Stephanie BurgisI love this Ada Limón poem about the shared language of old friendship: https://astra-mag.com/articles/blowing-on-the-wheel/
It's the final day of #DecRecs, and one of the great joys of 2022 for me has been discovering the poetry of Ada Limón. It was hard to choose just one poem to recommend, but I do love this one very much, and it's so important for carrying into a new year: "Instructions on Not Giving Up" https://poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving
Oh, do I love Lucille Clifton's amazing poem "i am running into a new year," which is just perfectly timely today and which resonates so hard for me every single year: https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/01/04/i-am-running-into-a-new-year-by-lucille-clifton/
It's Day 26 of #DecRecs, and today I'm sharing Seamus Heaney's poem "Postscript," which captures a moment of beauty so powerfully: https://poems.com/poem/postscript/
KieraLesleyShort read rec of the day!
A gorgeous Venusian villanelle by Deborah L Davitt
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2022/09/in-the-valleys-of-venus/
Short form read recommendation of the day!
A fierce little #poem to get you into your weekend
i was raised in anger - marisca pichette
Listen to this episode from Pioneer Valley Poetry Podcast on Spotify. Marisca Pichette reads her original piece i was raised in anger. Music is Ambient Dream by malictusmusic. The Pioneer Valley Poetry Podcast is produced by Izzi D’Amico, with resources provided by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Journalism Department at UMass Amherst.
The brilliant Kae Tempest at their bleak rage-y best in “Europe is Lost”. Always listen to Tempest if you can and this is a good start point to their work if you’re unfamiliar
Kate Tempest - Europe Is Lost (Official Video)
Gorgeous poem in the latest issue of Uncanny by Eshqin Ahmad:
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-dead-divine-thing/
A Dead, Divine Thing - Uncanny Magazine
i will always be more tomb than temple, i know. there are ghosts and gods reclining on the moth-eaten velvet of my tongue, tigers and thunders purring in my veins but— if you keep praising the curl of my eyelashes, comparing them to flying eaves / and if you keep tending to my collarbones […]
Lovely short #poem to shake up your week. Rich with sensory detail and nostalgia, M. Darusha Wehm’s “how to make time”
