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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 10, 2025March 10, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 10

This week, a somewhat shorter edition than usual (perhaps the weather was too nice to blog?) with corpses and coffins, stillness and transformation, conglomerates and cigarettes, and a famous poet snacking on small purple carrots. Enjoy.

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 9

This week: when the egg is already broken, when women were birds, when everything seems a little closer, and when poetry makes us squirm. 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.

October 21, 2024October 21, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 42

This week: a head full of dreams, the stillness of a bell, big magic, an impish shadow, and more. Enjoy!

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 41

This week: what’s bothering the clouds, a mausoleum of flowers, slim needles of flow, the hitchhiking dead, and much more. Enjoy.

September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 39

This week: diligent dreaming, a forager of sound, the island of witches, silence as a canvas, taking off Billy Collins’ clothes, and much more. Enjoy.

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 38

This week: summer’s last tiny plum, the veins of the rational world, silences as important as words, horses married to the wind, a cricket orchestra, and much more. Enjoy!

September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, Week 37

This week: trusting the unsaid, questions for trees, beautiful birds of thought, hearing singing through the walls at night, and much more. Enjoy!

April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Poetry Blog Digest 2024, 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, 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 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.