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March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 13

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: synapses on fire, cryptic colonial zooids, a hearth of spiders, open secrets, a big smashing life, and more. Enjoy.

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 12

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!

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 11

This week: sound and silence, the worm moon, war news, the lost forest of time, and much more. Enjoy.

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 10

This week, a somewhat shorter edition than usual (perhaps the weather was too nice to blog?) with corpses and coffins, stillness and transformation, conglomerates and cigarettes, and a famous poet snacking on small purple carrots. Enjoy.

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 7

This week: dwelling in the underworld, writing with children, drilling holes in logs, dancing with a blank canvas, rolling around in the dirt, and more. Enjoy.

January 20, 2025January 20, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 3

This week: Grand Theft Hamlet, a fountain dying of thirst, smeuses, the Poet Laureate of Pajamas, and more. Enjoy.

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 1

This week: taking stock, a guilty murmur, brand new rhythms, the skins of clementines, and more. Enjoy.

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 47

This week: apricity, toxemia, yahrzeit, isopods, ekphrasis, and more. Enjoy.

November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 46

This week: hard rain, thoughtful grunts, vagaries of the heart, a family of dreamers, and much more. Enjoy.

November 11, 2024November 11, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 45

This week: notes on self-preservation, walking through fire, soundlessly mouthing the syllables for “beloved”, the gunpowder plot, the intimacies of the woods, and much more. Enjoy.