Today's Poetry Thread: ASTONISHMENT I love this small, true thing. Feel free to add poems.

my other poem in this yale review issue!

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Some good news in my email: "Congratulations! Your entry, "Fractured Sonnet on the Survivors of Catastrophic Loss," was awarded Honorable Mention in the Rhyming Poetry category of the 93rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. There were 3,571 submissions . . . ."

Image of Neptune captured by the Keck telescopes last week. Image Credit: NASA / JPL / Voyager-ISS / Justin Cowart)

If you're a reader of my work, I hope you'll take the time to read this new poem, which is perhaps closest to my heart.

Today is the anniversary of the day I met the teacher who saved my life. He passed away recently, and I miss him deeply. Here's to all the teachers who really change lives.

My gratitude to Lorette C. Luzajic & the other editors. St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, by Clif Mason - The Ekphrastic Review ekphrastic.net/1/post/2025/01…

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota. ca. 1200. The term Lingua Ignota is Latin for "unknown language." Hildegard herself described it as "ignota lingua per simplicem hominem Hildegardem prolata," meaning "an

This is terrific!:

Light pollution is one of the most radicalizing phenomena to me, in how it has robbed the majority of the world's population of one of the most beautiful parts of our planet's patrimony.

Keeping the Kim Addonizio birthday party going with this nonce form sonnet. The poem begins with a line from another poet's sonnet, repeats a word from that line in each succeeding line, then ends in a couplet. Might just give one of these try.

Being a poet doesn't make you special. It just gives you a justification to spend long days alone talking to yourself.

Oh my goodness. Where are my alphabetical camels?

Bookmarking for the poets:

Over the years, I've come to realize that it's on this territory—this no-man's-land between what we desperately yearn for and what we know to be the limits of the possible that I most like to work as a writer. —Kazuo Ishiguro, from his intro to a new edition of Never Let Me Go

We have a geeky Pope, and I’m all here for it; Pope Leo XIV to university students: “As a former teacher of mathematics and physics, allow me to do some calculations with you.  Do you know how many stars there are in the observable universe?  An impressive and wonderful number:

Clearest image of Jupiter ever taken. NASA

This is my favorite story from all my years of teaching. A student said, "I want to go back in time and take Shakespeare's quill so he could never write a word. He doesn't speak my language." I said, "Let's sit down and talk about it." The student said he was frustrated by