Charlotte Hamrick – Via Negativa

October 28, 2024October 28, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 43

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

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 38

This week: summer’s last tiny plum, the veins of the rational world, silences as important as words, horses married to the wind, a cricket orchestra, and much more. Enjoy!

September 2, 2024September 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 35

This week: Amanda Gorman’s hollow place, a zone of ambiguous meaning, the next life like a footfall in the heart, a day without birdsong, the music of ghosts, 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.

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 28

This week: the seeds of books, glamour and poverty, a gull funeral, the green of geckos, and more. Enjoy.

July 1, 2024July 1, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 26

This week: an orchestra of inflammation, a library of lost chapbooks, words written in eyeliner on a band aid wrapper, and a complicated kind of joy… among many other things. Enjoy!

June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 25

This week: midsummer nightmares, turning into a woodpecker, an idea of wrongness, a flat-bread moon, and more. Enjoy.

June 10, 2024June 10, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 23

This week: the butterfly house, a dead rat’s poem, revising reality, back to the garden, and much more. Enjoy.

May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 18

river in November light between bare woods and mountain

A shorter digest than usual this week, reflecting I suppose a general exhaustion among poetry bloggers after NaPoWriMo and the winding down of the academic year. Those who did blog were in a reflective mood, writing about self-acceptance for poets, points of connection, finding balance, considering the reader, and more. Enjoy.

April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, 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, 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 last before NaPoWriMo madness descends—had poets blogging about surreal fragments in walnut ink, pantsers vs. plotters, ectoplasmic connection, combinatory play, an ancient math teacher, a cracked cathedral, and much more. Enjoy.