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New to the blue(sky)! An online journal of poetry. https://dialogist.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dialogistjournal/
"Fuck / good. Fuck precisely the place within me that thinks / what’s written is not enough." dialogist.org/poetry/2026-... @susanlleary.bsky.social
Poetry, Week 29: Susan L. Leary — DIALOGIST
Today fuck these people fuck these guards fuck this building fuck this food fuck these clothes I comb the pages for a good line. I comb the pages for meaning & metaphor, for grammar & prop...
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We'll be reading with Tyger Quarterly and The Year off-set at AWP this Friday, featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Emily Bark Brown, @deesoulpoetry.com, James Garwood-Cole, Emily Pittinos, and Sophia Terazawa. Hope to see you there!
"My son doesn’t believe in the multiverse. / When asked? Math." Poem in Which Touch is a Theory and After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie by Alexa Doran, who currently works as an Assistant Professor English at Tallahassee State College. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 36: Alexa Doran — DIALOGIST
After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie makes me look skinny, I launch my botched ass body across the algorithms #FilterFree. I know Frost meant exactly this branch, this road. But I only under...
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"Swallow, / will you sing me your song?" My Father’s God by Jon Provens, an Argentine-American writer and educator currently based in Southern California. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 35: Jon Provens — DIALOGIST
My Father’s God is a silent one. Better disguised than the praying mantis and not once recanted. A flame flickered shadow, broken-winged sparrow in my living room, whom I’ve witnessed tend to ...
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"Where’s he / from, what’s his mission, why’s he here on this floor / in this particular exhibition?" People by Todd Boss, who is working on three novels, a nonfiction project, a choral operetta, and a screenplay. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 34: Todd Boss — DIALOGIST
People steal scenes. The sweeping green sward, the flock- dotted forest, the far-distant steeple, and the steep cliff of palette-knifed cumulonimbi ought to be enough, but no, the Dutch mas...
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"centennial of daily specials..." it’s just a ride by Jonathan Focht, who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 33: Jonathan Focht — DIALOGIST
it’s just a ride centennial of daily specials czech pilsner full-pour a dull illness thought better exponential direction adventure keep adding to it more of it faster sending horse stealers t...
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"3:00 p.m." a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store by Sophia Pan, who is from Chicago, IL and loves reading and writing slightly disturbed poetry. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 32: Sophia Pan — DIALOGIST
a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store 3:00 p.m. i. cotton blooming orange &nb...
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"How, if at all, does a feeling unwind?" Art & Objecthood & Still Life with Airstrike and Kant by Cindy King. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she currently lives in Utah, where she is a professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 31: Cindy King — DIALOGIST
Art & Objecthood I like losing my breath, Pollocking in the wind, white as bleached coral, stiff as the wrist of a Post-Expressionist. Expressing with all the elegance of a busted tongue ...
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"There are insects in the canopy." At the Heart of a Spiral & Under a Burnt Out Sun by Will Sheets, an undergrad student at the University of Richmond studying Creative Writing and English. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 30: Will Sheets — DIALOGIST
At the Heart of a Spiral Michael stands before me, says he knows my bible better than he knows the earth we try not to tread upon. His smile carries a mass, isolated and levitated. His smile car...
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"You sit at your desk, starving, trying to transfer $400 from your savings to your checking account..." Direct Address by Robin Arble, who studied writing and literature at Hampshire College and lives in New York. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 29: Robin Arble — DIALOGIST
Direct Address You sit at your desk, starving, trying to transfer $400 from your savings to your checking account in case the Massachusetts Health Connector refuses to pay for your next 90-day supp...
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"Picture this: darkest draped cloth, magnesium powder flash / from a match..." Ripples by Stephen Mead, a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 28: Stephen Mead — DIALOGIST
Ripples Picture this: darkest draped cloth, magnesium powder flash from a match, & slight smoke quickly drifting over figures for forever or for ever how long that image may last. F...
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"Tell me, how do you become / less animal without becoming more ghost?" Unparented Rituals by Penny Wei, a poet from Shanghai and Massachusetts. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 27: Penny Wei — DIALOGIST
Unparented Rituals My grandfather devours carambola in the bathtub, the faucet’s underlip weeps, clotted ochres where the enamel resigned. Something unsaintly ferments in the belly of a drain, or a...
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"Yes, / I’ll sweep up. A pile of ends / just beginning to bend." LENGTHS, THE LANDLORD, & SUPERSTITION by Miss Jackson Newbern (they/them), a poet from Georgia. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 26: Miss Jackson Newbern — DIALOGIST
LENGTHS When I come in, my friend is in the middle of giving her boyfriend a trim. Chair drug into the kitchen where the hair won’t get stuck in the rug. Once she introduces us, he can’t seem to re...
