Shawna Lemay – Page 4

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 12

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, subscribe to its RSS feed in your favorite feed reader, or, if you’d like it in your inbox, subscribe on Substack.

This week: meaning in fog, emergency language, an inconvenient cemetery, a home make-under, World Poetry Day, the spring equinox, and more. Enjoy.

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 10

This week: panic needles, jellyfish tentacles, the poem as a begging bowl, mixed mental arts, and more. Enjoy.

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 8

This week: active hope, the anti-ship of Theseus, knocking the brain off its pedestal, smutty Persephone poems, slow stitching, and much more. Enjoy.

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 7

This week: Fat Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, a blog’s birthday, a book’s birthday… as the world steadily becomes more terrible. Poetry remains one of the very few effective antidotes to despair.

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 6

This week: love and chocolate, the return of light, bringing scarecrows to life, the cost of beauty, and much more. Enjoy,

February 5, 2024February 5, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 5

river in November light between bare woods and mountain

This week: a journey to the underworld, an allotted plot, becoming your own god, finding joy as a writer, and much more. Enjoy.

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 4

This edition begins and ends with small trees, and features tongue fire, a dandelion seed, a shirt soaked with life, little pooping monsters, and magic shoes, among other signs and wonders. Enjoy.

January 15, 2024January 17, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 2

This week, poets were visionary, resolute, hunkering down, easing back into the grind. Some evinced minds of winter, while others dreamed of warmer times and climes. Enjoy.

January 1, 2024January 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Weeks 51-52: Holidaze edition

Happy 2024! This edition of the digest—a personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond—takes us from the winter solstice to New Year’s, with year-end summary posts, favorite books, and plans for the year ahead as well as reflections on the season. 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, subscribe to its RSS feed in your favorite feed reader, or, if you’d like it in your inbox, subscribe on Substack.

November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Weeks 43-44

These past two weeks brought Halloween, Day of the Dead, and the return of Standard Time in the U.S. and Canada. Israel’s war on Gaza has, if anything, intensified. Unsurprisingly, poets had something to say about these things, although I think we tend to be more aware of the limitations of language than most. Also: parades for poets, a teetering between melody and madness, an epic poem about astrophysics, and much more. Enjoy.