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poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him
Pinned
A winter reverie.
Denise Levertov, from Candles in Babylon (1982)
January 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Yes, almost otherworldly. A poem of his I often return to.
January 18, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Alden Nowlan
January 17, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (1999)
January 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Mary Oliver
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Rae Armantrout, from Ron Silliman's In the American Tree (1986)
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Linda Gregg
January 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Asking for a friend.
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Who would cut / her home to pieces and row away for that?

Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (2017)
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Congrats, Martina! How exciting.
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by phillip crymble
from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee
January 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Reposted by phillip crymble
By this law the knees are laced with abandon.

- Elizabeth Willis, “a maiden”
January 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The white flowers strain upward / Into a pallid air of their references

Another uncollected John Ashbery poem
January 13, 2026 at 12:39 AM
It is. The poem can be found in the uncollected section of Collected Poems 1956-1987 (2008).
January 12, 2026 at 2:28 AM
The principles he'd fought for
The dog saving him
All a dream
January 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
John Ashbery
January 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by phillip crymble
“Making safety in the moment.” Linda Gregg
January 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
💯
January 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Thanks for doing this important work, Gregory. Love the use of "citizen" here. Charles Olson would approve.
January 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Terrance Hayes
January 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
"Was it Kafka who learned about America by reading the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ..."
January 9, 2026 at 2:39 AM
hang in there
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
It's Bowie's birthday today. The rest's up to you to intuit 🙂
January 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Nice catch. It's there in the phrasing and musicality, too.
January 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM