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Poetry that re-enchants the ordinary, that knows what the rational world has explained away. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. stonecirclereview.com
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Keepsakes" by Lana Hechtman Ayers (@lanaayers23.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes/
Keepsakes by Lana Hechtman – Stone Circle Review
Keepsakes — a poem by Lana Hechtman in Stone Circle Review.
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I’ve always felt strongly that a writer shouldn’t be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. -- Nelson Algren
His [Robert Frost] double vision of metaphor alone—calling it the foundation of all understanding and at the same time counting on it to fail (“Every metaphor breaks down”)—gives a nicely mystical crack to his poetical systems. -- Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 3d agoPOEM 358: "Bite of Mordant" by Ann Chinnis "After a year, like Glück’s wild iris, I made a passage home from another world: oblivion. Unlike her iris, no great fountain, no deep blue shadows. Lonely rhizome. Papered skin." stonecirclereview.com/bite-of/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
POEM 358: "Bite of Mordant" by Ann Chinnis "After a year, like Glück’s wild iris, I made a passage home from another world: oblivion. Unlike her iris, no great fountain, no deep blue shadows. Lonely rhizome. Papered skin." stonecirclereview.com/bite-of/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
I LOVE this poem. Even just the title... but then, the whole thing...
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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 4d agoPOEM 357: "The Reckoning of Trees" by Dolo Diaz "Drinkers of fog, spitting it back like bullets. In the dead of night, like the moon shadow of God, waiting. Perfectly still." stonecirclereview.com/the-reckoning/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
Some fashions don’t change, / it seems
Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · last wk.POEM 356: "Unable, until the end" by Jonathan Grimwood (@joncg.bsky.social) "They'd decided you must be the same, with your coming and going. A little ragged, a little smart, a little held between worlds." stonecirclereview.com/unable-until/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
POEM 357: "The Reckoning of Trees" by Dolo Diaz "Drinkers of fog, spitting it back like bullets. In the dead of night, like the moon shadow of God, waiting. Perfectly still." stonecirclereview.com/the-reckoning/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
‼️The Circle is always open. I'm looking for poems that are strange enough to reward rereading, but are not so obscure that they baffle the reader. No fee. Four-week turnaround. Guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
Anything can be used – but of course one doesn’t know it at the time. How does one know what a certain object will tell another? -- Joseph Cornell
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Northern Midsummer Night" by Arda Ohannessian #TBT stonecirclereview.com/northern-mid...
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Bested by Charismatic Megafauna" by Christa Fairbrother (@christafairbrother.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/bested-by/
Bested by Charismatic Megafauna by Christa Fairbrother – Stone Circle Review
Bested by Charismatic Megafauna — a poem by Christa Fairbrother in Stone Circle Review.
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From time to time, I wrote for the outside—when the outside overwhelmed me, when there were things that drove me mad, outside, in the street... – Marguerite Duras
Anyway, I have it borne in on me that my business is to write and not talk about it. -- Flannery O'Connor
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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · last wk.POEM 356: "Unable, until the end" by Jonathan Grimwood (@joncg.bsky.social) "They'd decided you must be the same, with your coming and going. A little ragged, a little smart, a little held between worlds." stonecirclereview.com/unable-until/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
POEM 356: "Unable, until the end" by Jonathan Grimwood (@joncg.bsky.social) "They'd decided you must be the same, with your coming and going. A little ragged, a little smart, a little held between worlds." stonecirclereview.com/unable-until/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2w agoPOEM 355: "Carcinization" by Caridad Cole "Recently I learned that everything becomes a crab or a tree and I want to feel my bones, stiff, my skin, rough, dry, sharp, and one hundred years old" stonecirclereview.com/carcinization/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
POEM 355: "Carcinization" by Caridad Cole "Recently I learned that everything becomes a crab or a tree and I want to feel my bones, stiff, my skin, rough, dry, sharp, and one hundred years old" stonecirclereview.com/carcinization/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
It has been said that the poet is the great therapist. In that sense, the poetic task would involve exorcising, conjuring and in addition, repairing. To write a poem is to repair the fundamental wound, the tear. Because we are all injured. -- Alejandra Pizarnik
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Lying at your grave," by Christian Paulisich stonecirclereview.com/lying-at-you...
Lying at your grave, by Christian Paulisich – Stone Circle Review
Lying at your grave, — a poem by Christian Paulisich in Stone Circle Review.
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Writing poetry is a chance to give yourself an authentic life instead of an excuse. -- Brendan Galvin
We began to marvel at our own ability to manufacture awe. -- Don DeLillo, White Noise
One more time for the Bluesky night shift:
Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2w agoPOEM 354: "Angry at the Last Days of August—" by Susan Barry-Schulz (@susanbarryschulz.com) "Don’t at least me or better place me. I am clock-stopped. Buckled and changed. Don’t try to aurora borealis me. Don’t hunter moon or comet me." stonecirclereview.com/angry-at/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2w agoPOEM 354: "Angry at the Last Days of August—" by Susan Barry-Schulz (@susanbarryschulz.com) "Don’t at least me or better place me. I am clock-stopped. Buckled and changed. Don’t try to aurora borealis me. Don’t hunter moon or comet me." stonecirclereview.com/angry-at/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2w agoPOEM 354: "Angry at the Last Days of August—" by Susan Barry-Schulz (@susanbarryschulz.com) "Don’t at least me or better place me. I am clock-stopped. Buckled and changed. Don’t try to aurora borealis me. Don’t hunter moon or comet me." stonecirclereview.com/angry-at/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
POEM 354: "Angry at the Last Days of August—" by Susan Barry-Schulz (@susanbarryschulz.com) "Don’t at least me or better place me. I am clock-stopped. Buckled and changed. Don’t try to aurora borealis me. Don’t hunter moon or comet me." stonecirclereview.com/angry-at/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem
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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 3w agoPOEM 353 "Under the Blaze of August" by Charles Hensler "Under the blaze of August the car simmers in the driveway. The late sun ricochets off the pearl-grey hood, through one eye and out the other, finding every seam." stonecirclereview.com/under-the-bl... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
