Robert J. Tiess
@robertjtiess.bsky.social
Poet Author Writer 1980s-now 31+ Years in Libraries Conscious Writers Collective Member Advocate of Poets & Poetry My poetry collections: + Gracious Nature + May We Learn from the Earth + The Humbling and Other Poems Website: robertjtiess.wordpress.com
I invite you to read my essay... The Requisite Feminist Perspective in Literature and Life Maintaining It for the Sake of Everyone robertjtiess.substack.com/p/the-requis... #feminism #feminists #poetry #poets #writers #writing #women #equality #rights #unity #humanrights #progress #literature
The Requisite Feminist Perspective in Literature and Life
Maintaining It for the Sake of Everyone
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Four of My Odyssey-Related Poems Poems from 2019 to 2025, shared here while there's still some current interest in Homer's Odysseia. robertjtiess.substack.com/p/four-of-my... #Poetry #poems #homer #poets #odyssey #Odysseus #TheOdyssey #literature
Four of My Odyssey-Related Poems
Poems from 2019 to 2025, shared here while there's still some current interest in Homer's Odysseia
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Completely revised and expanded, my essay: "Nostalgic Gardens Beyond Our Gates" a meditative and motivational piece on an image in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. I hope you enjoy it. Essay Link robertjtiess.substack.com/p/nostalgic-... #poetry #essays #nostalgia #past #hope #future #inspirational
Nostalgic Gardens Beyond Our Gates
My Revised Essay on T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Decisions, What Was, and What Yet Might Become...
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My review of Maya C. Popa's new poetry collection IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY: robertjtiess.substack.com/p/my-glowing... The book wwnorton.com/books/978132... MCP/LARB interview lareviewofbooks.org/article/maya... Opening poem substack.com/@mayacpopa/n... @mayacpopa.bsky.social #poetry #poets #books
My Glowing Review of IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY: POEMS by Maya C. Popa
FIVE OUT OF FIVE STARS
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A 1999 essay of mine gets an update and returns online in three parts for your entertainment... Relishing the Endeavoring: On Loving the "Struggles" of Poetry and Transcending the Perceived Limits of Expression robertjtiess.substack.com/p/relishing-... #poetry #poets #writing #writers #essays
Relishing the Endeavoring: Part I
On Loving the “Struggles” of Poetry and Transcending the Perceived Limits of Expression, an Essay in Three Parts by Robert J. Tiess © 1999, rev. 2026
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Post 1/2 Additional poetry titles on the July horizon include... Continental Drift by Mai-Linh Hong (a debut collection) www.mai-linhhong.com/poetry Tree of Knowledge by Victoria Chang us.macmillan.com/books/978037... #poetry #poets #books #newbooks #poetrylovers #literature #reading
Tree of Knowledge
A poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, refracting and recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, an...
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Post 1/3 In July we'll be blessed with a new poetry collection by Maya C. Popa! Publisher wwnorton.com/books/978132... From Maya mayacpopa.substack.com/p/i-can-fina... Blurbs mayacpopa.substack.com/p/the-blurbs... (continued) #poetry #poems #poets #books @mayacpopa.bsky.social
If You Love That Lady
“One of my generation’s finest poets—a truly peerless voice. . . . An immense book and a searing achievement.” —Ocean Vuong, author of <em>The Emperor of Gladness</em>, I...
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Currently in awe of... We Interrupt This Broadcast: Poems by Gregory Orr About the book... wwnorton.com/books/978132... "...the engine / That drives us: a yearning for beautiful meanings." . . . A must read-and-reread, like all of Orr's works. #poetry #poets #books #newbooks #reading
We Interrupt This Broadcast
A stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways “language can become a tool for carrying what feels unbearable” (Krista Tippet, <em>On Being</em>)., We Interrupt ...
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Joy Harjo has a new poetry collection arriving in October! Book Links: wwnorton.com/books/978132... people.com/joy-harjo-cl... New to Joy? Learn more about this amazing poet: www.joyharjo.com poets.org/poet/joy-harjo www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joy-ha... www.loc.gov/programs/poe... #poetry
Cloud Runner
Three-term U.S. Poet Laureate returns with a moving collection about grief, loss, and how art can transform suffering., Cloud Runner, Poems, Joy Harjo, 9781324123651
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A new post on my free Substack... "Becoming Poetically Limitless" substack.com/home/post/p-... If you check it out, I hope you enjoy it. #poetry #poets #poetrylovers #writing #writers #creativewriting #creativity #progress #freedom
Becoming Poetically Limitless
Crossing the Threshold of Our Selves
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Happy Mother's Day to all. In keeping with that theme, here's my poem "Maternal Earth" addressing Mother Earth. It's from my second book, May We Learn from the Earth. ALT text + text link: allpoetry.com/poem/1683204... #poetry #poems #nature #naturelovers #mothersday #mother #motherearth #earth
Something I submitted to a "liberty" poetry challenge: DEARLY DESPOTIC (Freedom by way of self-control, not limiting others.) My lines alternate with iambic tetrameter/pentameter in the spirit of being/doing better. ALT text in image + link allpoetry.com/poem/1910516... #poetry #poem #democracy
Empathy Empowering A brief article I posted on Substack that builds on something I posted last year: robertjtiess.substack.com/p/empathy-em... If you agree with any of this, please share/repost. Thank you. ❤️ #poets #poetry #empathy #peace #progress #society #unity #peace #empowement #prosperity
Empathy Empowering
As a poet and a person, I try to learn day by day, hour by hour, as I read, write, live, contemplate, and dwell on questions I believe to be central to humanity.
