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Two poems by Esther Sadoff Muscle Memory How many people have refolded this same page that I am folding now above a poem clean as the mountaintop? A vantage point that connects aloneness with everything? Even my bones know w…

Hello November! We're here with two new poems from Esther Sadoff for you to check out. Click the link!
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Here are our nominations for Best of the Net 2026:
John Dorsey-On Being Compared To Jim Harrison
@midwesternskirt.bsky.social -Give Us This
@thesweetmaris.bsky.social -After almost twenty years
Jennifer Choi-the warmth of burning
Danielle Hubbard-Yellowjackets
Congrats to all!

Three poems by Darren Demaree Emily as Lamp-Lit We are two charged forces becoming ghosts & luxury, freedom & the witness of freedom. The terrible night is ours & it’s not so terrible. Give me a loose connection to …

We're back! Check out these three poems by @darrencdemaree.bsky.social and send us a submission while you're there!
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Two poems by Laura Ingram Another Estate Sale Gravel showers the windshield of pollinated pick-up shining bed and body black as the bible, my body in the passenger seat frail as faith. Forest fires rage on up north, but not…

We're back with new poems! Check out these two poems by Laura Ingram, and send along some of your own work while you're there!
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Three poems by Danielle Hubbard Dear Mom When you met Dad, you were nineteen. A tiny woman, blushing hair and skin the colour of San Francisco summers. He saw you in front of the olde-time movie house, a Charlie Chaplin film mimi…

Check out these three poems by Danielle Hubbard to distract you from the inevitability of another damned Monday!
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Three poems by Allison Burris Virtual Engagement you have no name except the one you change your next wish casts rainbows like a diamond ring while the guys in pop songs demand your story or your silence—whichever provides the …

We're back on this sunny Saturday morning! Check out these three poems from Allison Burris that are freshly posted.
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Two poems by Alex Stolis Love is a destiny moving forward We’ve stopped living inside ideas, cloak the world in reality; birds scream in light and our love and our love is and our love is a crucible of ash of fire of of of…

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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Two poems by Clyde Kessler SPRING IS SOON Before you say if to the road, you have to draw the curtains over every mirror. You have to sanitize the voices in your mind. The mornings are all the body can feed on. They buzz lik…

Happy March! We have two new poems up from Clyde Kessler this morning. Check them out, and send in a submission while you're there! #poetry #poems #poetryisalive #chantarellesnotebook #clydekessler #poetryisnotdead
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Three poems by Virginia Watts Maidens Finally, a restaurant in our rural town that isn’t local and family owned a chain restaurant something our parents say like it’s a dirty word which only adds to the allure frantic excitemen…

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A Night Sky In Maine by Charis Negley A Night Sky In Maine A shooting star, my cousin says I crane my neck up to see into the dark Maine sky Stars as plentiful as pinholes in a cushion But we see no more meteors With our hazy young min…

New poem time! Check out this poem by Charis Negley, and don't forget to send in some of your own work! #poems #poetry #poetryisalive
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Five poems by Adeline Bryant Uncle Frank The car is hot, hot, too hot, we can’t roll the windows down fast enough Everyone is, already. Already annoyed, already hot, sweaty, damp with irritation and that’s when Mom glances dow…

Hey everyone! Check out these new poems up today from Adeline Bryant. 🙂
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Three poems by Amanda Hawk Peppermint Summer Miniature treasures hidden in my grandmother’s purse. My fingers scouted out the red and white discs, and anticipation crackled with the cellophane. It created a snowball fight on…

We're back for 2025! Our first poems of the year come from Amanda Hawk. Hit the link and check them out! 🙂
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Two poems by Michelle Li On mornings Before they die mornings taste like mint toothpaste. I had been asleep before, safe from sad news, rocking myself dead by the sink. The splintering of smoldering water snapping like gui…

New day, new poems! Check out these poems by Michelle Li!
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Two poems by Jennifer Choi the warmth of burning we need fire— to shine a little brighter, to feel a little warmer. gathered for a friend’s birthday, we each search for flame. is there no match in the cake box? does anyone h…

Hey everyone! We have two new poems up today from Jennifer Choi for you to check out. Hit that link! 🙂
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Danang 1967 by Peter Mladinick Danang 1967 The dresses they wore, long silk affairs in residential streets shaded by trees. As if snatched from sky to earth, blues and greens yellows and golds, silken rainbows with backdrops of …

Hey again! We have a new poem up from Peter Mladinick for you to check out! :) #poems #poetry #poetryisalive
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After almost twenty years by Marisa Silva-Dunbar After almost twenty years I. in your orbit I realized you were never the sun— or that maybe I was actually now in some distant galaxy and you had become a red giant surrounded by gas planets. Light…

Good morning! Check out this new poem up today from Marisa Silva-Dunbar, and send us your work while you're there! #poetry #poets #poetryisalive #marisasilvadunbar
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Three poems by John Dorsey Moon Landing for Jason Ryberg it’s taken me eighteen months to get you to understand how with only one eye i need twice as much light to read a book or catch the outline of a girl’s face on a wide …

We have three new poems up from John Dorsey for you to check out. Click the link and enjoy. Don't forget, we're always reading submissions!
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