Poetry Crone
@poetrycrone.bsky.social
An old woman who reads published poetry and who likes to share the poetry I enjoy.
Very cool website images the winds and their speed across the whole planet: earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...
Left click and hold allows you to rotate around the earth. Double click magnifies a location.
Mesmerizing.
Left click and hold allows you to rotate around the earth. Double click magnifies a location.
Mesmerizing.
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.
earth.nullschool.net
July 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Very cool website images the winds and their speed across the whole planet: earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...
Left click and hold allows you to rotate around the earth. Double click magnifies a location.
Mesmerizing.
Left click and hold allows you to rotate around the earth. Double click magnifies a location.
Mesmerizing.
Anyone else love being a citizen "scientist"? Felt a 4.1 earthquake in TN and reported it. I love being one of the squares telling them how far afield it was felt.
May 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Anyone else love being a citizen "scientist"? Felt a 4.1 earthquake in TN and reported it. I love being one of the squares telling them how far afield it was felt.
"Reel me in across the glow-throbbing sea / of greenthread, bluestem prickly poppy" from "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert" by Natalie Diaz in her book Postcolonial Love Poem
April 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Reel me in across the glow-throbbing sea / of greenthread, bluestem prickly poppy" from "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert" by Natalie Diaz in her book Postcolonial Love Poem
My face is a case study
in gravity. A face study. A grave.
Effaced, I introduce myself [...]
First lines of Susan Barba's poem "Player Piano" in the January 16, 2025, NYRB.
in gravity. A face study. A grave.
Effaced, I introduce myself [...]
First lines of Susan Barba's poem "Player Piano" in the January 16, 2025, NYRB.
March 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
My face is a case study
in gravity. A face study. A grave.
Effaced, I introduce myself [...]
First lines of Susan Barba's poem "Player Piano" in the January 16, 2025, NYRB.
in gravity. A face study. A grave.
Effaced, I introduce myself [...]
First lines of Susan Barba's poem "Player Piano" in the January 16, 2025, NYRB.
Amazing, heartbreaking, life-affirming poem about the process of leaving Ukraine. This is beautiful language revealing the essence of an experience. Thank you Poetry Daily and Oksana Maksymchuk.
Today’s Featured Poem:
“Tempo” by Oksana Maksymchuk, from Still City, published by @upittpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/tempo/
“Tempo” by Oksana Maksymchuk, from Still City, published by @upittpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/tempo/
Tempo
What I didn't suspect about
war is that there'd be
music
poems.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Amazing, heartbreaking, life-affirming poem about the process of leaving Ukraine. This is beautiful language revealing the essence of an experience. Thank you Poetry Daily and Oksana Maksymchuk.
Could "pretentious abstract confessionalism" be considered a 21st Century movement in poetry? This is the phrase that came to mind while reading one of the lauded books that's a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. I appreciate your work NBCC judges but I don't get your choices.
February 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Could "pretentious abstract confessionalism" be considered a 21st Century movement in poetry? This is the phrase that came to mind while reading one of the lauded books that's a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. I appreciate your work NBCC judges but I don't get your choices.
Interested in Caribbean cultures/history and their intersection with the US across time? Two books of poetry for you: Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (Jamaica) (long listed for Natl Book Award) and Jailbreak of Sparrows by Martin Espada (Puerto Rico) (due out April 2025).
February 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Interested in Caribbean cultures/history and their intersection with the US across time? Two books of poetry for you: Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (Jamaica) (long listed for Natl Book Award) and Jailbreak of Sparrows by Martin Espada (Puerto Rico) (due out April 2025).
Two books about the Latino/a immigrant experience in the United States: Tripas by Brandon Som and The Book of Wounded Sparrows by Octavio Quintanilla. Both were nominated for major poetry prizes. Tripas won the 2024 Pulitzer prize.
February 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Two books about the Latino/a immigrant experience in the United States: Tripas by Brandon Som and The Book of Wounded Sparrows by Octavio Quintanilla. Both were nominated for major poetry prizes. Tripas won the 2024 Pulitzer prize.
Three books of poetry about Palestine-Gaza: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha, Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and [...] by Fady Joudah. All were nominated for major poetry prizes. The 2nd one won the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry.
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Three books of poetry about Palestine-Gaza: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha, Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and [...] by Fady Joudah. All were nominated for major poetry prizes. The 2nd one won the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry.
If you like books of poetry that speak back to poetic tradition, try the following recent books: Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss, Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and The City of Poetry by Gregory Orr (a chapbook by Sarabande).
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you like books of poetry that speak back to poetic tradition, try the following recent books: Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss, Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and The City of Poetry by Gregory Orr (a chapbook by Sarabande).
Reposted by Poetry Crone
Watch this space! We'll be announcing the finalists for the NBCC Awards tomorrow. We're excited to share some amazing books with you!
January 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Watch this space! We'll be announcing the finalists for the NBCC Awards tomorrow. We're excited to share some amazing books with you!
Reposted by Poetry Crone
We humans can normalize anything.
—Erin Murphy
—Erin Murphy
“Insomnia Chronicles XXVI” by Erin Murphy
The night is full of insomniacs googling insomnia. Some of my friends are trying Dry January. Dryuary. Others are sober curious. There’s a mock cocktail called a Phony Negroni. It’s made with non-a…
www.rattle.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We humans can normalize anything.
—Erin Murphy
—Erin Murphy
Hot off the presses. In "Helen of Troy, 1993," Helen is reborn in the American South, which presents her with an entirely different set of circumstances to navigate. She has attitude but so does the town she finds herself in. I recommend giving it a read.
January 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hot off the presses. In "Helen of Troy, 1993," Helen is reborn in the American South, which presents her with an entirely different set of circumstances to navigate. She has attitude but so does the town she finds herself in. I recommend giving it a read.
