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March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 9

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: when the egg is already broken, when women were birds, when everything seems a little closer, and when poetry makes us squirm. 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 13, 2025January 13, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 2

This week: ravaged days, a faint buzzing, a dead boy’s imagined journey, a night pure and thick as a womb, and much more. Enjoy.

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Weeks 51-52

In this massive, end-of-the-year edition: gold paint and bird wings, throwing words to the wind, liquid understatement, stopping by woods, a river about a river, and much 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!

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.

November 4, 2024November 4, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 44

This week: what worms are eating, invisible dogs, fishing for Leviathan, the presence of birds, and much more. Enjoy.

September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 37

This week: trusting the unsaid, questions for trees, beautiful birds of thought, hearing singing through the walls at night, 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!