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July 8, 2024July 9, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 27

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: an outbreak of poetry, intimate retributions, fireflies speaking in sign language, the pursuit of happiness, 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 27, 2024May 27, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 21

This week: dreams and ghosts, forgetting and remembering, program and underprogram, wasps, spiders and cicadas. Enjoy.

May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 19

This week: mothers and mothering, silence and mental noise, wonder and wreckage. Enjoy.

April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 16

This week: a wasp’s heart, rearranging the ghosts, the language of cicadas, empires of the everyday, losing the moon and more. Enjoy.

April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 15

This week: the experience of totality, poets in youth, rime royale, octopus poems, poetry in video games, and much more. Enjoy.

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 4

This edition begins and ends with small trees, and features tongue fire, a dandelion seed, a shirt soaked with life, little pooping monsters, and magic shoes, among other signs and wonders. Enjoy.

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 3

This week, inclement weather kept many poets inside, blogging furiously. Some common themes include the winter itself; great poets and poems; and songs as poetry and vice versa. Enjoy and share.

December 18, 2023December 19, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Week 50

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 season of lights was in full effect, along with that other holiday favorite, the year-end book list. Plus many other things. Enjoy.

I’ll probably skip next week and be back on New Year’s (Eve or Day) for the final edition of 2023. See you then.

December 4, 2023December 4, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Week 48

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: old books and libraries, echo salesmen, mouths and spectacles, catastrophes and the delights of life. Enjoy!