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December 16, 2024December 16, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, 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 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: handmade lanterns, no more flowers, gingerbread houses for hurricane refugees, a thousand erasure poems, a thousand haiku, and much more. Enjoy.

December 9, 2024December 9, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 49

This week: open hands, amphibious poetics, winter’s bones, pockets full of hope, 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 25, 2024November 25, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 47

This week: apricity, toxemia, yahrzeit, isopods, ekphrasis, and 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.

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 21, 2024October 21, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 42

This week: a head full of dreams, the stillness of a bell, big magic, an impish shadow, and more. Enjoy!

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 41

This week: what’s bothering the clouds, a mausoleum of flowers, slim needles of flow, the hitchhiking dead, 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!