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"In the neighborhood Rite Aid, museum / of my gay awakening, I was browsing / butterfly mascara as her voice spoke / through Bruno Mars." Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact by Arushee Bhoja, a queer Indian-American poet from California. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 25: Arushee Bhoja — DIALOGIST
Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact In the neighborhood Rite Aid, museum of my gay awakening, I was browsing butterfly mascara as her voice spoke through Bruno Mars. By this point, everything sounded l...
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"What does the hand / of God feel like? I ask you." Hold On by Lisa Compo, a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program who obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 24: Lisa Compo — DIALOGIST
Hold On
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"Listen, / it isn’t the drag queens stripping / my kids of Medicaid." Junk Hour by Josh Luckenbach, a Web Editor for the Coalition for Community Writing. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 23: Josh Luckenbach — DIALOGIST
Junk Hour
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"Someone had left me a book with two definitions of a door: the first is simply an entrance." After the Metal Door Stopper by Connor Arakaki, a writer at Yale University, where they serve as the current Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 22: Connor Arakaki — DIALOGIST
After the Metal Door Stopper
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"The place you want kissed is temple, / [slepoočnica]—I remember." Temple by Mirthe van Popering, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Her work dismantles—moving through rupture, subversion, and the strange edges of desire. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 21: Mirthe van Popering — DIALOGIST
Temple I. [slepo] something blind A Dr. med. warns my face, paternally inflected, Slim projection , he says. It is invisibly nestled in the seam of me ...
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"In a dream, grandmother commands me bol! / and I speak to the ancestor in my bone." Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance by Hafsa Zulfiqar, a poet from Pakistan. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 20: Hafsa Zulfiqar — DIALOGIST
Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance In a dream, grandmother commands me bol! and I speak to the ancestor in my bone. Stuttering words cross borders, unstitching themselves f...
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"calling his / brother ishmael to ask him for the netflix password." genesis 22:19 by Michel Krysiak, a philosophy research student, currently residing in Kyoto. They write in English and Polish. This is their first published poem. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 19: Michel Krysiak — DIALOGIST
genesis 22:19 so abraham returned to his young men with isaac, and they arose and went together to beer-sheba; and abraham and isaac live at beer-sheba. now after these things...
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"A season for looking at last leaves:" Reservoir Meditation by Joshua Gregory, the Spiritual Director and Bereavement Counselor of the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, MA. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 18: Joshua Gregory — DIALOGIST
Reservoir Meditation A season for looking at last leaves: falling, thin, per- forming winter ’s sound like willows or whipping, white fabric. & still this nig...
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"Not even they are forever. In this glorious re-greening / something comes next for us, too." Green Reigns by Emily Updegraff, an MFA student at Northwestern University. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 17: Emily Updegraff — DIALOGIST
Green Reigns &n
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"Sometimes they’d ask you / —are these all yours?" Stabat Mater by Benjamin Bellet, a clinical psychologist and military veteran. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 16: Benjamin Bellet — DIALOGIST
Stabat Mater &n
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"It was a story only I could / tell in order to become / my own person" Boots by Cole Barry, who you can find on Instagram @cole.barryy. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 15: Cole Barry — DIALOGIST
Boots The news, then, was full of warnings A child’s mitten detached at the knuckle found in a valley Co...
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"How did you know. I was just thinking / of the irredeemable, pictured here..." Three poems from Bruce Bond, who teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 14: Bruce Bond — DIALOGIST
Picture Postcard from an Atom Bomb Test, Yucca Flats, 1953 How did you know. I was just thinking of the irredeemable, pictured here, as we might stand among them behind a scrim of sunglass ...
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come out to the New Orleans Healing Arts Center tomorrow for a collaborative poetry event with Tyger Quarterly at the NOPF! Featuring @browatch.bsky.social, kathy wu, Alyssa Moore, Emily Pittinos, Shira Dentz, and Emily Barton Altman
"Mostly, I know hunger and pain or no pain at all and that is all I write about." Reading Travels to Writing as Sound Travels to Light by Aimee Wai, a creative writer and engineer. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 13: Aimee Wai — DIALOGIST
Reading Travels to Writing as Sound Travels to Light The audience doesn’t always know what they want. Most of the time, they want what they don’t want. The director’s job is to fulfill their...
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tomorrow night! 8pm, 3/28 at Sibylline Records reading with Helene Achanzar, @tarikd.xyz, Amanda Gunn, Ricardo Frasso Jamarillo, Caroline Kanner, and Ethan Seeley! 15 S El Molino Ave, Pasadena
