In mid-century Mallorca, the Limerick-connected poet Robert Graves and the Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet Claribel Alegría lived as neighbours. Their friendship developed into a creative collaboration, with Alegría translating a wide selection of Graves’s poems into Spanish, later published as "Cien Poemas de Robert Graves."

For one evening in Limerick, that conversation continues.

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Today’s Knopf #poem of the day was really beautiful. Michael Ondaatje's "All Along the Mazinaw":

http://links.eml.knopfdoubleday.com/s/vb/tQXG2BeDB9MYs2HnjqFzywtUaqqv2BLzX11yY8dpBAwoADV5vMJbwk7EcTSdAmzyKZCWK-C4eU8shvVnkYuCim67aTusPUlhMVuDcI-odJsEbzs9nI1BnYljK2A8B12D2_EhJIwnaibDeBcBwO6ogbXzK0BdnWomS40mEA/BFJTs7Byq_iqUoamS54V_j8x-URDCs0L/19?ref=PRH0A0AEA920C62&linkid=PRH0A0AEA920C62&cdi=2E066F07A8912B38E0534FD66B0AFA34&template_id=40161&aid=randohouseinc35762-20&link_location=2_18

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“A poem can be compromised but should never be a compromise”

Today's #PoetryMonth #LitFriday read is Mathew Weitman's "Adagia" — an aphoristic meditation on the nature of poetry — from the new issue of Wallace Stevens Journal

Read free, #S20 #OpenAccess via Project MUSE
https://tiny.one/2p8zx48m

I enjoyed reading this poem from @tolu today.

https://newpoetry.ca/2026/03/20/provisions/

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. | Literary Hub

"In 2020, when she went by Renée Nicole Macklin, she won the prestigious Academy of American Poets Prize for a poem called “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs”."

#PoetryMonth
https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/

As we lead up to #poetrymonth I am going to post some recent work that I have come across online over the next two weeks.

To start, today I am sharing this wonderful fragment of a longer work by Steven Ross Smith "Diptych from Petal & Fracture (manuscript in progress)," published in PublicReverie.com (h/t Theresa Smalec)

https://publicreverie.com/diptych-by-steven-ross-smith/

I love how Steven invokes the romantics, calling out with an exclamatory `O` as he rails against the all too relevant subject of conflict, the mechanics of war, and the blooms of grief inflicted on the human body, the families and communities broken in its wake.

As he speaks to " life in un/ fathomable billion-bloom" the language fragments, words spreading across white space of the page/screen, un-done-in by the tragedy inflicted on human society and its members.

Can't wait to read the full work!