Found poem, Brooklyn.

Thinking of beginnings this solstice

good night y’all, here’s some Jane Hirshfield before bed

surround yourself. with those who would flip your ear back for you. if it ever went inside out

I’ve been reading Ashberry for the first time and it has been a revelation, he’s so good.

Sitting with this short, reverberating poem this morning (by Elizabeth Metzger, via The Yale Review ♥️)

Charles Simic.

Annular Eclipse 2023. Taken south of Farmington, New Mexico. 📸 Chris Schmidt

What a happy and lucky thing to have this poem appear in The Atlantic. It's seasonally heavy and, not coincidentally, called "Midwinter." Happy almost new year's, everyone ✨ theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

but ineluctable this shimmering Denise Levertov

“Memory is not in the head / only.” Margaret Atwood:

There are poems, and there's THIS POEM.

Mary Ruefle:

from SAD LITTLE BREATHING MACHINE (Graywolf Press, 2004) by Matthea Harvey

Today's Poetry Thread: FEAR Here's a haunting one by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh. Feel free to add poems.

Medieval suns and moons. Collection: Getty Museum.

― James Baldwin

Needed this poem by Meg Freitag this morning:

Another brilliant poem by Danusha Laméris: