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Jim May
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Poet, author of Unusually Grand Ideas.

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Praise all who save us from our small shames,
the ones whose hands take our hand
and lead us away to makeshift sanctuaries—

—James Davis May
The Patron Saint of Fluster by James Davis May - Rattle: Poetry
Three hours into the breakfast shift with orders on the green screen multiplying like alien ships in an old video game …
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August 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Today's poem is "Standing Before the Relic at the Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges"
by James Davis May
from Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
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July 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this good news!
cincinnatireview.bsky.social The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · Nov 26
We're delighted to announce our nominees for The Pushcart Prize and Best Spiritual Literature 2024! Congratulations to all of these extraordinary writers whose work appears in issues 21.1 and 21.2 (forthcoming)!
A trophy with sparkly gold stars spilling out of it. Text reads, "Announcing our 2024 Award Nominees." Pushcart Prize nominees: Christine Hale, "His Body," 21.1; Paula Closson-Buck, "The Girl who Loved Boyan Slat," 21.2; Karolina Letunova, "Turn Your Back to the Forest," 21.2; Mandy-Suzanne Wong, "Notes from Underwater," 21.1; Dominique Ahkong, "Reunion Dinner," 21.2; Alafia Nicole Sessions, "Faith," 21.1. Best Spiritual Literature nominations: John Fulton, "Emily Leaves Switzerland" (21.2); James Davis May, "Irritable Reaching Syndrome" (21.1); Robert Thomas, "Sonnets with Riff and Hook" (21.2); Dashaun Washington, "Matrilineage" (21.2).
November 26, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Poem for Sunday: “Here, There are Blueberries” by Mary Szybist.
November 24, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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“…he wanted me to know / that he knew I was there.”

—James Davis May, “Tumult and Peace” in UNUSUALLY GRAND IDEAS (LSU Press) 💙

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November 17, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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True story (again)!
chelsearathburn.bsky.social Chelsea Rathburn @chelsearathburn.bsky.social · Nov 17
I wasn’t expecting mothering a twelve-year-old to consist largely of watching my clothes walk around on someone else’s body. But I’m here for it.
November 17, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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True story!
chelsearathburn.bsky.social Chelsea Rathburn @chelsearathburn.bsky.social · Nov 13
"I'm on Blue Sky now," I told my husband.

"Yes, I know, I invited you months ago and you joined."

"But I didn't actually know what to do with it."

Still don't know what to do here, but hello!
November 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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How pure would poet pure be exactly?
April 13, 2023 at 8:50 PM
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Making my first post on Seamus Heaney’s birthday, so here’s a Seamus Heaney poem.
April 13, 2023 at 12:39 PM