Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 38

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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: 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!

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 35

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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: 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!

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 34

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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: community with the dead, peyote in the cornfield, a cursed seaside town, wasps as good fairies, god’s forked tongue, and more. Enjoy!

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 33

Poetry Blogging Network

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: 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.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 32

Poetry Blogging Network

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: 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!

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 31

Poetry Blogging Network

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: a side course of flutter, spiny dry isolation, enormous compound words, dancing with dragonflies, naked meditation and more.

One housekeeping note: You may notice a couple of posts more than a week a week old in this week’s digest. I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with the sporadic manner in which many WordPress sites’ RSS feeds are being updated, causing me to miss some great posts in recent weeks, so I’ve decided to be more flexible about the time-range from now on. (If you have a WordPress site, I’m afraid I don’t have a whole lot of advice; I’ve yet to find a solution that really works, aside from creating and advertising a JSON feed and/or switching to a more reliable platform, such as Substack.) Anyway, enjoy the digest.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 29

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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: Cassandra at summer camp, being a longlistee, the daily countings, a severed creek, and a gull seeking more. Enjoy!

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 26

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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: an orchestra of inflammation, a library of lost chapbooks, words written in eyeliner on a band aid wrapper, and a complicated kind of joy… among many other things. Enjoy!

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 25

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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: midsummer nightmares, turning into a woodpecker, an idea of wrongness, a flat-bread moon, and more. Enjoy.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 24

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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: a floating typewriter, a poet in a lighthouse, bombing the moon, marble peaches, the hum of our own truth, and more. Enjoy.

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