Maria Popova – Via Negativa

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 8, 2024April 8, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 14

This first week of Poetry Month, doves abound and emptiness has teeth, finding dusty corners to live in, while April asks, “What, me? Cruel?” Enjoy.

April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 13

This week—the last before NaPoWriMo madness descends—had poets blogging about surreal fragments in walnut ink, pantsers vs. plotters, ectoplasmic connection, combinatory play, an ancient math teacher, a cracked cathedral, and much more. Enjoy.

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 12

This week: meaning in fog, emergency language, an inconvenient cemetery, a home make-under, World Poetry Day, the spring equinox, and more. Enjoy.

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 7

This week: Fat Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, a blog’s birthday, a book’s birthday… as the world steadily becomes more terrible. Poetry remains one of the very few effective antidotes to despair.

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.

January 1, 2024January 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Weeks 51-52: Holidaze edition

Happy 2024! This edition of the digest—a personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond—takes us from the winter solstice to New Year’s, with year-end summary posts, favorite books, and plans for the year ahead as well as reflections on the season. 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.

November 20, 2023November 21, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Week 46

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 Bird King, 1300 chapbooks, the air full of silk, a Tasmanian double, the absence of sex in lit mags, and much, much more. Enjoy.

November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Weeks 43-44

These past two weeks brought Halloween, Day of the Dead, and the return of Standard Time in the U.S. and Canada. Israel’s war on Gaza has, if anything, intensified. Unsurprisingly, poets had something to say about these things, although I think we tend to be more aware of the limitations of language than most. Also: parades for poets, a teetering between melody and madness, an epic poem about astrophysics, and much more. Enjoy.