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March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 12

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).

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!

February 24, 2025February 25, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 8

This week: milk-blue light, a bag of grief, demonic possession, the promise of spring, 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 20, 2025January 20, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 3

This week: Grand Theft Hamlet, a fountain dying of thirst, smeuses, the Poet Laureate of Pajamas, and more. Enjoy.

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 2

This week: ravaged days, a faint buzzing, a dead boy’s imagined journey, a night pure and thick as a womb, and much 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.

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 47

This week: apricity, toxemia, yahrzeit, isopods, ekphrasis, and more. Enjoy.

October 28, 2024October 28, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 43

This week: inhabiting dissonance, time’s ragged lace, the museum of a life, the sexiness of grammar, and much more. Enjoy.

September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 39

This week: diligent dreaming, a forager of sound, the island of witches, silence as a canvas, taking off Billy Collins’ clothes, and much more. Enjoy.