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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 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.

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.

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 30, 2024September 30, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 39

This week: diligent dreaming, a forager of sound, the island of witches, silence as a canvas, taking off Billy Collins’ clothes, 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 9, 2024September 10, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 36

This week: topophilia, lagniappe, proboscises, diaspora, harvests, syllabi, and much more. Enjoy!

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 33

This week: little bits of deformed plastic, the work of imagining the impossible, a postcard from Mars, the names of things on the verge of disappearing, and much more. Enjoy.