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December 9, 2024December 9, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, 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 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: open hands, amphibious poetics, winter’s bones, pockets full of hope, and much 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.

October 28, 2024October 28, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 43

This week: inhabiting dissonance, time’s ragged lace, the museum of a life, the sexiness of grammar, and much more. Enjoy.

October 7, 2024October 7, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 40

This week: a voice the size of an acorn, a seahorse on a dander, dancing foxes, singing earthworms, 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 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 12, 2024August 12, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 32

This week: seeing the Perseids in the armpit of a lover, lingering at the doors to the spirit world, taking a sledgehammer to the walls of a childhood home, and much more. Enjoy!