stony Sleep We huddled together in the waning sunlight and pulled a blanket of ash up to our chins.

Today's Featured Poem:

"Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press.

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One from Not All Saints, winner of the 2019 Bitter Oleander Poetry Prize.

"I am not trying to say anything I fear
except now it is the dog days of summer

where we eat & sweat, & inside my chest
is a church wall, somewhere to pray,"

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An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

Could it really be a mushroom, the false morel, causes ALS? Sheeeet, it's so likely I ate some of those over the years. Also, painters and mechanics have a higher risk ~ www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... @theatlantic.com

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- Post Road Magazine Six Poemsby Martha Silano When I’m on the Bed called death, I hopeto be thinking aboutthe texture of the bucatiniat Campiello, how they seated usin the bar by the pizza cooks, but when we asked to sit...

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Announcing New Essay The Grief Artist By Traci Brimhall Fall 2026

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Non-fiction: Narrative THE GRIEF ARTIST By Traci Brimhall Imprint: Sarabande Books March 19, 2025 Kansas Poet Laureate and distinguished professor of creative writing Traci Brimhall's THE GRIEF ARTIST, an essay collection exploring traditional and unorthodox expressions of grief, from Victorian death rituals to sleepovers in haunted houses, to Kristen Renee Miller at Sarabande Books, in an exclusive submission, for publication in fall 2026.

ANNOUNCING a new essay collection by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social , THE GRIEF ARTIST, coming fall 2026! Get excited!! 💫

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I think if someone invented the sestina today they would be murdered

who are the five traumas that made you a confessional poet

collage of flowers in Swann's Way, Davis translation

Happy beginning of spring, I guess.
Almost done with my re-read of "Swann's Way," the James Grieve translation, and you can bet I will be doing a new flower collage with the blooms inside. Funny and kind of wonderful how different translations don't align on flower names.

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JOE WILKINS Pastoral, 1994 Cover design by Alban Fischer Green starry sky over pond and barbed wire

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