Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks so much!

1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wow. So good! Thanks for sharing it with us here. Congrats 👏 👏

2

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.theunjournals.com/unlost35

1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Aug 28

Delighted to have one of my Ethan Frome erasures in the new issue of Unlost. My thanks to @unrealdalewisely.bsky.social & team. Check out the entire issue at the link in comments.

1 1 2

Reposted by Robin Turner

Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Jul 10

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.

—Fanny Howe, RIP

1 51 170

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Jul 9

My thanks to @versedaily.bsky.social

Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 9

Today's poem is "When My Mother Forgets the Word for Dahlia"
by Robin Turner
from Elegy with Clouds &
Subscribe to our substack and find out what you're missing.
www.versedaily.org/2025/whenmym...

www.versedaily.org

3

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · May 7

anacapareview.com

1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · May 7

I have so enjoyed spending time with the beautiful new issue of Anacapa Review and am over the moon to have work included. Such amazing company here. Thank you Chryss Yost and David Starkey.

anacapareview.com/robin-turner/

Robin Turner

Even Now Scattered across grey pavement, a spill of spent petals, somehow still ghostly whole & vivid, whiteas snow. Even now, in summer, a soft June morning...

anacapareview.com

2 1 2

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · May 4

My thanks to Christine Klocek-Lim for featuring my new chapbook at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily today. I'm a lucky poet. 💙

Christine Klocek-Lim @chrissiemkl.bsky.social · May 3

Saturday book feature — Elegy with Clouds & by Robin Turner

Flight by Robin Turner from Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books 2025)

Saturday book feature — Elegy with Clouds & by Robin Turner

Flight by Robin Turner from Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books 2025)

autumnskypoetrydaily.com

1 5

Reposted by Robin Turner

Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · Apr 14

“Look for the helpers,” his mother would say to him whenever there were scary things in the news. “You will always find people who are helping.”

A Time for Rivers | Rust & Moth

Things are pretty dark right now, America. There aren’t enough pages in the history of our journal to detail every horror taking place in the world right now, and even if there were, further broadcast...

rustandmoth.com

6 11

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Apr 12

kelsaybooks.com/products/ele...

Elegy with Clouds &

Robin Turner’s poems, prose poems, and flash fiction appear in numerous publications, among them Rattle, The Texas Observer, Rust + Moth, DMQ Review, One, and Bracken Magazine. Her work has been tucke...

kelsaybooks.com

1 1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Apr 12

My thanks to the amazing Sally Rosen Kindred for her words of support for my new chapbook, Elegy with Clouds &.

1 1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Mar 2

For #smallpoemsunday, "For a Coming Extinction" by @victoriachang.bsky.social (from The Trees Witness Everything) and one from me, "Chime", first published at @oneart.bsky.social.

#poetsofbluesky

1 4

Reposted by Robin Turner

SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · Feb 14

Stay tender somehow

a valentine from me and @dinalrelles.bsky.social

old postcard of couple in a rowboat, surrounded by collage of red lopsided semi-circles

2 22 69

Reposted by Robin Turner

Christine Klocek-Lim @chrissiemkl.bsky.social · Jan 29

every social feed by mk zariel

Editor's Note: This poem's list of online interactions feels very on point as we all move into the future while trying to maintain genuine connections.

Read the rest at AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY.com

#AutumnSkyPoetryDAILY

1 6

Reposted by Robin Turner

Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Jan 27

a poem is an invitation to be (once again) (actually) alive

23 120

Reposted by Robin Turner

Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · Jan 26

Praise the weirdos because if anyone can save us
it will be us.

—Alison Luterman

“Praise the Broken Promise of America” by Alison Luterman

Praise deep mineral veins under rich dirt, and fossilized remains of dinosaurs turning themselves into gas for our benefit. Praise the exhausted earth, miles and miles of subsidized corn and cattle…

www.rattle.com

1 18 39

Reposted by Robin Turner

Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · Jan 21

At the end of the world all the snow angels finally get to stand up.

10 40

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Jan 21

Katie Manning has a great poets starter pack.

1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Jan 20

Yes

pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Jan 20

today is a good day to go unbridled into yourself and write the thing you have been hesitating to write, to invent a new way of getting lost, to discover a different way back

2

Reposted by Robin Turner

Mark Danowsky @markdanowsky.bsky.social · Jan 19

This Erin Murphy poem in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social is a must-read

www.rattle.com/insomnia-chr...

“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

2 7

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Jan 19

www.thevirtues.org/goodwill

Goodwill — The Virtues, Presented by Thanks-Giving Foundation

www.thevirtues.org

1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Jan 13

autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2025/01/13/r...

Raingleam by Robin Turner

Editor’s Note: This prose poem exuberantly records the frustration of poem-writing with hilarious irony—the words always come in inconvenient places, at inconvenient times.

autumnskypoetrydaily.com

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Jan 13

True story, y'all.

My thanks to the wonder that is Christine Klocek-Lim for selecting this one. Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY (link in comments) has been a journal for nearly twenty years now, ten of those as a daily. That's devotion. An ongoing gift for all of us. Brava, Christine! ❤️

1 1 1

Robin Turner @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social · Dec 27