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March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, 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: synapses on fire, cryptic colonial zooids, a hearth of spiders, open secrets, a big smashing life, and more. Enjoy.

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 11

This week: sound and silence, the worm moon, war news, the lost forest of time, and much more. Enjoy.

February 24, 2025February 25, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 8

This week: milk-blue light, a bag of grief, demonic possession, the promise of spring, and more. Enjoy.

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 6

This week: purple dreaming, invisible strings, the lives of strangers, every bloodstained stone, and more. Enjoy.

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 2

This week: ravaged days, a faint buzzing, a dead boy’s imagined journey, a night pure and thick as a womb, and much 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 16, 2024December 16, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 50

This week: handmade lanterns, no more flowers, gingerbread houses for hurricane refugees, a thousand erasure poems, a thousand haiku, 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.