“Poetry means taking control of the language of your life.” —June Jordan

“…what I heard as inconsolable may have been only the sound of something untamed and nameless singing itself to the wilderness….” Peter Everwine, excerpted from “Rain.” First published in Ploughshares

“It begins with a word as small as the cry of Athena’s owl. An ache in the cage of breath, as when we say can hardly breathe. In sleep we see our name on a stone, for instance. Or while walking in the rain among graves we feel watched.” Carolyn Forché #poetry

Wow! This poem “My Mother’s Disease introduces Me to My Mother” by Michael Mark in the current The Sun magazine nails #Alzheimers & #poetry

Honored to be asked to read this poem to the Gilman scholar alums invited by Department of State for a program on Global Food Security hosted by Penn State News College of Agricultural Sciences. End hunger. poetryxhunger.com #hunger #poetry

"Poems are a way to ask for what exists, to invite what wants to be visible." -- Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water

One of mine for Father’s Day #poetry

Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”

What a delight to find my poem, “Earthbound” reposted! Thank you Lee Potts 📖 Are you all reading Stone Circle Review? #poetry

#SealeyChallenge, day nineteen: Jim Moore, Prognosis

Maybe poems are just complications & yet you can't resist a little still life lit with grief & wonder. Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Joseph Fasano Here's a glorious one, "Morning Poem" by Elaine Fletcher Chapman Elaine F. Chapman , published by The Cortland Review cortlandreview.org/issue/67/chapm…

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Thrilled about this and the friends on here who share the honor and the ones I don’t know I now get to discover! Thank you, WWPH. #poetry #BestoftheNet

한 강 Han Kang – awarded the 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature – was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before, at the age of nine, moving with her family to Seoul. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she

Great reading tonight Collected Works by Jenny George, Catherine Barnett & Anne Haven McDonnell. What a privilege to be in the audience listening to this trio. #poetry

Wonderful poem by Jenny George From her new book After Image with Copper Canyon Press #poetry The Snake

Great long poem by Benjamin Gucciardi in this issue. #poetry

In the middle of it now and slowing down to savor each word. Brava, Danusha Laméris #poetry