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March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, 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 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: odes to mushrooms, the greenness of grief, a city of mirrors, the wayward compass, and much more. Enjoy.

March 23, 2026March 23, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 12

This week: intense incomprehension, the strings of things, apple maggots, plastic words, and much more. Enjoy.

March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 10

This week: picnicking on ice, clock-time vs. earth-time, the enormity of the world’s grief, the sound of a fountain, and much more. Enjoy.

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 9

This week: death stuck in traffic, puritans vs. mermaids, an inflamed labyrinth, rain falling on asphalt, and much more. Enjoy.

February 23, 2026February 23, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 8

This week: notebooks full of angel drawings, a dream of burning, forced dactyls, a springboard to spring, and much more. Enjoy.

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 6

This week: beach cobbles, resonating surfaces, ambiguous texts, imaginary friends, and much more. Enjoy.

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 4

This week: falling snow, a broken country, walking on an icy sidewalk, the space in which to take a small breath, and much more. Enjoy.

January 5, 2026January 5, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 1

This week: wolf moons, egg-life, the voice of a middle-aged witch, a linear accelerator in a radiation bunker, and much more. Enjoy.

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 51

This week: poems in which the word ‘snow’ matters, the tensions of truth and the body across the experimental lyric, a guy running in the park, a word that feels like a sort of dignified sadness, and much more. Enjoy. And happy holidays! I hope to be back for one last edition of the digest before the New Year.

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 49

This week: bearing witness to old rhythms, the laptop singing to life, a postcolonial flâneuse, the slow harvest of mindfulness, and much more. Enjoy.