Via Negativa
Second Wind
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 17
Derelict
Love: 10 Digressions
In darkest Britain
Weariness
Elemental hermeneutics
Mariner
Poem at 3 AM with Leftovers and Rilke
Older Women in Demand by Younger Men—
Petitions
Survivor
Self-sabotage
Surcease
Time sink
The Hill Station: 10 Incipits
Self-taught
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 16
Death generation
Slow dance
Bad company
Triplets
Come as You Are
Johnny’s Gone
Shriven
Driving Home
Interiority
Trouble maker
The Bodhisattva of Compassion
Strapped
Broken record
Footnotes
Dissonant
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 15
The Waiting
Chronophobia
Preparation
Prayer
That Dog, Money
Budburst
Living in the In-between
Consultation
Verklempt
Portrait of the Body After Having Given Birth
Dentation
On Not Repeating
I Did Not Buy Flowers Today
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 14
Dilettante
Lonely God Potato Twists
Mired
Plans and conditions,
Consumer report
Still
Protecting the homeland
I am an immigrant like you
Naked truths
Notes on Translation
Feet
Fool
Romance, with Golden Record
Equestrian
Petard
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 13
Portrait of the Body with Eros and Lanternfish
Dust to dust
Between the Fantail Shrimp and Sea Cucumber
Walking it back
On Nosebleeds
State of the union
Collective
Old World, New World
Godly
Delivery
Flight risk
Unsound
Poem For When I Can’t Sleep at Night
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 12
Quantum Entanglement
Under fire
Mental health break
What I’ve Learned
Origin story
Poem with a line from Linda Gregg
Holy book
All Heal
Suburbanite
Gratitude
Quagmire
Bombardment
Cost of Living
On Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent This Year
Retreat
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 11
Afterimage
Breaking bread
The Winter Garden
War rant
Despite
Great White Father
Impossible Labors
Muted
Not Unmarked, Spinning
Long in the tooth
Return
Realist
Need vs. Rest
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 10
Springing Back
Folly
Starter
Meditation, with a View of Warship in Fog
Forever war
Resort
On Blessing
Out of time
Making a Living
Making a Living
Flavored ice
Making a Living
Man of letters
Making a Living
Good intentions
Whisper campaign
Making a Living
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 9
Making a Living
Echo chambered
Making a Living
Sea of doubt
Flightless
Connect the Dots
Little Essay on Disorder
Worm
In Praise of the Blue Death-Feigning Beetle
Freeze
Star Café
Poem with a Line from Nay Saysourinho
Deportee
Sonnenizio with a line from Anne Sexton
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 8
The Epstein Class
Comfort zoned
Aversion
Migrant Route
Blue Pilot Light
McBoatface
Strike Anywhere Match
Ward
Fine Thank You and How Was Your Day?
Self-Portrait as Late Bloomer with Nudibranch
Firm
Water ways
Only Money
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 7
Rooted
Self Portrait, with Once-Lonely Sheep
Maritime
Go On
Declaration of insignificance
Earful
Burdens
Unknowns
Daemonic
Canker
The Windlass
Early Warning Systems
Impossible Dream
Inducted
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 6
Consumed
Becoming
Cold
The History of Weekends
Trimming the fat
Old timers
Everyday Ciphers
Push
Learned helplessness
Wishes
Schooling
Table manners
Expiration Date
Waxen
The Body as Source of Light
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 5
The disco clam lights up
Edifice
Questions, with Animal Footprint and Stingless Bee
Ball field
Introduction to Literature
Creation song
Microchimeric
On leave
The Child Sleeps
Anti-arcana
On Softening
Correspondence
Gritty
Hung over
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 4
Memory of Martial Law Years, with Children
Crusaders
Returns
Widower
Tending Grief
Culture worker
Landscape, with Lake and Pleasure Boats
Self-Portrait with Glass Squid
Afterwarden
Time-sensitive
Sky Ladder
Hot and cold
Luxuriant
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 3
Delicacy
Cold Front
Field hand
Fucking around
Stay
Over the Falls
Addict
Cocktail Hour, Dark Time
Uneasy rider
Landscape with Crippled Sheep and Joystick
Editorial meeting
Coal country
In a Future Where the Sky will not be So Tired
The Benguet Road
Nouveau riche
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 2
Unimpressed
Deadheading
Lament, with Prayer for Green
‘Those who would give up essential liberty…’
River of Grief
Writer’s wife
A Difficult Hope
Power worship
I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On.
