"Truth be told, I’m not sure I’m prolific so much as just prolix...My tongue is too in love with the sensation of utterance to hold its peace for long."
Don't miss our latest Creators on Creating interview with poet and professor Keith O'Shaughnessy! www.poetose.com/pub/creators... #poetry #poet
AWP (@awpwriter.org): Don’t censor conference attendees!
Writers and publishers, sign the petition today: c.org/nFW9wnny88
#freedomofspeech #writers #publishers #censorship
Lisa Tang Liu black & white headshot
© Lisa Tang Liu. "Analog Girl in a Digital World." Cyanotype and inkjet print collage. 2023.
Don't miss this new Creators on Creating interview with the talented artist Lisa Tang Liu! www.poetose.com/pub/creators...
Lisa Tang Liu is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in photography, collage, and painting.
"Look to the news for the news. Look to poetry for the truth."
~Patricia Smith in an interview with Tiffany Troy: www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...
#news #poetry #truth #poems #poet #quote
"At Peace" by Jennifer Weigel: www.poetose.com/pub/at-peace...
Jennifer Weigel is a multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist whose has been exhibited nationally in all 50 states and has won numerous awards.
See more in Poetose Journal: www.poetose.com/pubs.html#/
#art #artwork #peace
"...All day long crows
have been roosting
like notes on a staff
in the pencil black
trees on my block."
"Winter Crows" by Patrick Reeds: www.poetose.com/pub/winter-c...
Patrick Meeds lives in Syracuse, NY. His first book, THE INVISIBLE MAN’S TAILOR, is available from Nine Mile Press.
#poem
"...On this show, to win, a good deal is made,
like the kind I am making with any higher power..."
Read "In The Surgical Waiting Room While Let's Make A Deal Streams On TV" by Laurie Kuntz: www.poetose.com/pub/in-the-s...
#poem #poet #poetry #writing
We are excited to announce our forthcoming titles for 2026:
BLUE WHITE WATER by Xue Di
ALL THAT SINGS by Stacie Eirich
FALLING, IN LOVE WITH TEACHING by Patrick Hueller
THE CALLING by Sarah Schwartz
We can't wait to share more details closer to publication <3
Today we have 3 poems for you by Veronica Tucker: "Sinus Rhythm," "Ventricular Fibrillation," and "Heart Block" www.poetose.com/pub/3-poems-...
Veronica is an emergency medicine & addiction medicine physician, writer, and lifelong New Englander. Learn more about her at www.veronicatuckerwrites.com
Glowing sand
"Neither of us is young or new to the institution of marriage, but right now, in this setting, we feel enthusiastic and ageless, part of an ancient river current of lovers..." -Stephen J. Lyons
"Neither of us is young or new to the institution of marriage, but right now, in this setting, we feel enthusiastic and ageless, part of an ancient river current of lovers..."
"Plein Air Erotics" by Stephen J. Lyons: www.poetose.com/pub/plein-ai...
#prose #poetry #writing
Photo of Donald A. Ranard and his wife kissing under trees with lights and cars going by
After a brief winter hiatus, we have a one-sentence love story for you because, of course, we have to start the year with some love. 💌
Read "Impromptu Fancies of a Whimsical Life (or How I Met My Wife)" by Donald A. Ranard: www.poetose.com/pub/imprompt...
#writing #creativewriting #prose #poetry
"Third Saturday in June" by Georgie Contreras: www.poetose.com/pub/third-sa...
Georgie Contreras (she/her) is a Latine writer raised and residing in the Boston area. Her poetry has been published with The Ana, Loud Coffee Press, Querencia Press, and Rappahannock Review. #poem
Discover hundreds of poetry collections in CLMP's Poetry of 2025 roundup! www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...
Thank you for including Poetose titles!:
TRANSLATING BLUE by Sherre Vernon @sherrevernon.bsky.social
EVERYTHING IS by @eichelbard.bsky.social
THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE by Soon Jones
Thanks so much to @poetshouse.bsky.social for including Poetose titles in their Poets House Showcase, which just opened TODAY! Featured here is our most recent book, THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE by Soon Jones!
Learn more about the wonderful work that Poets House does at www.poetshouse.org.
It is a beautiful poem! 💛
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www.poetose.com/pub/broth-sh...
