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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 8d

“‘Poetry,’ says Lehman, ‘is freedom.’

The emptiness of this freedom is unsettling.”

// so good; do read!! 🙏

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 9d

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · 12d

I am heartbroken to hear of the passing of Jennifer Martelli. Jenn wasn't just a light: she was a singular galaxy of talent and benevolence. All condolences to her family and her many other friends: RIP, my wonderful poetry sister.

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SWWIM Every Day — SWWIM

by Jennifer Martelli —after Lucie Brock-Broido I have the boniest backhands, thick veins, too, that can take a needle, fill tubes of blood. I could make your lip bleed and swell wit...

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you so much! Cheers! 😀

Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · 23d

I am thrilled and grateful to have new work published. With thanks to the editorial staff of Home Planet News (HPN) for giving my poem "Reading and Listening to Pat Cooper" a lovely home. Salute!

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Issue 21 nicoletti reading and talking to pat cooper - Home Planet News

back to contents Joey Nicoletti Reading and Listening to Pat Cooper How can I insult you today?It seems that quite a few people thinkthat you have to be Italianto enjoy my humor— so let me enlighten...

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 21

What I needed to read this week. ❤️

Toni Morrison and the quote

"Do not expect applause. Be prepared for silence. That is how real work happens."

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Aug 14

All congrats to you! Huzzah! 👏

Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm honored, humbled, & overjoyed beyond measure to have a new poem in the farewell issue of Green Hills Literary Lantern (GHLL). With thanks to Joe Benevento for bringing GHLL into existence. The literary landscape is better off for it. Facts. 🙏

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Leaving the Thompson Family Farm – GHLL

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Jun 2

I couldn't be more overjoyed to have new work published if I tried! I'm grateful to the editorial staff of Mocking Heart Review for giving my prose poem, "Resolve," such a gorgeous home! Cheers! 😀🙏🥃

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RESOLVE Your hair smelled like tulips. We saw life-sized butter sculptures of Elvis Presley and a cow. People scarfed down enormous turkey drumsticks and rode Ferris wheels for hours on end. We tal…

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · May 2

I couldn't be more overjoyed to have new work published if I tried! I'm grateful to Kelli Allen and Nicholas Christian for giving my poem, "A Full Stomach," such a lovely home! Cheers!
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Issue 14 Spring 2025

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · Apr 14

“Our valleys will no longer sustain us” A poem by Diane di Prima.

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #73

DREAM POEM ABOUT REAGAN & CO

when we are dirt poor
and no longer have our mountains for shelter
when we are conquered
and cannot go to our forests for comfort
when we are hungry
and our valleys will no longer sustain us
then we will see these men
in their true light

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Apr 14

Delighted to have new work published. With gratitude to the editorial staff of The Big Windows Review for giving "Diagnosis" such a lovely home. Cheers! thebigwindowsreview.com/2025/02/

February 2025 – THE BIG WINDOWS REVIEW

7 posts published by thehuronriverreview during February 2025

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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Mar 5

Friends! Make your Hump Day and Night happier by checking pout this rad poetry book by Jina Ortiz. See the link below for more deets! 👍💯

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MISS UNIVERSE, poetry by Jina Ortiz — Broadstone Books

Publication Date: March 15, 2025 Paperback, 74 pages ISBN: 978-1-956782-92-9 Miss Universe: Poems by Jina Ortiz is an evocative collection of geopolitical dialogues told through the lens of inte...

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Feb 26

WNY Friends! Buffalo Peeps! Come see me perform some new work! Check the image below for more deets. Bring a friend! Bring 4! We'll have fun! Facts! 😀👍💯

Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Feb 6

Today's poem was written by the fantastic Juan Felipe Herrera. Check it here:

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Almost Livin' Almost Dyin'

& hear my streets with ragged beats & the beats are too beat to live so the graves push out with hands that cannot touch the makers of light & the sun flames down through the roofs & the roots that sl...

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Feb 4

Today's poem was written by the wonderful Louise Glück. Cheers!

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Mock Orange

I hate them as I hate sex, the man’s mouth sealing my mouth, the man’s paralyzing body— and the cry that always escapes, the low, humiliating premise of union— In my mind tonight I hear the question a...

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Feb 3

Today's poem is by Langston Hughes, my favorite writer.

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Dreams

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Feb 2

Today's poem is by the wonderful Robert Hayden. Cheers!
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Those Winter Sundays

Sundays too my father got up early

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Feb 1

Today's poem of the day pays tribute to the incredible Lucille Clifton. Cheers!

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homage to my hips

these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do.

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Jan 31

Poem of the day. This is one of my favorites. Here's The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz.

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The Portrait

My mother never forgave my father

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is goddamn splendid! Much obliged to you for the read, Han 😀🙏💜

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Jan 30

This is a wonderful way to think about blurbs and blurbing. Thank you for sharing these terrific, sage words.

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Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Jan 30

Of course! It's my pleasure, pal! Salute! 😀👍

Joey Nicoletti @joeynicoletti.bsky.social · Jan 29

Friends! The terrific Tina Schumann (@tms2072.bsky.social) has some poetry published. Check it!
www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/574-self-por...

57.4 Self-Portrait as Pathetic Fallacy by Tina Schumann

SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW

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