Fortress Wharton: Edith Wharton's home in the south of France gave her sweeping views--and high walls. @drlaurarattray.bsky.social @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social @worldlittoday.bsky.social #EdithWharton
“The Garden of My Soul”: Edith Wharton’s Living Legacy in France, by Laura Sheahen
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With most living poets, if they said "Here's my latest for you to read, it's in terza rima and iambic hexameter"--I'd run screaming. But with Shane McCrae, it's like, "Yep, let's do this." That said, I like his hastily assembled angel poems more: poets.org/poem/tree-kn...
The Tree of Knowledge
The hastily assembled angel saw
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The neurons urging sacrifice Pass genelessly to the girl ... --My poem "Darwin" is up at Poets for Science #evodevo #evolution #ScienceSky
Darwin - Poets for Science
The young man who dove to his death So the lifeboat stays buoyant and stable: His twisted code Does not fade like his nephews’ gold hair. The hero blood Does not die out when they do. Against evolutio...
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...At customs, they ask if I am carrying anything alive. Only everything, I say-- ... The officer stamps me twice, once for entry, once for doubt. --McLord Selasi has four poems in @thelincolnreview.bsky.social @mclorselasi.bsky.social www.lincolnreview.org
The Lincoln Review
International literary journal at the University of Lincoln edited by creative writing students. Published annually: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography.
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A deity on the wooden table cranes his rainbow-colored head, asking the mortal world for black-and-white. --Some interesting lines in a poem by Yang Biwei, translated by @liangyujing.bsky.social
AGNI@agnimagazine.bsky.social · 3mo agoIts Manchurian windows have vanished. The parapets, verandas, arches, cornices, railings, balconies, triangular plum blossoms proudly growing from its walls, the cat living in the staircase, ~from "Vanished Qilou Building, Bali" by Yang Biwei (trans. from the Chinese by Liang Yujing AGNI 100
Nice music in this translation by @marrrtha.bsky.social
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 7mo agoThere I stayed, and there forgot, my cheek laid on my Beloved fair. And all things ceased, and I was lost and all my worldly doubt and care were sunk among the lilies there. ‘Dark Night’, a poem by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Begging to differ, we have not An ounce of poetry, no libraries, no bindings, No sooth-singers, no melting iambs. --My #IceAge poem "Pleistoscene" is up at @agnimagazine.bsky.social agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/pleis...
Pleistoscene
Those people who had nothing but, say, a hunting tool and a lot of ice had poetry, plenty of it, poems and songs for the sake of the life in them. —Marie Ponsot x Begging to differ, we have not An ou...
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“More life went out, when he went, Than ordinary breath, Lit with a finer phosphor Requiring in the quench” From a poem by Emily Dickinson in TYR’s archives, originally published in 1935:
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My poem "Ars Longa" is in this issue with thanks to @bdralyuk.bsky.social lsheahen.substack.com/p/ars-longa-...
Ars Longa: A poem by Laura Sheahen
He cannot see too far and is not strong/To wait in blinded wonderment too long.
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Nimrod Journal@nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe new issue has reached the office.
Poetry's work is "...inviting humans to reactivate the visualisation capacities of their minds that they do not go dormant.... to actively use their senses so they don’t atrophy." --Interesting take by @joriegraham.bsky.social
The London Magazine@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 5mo ago'Would poetry be more effective – that is, interest more people more deeply – if it were more directly concerned with the issues of our time?' @joriegraham.bsky.social, Don Paterson, @aestallings.bsky.social and more have their say in our 2026 Survey of Poets. thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
i am learning that i would forget about love if i could i am learning i can not --Lines in a collection of newly-found work by poet #LucilleClifton. Here's my review of the book:
Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · 5mo agoA new collection features recently uncovered works by Lucille Clifton, Maryland’s late poet laureate. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-s... @lsheahen.bsky.social @boa-editions.bsky.social #booksky
My poem "Recall" is in the latest issue of The Amphibian, a print journal in the Netherlands: lsheahen.substack.com/p/recall-a-p...
