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“The Thing We Know How to Do for One Another.” Seven Poetry Books to Read This February “What are we doing? . . . No, I mean—what does poetry do?” That’s D__ speaking. He’s a poet, though you might not know it from the title of the novel he’s narrating: The Copywriter, out this month,…

Christopher Spaide on Colarusso's Pettygod, forthcoming this month! "Again and again, what gives structure to Colarusso’s many-tongued collection . . . is prayer, the postures and registers of a poet speaking up or down to that titular 'pettyg-d.'"
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twelve book covers featured in my end of the year list, click the link for the full feature

| End of the Year Feature |

My Favorite Reads of 2025

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On Thursday, December 11, the Poetry Society will welcome Jennifer Moxley and Prageeta Sharma for the final installment in the fall ’25 PSA Reading Series.

Thursday, December 11
7:00 p.m.
$10 in-person / $5 streaming
Free for members

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Ron Charles writes in the Washington-Post Book World on Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work, that it "offers clear-eyed reflections that skirt but never succumb to despair."

Now Available! Signal Flow by William Fuller. "Signal Flow is a clear statement of what's possible in the twenty-first century—non-totalizing, democratic in its equivalence of anticipation, expectation and unpredictability, and optimistic in its assessment of the power for renewal." Larry Price

Read Chris Waddington's lovely review of Liza Hudock's Reveille: "The authority of these remarkable poems is wrapped up in their matter-of-fact tone — neither dismissive, nor casual about grief, but made taut by Hudock’s effort to find meaning . . ."
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Sometimes my mother wants to sit up and look around. She gets anxious lying down. For this, I wedge myself behind her in bed, my feet against the wall to hold her up back to back. I ask her if we don't look like soldiers. A couple of grunts in the muck. She says soldiers would have cigarettes. She's gotten picky about comparison, she won't make do with a poor one, and anyway, our bodies have grown different. I touch her more sitting like this than I have in my entire life, her back delicate, muscles softened but still broad and full of recent strength. I got my back from her. Shoulder to shoulder, rib to rib. She didn't ask me for a mirror. She asked me for a match.

this prose poem by Liza Hudock omg

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Thanks @floodeditions.bsky.social, looking forward to another 25 years.

Once, you texted me a line of poetry. It wasn't one of the big ones, it was the kind of line I like. The record of a life: and I have sat and watched the trees.

Liza Hudock

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Now available! Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work:

"In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."―Rae Armantrout

Hope I feel a foot at 3 a.m., nudging me to get out of the way. She says, I’m going out to the crab apple tree to stand among the apples and see what I can see.

Today’s Featured Poem:

What Sparks Poetry: Liza Hudock on "Hope" from Reveille published by Flood Editions

Read here:

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Crayola Da Gamba whippets without the within

Today's Featured Poem:

"Crayola Da Gamba" by Merril Gilfillan from Three Roans In the Shallows, One of Them Blue published by @floodeditions.bsky.social

Read here:
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Forthcoming next month: The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley. "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."—Rae Armantrout

Elegies on Brambles: On Jennifer Moxley, Stephen Rodefer, and Poetic Grief John Wilkinson explores the elegiac form.

John Wilkinson discusses an elegy by Jennifer Moxley that's forthcoming in her book The Midnight Work...

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Reveille – Wesleyan University Press The poems in Liza Hudock's Reveille offer an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking."Here is a world i...

Publication day for REVEILLE by Liza Hudock! Order from Flood Editions, Wesleyan University Press, HFS Books, or your independent bookseller.
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"Liza Hudock’s debut collection, Reveille, reflects on ordinary life with such humility that her artfulness sneaks up on you like a coyote at twilight."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Graham Foust

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When a flood recedes,

the ground looks unfamiliar.
Everything is out of place

and all the witnesses can say is
this is where the water was.
—Liza Hudock

Read the title poem from Liza Hudock's Reveille, forthcoming from Flood Editions in August!
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Poets on the Plains: On Dialectible Image Hi, I’m Wayne Miller. I’m a poet who lives in Denver, Colorado, and I’m here for Poets on the Plains.Today I’m going to read a poem by the poet Graham Foust.

Graham Foust feature on "Poets on the Plains"...

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A stack of poetry books and cookbooks by Ronald Johnson.

Just reread Ronald Johnson’s amazing The Book of the Green Man (a lovely British reprint from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ), reaffirming that he is one of my favorite poets and rekindling my interest in doing a deep dive into the connections between his poetry and his cookbooks. 1/2

CURRENT PRINT EDITION - Rain Taxi Review of Books Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 2025 (#118) To purchase issue #118 using Paypal, click here.To become a member and get quarterly issues of Rain

Patrick James Dunagan reviews She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann, in the new issue of Rain Taxi: "There’s a sense of an outside force working on Eckermann’s consciousness, taking her toward a higher understanding of her relationship with the physical environment."
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ARK – Wesleyan University Press A new edition of Ronald Johnson's masterpiece"ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It...

also my copy of this arrived today. Be more ARK www.weslpress.org/979898578747...

Spotlight: Peter Halley — The FLAG Art Foundation

Elaine Equi @elaineequi.bsky.social quotes Ronald Johnson's ARK in this characteristically alert poem responding to Peter Halley's artwork. We recommend Equi's new book, OUT OF THE BLANK, just published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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With the warbler migration approaching full bore here in North America, I think of Merrill Gilfillan’s 2006 “Warbler Haibun,” out of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue (Flood Editions, 2024). A little string excerpted out of its bounty and fervor:

wonderful cover

(Flood Editions, design: Quemadura,
drawing by Charles Burchfield, 1915)

Forthcoming October: Jennifer Moxley’s The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change. It addresses old friends, living and dead, in a series of epistles among more condensed lyric poems.

What We’re Reading: April 2025 DAVID LEHMAN <br> His sentences are labyrinthine, and you soon realize how little happens in a story ... Yet we keep reading, not only for the syntactical journey but for the author’s subtle understan...

At The Common, Nathaniel Perry has a perceptive recommendation of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan: "like a weird novel, or like an atlas, or like a guidebook, or like an aviary, or like a bestiary . . ."

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