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November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 46

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: hard rain, thoughtful grunts, vagaries of the heart, a family of dreamers, 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 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 7, 2024October 7, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 40

This week: a voice the size of an acorn, a seahorse on a dander, dancing foxes, singing earthworms, 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!

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 29

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

June 17, 2024June 17, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 24

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

May 20, 2024May 20, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 20

This week: grief’s alphabet, moon menders, insect-poets, a paradise of sentences, and more. I challenged myself to quote just one paragraph from each blog post, and mostly kept to that. I’ll probably return to my usual pattern next week, but it was fun to court brevity for a change!

May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 18

river in November light between bare woods and mountain

A shorter digest than usual this week, reflecting I suppose a general exhaustion among poetry bloggers after NaPoWriMo and the winding down of the academic year. Those who did blog were in a reflective mood, writing about self-acceptance for poets, points of connection, finding balance, considering the reader, and more. Enjoy.