Kate May-Price

Text graphic with a yellow background and the following text in blue and white fonts. Text: Last call to register for Contemporary Verse 2’s Annual 2-Day Poem Contest!! A weekend of wordy fun! 48 Hours, 10 words, 1 poem.

✨Last call to register for the CV2 2-Day Poem Contest!✨

Registration closes tonight at 11:59pm! Head to the link in our bio to sign up for 2 days of writing, stressing, & building community - or, as @cincinnatusc.bsky.social‬ put it: SCRIPTURA ~ PRESSURA ~ COMMUNITAS. Carve that on our tombstone😍✨

So excited for this!

"After School" with Gabriel Cortez Track #2: new writing workshop series // "after loving you... laid out my teeth"

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A few pics from the Hog Issue Two. Take a look at those contents pages. We have some incredible treats ahead of us!

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So excited and grateful to have my poem "Stay With Me" appear in Hog River Press's most recent Issue. Thank you Kathryn and Julian!

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In Dark Winter, Let Citrus Salads Be Your Flashlight 🔦🍊🍋 Have some fennel, too, just because it's perverse and delightful.

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A favorite poem resurfaces...from Beau Sia...

NOTE TO SELF WORK

get there before sundown.

feed yourself
only with what nurtures.

let the process of shedding
be joyous in its eternity.

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Continue reading here...https://poets.org/poem/note-self-work?mc_cid=2bb7a4347a&mc_eid=070d37f521

Dearest, I beg of you, sleep properly and go for walks.

—Franz Kafka (1912)

"What would you take with you if your house was burning?" "The fire”, replied Cocteau

via Katalog, Barbara Iweins
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Today’s a black elderberry branch and gloaming, though it started bright enough…

“..the source of prayer is not fear, but delight.” -M. Tsvetaeva

*Book 1 of 31 for my winter of poetry 2025.

10 Best Poetry Books of 2024 That Will Stir Your Soul and Ignite Your Imagination From personal loss and mental health struggles to intercultural memory, historical narratives, and ecological concerns, each work blends emotional depth with creative form. Together, they showcase poe...

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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”

"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning."

A spell against stagnation – John O'Donohue on beginnings

i am running into a new year by Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me

happy new year to those around the world already celebrating—

returning, yes, to this Clifton classic—

Ross Gay || Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude+https://www.pw.org/content/catalog_of_unabashed_gratitude

I wrote all you nerds a pep talk and asked you to declare your creative state of the union 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/bet-on-you...

"And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been..." -Rilke

No poem is just its autobiographical content. No poem is just its embroidery of language. As a reader, I favor poems that have multiple textures, moving freely from plain-speech, to silken [...] But all poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling.

—Henri Cole

What a great find.