cold light-
a stone briefly
remembers being water
#haiku #poetry

Today's poem-
What goes unsaid in this poem? Is it an indictment? A relating of regret, or a defense? It is uncanny how relevant to today Rich's poems remain.

Where to Listen to Great Poetry Get Ready for Some Great Listening online!

Friends, follow the link to find links to sites that curate poetry readings. While you are there, please consider subscribing to my substack for more helpful petry content. Happy listening!
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Today's poem- "borrowed" inspiration posted by Suzanne Cleary (thank you!)

Ode to the Heart
by Ellen Bass

YouTube video by Cambridge Center for Adult Education Blacksmith House Poetry Series 4/12 Yusef Komunyakaa

Welcome, weekend and poetry warriors!
Today's poem post is instead this reading I just watched with Yusef Komunyakka, who somehow I just recently learned about!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSD...
I suggest skipping the opening remarks with barking dog...the reading starts at 1:26 into the video

Today's poem-
I read this great poem in Gyroscope Review, Winter 2025 Issue

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Today's poem:
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Dante on the Metro

The Men By Jo-Ann Mort

The Men
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Amira Cheung Simhani, a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025, reads winning poem 'Why the sky never closed behind her'.

Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets

YouTube video by The Poem I Wish I Had Read Tiana Clark reads and discusses "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy" by Terrance Hayes

We studied Terrance Hayes' fantastic "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy" in workshop this week- this reading and commentary by Tiana Clark is worth the watch youtu.be/FQrw9USXTKo?...

Kanye West Is Not Picasso by Leonard Cohen I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is

Kanye West Is Not Picasso by Leonard Cohen
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Cover Page Jackdaw Review Issue 3

Today's Poems-
My thanks to Anna DiMartino, Editor Jackdaw Press and
Jackdaw Review for publishing two of my poems (see pg.14-15) in this stunning flipbook, Issue 3- online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/ioyf/#...
Be sure to check out www.jackdawpress.com.

POEM #276: "Keepsakes" by Lana Hechtman Ayers (@lanaayers23.bsky.social)

"what the heart holds it holds

despite rebuttals from blurred photos
home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws

& there are chrysanthemums
growing in the past

that move like a storm blowing in"

stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes

Today's poem-

Jane Hirshfield

Autumn

Again the wind
flakes gold-leaf from the trees
and the painting darkens—
as if a thousand penitents
kissed an icon
till it thinned
back to bare wood,
without diminishment.

Today's poem-
This Griffin Poetry Prize poem is longlisted and quite devastating
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Today's poem- taken from the Carcanet Press page, posted today as part of an anthology. Poet David Morley
I really love this!

David Morley - Poetry Archive David Morley is an ecologist, poet, editor and teacher. Emerging with Releasing Stone (Arc, 1989), he has since published five collections with Carcanet, the most recent, The Invisible Gift: Selected ...

I happily stumbled upon this site, which archives poets reading their poems. Enjoy listening to David Morley~

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The ever prescient Ursula LeGuin, 2014

YouTube video by Release - Topic This World Is Not Conclusion

Today's poem- this poem by Peter Gizzi floored me. Here is Gizzi reading the poem:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Lw...
This World Is Not Conclusion
Peter Gizzi

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For those of us not taken up in the Rapture, I give you this- by Maryann Corbett

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this fabulous epistolary poem manipulates rich language, the contrast of night and day, and form (note how it slows down and speeds up reading with the short line fragments), to create a poignant letter

poets.org/poem/letter-...

"hospice window" by Kala Ramesh.
pulsevoices.org/haiku/hospic...

To read more of our published haiku, visit our website at: pulsevoices.org/haiku/

#haiku #poem #Medsky #medicine #medicalhumanities #healthcare #hospice #patient

Two Poems - Plume Ode on Being a Little Drunk at Parties   My brain is such a bully—wash your face, comb your hair, brush your teeth—but drink a glass of wine, and my id rises up like Venus on the half shell, and says,...

Today's poem- The first ode is such a delight- here's a party I'd like to attend!
Barbara Hamby
plumepoetry.com.

Two Poems by Nancy Sobanik 2023 Best of the Net Nominee 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominee Pilgrimage In a drawer, your hairbrush.Under the bed, moccasins.You would slip into them,supple like your hand slidinginto my jeans pocket,m…

Today's poem- Read it here:

sparksofcalliope.com/2023/03/17/t...

Today's poem- Charles Simic

How the Bumble Bee Sleeps by Nancy Sobanik (BUGS & INSECTS Series) How the Bumble Bee Sleeps by Nancy Sobanik Oh black-furred brooch, just a plump striped bean, you lie too still, in plain view on a coverlet of yellow. Prodded with a leaf to see if you are alive, …

Friends, I hope you enjoy this poem, along with the last days of summer. My thanks to Silver Birch Press for this series, and for curating this and the other fine poem released.

silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/h...

serenade By Jill Kitchen

Today's poem- borrowed from SWIMM's everyday posting, with a reminder that poems can be luscious in every sense.

serenade
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The inaugural $2000 Bob Hicok Fellowship for ALL Poets is OPEN right now. Deadline to submit: Aug 31 | Send us your best poems (previously published heartily accepted).

1336: I Find Myself Defending Pigeons by Keith S. Wilson Today’s poem is I Find Myself Defending Pigeons by Keith S. Wilson.

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LOVE this prose poem posted on The Slowdown today, in defense of the much maligned, even despised member of the bird kingdom...
metaphor for the least among us, those who are different than us?

www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

I Find Myself Defending Pigeons
by Keith S. Wilson