🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

May 5th is the feast of Saint Hilary of Arles: Gallo-Greek aristocrat, imperial administrator, convert from Roman polytheism, Lerinian monk, ascetic, Metropolitan Bishop of Arelate, reformer, opponent of Pelagianism, hagiographer, and poet—who died on this day in AD 449.

POETRY The Pythoness and Other Poems (1949), Kathleen Raine In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus (2007), X. J. Kennedy Falling Awake (2016), Alice Oswald Scribbled in the Dark (2017), Charles Simic Seren of the Wildwood (2023), Marly Youmans

wisebloodbooks.com/store/p129/ser…

E.g. Marly Youmans 🌿☦️✍️

Claire I first learned about it from one of Marly Youmans' poems. :) firstthings.com/the-mortal-lon…

liamguilar.com/enthusiasms/20…

So much good poetry has been released recently. Add the new issue of The Brazen Head to your weekend reading list, with great poems by Marly Youmans 🌿☦️✍️, Paul D. Deane, A Z Foreman, Robbie Cobrun, Isabel Chenot, Lefcothea Maria Golgaki, and John Grevling. brazen-head.org/category/the-a…

Χριστός Ανέστη!/Christós Anésti! #Pascha #BrightWeek "Close your eyes and imagine some sculptor of tiny landscapes bent over a panel of ivory, slowly unearthing the little scenes hidden in white, sixteen hundred years ago." More here: tinyurl.com/4mm5rmny

Very pleased to find that Seren of the Wildwood (Wiseblood Books, 2023) is still getting new reviews two years out! Thanks to longtime NCLR editor Margaret Bauer for review assignment. #poetry #form #longpoem issuu.com/eastcarolina/d…

The editor of PRESENCE 2025 has suggested we post our poems, so here is my time-curling sonnet. Familiar names elsewhere: Paul J. Pastor Maya Venters Steven Knepper James Matthew Wilson Angela Alaimo O'Donnell Etc. #BrightWeek catholicpoetryjournal.com/current-issue

Many thanks to Christal Cooper for being curious and arranging this interview about "Landscape with Icefall." The poem originally appeared at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily (ed. Christine Klocek-Lim) some years ago--reprinted this year on New Year's Day. christalcooper.com/439-backstory-…

It's May Day, the opening of the month which in medieval literature is the most magical time of the year - a season for love, fairies, and marvellous dreams aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-may-… 'When merry and hot is the day, And away be winter showers, And every field is full of flowers...'

Perspective for poets... Seven of John Donne's poems were printed in his lifetime. The remaining 187 appear to have been circulated among his rather rarefied circle of readers, with some meant for specific recipients. 🩶

I'm honored to release a special issue featuring the poetry grads of the MFA program University of St. Thomas. This issue is edited by Daniel Cooper and Mary Grace Mangano. It features work by Maya Venters, Carla Galdo, Christopher Honey @thomistpoet.bsky.social, Jeff Young, Mary Finnegan, and others.

Happy Mother's Day evening, all y'all! 👑🫅

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

Dostoevsky's reading recommendations (Walter Scott & Charles Dickens) for a friend's young daughter

Today is the day! Celebrate the release of The Locust Years with me? So glad to share this special book.

Maybe it's just this year's absurd amount of travel and time away, but I've lost the thread that connects me here. Shall I stay, shall I stray, etcetera-y. Still, glad to be home for a while.

Yesterday I undertook a journey of exploration, a first visit. By train to Needham Market in Suffolk and then on foot cross country for a couple of miles or so. My destination was special, a time capsule of past emotion and devotion, St Mary's Church, Badley. Thread.