I’m pleased to have three poems in the latest issue of Literary Matters. Here’s my favourite of the three. I’m very grateful to the editors for giving it a home. Be sure to check out the full issue! It’s jam-packed with wonderful writing: literarymatters.org/issue-18-1/

Unconscionable to let the great Donald Justice’s centenary pass without posting a poem. This paean to childhood from his debut collection seems only fitting.

Chrissy Stegman ♥️🌕 from SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE IS FORGETTING YOU Day 12 - #SealeyChallenge Chrissy Stegman Alien Buddha Press (open for submissions) 🍉 The Sealey Challenge

Here's Daniel Patrick Sheehan (Dan Sheehan) with maybe the best groundhog poem since "After Apple-Picking"

The way Lydia Davis plays these intricate little logic games in her stories ☺️

🚨🇲🇽 13.4 MILLION MEXICANS LIFTED OUT OF POVERTY. New official data shows a DROP in poverty from 41.9% in 2018, to 29.6% in 2024. This MONUMENTAL achievement, in the midst of the COVID economic crisis, explains the success and popularity of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation.

Han Yong-un (aka Manhae)—poet, Buddhist monk, and advocate for Korea’s freedom—ended his 1926 poetry collection "The Silence of My Beloved" with this tender piece, almost a calling. Here are his words in English on the 80th anniversary of Korea’s Liberation Day.

It Started With Babysitting In 1980, Mike Bickle met 14 year old Tammy Woods when her family began attending South County Christian Fellowship in St. Louis, MO. Bickle, a 25 year old married Pastor hired Woods to babysit. This arrangement led to a period of "discipleship"

I have told you before   I hate my job as translator. —Yun Qin Wang

Harryette Mullen with the perfect summertime poem

Leah Silvieus ♥️ from SEASON OF DARES (Bull City Press) Day 15 - #SealeyChallenge Bull City Press 🐂 The Sealey Challenge

Franz Wright

What must be understood here is that they don’t intend to stop teaching the humanities: they’re too profitable. What they want to do is pillage money from the only revenue-positive divisions by reducing them to contracted adjuncts.

1/ No Dobson obituary is complete, or honest, if it does not include the fact that he is responsible for millions of Evangelicals reducing the value of women to their vagina and treating children as mere accessories to the parent’s reputation.

NEA literature fellowships cancelled </3

Trump's DOJ has transferred a woman out of the facility with Ghislaine Maxwell after she criticized her being there as a sex offender in an interview. The woman has been sent to another facility with violent offenders. You can't criticize Trump's sex offender friends now.

Today’s poem is selected by Elizabeth Metzger (@anelizabeth2) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. We share this poem in remembrance of Max Ritvo, who died August 23rd nine years ago.