Any revolution without love and care will eventually fall. We’re lucky to be witnessing this❤️

Here's my prose poem "The Professor of Existentialism" published in Only Poems & featured in my latest manuscript. More here: onlypoems.net/jdiaz/poems

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC OUT THE WINDOWS

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY NOBODY COLD I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED I WANTED JUSTICE UNDER MY NOSE I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED BOUNDARIES TO DISAPPEAR —June Jordan

from the May 27, 2024 issue of the New Yorker. "The Call To Worship" by Bob Hicok

We're writers, of course we ...

Chill Subs …spend an hour trying to decide whether we should read or write in the free hour that we have while slowly buckling under the pressure of fast fleeting time until we succumb to the pull of something that has virtually nothing to do with either reading or writing. ☠️

Franz Wright

Breaks my heart that this is still true.

Ana, our 3-year-old, while watching Ice Age 3: “When I become an elephant, I want to have a baby in my tummy.”

Leonard Cohen

Me (getting a lit mag acceptance in the middle of sh!t I actually get paid for):

How lucky are we! One of our most favorite poets of all time Mikko Harvey is our Poet of the Week! Excuse us as we go jump up and down like our 3 year old while you read his amazing poems and interview live on our website now!

👙🌻This month’s theme is SUMMER. Interpret that however you wish! Retweet and we’ll DM you the direct free submission link!🔗 💙

Amorak Huey is our Poet of the Week — read his hearty poems and an interview full of unforgettable lines!

Poetry = ash

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Our one & only Shannan Mann, the queen of ghazals! ⁦Rattle⁩

Keep going back to this todd dillard poem.

The way Leonard Cohen uses repetition to throttle the engine before the turn in “The Only Poem.”