Daniel Cooper

Beowulf Lies Dead Beside the Dragon: An Alliterative Verse Translation With heavy heart the young hero / looked on his beloved lord and found him / lying prone, his life pouring out ...

My take on Beowulf's death.

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Will it also be published in the US?

The Sailor's Attempt an argument in verse

A poem on meter

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∞ - Irreantum Irreantum presents a special issue on the re-revelation of polygamy in modern settings. Three awful and wonderful tales by Fillerup, Larson, and Rytting.

Our new issue!

Presenting, Eternities of Cats:

What does Norse mythology have to do with the TSA? Read on for the answer... then click link in thread for all 11 Poems of the Week on the Epstein list, AI-written sermons, befuddled Brits & more.
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Rachel Hadas Wire and Vine I’m weeding. But more stubborn than the roots of dandelions or goutweed are the stalks of last year’s morning glories, which have wound themselves around the chicken wire fence much too tightly to be disentangled. That fence, whose function is to separate nature from cultivation, to protect spinach, kale, arugula, lettuce, herbs, has become less a barrier than a trellis. Intimate as lovers, vines now dry have twisted themselves over strands of wire. To extricate them now would feel like vandalism, despoliation of some artifact, and anyway would take too long to do. Those clippers rusting in the barn—but no. They’re too blunt for this purpose. Let it go. Besides, why even try to separate partners inextricably intertwined? Years teach acceptance, which, today, I’m learning, parsing every twist and every turning, boundaries, binary, form and content twinned like vines and wires I cannot unwind.

Read this poem earlier and loved its clarity and distinct imagery...which of course leave an understated melancholia. (Often, those are the most lasting).

'Wire and Vine' by Rachel Hadas in the Summer issue of New Verse Review ❤️

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"There was a time when your cheerful spirit burbled
in every brook and stream, full of music & life."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Zayandehrood: A Ghazal by Niloufar Behrooz (2025 @newversereview.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3ek7ztv7

Just spent a few days in the Vermont woods, off-grid, no running water, but amazingly beautiful, and felt again what I tried to express in my triple-meter sonnet in the new issue of @newversereview.bsky.social:

www.newversereview.com/2-3-carla-sc... Honored to have a #poem curated @newversereview.bsky.social along with so many other wonderful #poems. Check it out. #poetry #poetrycommunity

I try to write poems. I’m working on it. And I’m very grateful to everybody at @newversereview.bsky.social, especially Steve Knepper and Mary Grace Mangano, for publishing, alongside many rad poems, this poem. I tried. I worked on it. And I hope you like it. www.newversereview.com/2-3-shane-mc...

Our Summer 2025 issue is available! A striking cover by Rob McDonald and poems by @angelaodonnellpoet.bsky.social, @carlasarett.bsky.social, @victoriamoul.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @azforeman.bsky.social, @akasomeguy.bsky.social, and more!

I’m in there, so please read it!

The July links round-up is now live at NVR—pastoral vs. bucolic, clodhopping Americans, the French sublime, and more. Featuring: @zinagomezliss.bsky.social @dacooperpoet.bsky.social @claudiagary.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @hudsonreview.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social

Now up at NVR, @maryanncorbett.bsky.social reviews The Great Game: Essays on Poetics (@acrebooks.bsky.social) by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social.

"The other great sources of poetry that Majmudar insists on are two that some may think of as contradictory: science and religion."

Today, editor Steve Knepper, points out some limits of “Selected Poems” volumes by way of two excellent instances of the genre—This Afterlife by @aestallings.bsky.social and New Selected Poems by Les Murray.

Now up at NVR: a tour-de-force survey of the brief lyric in American poetry by Brian Brodeur. Among those discussed are Robert Hayden, James Merrill, Kay Ryan, Frederick Seidel, Rhina Espaillat, George David Clark, Caki Wilkinson, and Armen Davoudian.

I’m honored to be featured in this issue!

I'm happy to share this new issue of New Verse Review and grateful that I had the opportunity to help bring it into the world. Thanks @newversereview.bsky.social!

I'm honored to release a special issue featuring the poetry grads of the MFA program of University of St Thomas, Houston. This issue is edited by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social and Mary Grace Mangano. Read work by @jwyoung.bsky.social, @tnichollsmith.bsky.social, @jonjosephbishop.bsky.social, and others.

The Sonnet Corner — ILLUMINATIONS OF THE FANTASTIC LITERARY MAGAZINE In this edition of The Sonnet Corner, new poems by Timothy E.G. Bartel, Solvor Bjarna, Daniel Cooper, Sarah Cline, Lee Evans, Daniel Fitzgerald, Janice Katz, and Elizabeth Kate M. Watchorna. Illuminat...

Summer is coming, and I'm very happy to share my translation of a summer-themed sonnet by the Milanese poet Carlo Porta. Thanks to Illuminations of the Fantastic!

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It’s Time for the Pulp Literature Issue 45 Poetry Round-Up! - PULP Literature Epics and Lullabies For the Pulp Literature Issue 45 poetry round-up, please enjoy these poems steeped in myth by Dan MacIsaac and DA Cooper. Find [...]

For the Pulp Literature Issue 45 poetry round-up, please enjoy these poems steeped in myth by Dan MacIsaac and DA Cooper.

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The Sonnet Corner — ILLUMINATIONS OF THE FANTASTIC LITERARY MAGAZINE In this edition of The Sonnet Corner, new poems by Timothy E.G. Bartel, Solvor Bjarna, Daniel Cooper, Sarah Cline, Lee Evans, Daniel Fitzgerald, Janice Katz, and Elizabeth Kate M. Watchorna. Illuminat...

Summer is coming, and I'm very happy to share my translation of a summer-themed sonnet by the Milanese poet Carlo Porta. Thanks to Illuminations of the Fantastic!

www.illuminationsfantastic.com/the-sonnet-c...

#84 Texas List — Texas Poetry Assignment

NEW POETRY PROMPT

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Does bedtime feel like a futile battle,
a quotidian struggle with entitled tots
that leaves you deflated and a little defeated?

Does your mini-me’s drama make you moan,
and crave the silent and comforting cold
of the deep, long-lasting darkness of sleep?

If so, this might be the poem for you:

Thanks @pulpliterature.bsky.social @danielcowper.bsky.social

Does bedtime feel like a futile battle,
a quotidian struggle with entitled tots
that leaves you deflated and a little defeated?

Does your mini-me’s drama make you moan,
and crave the silent and comforting cold
of the deep, long-lasting darkness of sleep?

If so, this might be the poem for you:

A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Anosmia’

I miss the laundry scent they call ‘unscented’.
Like a depression, it makes it hard to write.
What is is less, less there, half uninvented,
And I, not quite.

‘Anosmia’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social:

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Check out the Winter issue of New Verse Review, featuring many great poets, including @claudiagary.bsky.social @chrissiemkl.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @pauljpastor.bsky.social @stevensearcy.bsky.social @ffteague.bsky.social @noonessleep.bsky.social

www.newversereview.com/issue-2-1--w...

☁️ THEOPHANY 🔥
Linoprint, 2019

An art piece about the pros and cons of the presence of God.

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I'm Camilla and I make religious art that doesn't look like religious art. Please reshare! I'm trying to rebuild my art audience.