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March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 13

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: odes to mushrooms, the greenness of grief, a city of mirrors, the wayward compass, and much more. Enjoy.

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 7

This week: cobra mating season, the hand of a Medieval scribe, a riddling hermit guarding a magic portal, and much more. Enjoy.

August 25, 2025August 25, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 34

This week: listener poets, an undocumented sun, a mind full of scorpions, the whisper between things, and much more. Enjoy.

July 14, 2025July 14, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 28

This week: resistance training, Bastille Day, the orbweaver’s song, Crusoe in England, and much more. Enjoy.

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 11

This week: sound and silence, the worm moon, war news, the lost forest of time, 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.

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 33

This week: little bits of deformed plastic, the work of imagining the impossible, a postcard from Mars, the names of things on the verge of disappearing, and much more. Enjoy.

August 12, 2024August 12, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 32

This week: seeing the Perseids in the armpit of a lover, lingering at the doors to the spirit world, taking a sledgehammer to the walls of a childhood home, and much more. Enjoy!

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 8

This week: active hope, the anti-ship of Theseus, knocking the brain off its pedestal, smutty Persephone poems, slow stitching, and much more. Enjoy.

November 20, 2023November 21, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Week 46

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, subscribe to its RSS feed in your favorite feed reader, or, if you’d like it in your inbox, subscribe on Substack. This week: the Bird King, 1300 chapbooks, the air full of silk, a Tasmanian double, the absence of sex in lit mags, and much, much more. Enjoy.