Sarah Josephine

Happy release day to Sarah Josephine Pennington's WHERE THE BLUEGRASS GROWS, JUNE 1916.

In addition to Sarah's words, some of the poems include lines or images sourced from a vintage Kentucky newspaper. #appalachian #southeasternkentucky #kentucky #poetry #appalachianpoetry #handbound #chapbook

I have a new poem up over at @salvationsouth.com

Things sure are heavy right now, but I wish you all some queer joy and community this Pride month.

www.salvationsouth.com/queer-poetry...

Feeling rough today, so I'm doing some reading. Still Life With Bones should absolutely be on your tbr list. Hagerty explores the aftermath of governments and forces that use disappearance of citizens as a means of control.

#readingrecommendation #reading

I just reread Joy Priest's Horsepower. Full of poems as strong as the horses that race past Longview at Churchill Downs--poems of survival, poems of beauty, poems rooted in place and family and life.
#apoemaday #poetry

Blood Dazzler might be the most arresting collection I've read. Smith delves into the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with an unflinching eye, capturing the humanity of the survivors, the city, and those we lost. My only complaint is that I didn't read it sooner.

#poetry #blooddazzler

I fell off of posting my poem a day hard. I also might have lost track of reading, but I've caught up (and probably gained ground). I'm going to share some collections I've read recently.

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Tonight!
I've been awful at posting, but I'm still here, and still writing. Come join me for an evening of writing. I'll bring a prompt and you bring yourself and your current project (or start something new).

#writing #louisville #kentuckywriter

Hen. 2025. Hand built ceramic bowl.

Mr. Rooster seemed to approve of her, but declined to be in the photos.

William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow"

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If you're invested in rooster watch, animal control came by, but Mr. Rooster was too savvy to be caught. He has returned and was full of bawks for Crystal, who he doesn't believe has any right to go into our garage.

Today we read from Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters.

We remember the stakes really are ourselves. We remember that we are endless, always one, never separate.

Get going, join hands, see to business.

#poem #poetry #apoemaday #dianediprima

Yep. I got some responses from the neighborhood FB groups. Basically everyone knows he and some hens run the streets, and they narrowed it down to a block, but no one actually knows the house or is claiming him. I drove around and can't find a house with a coop, so I think he's not well cared for.

From "Roosters" by Elizabeth Bishop

Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48289/...

Featuring the neighborhood rooster who has taken up roost in our lean to. He's bound for the pound as soon as it stops raining as no one seems to know where he came from.

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"Thoughts in Jail" by Katharine Rolston Fisher

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On Friday we said goodbye to my father. He was a lot of things --a veteran, a union man, and about the most mule headed person to ever walk this Earth.
If there's an afterlife, he's busy haunting Mitch McConnell and all the warmongers in Washington.

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Kenneth Koch's "To the United States Army"

Full text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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From Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47867/...

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From "Cocktails with Orpheus" by Terrance Hayes

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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Jesus at the Gay Bar He's here in the midst of it - right at the centre of the dance floor, robes hitched up to His knees to make it easy to spin. At some point in the evening a boy will touch the hem of His robe and beg to be healed, beg to be anything other than this; and He will reach His arms out, sweat-damp, and weary from dance. He'll cup this boy's face in His hand and say, my beautiful child there is nothing in this heart of yours that ever needs to be healed.

Okay so this one always makes me cry.

Thank you @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

From "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do" By Parneshia Jones

Full text: poets.org/poem/what-wo...

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From "What You Need to Survive Vernon, OK" by Steven Leyva

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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"Kitchen Ghosts" by Crystal Wilkinson

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Let's read Kelly Ellis Norman's "Raised By Women"

Full text at mwg.org/portfolio/co...

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From "Eustasy" by Nikki Finney

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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From Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Lovers of the Poor"

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43317/...

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You do not need to stop to reassess your purpose or intention to write. This is creative writing. It's like having high functioning anxiety except you're writing it down and calling it a book. Give in to the spiral.

"Untitled" by James Baldwin.

My heart has felt heavy these past days watching the devastating flooding in Eastern Kentucky. It's even heavier watching the second thousand year flood in just a few years.

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Let's read a second Hettie Jones poem today. I missed a day earlier this week, so if you've been reading along since January 1st, you're one poem shy of a poem a day.
(Besides, it's always best to read 2 poems by a Beat woman for every 1 poem by a Beat man.)

"Hard Drive"
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YouTube video by Poets House A Poem by Hettie Jones

Watch Hettie read it here

youtu.be/MtRtbd0zfpE?...

"are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing"

"Weather" by Hettie Jones

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"Political Poem" by Amiri Baraka

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