Ellen Roberts Young – Via Negativa

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 12

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).

All over the northern hemisphere, it seems, spring has sprung, bringing a new crop of words to the poetry blogs this week: takatalvi, the quadrille, dindsenchas, reclamă, A.S.M.R., and more. Enjoy!

February 24, 2025February 25, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 8

This week: milk-blue light, a bag of grief, demonic possession, the promise of spring, and more. Enjoy.

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 6

This week: purple dreaming, invisible strings, the lives of strangers, every bloodstained stone, and more. Enjoy.

November 4, 2024November 4, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 44

This week: what worms are eating, invisible dogs, fishing for Leviathan, the presence of birds, and much more. Enjoy.

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 41

This week: what’s bothering the clouds, a mausoleum of flowers, slim needles of flow, the hitchhiking dead, and much more. Enjoy.

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 30

This week: the poem, in all its shape-shifting glory. 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.

May 20, 2024May 20, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 20

This week: grief’s alphabet, moon menders, insect-poets, a paradise of sentences, and more. I challenged myself to quote just one paragraph from each blog post, and mostly kept to that. I’ll probably return to my usual pattern next week, but it was fun to court brevity for a change!

January 15, 2024January 17, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 2

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, subscribe to its RSS feed in your favorite feed reader, or, if you’d like it in your inbox, subscribe on Substack.

This week, poets were visionary, resolute, hunkering down, easing back into the grind. Some evinced minds of winter, while others dreamed of warmer times and climes. Enjoy.