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From the Academy of American Poets… “Poem in Your Pocket Day 2026 will take place on April 30.” link: poets.org/national-poe... #poetry #poems #poets
Poem in Your Pocket Day
Every April, on Poem in Your Pocket Day, people celebrate by selecting a poem, carrying it with them, and sharing it with others throughout the day.
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My #haiku for #DailyHaikuPrompt 4/29 themes #spring #rain #grain ... .. . seeds beneath spring rain: soil becomes leaves of wheat turning into gold . .. ... #poetry #poem © me 2026 #farms #farming #growing #plants #agriculture #crops #wheat @dailyhaikuprompt.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
For #vss365 #assure . ENGRAVING World clock stuck on 11:59, uncertainty assures the worst, but then your heartbeats mallet me with the chiselling of your words, and I feel details, see relief; my life's a certain art again. . #poetry #poem © me 2026 @cribbowens.bsky.social @vss365hq.bsky.social
For #7syllablesentence March 12th to March 14th... . #bow Slow-bowed notes moaned soulfully. ~ #ooze Time oozed like a bandaged wound. ~ #will Despots have to hate free will. . @msfulofgrace.bsky.social @poetguygabe.bsky.social #writing #writingcommunity
For #vss365 #warmth theme . COLD SNAP soft tropic warmth which weaves these palms till fingers slack leave g a p s and touch goes tum- bling back to o-p-e-n a i r . #poetry #poem © me 2026 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @vss365hq.bsky.social @cribbowens.bsky.social
Another new poetry collection to consider: The Distance of a Shout Selected Poems by Michael Ondaatje About the book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801311... About the poet www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/michae... #poetry #poets #books #newbooks #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity
The Distance of a Shout by Michael Ondaatje: 9780593805015 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
In The Distance of a Shout, Michael Ondaatje has assembled some of his finest poems into a singular poetic memoir that invokes the arc of his own journey over fifty years. “Michael Ondaatje remains....
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For #7syllablesentence March 8th to March 11th... #rain Droughts made rain our miracle. ~ #action Action figures gathered dust. ~ #invite Stained glass invites light and eyes. ~ #naive Naive backers bought the farm. @msfulofgrace.bsky.social @poetguygabe.bsky.social #writingcommunity
COMING JUNE 2026 We Interrupt This Broadcast: Poems by Gregory Orr About his latest poetry collection: wwnorton.com/books/978132... About the poet: poets.org/poet/gregory... www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gregor... #poetry #poets #books #newbooks #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #poetrylovers
We Interrupt This Broadcast
A stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways “language can become a tool for carrying what feels unbearable” (Krista Tippet, <em>On Being</em>)., We Interrupt ...
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For #bravewrite #motif . LEITMOTIFS Those madcap motifs cuing you back in my heart... La Mer chasing Lark Ascending Coltrane Turner Holiday hints of Hendrix Thunderstruck salsa Callas and At Last... bagpipes blasting Ode to Joy! . #poetry #poem © me 2026 #music @bravewrite.bsky.social
For #vss365 #lightning . BLITZKRIEG IDIOT fan of 1000-camera storms paparazzi flashbulb clouds chilling apathetic stills close-ups of unscripted risks You smug as a thunderhead bolting from thy lightning sins craven (shocker!) craving fames . #poetry #poem ©me 2026 @cribbowens.bsky.social
3 for #SenryuSunday ~ daylight savings time borrowing an hour for light then to give it back . two seasons at once summertime impassioning wintertime mourning . arrive early, spring! show how wrong the groundhog was! shadows know nothing! ~ #poetry #senryu #poem © me 2026 @jennfel.bsky.social
For #vss365 #spellbound DOOMSTRUCK? I'm spellbound by your absent spells. Friend, you were our optimist! Is hope a ghost tonight? Disillusion's a weak witch. A better magic's cast by stars! Love's arts! Odd truths! More fascination's anywhere! #poetry #poem © me 2026 @cribbowens.bsky.social
From Poetry Foundation... Celebrating Women's History Month "Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore women's history and women's rights." Website: www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/... #poetry #poets #women #history #rights #womensrights #WomensHistoryMonth
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Something for #smallpoemsunday The Moods, a potent little poem by W. B. Yeats. excerpt: "Time drops in decay,/Like a candle burnt out..." The rest of the poem can be read at the Academy of American Poets website: poets.org/poem/moods #poetry #poems #brevity #yeats #nature @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
The Moods
Time drops in decay
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