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July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 29

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: Cassandra at summer camp, being a longlistee, the daily countings, a severed creek, and a gull seeking more. Enjoy!

July 8, 2024July 9, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 27

This week: an outbreak of poetry, intimate retributions, fireflies speaking in sign language, the pursuit of happiness, and more. 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 17, 2024June 17, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 24

This week: a floating typewriter, a poet in a lighthouse, bombing the moon, marble peaches, the hum of our own truth, 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.

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 22

This week, the summer travel season is underway, with blue domes, a country of murderers, the Essex muse, an economy based on beauty, 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 20, 2024May 20, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 20

This week: grief’s alphabet, moon menders, insect-poets, a paradise of sentences, and more. I challenged myself to quote just one paragraph from each blog post, and mostly kept to that. I’ll probably return to my usual pattern next week, but it was fun to court brevity for a change!

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.

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.