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September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 39

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond. Although I tend to quote my favorite bits, please do click through and read the whole posts. You can also browse the blog digest archive at Via Negativa or, if you’d like it in your inbox, subscribe on Substack (where the posts might be truncated by some email providers).

This week: diligent dreaming, a forager of sound, the island of witches, silence as a canvas, taking off Billy Collins’ clothes, and much more. Enjoy.

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 38

This week: summer’s last tiny plum, the veins of the rational world, silences as important as words, horses married to the wind, a cricket orchestra, and much more. Enjoy!

September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 37

This week: trusting the unsaid, questions for trees, beautiful birds of thought, hearing singing through the walls at night, and much more. Enjoy!

September 9, 2024September 10, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 36

This week: topophilia, lagniappe, proboscises, diaspora, harvests, syllabi, and much more. Enjoy!

September 2, 2024September 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 35

This week: Amanda Gorman’s hollow place, a zone of ambiguous meaning, the next life like a footfall in the heart, a day without birdsong, the music of ghosts, and more. Enjoy!

August 26, 2024August 26, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 34

This week: community with the dead, peyote in the cornfield, a cursed seaside town, wasps as good fairies, god’s forked tongue, and more. Enjoy!

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 33

This week: little bits of deformed plastic, the work of imagining the impossible, a postcard from Mars, the names of things on the verge of disappearing, and much more. Enjoy.

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 28

This week: the seeds of books, glamour and poverty, a gull funeral, the green of geckos, and more. Enjoy.

July 8, 2024July 9, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 27

This week: an outbreak of poetry, intimate retributions, fireflies speaking in sign language, the pursuit of happiness, and more. Enjoy.

July 1, 2024July 1, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 26

This week: an orchestra of inflammation, a library of lost chapbooks, words written in eyeliner on a band aid wrapper, and a complicated kind of joy… among many other things. Enjoy!