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March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 11

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

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.

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.

December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 48

This week: looping echoes, words that feel distinctly blue, a claustrophobic fairy tale, 19 shades of untrue, sour milk and fermenting earth, and the cosmogony of you. 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 29, 2024July 29, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 30

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

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 22

This week, the summer travel season is underway, with blue domes, a country of murderers, the Essex muse, an economy based on beauty, and much more. Enjoy.

April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 17

This week: words with friends, a loving attendance on the world, histories of brokenness and violence, lithium wasps, the Mouth of Hell volcano, and much more. Enjoy.

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 8

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