phillip crymble
@phillipcrymble.bsky.social
poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him
Pinned
Denise Levertov, from Candles in Babylon (1982)
January 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Denise Levertov, from Candles in Babylon (1982)
Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (1999)
January 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (1999)
Rae Armantrout, from Ron Silliman's In the American Tree (1986)
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Rae Armantrout, from Ron Silliman's In the American Tree (1986)
Asking for a friend.
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Asking for a friend.
Who would cut / her home to pieces and row away for that?
Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (2017)
Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (2017)
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Who would cut / her home to pieces and row away for that?
Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (2017)
Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (2017)
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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
from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee
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By this law the knees are laced with abandon.
- Elizabeth Willis, “a maiden”
- Elizabeth Willis, “a maiden”
January 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
By this law the knees are laced with abandon.
- Elizabeth Willis, “a maiden”
- Elizabeth Willis, “a maiden”
The white flowers strain upward / Into a pallid air of their references
Another uncollected John Ashbery poem
Another uncollected John Ashbery poem
January 13, 2026 at 12:39 AM
The white flowers strain upward / Into a pallid air of their references
Another uncollected John Ashbery poem
Another uncollected John Ashbery poem
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“Making safety in the moment.” Linda Gregg
January 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
“Making safety in the moment.” Linda Gregg
Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)
Terrance Hayes
January 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Terrance Hayes
A poem by John Kelly as it first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review.
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A poem by John Kelly as it first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review.
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She was a poet. We could all be poets.
“maybe there in-between my pancreas & / large intestine is the piddly brook of / my soul.”
from Renee Nicole Good’s (then Macklin’s) Academy of American Poets College and University Prize-winning poem.
“maybe there in-between my pancreas & / large intestine is the piddly brook of / my soul.”
from Renee Nicole Good’s (then Macklin’s) Academy of American Poets College and University Prize-winning poem.
January 8, 2026 at 12:45 PM
She was a poet. We could all be poets.
“maybe there in-between my pancreas & / large intestine is the piddly brook of / my soul.”
from Renee Nicole Good’s (then Macklin’s) Academy of American Poets College and University Prize-winning poem.
“maybe there in-between my pancreas & / large intestine is the piddly brook of / my soul.”
from Renee Nicole Good’s (then Macklin’s) Academy of American Poets College and University Prize-winning poem.
Reposted by phillip crymble
A new poetry project, The Sonneteer, has brought me doses of pleasure and stimulation every other day since it launched. Today its editor, Ken Gordon, has shared my curtal sonnet—inspired by faded signs on brick buildings around LA and Tulsa, offering furnished rooms to let, etc.
January 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
A new poetry project, The Sonneteer, has brought me doses of pleasure and stimulation every other day since it launched. Today its editor, Ken Gordon, has shared my curtal sonnet—inspired by faded signs on brick buildings around LA and Tulsa, offering furnished rooms to let, etc.
Some wholesome family fare from John Updike's A Child's Calendar (1965). Illustration by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Some wholesome family fare from John Updike's A Child's Calendar (1965). Illustration by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
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Very grateful for this generous and perceptive review from Jade Cuttle - observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Confessions of a parish priest | The Observer
In frank, witty, soul-searching poems, clergyman turned archaeologist Graeme Richardson draws on both strands of his career for his debut collection Dirt Rich
observer.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Very grateful for this generous and perceptive review from Jade Cuttle - observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Richard Brautigan
January 5, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Richard Brautigan