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April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 17

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: plastic dragons, writing for the bees, earwig spiracles, the planet as a prayer wheel, and much more. Enjoy.

April 21, 2025April 21, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 16

This week: sea glass, lilacs, lapwings, catkins, and much more. Enjoy.

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 15

This week: the church of heart and hurt, beachcombing for the broken bits, children marching in the street, and much more. Enjoy.

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 12

All over the northern hemisphere, it seems, spring has sprung, bringing a new crop of words to the poetry blogs this week: takatalvi, the quadrille, dindsenchas, reclamă, A.S.M.R., and more. Enjoy!

February 24, 2025February 25, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 8

This week: milk-blue light, a bag of grief, demonic possession, the promise of spring, 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 27, 2025January 28, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 4

This week: painful radiance, a bear-shaped shadow, the sound of the axe, a single brahminy kite, and much more. Enjoy.

January 20, 2025January 20, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 3

This week: Grand Theft Hamlet, a fountain dying of thirst, smeuses, the Poet Laureate of Pajamas, and 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!