Voyage
Small Graces
Among the upright
Hunger Wakes Me
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 1
Wonders of the World
Cured
Here, Now
Age of extinction
Soup
Ride
Abide
Game show
Leaps of Faith
Free ebook: The Hidden Poems of Samuel Pepys, 1662
Both, And
Easy rider
Twenty-five favorite poetry reads of 2025
Food for the Gods
Stone-ager
RSVP
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 52
Currency exchange
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Another Dream of the World Not Yet Ending
Vocalist
Consolation
Palliative
Without
The Adoration of the Magi
On high
Light Show
Summer reading
Guest
On Trying
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 51
Contender
My Father’s Hands
Wild goose
Speculum
Truck
O Bright Moon
Witnessing
Gone to the ant
Vox populi
Moment
Work
Nausea
Lost, found
Childhood, or the Perforation
Winter Nights
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 50
Martyrs
Mutter
Life Cycle
Troops
Overheard
Consoled
Greater and Greater Things
Dusk, December
Weighty
The Noble Plan
Ground-truthing
Catastrophist
marbled
Apnea
Vague rant
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 49
Consensus
Losers, Finders
Committed
Process Analysis
Long Night Moon
Winter wind
Tragedy
Ratty
Off the map
Cynicism
Malignant
Deep Cleaning
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 48
The Ministry of Anti-Corruption
Frosted
The Mills of the Gods
Drawing in
No novelty
Kindling
At the end
Uncrowned
Marimo
More than the Leaving
Quiet time
Trousseau
Making do
Time Travel
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 47
Hydraulics
Adaptable
Simplicity Itself
Passing
Apparently I can’t count?
Palimpsests and Oblivion
Hunt
Do Not Walk Outside this Area,
In the mountains
Pauper’s Purse
Invasive
What Parts of the Body Burn in Cremation?
14 Years!
Bluebeard’s castle
Out of the Depths
Anniversary
Writing life
Guest Room, with Lines from Rumi
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 46
Castle on sand
Raw
Church of sleep
Rattus Rattus
Shooting up
The Grief of Angels
Why Not Up the Ante
Anger management
You Think You Hear a Ladybug Cry for Help
Voice lesson
Brain fog
In a Tropical Country, Refrigeration is Key
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 45
Postindustrial
Illusions of Cause
Test of faith
The Gift
Grief Ripples
Double take
Landfall
Storage
Origin Stories
Dream logic
New Aged
Apple Pantoum
High water
Tropical Imaginary
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 44
Still hunting
Autobiography of the Soul
Time out
Misunderstood Creatures
Airy
Maps
Falling
In Jesusland
Good night
Early Voting, with Squirrel Remains
Odes and Elegies
Night life
In Aeturnum
Metamorphic
Pulling back
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 43
Near and Far
Immaculate projection
Remember
Happy feet
A Marketing Bot Reaches Out in Vain (a partially found poem)
Bookish
Electric Pig
Reprieve
The Longest Selfie
Who is who
Body Scan
Government worker
Cures
Backhoe
Fascistic
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41
Repressed
Red and gold …
Tipping Point
Mothless
The X-Ray
Off-leash
Snapdragons
Cursed
Seeing and Being Seen
On Google Earth
Of Course
Aftershocks
The takers
Family Trees
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41
Surveilled
Wellness
Fables for these Times
The Last Judgment
Austerity
Obsolescence
Ode to the Bunion
When It’s Too Much
Snowfall
On Earth as it is In Heaven
Through the looking-glass
Limited Omniscient
Seeing things
Defense Mechanism
Harbored
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 40
Authoritarian interlude
Unspeakable
Butterfly Tanka
Ice men
Monstrous
Work release
Escape
Gulf Fritillary
Kiki and Bouba and the Terrible Boss
Propagandized
An earthquake topples the bell tower
Theolocation
Dramaturgy
Mutton Bone Doll