Girl on the train complimented me and said I was funny, responded with "thanks, it's all I have" and the rest of the train gave me a worried look

bringing this back as we enter the most poetic season

C.T. Salazar one of my favorite poems

Read The Martins Deep.'s lovely poem "fuck your poetry contest, I WANT TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY" in Issue 28! ​una don hear am. no birdsong. just a black boy his mother keeps warning about this rage, what it will do to him, shooing off all the songbirds ... thetemzreview.com/deep.html

heartbreaking: the lyrics you misheard are way cooler than what they actually are

Mark Strand

“When my dog died, I broke up with the woods.” —Bob Hicok

I always enjoy the Temz Review, but seeing The Martins Deep., Kim Fahner and Stan Rogal in the TOC makes this one extra-exciting.

Hilda Morley

“Sioux Fall” by Danez from BLUFF (Graywolf Press)

Jay Wright constructs a poetic sequence out of the last lines of this Hölderlin poem, using each major word as the title of a section

I have a poem on caretaking in the latest issue of Copper Nickel. Thank you to Wayne Miller & team for giving "He Misses Her Like Trying to Catch the Rain with a Net" a home.

writing an unhinged story that’ll make sense to approximately 1-2 people. this is a good use of time, probably.

oh to have a passionate but short-lived relationship with another artist that’s nevertheless so impactful we both end up making movies about the dissolution of said relationship from our own unique perspective a decade apart

I don't expect too much really. It's the same twitter people that said 'The Last Days at Forcados High School' was better than 'In Dependence'. We have a history of unintelligent literary takes.

W. S. Merwin