Olivia Ivings

Big thanks to @CommonGroundRev for giving these two poems a home in their latest issue. Check it out here: cgreview.org/issue/spring-s…

James Baldwin on talent vs hard work

I’m glad to publish a sonnet, “Ophelia,” in the new issue of Baltimore Review. It’s an ekphrastic poem about John Everett Millais’s famous and disturbing painting. The model, Elizabeth Siddall, really did catch a terrible cold while posing in a bathtub. baltimorereview.org/fall_2024/cont…

Carl Phillips

Sappho fragment, translated by Mary Barnard

Li-Young Lee

Robert Frost. “Let what will be, be.”

Issue 18 Contributor highlight by @oliveayeah

If, like me, you woke up with the ending of this Zagajewski poem in your head

“God / is a dress we slip over solitude” “The Call to Worship” by Bob Hicok ⁦@NewYorker⁩

Ilya Kaminsky in YOU ARE HERE ❤️ @ilya_poet

Today's Poetry Thread: CHANGE "You must change your life." Feel free to add poems.

6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time - Jack Kerouac, "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose"

i think about this poem approximately 8 times a day

Bookmarking for the poets:

Issue 18 Contributor Spotlight! Out June 10th!

Periodic moment of gratitude to Threepenny Review for publishing a poet from the slush pile who’d never been accepted for publication before.

James Merrill, who would have turned 98 today.