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October 13, 2025October 13, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41

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: intruding in Eden, remembering how to dream, the angel of history, a museum or diaspora of things, and much more. Enjoy.

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 24

This week: the flower phone, the broken timepiece, World Early Stroll Day, the romantic lives of badgers, and much more. Enjoy,

May 19, 2025May 20, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 20

This week: grief and blossoms, poems about frogs, purposeful loafing, the crosshairs of the present, and much more. Enjoy.

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 15

This week: the church of heart and hurt, beachcombing for the broken bits, children marching in the street, and much more. Enjoy.

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 14

This week: feathered messages, spring monsters, animal bodies, emerging seeds, and much more. Enjoy.

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 7

This week: dwelling in the underworld, writing with children, drilling holes in logs, dancing with a blank canvas, rolling around in the dirt, and more. Enjoy.

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 1

This week: taking stock, a guilty murmur, brand new rhythms, the skins of clementines, and 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 2, 2024December 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 48

This week: looping echoes, words that feel distinctly blue, a claustrophobic fairy tale, 19 shades of untrue, sour milk and fermenting earth, and the cosmogony of you. Enjoy!

November 11, 2024November 11, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 45

This week: notes on self-preservation, walking through fire, soundlessly mouthing the syllables for “beloved”, the gunpowder plot, the intimacies of the woods, and much more. Enjoy.