Iβm not at AWP; Iβm here
02.03.2026 20:12 β
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Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social and his @periodicities.bsky.social for posting this poem from My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet. It's in some ways a preview of the whole book-length project, a kinda thesis-statement poem, although the book has both many and no theses.
02.03.2026 18:05 β
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Stan Rogal : bagne, or, Criteria for Heaven, by rob mclennan
bagne, or, Criteria for Heaven , rob mclennan Broken Jaw Press, 2000 Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β βslipping easily to the quick & more...
newly posted: Stan Rogal : bagne, or, Criteria for Heaven, by rob mclennan / @robmclennan.bsky.social ;
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02.03.2026 14:41 β
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Lake
Doctors say you have only weeks yet.
You go early to bed and draw meadows.
One day remembers a better one as she crawls out of consciousness.
Whatever happens happens now.
Red painted monuments bloom.
Itβs a messy, wild-growing grief.
One child ventures out, the child, lovely and bespeckled, the child, a powerhouse, the child grown up, a person capable and remarkable.
Then the ocean comes for the land.
Drought is causing the reappearance of the canyon.
And of the split level house on a lake.
Lesle Lewis
recently appeared in @periodicities.bsky.social & in the forthcoming collection with @pizamapress.bsky.social
02.03.2026 13:59 β
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Two Lesle Lewis prose poems were released today! Both appear in her upcoming PiΕΌama collection, JOHN'S TABLE
02.03.2026 00:24 β
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Barophobiar
The superhero could not find a cure for his lice.
Invisibility streamed dreams into his scalp.
Flying burned his hair into skin.
At night, the superhero slept inside the walls.
He was never alone, and that was the way he liked it.
When it rained, the dawn chorus woke the villains, and the superhero stood on the brink of a volcano to find out what was true.
One of mine in @periodicities.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
01.03.2026 16:07 β
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12.02.2026 15:49 β
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"This collection is not about coping; it offers no catharsis. It is immensely sad and violent, as the tearing away of life can only be. It leaves us with many lives that do continue, neither lessened by loss nor able to fill its void β many lives that continue together."
13.02.2026 17:34 β
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You cannot laugh while listening to the recording
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