Steven Searcy

It’s publication day for my book with @SolumPress! I’m excited to have this book out in the world. Thank you to everyone who has already ordered a copy. I hope you enjoy it!

@shemaiahng For many years I worked for a company headquartered in Germany and we always had Good Friday off. Now US-owned…no holiday ☹️

After high school I worked at an insurance company. I remember getting Good Friday off. Can you imagine?

@TomSnarsky Kay Ryan

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 it’s the last small poem Sunday of March, and the last one before the release of MOUNTEBANK (on 3/31), so here’s one more small poem from the book :)

@kevin_farnham Thank you!

@ithinkiamsteven Excellent, Steven!

I’m excited to have a poem in the April issue of @firstthingsmag, with many thanks to poetry editor @micahmattix! (Link to read full poem in first comment.)

@RolphSarah Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

Lovely, lovely poem

@amjuster I was a little unsure about the hexameter lines, which started instinctively, but was encouraged by Derek Walcott’s “Sea Grapes” in which he refers to waves as “great hexameters”

"Gulf Burden" by #StephenSearcy:  firstthings.com/gulf-burden/ A rarity! (#rhymed #hexameter couplets!)

@amjuster Thanks for sharing!

At 300 years old, “Gulliver’s Travels” has never been a more timely read. I think the real Plato would agree. share.google/yiNh9FE7FzoS3n…

Glad to receive my copy of this year’s @PresenceJournal, in which I review @riyeff’s excellent collection Be Radiant (@PressFernwood). Lots of other nice poems and reviews in here, as well as some beautiful tributes to the late @NorthDakotaJane from @maryraphaela & @MrsKatyCarl

@BretVDB Thanks, Bret! I haven’t seen that Le Guin poem, which is a nice example of contemporary alliterative verse

Another magnificent “vernal” poem (#4):

@maryraphaela Thank you for sharing this wonderful poem with the world!

@ithinkiamsteven Thank you, Steve!

If you have not yet read this beautiful poem, go read it!! If you have already read this beautiful poem, go read it again (as I just did, with great delight)!

@BretVDB (“Vernal” is not actually used in the lines here, but serves as the title. From my book Below the Brightness.)

My goal is to get 6,000 followers by the Vernal Equinox (March 20th). I mostly post poetry and poetry criticism, though I dabble in theology and philosophy—if you like any of these things, I suspect you’ll like my account.

from Robert Alter’s translation of Psalm 73

I’m happy to have a poem in the current issue of James Dickey Review. Thanks to editor Bill Walsh!

@StevenEKnepper @NadyaWilliams81 @drsarahlaw 👏 “Dark glass indeed.”

I'm grateful to @drsarahlaw for publishing my poem "Undoer of Knots" today at Amethyst Review.

@KSPrior @CTmagazine Thank you for writing and sharing this

In the new issue of @CTmagazine I reflect in my older age on being childless in “The Birds and the Bees, Babies and Me”: christianitytoday.com/2026/03/karen-…