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April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 15

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond. Although I tend to quote my favorite bits, please do click through and read the whole posts. You can also browse the blog digest archive at Via Negativa or, if you’d like it in your inbox, subscribe on Substack (where the posts might be truncated by some email providers).

This week: the church of heart and hurt, beachcombing for the broken bits, children marching in the street, and much more. Enjoy.

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 14

This week: feathered messages, spring monsters, animal bodies, emerging seeds, and much more. Enjoy.

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 12

All over the northern hemisphere, it seems, spring has sprung, bringing a new crop of words to the poetry blogs this week: takatalvi, the quadrille, dindsenchas, reclamă, A.S.M.R., and more. Enjoy!

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 9

This week: when the egg is already broken, when women were birds, when everything seems a little closer, and when poetry makes us squirm. Enjoy.

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 6

This week: purple dreaming, invisible strings, the lives of strangers, every bloodstained stone, and more. Enjoy.

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 5

This week: oystercatchers, blood stew, the ground and the groundless, lovers’ clocks, and more. Enjoy.

January 27, 2025January 28, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 4

This week: painful radiance, a bear-shaped shadow, the sound of the axe, a single brahminy kite, and much more. Enjoy.

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 1

This week: taking stock, a guilty murmur, brand new rhythms, the skins of clementines, and more. Enjoy.

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Weeks 51-52

In this massive, end-of-the-year edition: gold paint and bird wings, throwing words to the wind, liquid understatement, stopping by woods, a river about a river, and much more. Enjoy.

December 16, 2024December 16, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 50

This week: handmade lanterns, no more flowers, gingerbread houses for hurricane refugees, a thousand erasure poems, a thousand haiku, and much more. Enjoy.