Athena Melliar

excerpt from featured poem from Issue #101, "Let Them Eat Cake" by Sharon Svendsen.

Issue #101 out now! Featured Poet Sharon Svendsen; supported by Carol Tiebout, David Chorlton, Sara Vernekar, Sky Davis, Celeste Perez, @yanisiqbal.bsky.social, Jenny Isaacs, Richard Stimac, and Mikha'El Dan.

www.neologismpoetry.com/October-2025/

When those who scraped the granite hill,
Harried, confused its flowing line,
Blasted its edge, its summit till
Boulders were crystals sharp and fine—
They had gone up, breathing the rare
Ethereal vapor, quick and whiny.

from “The Vandals” by Lynn Riggs

#LynnRiggs #IndigenousPeoplesDay #poetry

No living thing, the wild doves gone
and the king of Asini, whom we’ve been trying to find for two years now,
unknown, forgotten by all, even by Homer,
only one word in the Iliad and that uncertain
- “The King of Asini,” Giorgos #Seferis www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51356/...

Day 6 of the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is packed with programs — in-person at the Dickinson Homestead and streaming live to participants around the globe!

Space is limited, register for free:
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Starting today, The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is live from Amherst and features hybrid events at the Emily Dickinson Museum — there's still time to register for free!

Tell all the truth but tell it slant!
FREE REGISTRATION:
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YouTube video by ModPo 2025 Week 2 Live Webcast

@modpo.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoh8... 🔥🔥🔥

“The burned tree” @athenamelliar.bsky.social Flyway Journal of Writing & Environment

#poetry #Evros #Greece

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self portrait as saint dymphna - Grist MJ Lu (she/they) is a Southeast Asian American poet who hails from North Carolina. Her work was previously published in MudRoom, Bulb Culture Collective, and Von Aegir Literary.

and now your blood finds its way

into my ruptured veins as i wonder

what use is prayer if not carnal:

every day we are recanting

from our own loneliness

from “self portrait as saint dymphna” by @mjluvoices.bsky.social, Grist Journal #poetry

gristjournal.com/2025/04/self...

Calliste So small was your earth clod thrown out of Argo, it crawled into a tectonic hole — the hole is black, tears the cyan — you came up for air, we didn’t breathe a word. Now you swell and swirl, you er…

My poem, “Calliste,” is in the 117th issue of Cordite Poetry Review alongside such incredible work form writers I admire.

cordite.org.au/poetry/nothe...

The island of Santorini was previously called Calliste (meaning “the most beautiful”).

#poetry #Santorini

Calliste So small was your earth clod thrown out of Argo, it crawled into a tectonic hole — the hole is black, tears the cyan — you came up for air, we didn’t breathe a word. Now you swell and swirl, you er…

My poem, “Calliste,” is in the 117th issue of Cordite Poetry Review alongside such incredible work form writers I admire.

cordite.org.au/poetry/nothe...

The island of Santorini was previously called Calliste (meaning “the most beautiful”).

#poetry #Santorini

“I Google Myself” by Mel Nichols @poetryfoundation.bsky.social

#poetry

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I want something pulled out of me
like a maiden witched back up out of the well
or maybe i want
to slit and blink at the bottom of it
let the heir tumble into me
live forever there
dead and romantic

—“Death Style 8.17.20” by @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

a full moon rises over a body of water with rocks in the foreground ALT: a full moon rises over a body of water with rocks in the foreground

Such is a silence

of a woman who
speaks against silence, knowing
silence is what

moves us to speak. — from Deaf Republic, @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#poetry

Lens split my image in segments, mirrors
abstract me from my face (I seize my scent).
I am eclipsing moons in the night sky,
the art of still life—existence through death.
— “Vortograph,” published in Dark Marrow (2018)

#poetry #moon

Somewhere by Fanny Howe Somewhere between Norway and Irelandvolcanic rocks and glaciers leap from the seaMy map has failed me, I’m there

There is nothing here

to love This seascape fits exactly with
the geography of my mind:
whatever is close is dangerous
— “Somewhere” by Fanny Howe

www.theparisreview.org/poetry/3954/...

#FannyHowe #poetry

the letters are falling from the sky in a seamless pattern on a white background . ALT: the letters are falling from the sky in a seamless pattern on a white background .

Released silhouettes
flow incessantly like water,
flow between mountains
swiftly like a kaleidoscope.
- “René Magritte” by Shuzo Takiguchi (1903-1979)

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#poetry

Guerrilla Girls, 'The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist' poster, 1988 #womensart

Today my monostich (featuring mirror-writing) is published in the 27th issue of a dream journal, #Petrichor! What an honour!

petrichormag.com/pebbles-vol-...

#poetry #mirrorwriting #mirrorwritingpoetry #monostich

Today my monostich (featuring mirror-writing) is published in the 27th issue of a dream journal, #Petrichor! What an honour!

petrichormag.com/pebbles-vol-...

#poetry #mirrorwriting #mirrorwritingpoetry #monostich

Every Woman Is a Working Woman - Boston Review Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.

“Instead of providing more services to women, the state has actually reduced access even to the services that were available. Today it is more difficult to get eldercare and childcare than it was at the end of the 1960s.” —Silvia Federici

“Café du Dôme,” Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven #InternationalWomensDay

Mothers Who Care Too Much - Boston Review Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.

“Mothers Who Care Too Much” by Nancy J. Hirschmann @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum/mother...

#InternationalWomensDay