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We celebrate poetry that makes us better people. // We founded Paper Sigh because important poetry does not need to be perfect to be perfect to be published. // Submission guidelines at https://www.papersigh.com/submit.
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Paper Sigh@papersigh.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're so honored to publish a feature with Gulfport, FL poet laureate Christa Fairbrother -- she reflects with us on memorable & moving lines of her own poetry published in Crannóg, Philly Chapbook Review, & Susurrus #poetrysky @christafairbrother.bsky.social www.papersigh.com/poetry
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We're so honored to publish a feature with Gulfport, FL poet laureate Christa Fairbrother -- she reflects with us on memorable & moving lines of her own poetry published in Crannóg, Philly Chapbook Review, & Susurrus #poetrysky @christafairbrother.bsky.social www.papersigh.com/poetry
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Northeastern poet and scholar Juliana Spahr awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her 2025 collection news.northeastern.edu/2026/05/05/j... #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
Summing up our feelings about what we want instead of data centers, we borrow a line from Lorca on his feelings about Andalusia: "Verde que te quiero verde." #poetry #poetrysky #lorca
Soooo there may be some inadvertent horror poetry in a new pasta ad going around... "Tastes like family" is a key phrase #horrorpoetry #poetrysky
Have you listened to the Emily Dickinson poems set as "Too Few the Mornings Be" by Ricky Ian Gordon, as written for Renée Fleming? #poetry #poetrysky
A poem featuring a father -- by Bruce Weigl -- The Harp www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42748/... #poetrysky #poetry #fathersday
The Harp
I think it was his harp, I think it was what he longed to make with his hands for the world.
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Poetry for today -- Emancipation by Paul Laurence Dunbar poets.org/poem/emancip... #poetrysky
Emancipation
Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,
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Poetry is therapy? Allows therapy? Sharing poetry is therapeutic? Discuss! www.bbc.com/news/article... #poetrysky
Merthyr poet says spoken word is her 'biggest therapy' and on the up
With #Poetry amassing more than 93m Instagram posts alone, is the spoken word resonating more than ever?
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May you find your positive starting thought this morning, so your poetry may find room to breathe #poetrysky
Weekend reading ... #poetry @cavankerrypress.bsky.social #noelquinones Orange by Noel Quiñones #poetrysky
Thinking how this Friday Eve -- Thursday, you may call it -- may blossom with weekend energy, so we may rest this weekend too #poetry #poetrysky Submissions open at papersigh.com
Alden Ehrenreich's tie at 79th Tony Awards reminds of Abraham Lincoln's tie this 1865 "Cracked Plate" Photograph of Lincoln www.si.edu/exhibitions/... #TonyAwards #AldenEhrenreich
"Cracked Plate" Photograph of Lincoln | Smithsonian Institution
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Was that paint roller or pain troller? Either is fine... #poetrysky #words #poetry Submissions open!
Have you read it? Kevin Young wins "the world's largest international prize for a single book of poetry written in or translated into English" www.cbc.ca/books/americ... #poetry #poetrysky
American writer Kevin Young wins $130K Griffin Poetry Prize | CBC Books
The prize was awarded June 3rd at a ceremony in Toronto. Alongside Young, Vancouver writer Joseph Kidney took home the $10K Canadian First Book Prize.
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$7.7M to 40 literary arts orgs! literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t... #writing #literaryarts #poetry #funding #grants #artsfunding
Literary Arts Fund Awards $7.7 Million to 40 Organizations and Publishers Nationwide | Literary Arts Fund
New York, NY (June 4, 2026)—The Literary Arts Fund announced today $7.7 million in inaugural unrestricted general operating grants to 40 literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states, ...
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Psst ... Submissions open ... papersigh.com ... Your work doesn't have to be perfect to be perfect to be published ... #poetry #poetrysky
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Huh. Progressive (prob the most) church group with poetry search ... www.uua.org/worship/word... Our friends often refer to this as that church where they are cool with you to remain atheist or pagan or agnostic or humanist or... (if that's how you found them) #poetrysky #poetry
Poetry for Worship
WorshipWeb provides meaningful, inspiring resources for Unitarian Universalist (UU) worship services and personal spiritual practice.
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y'all ever stare at fabric in the fabric store and find poems there? #poetry #poetrysky (And, yes, we were in an indie fabric sewing quilting store recently)
This morning, we're reading about poet David Henderson (1942-2026) poets.org/poet/david-h... #poetrysky #poetry
David Henderson
David Henderson, born in Harlem, New York, is a poet, biographer, and cofounder of Umbra Poets, an influential collective of poets and writers who were central to the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s.
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Poetry sustains Let them know Check some poetry books out from your local library #poetrysky
OLD POEM alert ... people.com/oldest-survi... #poetry #poetrysky
Oldest Surviving English Poem Gets Discovered in Medieval Book in Rome by 'Speechless' Researchers
Irish researchers Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner were left speechless after discovering the oldest surviving English poem, 'Caedmon's Hymn,' in a book in Rome.
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...wow, it's like the Buddha couldn't help but speak in poetry...