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October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, 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: the miracle of chance, fluff under pressure, a man in a shattered house, a charm against the inconceivable, and much more. Enjoy.

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 31

This week: reading poetry to pigs, yellow stretchy man, the canon of spiteful literature, and much more. Enjoy.

July 28, 2025July 28, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 30

This week: a green snake, the sound of a lawnmower, worms without mouths or stomachs, a protest dance, and much more. Enjoy.

July 7, 2025July 7, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 27

This week: singing bones, messages in bottles, the wind phone, the dark mist of America, 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.

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 19

This week: night-flowering catch-fly, the formal narrative epithalamium, a crayon sky, rage fatigue, and much more. Enjoy.

April 28, 2025April 29, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 17

This week: plastic dragons, writing for the bees, earwig spiracles, the planet as a prayer wheel, 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.

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 12

All over the northern hemisphere, it seems, spring has sprung, bringing a new crop of words to the poetry blogs this week: takatalvi, the quadrille, dindsenchas, reclamă, A.S.M.R., and more. Enjoy!