This week we’re featuring the wonderful Katherine Riegel, with an artist statement on hawthorn, childhood memory, and putting down new roots through the folklore and planting of trees. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/riegel

Just came across this amazing poem and had to share it. I know I forget to post on here--I get social media exhausted easily--but I always love to recommend poems I love. Read it! poets.org/poem/working... #poetry #disability

On Working Remotely & No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain

the train leaves the station without me / so does the bus

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I have two poems in this issue from my on-again-off-again project to write poems about the folklore associated with native British trees. So grateful to Neil for editing this amazing publication!

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Welcoming the summer solstice with Issue 21.🌾🌞 From cacao beans to the Cranberry Glades bogs, plants that offer recovery and healing to tumbleweed in bloom and wandering lichen — our new summer solstice issue is live. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue

Sorry I forget about this social media platform, folks. I have less energy these days. But I had to share this gorgeous poem, which is extra powerful if you have, or had (as I did), a sister. oneartpoetry.com/2026/06/19/i...

I am sister to the rain. by Alison Hurwitz

I am sister to the rain. ~Dorothy Parker, “Rainy Night,” 1925 For years we scanned horizon, touched on desiccated things. I tried to give a little limestone. You offered back a sky devo…

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Visit our blog (link in bio) to read our interview with @katierpoet.bsky.social, judge of our 2026 Poetry Contest. #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #LitMag #PoetryContest

New Substack up in which I share three of my favourite short poems. open.substack.com/pub/creative...

On Short Poems

and how they can say so much

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Be Brave. Be a Poet.

Renee Nicole Good was, among other things, a poet.

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From “To the Ukulele Player on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida Who Asks Passersby, What Are You Grateful For?” by Susan Michele Coronel #SWWIMEveryDay #Poem #WomenPoets #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #SusanMicheleCoronel #ThursdayPoem

I love this essay—and yes, there’s milkweed in Illinois, but not as much as when I was a child due to herbicides, alas.

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"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles." "The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/24/t...

A wonderful Zoom poetry reading today by @katierpoet.bsky.social, coming at us from Scotland with several remarkable, devastating poems from her new collection, Our Bodies Are Mostly Water (May 2025, Cornerstone Press.) An unforgettable tribute to her late sister & the love they shared.

New Substack up that acknowledges the awfulness but also acknowledges the beauty. #poem #poetry #onlineworkshop open.substack.com/pub/creative...

But...

also love, also beauty

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So happy to announce the winners and finalists of Sweet's 2025 Poetry Contest! You'll be able to read them on June 17. As the final judge, I can tell you they are amazing poems. #poems #poetry sweetlit.org/2025-sweet-p...

2025 SWEET POETRY CONTEST RESULTS

We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2025 Sweet Poetry Contest. Ninefinalists (one potential finalist had been withdrawn) were selected from a strong pool by poetryco-editor…

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two great new Natalie Warther shorts today! here's one. click through for the other!! https://www.havehashad.com/sfnhb

I'm thrilled that my lyric memoir about my sister and grief is up for preorder from Cornerstone Press! #siblinggrief #sistergrief #grief #memoir secure.payconex.net/paymentpage/...

Amazing poem from Academy of American Poets today. So many lines to love! "I miss my magnolias, miss my maples, think Where did they go?, think, Oh yes, to the past, that place where everything goes and can I visit? No, but also Yes..." poets.org/poem/beautif... #poem #poetry #loss

A Beautiful House with a Hot Tub and Pool

I miss my magnolias, miss my maples, think

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New Substack up on moving to the UK. I know that platform is problematic, and I'm happy to hear about a different one that you've used and liked. But anyway, here it is: open.substack.com/pub/creative...

14 Houses in 10 Days

on leaving and adventure

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I have a couple of poems out in the lovely journal: Sweet: A Literary Confection. Many thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social and @chelsdingman.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their important work keeping the poetry fires burning. #poem #poetry sweetlit.org/anya-kirshba...

Anya Kirshbaum

Press Play to hear the author read their piece. Letter From the Edge of Every Known Thing Dear Ginkgo, are we so different? You at the edge of undress—I, undone, unkempt, infant at my breast. I hav…

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“Beginning again and again is the actual practice.” —Sharon Salzberg #buddhism #meditation

New Substack up—and yes, I know that platform is problematic. Still I hope you’ll take a look. It’s free! open.substack.com/pub/creative...

Eating Poetry

what we nurture becomes part of us

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"Those days you wait like a dog at the door" Three striking poems -- absolute heart punchers -- from @katierpoet.bsky.social | #poetry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

I am so grateful to Does It Have Pockets for publishing 3 of my poems! The 1st is the title poem of my new manuscript, the 2nd expresses my longing for the farm where I grew up, and the 3rd is about the dog park. #poem #poetry #poems www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe...

Katherine Riegel — Does It Have Pockets

What Life is Like Here on Earth | My Entrance to the Otherworld is in Illinois | She Couldn’t Understand My Words but I Still Wish I Could Unsay Them

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I'm so grateful to have 2 new poems up at Bear Paw Arts Journal. The links go to each one, so I'll post them separately. There's such beautiful work in this issue, writing that affirms the dignity and beauty of everyday life. #poem #poetry www.bearpawartsjournal.com/poetry2/reig...

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Home

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Happy winter solstice!

Awesome to wake up to my poem, "Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness" from my new book, The Grief Committee Minutes, on Verse Daily today! bit.ly/41SE0hl

This is from a poem by Andrew Lang called “Ballade of the Midnight Forest” and I now recognize that my true childhood ambition was to be a 19th century Scottish poet and folklorist (and also a wood nymph of course).

Read this brilliant poem! Dog parks are good places to think. www.versedaily.org/2024/howefar... ...This year is closing down. What I lost I will never regain... #poem #poetry #dogs

I'm recommending my friends' books! Today it's a wonderful poet who was part of a workshop of grad students I led years ago. Buy his book--and discover others at the wonderful Meadowlark Press! www.meadowlarkbookstore.com/s/stories/tu... #poetry

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My gorgeous boy welcomes everyone who’s new here with sugar-face contentment. May you have your favorite ball and a hooman to cuddle.

You know a poetry book's great when you just open it at random and the poem is really good. random pick from @susanlleary.bsky.social Dressing The Bear.

New poem on Poets Reading the News! It’s about perspective. www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/11/i-bu... #poem #poetry

I Buy a Star Projector - Katherine Riegel

It wasn’t easy. It isn’t now. It won’t be, ever.

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