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April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 14

This first week of Poetry Month, doves abound and emptiness has teeth, finding dusty corners to live in, while April asks, “What, me? Cruel?” Enjoy.

April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 13

This week—the last before NaPoWriMo madness descends—had poets blogging about surreal fragments in walnut ink, pantsers vs. plotters, ectoplasmic connection, combinatory play, an ancient math teacher, a cracked cathedral, and much more. Enjoy.

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 12

This week: meaning in fog, emergency language, an inconvenient cemetery, a home make-under, World Poetry Day, the spring equinox, and more. Enjoy.

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 8

This week: active hope, the anti-ship of Theseus, knocking the brain off its pedestal, smutty Persephone poems, slow stitching, and much more. Enjoy.

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 7

This week: Fat Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, a blog’s birthday, a book’s birthday… as the world steadily becomes more terrible. Poetry remains one of the very few effective antidotes to despair.

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 6

This week: love and chocolate, the return of light, bringing scarecrows to life, the cost of beauty, and much more. Enjoy,

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 3

This week, inclement weather kept many poets inside, blogging furiously. Some common themes include the winter itself; great poets and poems; and songs as poetry and vice versa. Enjoy and share.

January 9, 2024January 17, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 1

The first digest of 2024 is a day late, but hopefully not a dollar short. (And yes, I know that expression dates me. I am an old.) Ten inches of snow fell and then were partly washed away again as I compiled this post today, which is quite Janus-faced: half looking back and half looking forward, half summarizing and half summoning. Let’s begin.

December 18, 2023December 19, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Week 50

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, the season of lights was in full effect, along with that other holiday favorite, the year-end book list. Plus many other things. Enjoy.

I’ll probably skip next week and be back on New Year’s (Eve or Day) for the final edition of 2023. See you then.

December 11, 2023December 12, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Week 49

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: telephones, traumas, holiday gift ideas, cris de coeur, and a lonely vending machine. Enjoy.