Thanks to Meia Geddes for including this poem of mine in Poetose. Honored to be there.
"READ - there’s something I tell my students at Bowdoin: “Good writers are made from good readers; great writers are made from great readers.” -Anthony Walton
"My process is to be writing or thinking about writing pretty much all the time. Even if I am watching a basketball game I am probably actually thinking about, mulling, some writing task I need to be dealing with, or some specific writing problem I need to solve. And I trust my unconscious, in that if I am not “thinking” about something, I trust that I am 'actually thinking about it.'" -Anthony Walton
"I am hyperconscious of sound, both overtly, and what I would call covertly. I loved poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins and Paul Laurence Dunbar growing up, the music that their poems made, and I think that prepared me for the absolute beauty of poets like Seamus Heaney, who pushed that play to a music you can feel on your tongue, in the muscles of your mouth." -Anthony Walton
Anthony Walton author photograph and cover images of his books
A splendid interview with writer, poet, and professor Anthony Walton! ✨ www.poetose.com/pub/creators...
Pre-order 1968 from Staircase Books: staircasebooks.org/1968-Pre-ord...
Read more Creators on Creating interviews: www.poetose.com/creators-on-...
The Last Summer poem by Soon Jones: I blanket the grass with dried grains so the black bantams and their chicks can rake their claws through something. The dogs gently nip the cows’ noses, keeping them at bay while I fill the troughs with earthy-sweet molasses feed. Hands riddled with plant fibers, I pick the last of the summer squash, tomatoes, bell peppers. When fall arrives for my birthday my stepmother, strung out on opioids, will grab a gun and warn my father we better disappear by morning or else. We’ll take what we can and leave the rest behind. A few years after, all of this land will be sold to the mill. Turned to profit, the dogs sold, the cows slaughtered, the hens left to fend for themselves. Weeds and brush will overtake everything until the mill saws it down, plants orderly rows of pine for paper, peanuts for cash. But for now, I sit on the back porch steps and husk silver queens, dig out green worms and toss them to the chickens.
"The Last Summer" by Soon Jones: www.poetose.com/pub/the-last...
Soon Jones is a Pushcart Prize-nominated Korean lesbian poet and author originating from the rural countryside of the American South.
#poetry #poem #poet
Congratulations!!! 💜
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Thank you to Poetose for nominating my poem "Our Lungs Fill and Empty" for a Pushcart Prize. What an honor! 🙏
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Thank you @poetose.bsky.social for nominating my poem, “The Red Thread,” for a Pushcart Prize. It is part of my poetic memoir, Mother Minotaur, out in February 2026 from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social: www.instagram.com/p/DRTIQG-DDV...
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We are pleased to nominate these poems for the Pushcart Prize anthology: www.poetose.com/nominations....
Thank you so much for sending us your lovely work! 🌹
#poetry #poems
Congratulations, well-deserved!!! 🎊🎉
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“Life has a way of filtering out the things that matter from the things we tolerate.” -Cynthia Gilmore
“Life has a way of filtering out the things that matter from the things we tolerate.” -Cynthia Gilmore
#wisdom #dating #romance
“Oh, the whimsical desires of my twenty-year-old self. Who was my perfect partner then? I wanted a tall handsome man with a great sense of humor. I should have aimed higher.” –Cynthia Gilmore
“Oh, the whimsical desires of my twenty-year-old self. Who was my perfect partner then? I wanted a tall handsome man with a great sense of humor. I should have aimed higher.”
Don’t miss “Dating for Experts” by Cynthia Gilmore, just published at: www.poetose.com/pub/dating-f... #dating #romance
Today we have an interview with artist Cristina Hajosy: book maker, educator, co-founder, and so much more. We’ve used her gorgeous marbled paper as the covers for our book earrings! Enjoy, and hope this inspires you to try something new! www.poetose.com/pub/creators... #bookartist #bookarts
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Check out these books launching this month! www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
We're grateful to have THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE, a debut book of poetry by Soon Jones, in @clmporg.bsky.social's roundup of books.
Get a copy at: www.poetose.com/store/p16/th...
#poetry #poems #poet
Congratulations to the CLMP members publishing new books this month! Find novels, poetry collections, memoirs, and more in our latest roundup: www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
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3 poems from THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE by Soon Jones 💚: www.poetose.com/store/p16/th... #poetry #poems #poet #book
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