Recall: A poem by Laura Sheahen
Suffer a numbness to thaw
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Glad to be introduced to the poems of Milo De Angelis. Thanks @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Circumference@circumferencemag.bsky.social · 7mo agoNow we plummet toward the original spark now the first-born face takes shape » Five poems from LAST STOPS OF THE NIGHT JOURNEY by Milo De Angelis, tr. by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart « The book comes out April 14 from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social! circumferencemag.com/last-stops-o...
📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 We are so excited to announce the return of Lucille Clifton's voice in these uncollected poems masterfully edited by Kazim Ali! Visit our online store at boaeditions.org to purchase a copy of this stunning collection.
My poem "The Voodoo Doll Wakes Up" is up at Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. www.trampolinepoetry.com#:~:text=The%...
The Voodoo Doll Wakes Up: A poem by Laura Sheahen
her button eyes blinking/ ... she must centrifuge truth
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Laura Sheahen puts a twist on the consequences of Pandora's box in her poem for Issue 10 - hit the link on our profile to read the whole thing 🧡
Today’s Featured Poem: “Wishbone” by Romeo Oriogun from The Gathering of Bastards published by @univnebpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/wishbone/
Wishbone
Those who died were left behind; what mercy lives in water? What is devoured in darkness?
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Many things to consider here, including the idea that "in all of O’Connor’s work, there isn’t a single character you could describe as admirable." But I am stuck on the part about her great story "The Enduring Chill" not being in this collection. There must be a reason?
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 8mo ago‘Flannery O’Connor said that her interest in such unedifying types was an antidote to “the hazy compassion demanded of the writer now”. If anything, she was inclined to exaggerate the unsavoury. ’ Edmund Gordon on O’Connor’s stories. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
My poem "Time Storm," about nonlinear #time, is up at @masqueandspectacle.bsky.social masqueandspectaclejournal.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/t...
Look out for the Spring Poems on the Underground on London Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from 9th February The snow is melting by Kobayashi Issa tr. by Robert Hass Calligraphy by Yukki Yaura poemsontheunderground.org/the-snow-is-...
The Snow is Melting by Kobayashi Issa
Visit the post for more.
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Another anthology about #violenceagainstwomen has reprinted my poem "Pashtun Marriage Contract." Recently, the Taliban codified the custom described in the poem--that a man can beat his wife to chastise her, but not break her bones. lsheahen.substack.com/p/pashtun-ma...
Pashtun Marriage Contract: Poem by Laura Sheahen
The Taliban just codified a rule about permissible levels of wife-beating
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I studied Petrushevskaya a long time ago. Had no idea that her childhood was so bad.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 9mo ago‘Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s stories share with fairy tales what Angela Carter described as an “unperplexedness”, later glossed by John Bayley as meaning that the story “knows what it is doing and where it is going, but neither knows nor cares what it means”.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
My poem "Pandora" is out in the latest issue (desktop PDF) of @aothenmagazine.bsky.social, which focuses on ancient myths. aothenmagazine.com#issue10pdf The issue includes cool art, like this image by @godstained.bsky.social.
"The twentieth century’s greatest poetry critic looked at the greatest poets of that century, and chose Yeats." --My appreciation of poetry critic Helen Vendler is in The Irish Times (subscribers). @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @intyeatssociety.bsky.social
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 9mo agoInhabit the Poem - Last Essays by Helen Vendler: A career of single-minded poetic devotion
My poem "Ornithomancy" is in a recent issue of @pnreview.bsky.social After publication, I started playing around with center-justifying the text:
Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.
My poem "Petrarch 189," based on the original Italian sonnet and Sir Thomas Wyatt's version, is in the most recent @pnreview.bsky.social. Here are the two previous works: lsheahen.substack.com/p/petrarch-1... #Petrarch #ThomasWyatt
Petrarch 189: A poem by Laura Sheahen
In conversation with an Italian sonnet reworked by Sir Thomas Wyatt
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“Art is not a sufficient substitute for the problem of leading a moral life.”—Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz, The Art of Poetry No. 70
“A book is finished and appears and I feel, Well, next time I will unveil myself. And when the next book appears, I have the same feeling. And then your life ends, and that's it.”
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