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EiC of ONE ART: a journal of poetry >>> @oneart.bsky.social ⬇️ Daily Poems ⬇️ ~ oneartpoetry.com ~ ⬇️ Stay Curious ⬇️ ~ markdanowsky.substack.com ~

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My Personal Favorite with Mark Danowsky A Poetry Blog

My Personal Favorite with Mark Danowsky

Much thanks to Kelly Fordon for sharing my short essay on "Darling poems" on her Substack

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November PAD Chapbook Challenge Archives

Daily poetry prompts for November

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry ONE ART: a journal of poetry's submission manager. View ONE ART: a journal of poetry's calls for submission.

IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems

Submissions are OPEN!

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Donate to ONE ART's Fall 2025 Fundraiser, organized by Mark Danowsky ~ ONE ART’s Fall Fundraiser ~ I hope you will help support ONE ART’s continued commit… Mark Danowsky needs your support for ONE ART's Fall 2025 Fundraiser

ONE ART's Fall Fundraiser

I'm hoping to raise $3,000 for ONE ART. This would be immensely helpful for me, personally. That being said, I don't want anyone to feel obliged to donate.

Thank you for your consideration.

gofund.me/ad89fa3dd

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2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Guidelines Announcing the guidelines for the 18th annual November PAD (Poem-A-Day) Chapbook Challenge! Join other poets to write and collect poems.

Starting today!

Here's your assignment ~

2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge

Announcing the guidelines for the 18th annual November PAD (Poem-A-Day) Chapbook Challenge! Join other poets to write and collect poems.

www.writersdigest.com/2025-novembe...

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HOW TO WRITE A LOVE POEM, a Poetry Craft Essay by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo • Cleaver Magazine A Craft Essay by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo  HOW TO WRITE A LOVE POEM FIRSTS My first poem was about shooting stars. I was eight and inspired by a notebook with an illustration of a star flying across the...

I'm pleased to have had the opportunity to curate this craft essay for Cleaver Magazine

HOW TO WRITE A LOVE POEM
A Craft Essay by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

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Mark Danowsky Our Most Vulnerable Maybe the phrase has always meant to misdirect A gunmen is taking aim at shadows in dark corners It must be so...

My poem 'Our Most Vulnerable' appears in Live Nude Poems

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Mark Danowsky: The Rocky Mountain Locust Surge One story is about the farmer who just started running right into the black mass

Much gratitude to Michael Simms for curating my poem 'The Rocky Mountain Locust Surge' in Vox Populi.

This poem first appeared in Gargoyle Magazine #65 (Thanks, Richard!), and Marjorie Maddox previously selected it for The Poetry Moment.

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An Enemy Within by Marc Alan Di Martino An Enemy Within Each of us has an enemy within. For some it’s that voice in back of the mind rehearsing our shortcomings, assuring us we’re not enough for this world. For others it&#821…

Can haz new poem at the excellent @oneart.bsky.social by righteous human @markdanowsky.bsky.social tx fr reading

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SYZYGY SYZYGY is a writing workshop and publication founded by the Heung Coalition.

"This poem is an exercise in... if necessary, answering a question with “I don’t know.”

Here's a poem and commentary on uncertainty, plus thoughts from @markdanowsky.bsky.social of One Art (where it first ran).

Thx to Justin Aoba of Slow Orbit.

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Never forget.

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Cleaver Faculty Reading 2025
YouTube video by Cleaver Magazine Cleaver Faculty Reading 2025

Cleaver Faculty Reading 2025

A multi-genre reading

You can hear my poetry reading ~33 minutes in

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Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times, a Poetry Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn • Cleaver Magazine A Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times Two a.m. on November 6, 2024. My love is propped with pillows, his phone aglow with news. Have I slept at all? ...

I'm delighted to share this craft essay by Heidi Seaborn that I helped curate for Cleaver Magazine. The poem mentioned in this essay was published in ONE ART.

Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times

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Pedestal Magazine » Mark Danowsky’s Take Care, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli

Nice to see this even-handed review of my poetry collection, Take Care, in The Pedestal Magazine by Brian Fanelli

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shelfie archive: deep cut

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Satellites - poetry by Mark Danowsky

Here's my poem 'Satellites' which appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Summerset Review

www.summersetreview.org/25fall/danow...

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I wrote a poem for the moment

Published in The New Verse News @newversenews.bsky.social

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Thank you, James!

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NVN Friday: BULLY PULPIT by Mark Danowsky

NVN Friday at Substack: @markdanowsky.bsky.social Mark Danowsky’s #newspoem “Bully Pulpit” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-friday...
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BULLY PULPIT The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

@markdanowsky.bsky.social Mark Danowsky’s @newversenews.bsky.social #poem on this era’s “Bully Pulpit.” (It ain’t Teddy Roosevelt’s.) newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/09/bull...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Cleaver Faculty, Staff, Editors Reading. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Cleaver Faculty, Staff, Editors Reading. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

This Sunday!

9/14 at 7pm Eastern

I'm reading with Cleaver Magazine editors / team members. Please join us to celebrate the personal literary endeavors of Cleaver staffers.

Register to receive the link ~

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Digital manipulation of a plumbing diagram that reframes the parts of a toilet as elements in fiction writing. 650 pixels x 780 pixels.

Digital manipulation of a plumbing diagram that reframes the parts of a toilet as elements in fiction writing. 650 pixels x 780 pixels.

I'm still proud of this piece, "[the narrative toilet]," which I made for a collaborative poetry collection written with Nathan Moore. McSweeney's even featured it on their site.

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I can

I can

I can

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about to enter peak shacket season

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Other Wisdoms: The Divinatory Potential of Poetry, A Poetry Craft Essay by Michele Battiste • Cleaver Magazine A Craft Essay by Michele Battiste  Other Wisdoms: The Divinatory Potential of Poetry Every word is haunted by its past and potential variations. —Kenji C. Liu Sometimes when I’m learning about divinat...

I'm pleased to have had the opportunity to help curate this poetry craft essay by Michele Battiste in Cleaver Magazine!

www.cleavermagazine.com/other-wisdom...

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Poetry and the Kink: The Inherent Queerness of the Poetic Line, by Matthew W. Baker • Cleaver Magazine A Poetry Craft Essay by Matthew W. Baker Poetry and the Kink: The Inherent Queerness of the Poetic Line Poetry and the Kink: The Inherent Queerness of the Poetic Line It is 2015, and I am walking back...

Delighted to share a new poetry craft essay I helped curate for Cleaver Magazine

'Poetry and the Kink: The Inherent Queerness of the Poetic Line' by Matthew W. Baker

www.cleavermagazine.com/poetry-and-t...

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Lea County Pod 21  Mark Danowsky
YouTube video by Jack Campbell Lea County Pod 21 Mark Danowsky

A bit of tech difficulties (you'll note the end gets abruptly cut off) but much thanks to Peter Mladinic & Jack Campbell for taking time to interview me for their podcast

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Top Substacks this Week: August 11, 2025 - Sidestack.io Each week, we highlight the top substacks that have been submitted to us for you to vote!

Stay Curious is featured on Sidestack today

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I have 3 haiku in Issue 3 (theme: joy) of The Haiku Shack Magazine

(The Poetry Shack is currently open for submission for Issue 4)

It's a little complicated to access the materials so sharing here

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