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I can't believe they spoiled this perfectly good headline with "What if" and a question mark.

Reginald Gibbons, in “How Poems Think”:

*Quote from Pope Leo X1V.* " Brothers, sisters… I speak to you, especially to those who no longer believe, no longer hope, no longer pray, because they think God has left. To those who are fed up with scandals, with misused power, with the silence of a Church that sometimes

For me, a poem that seems to be doing something I don't entirely understand on first read is what leads me to read it again. There's no formula and no stylistic rule: just intrigue and personal preference. Disclaimer: I am not the arbiter of goodness or even its proponent.

True!:

Deborah Digges

Happy Birthday, Thomas Hardy.

Thanks for featuring my poem “Ode to Iron” today, SWWIMmiami! 💜💛

#NoKings

Killing people in food lines is a war crime.

“If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution—” Carl Phillips in THEN THE WAR 💙

time for a bit of Mahon

this extraordinary poem by Henri Cole, in The Paris Review, made me feel joyfully alive for a few minutes today 🌼

Simon Armitage from Reading the Banns”

Friends, my review of Abbie Kiefer’s “Certain Shelter” is included in the new issue of The Pedestal Magazine. I do hope you’ll have a read: thepedestalmagazine.com/abbie-kiefers-…

Grateful to Elisabeth for her insightful take on CERTAIN SHELTER. Book reviewers are the best.

― Alfred Stieglitz, letter to Georgia O'Keeffe

It is late morning, and my forehead is alive with shadows James Tate -- from The Oblivion Ha-Ha

Jane Hirshfield