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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Sep 6

That’s absolutely gorgeous!

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Sep 4

Spooky Seasonn is here! Subscribe to my YouTube channel @anotherscreamqueen76 for unrehearsed, unscripted (for the most part), and all camp with a dash of Southern queer movie reviews. 🏳️‍🌈😈😱#31filmsofhalloween2025 #soonthedarkness #Igbtqhorrornerds #anotherscreamqueen76

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Another Scream Queen

Sassy and spooktastic reviews from horror filmdom. Unscripted. Unrehearsed. All camp.

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Sep 4

Spooky Seasonn is here! Subscribe to my YouTube channel @anotherscreamqueen76 for unrehearsed, unscripted (for the most part), and all camp with a dash of Southern queer movie reviews. 🏳️‍🌈😈😱#31filmsofhalloween2025 #soonthedarkness #Igbtqhorrornerds #anotherscreamqueen76

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Another Scream Queen

Sassy and spooktastic reviews from horror filmdom. Unscripted. Unrehearsed. All camp.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Aug 23

NEW POEM #261: "When Friends Ask If I’ll Ever Marry Again" by Michael Boccardo (@mboccardopoet76.bsky.social )

"My sudden
storm. My arched
cathedral. Our tongues
unburdened of every
oath like the slow
scratch of crows
clotting the sky."

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Apr 16

Today's Featured Poem:

"Deep Learning" by Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver.bsky.social), from The Alcestis Machine, published by Acre Books (@acrebooks.bsky.social).

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Deep Learning

In another life, I am a voice for hire. Nights in a blanketed back room I give you names, side effects, animals, hours, kinks,

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Apr 13

This gorgeous poem from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social features on Poetry Daily. “the names of the doves calling in the hems of the day”. Music!

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Apr 13

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Invocation” by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, from Larks, published by Ohio University Press.

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Invocation

I do not know whether it is morning or mourning

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Mar 7

Artists report on the inner life…every piece of art, every performance, is a state-of-the-soul address.

We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction.

—Jane Kenyon

Thoughts on the Gifts of Art
How do we justify the need for art in these troubled economic times. when budgets are being slashed, jobs lost, the physical health and satety of our citizens compromised? What's our excuse for existing and for needing money from the government to continue our work?
I think of it this way: that the media- the papers, magazines, Tv, radio-bring us news of the outer life. What's the government up to, where will the next mall spring up or the next solid waste disposal site, where's the latest outbreak of war and acute misery, what's the latest discovery in physics or medicine?
Artists report on the inner life, and the inner life distinguishes us from centipedes, although I may underestimate centipedes. The love of the absolute beauty of art, the longing for the well-being of the planet and all its creatures, the awe we feel in the face of life and death, the delights of the inward eye and inward ear, the understanding and nurture of the soul— these are the gifts of art. In a way every piece of art, every performance, is a state-of-the-soul address.
We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction.
"Tenderness toward existence," in the poet Galway Kinnell's lovely phrase, is what we lose when we lose art, or when we fail to value it properly.
Recent work by Yale psychiatrist Jerome Singer suggests that people whose imaginative lives are active commit fewer violent crimes, are more creative, and are more tolerant of human diversity. Art fosters the life of the imagination. How can this society afford not to foster
art?

Jane Kenyon

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Mar 2

Today's Featured Poet:

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade.

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Mar 2

For some reason I thought you’d already seen it. I loved this film (Demi owns all the awards), but the last ten minutes took me out. I get what it was doing and appreciate it; I just wanted it to pull back a tad. Still didn’t alter my love for it. Fargeat is a visionary! Solid 9/10 for me.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Feb 27

Today's Featured Poem:

"The Night of Her Funeral" by Jen Siraganian, from Issue 24 Volume 2 of Mizna.

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The Night of Her Funeral

I wandered upstairs where the adults galaxied around our grandfather, a captivated audience

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today's Featured Poem:

"Good Mare" by Sara Ellen Fowler, from Two Signatures, published by University of Utah Press.

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Good Mare

I did not abandon you when the barn burned with contempt

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Mar 1

#poets #poetry #writers #writerslife #virginiawoolf

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Elisabeth Adwin Edwards @eadwinedwards.bsky.social · Feb 24

Bianca Stone.

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Feb 23

#poetry #poetslife #writerslife #charlessimic

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Feb 22

#poets #poetry #writerslife #poetslife #leonardcohen

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Feb 21

#poetslife #poets #poetry #writerslife #writinglife #sylviaplath

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Feb 21

#poetry #poetslife #writerslife #percybyssheshelley

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Feb 18

A poem that begins with a jellyfish.

If You Asked Me How To Live Forever

I will tell you how there is a kind of jellyfish that is immortal. How it cannot die unless something devours it or it stops recreating its own cells. How often we trick ourselves into survival. The way we entwine our hopes with to do lists and schedules, praying for a better tomorrow. How every risk we take on ourselves is a shot at immortality.
How despite living the lifespan of a butterfly in the eyes of the universe, we leave pieces of ourselves in the hearts of everyone we love and everyone who loves us.
How we are not made for forever, but if we turn our lives into a good, kind story,
then my god, isn't it beautiful enough to survive even the hands of time.

- Nikita Gill

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · Feb 18

#poetry #poetslife #writerslife #georgeorwell

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Feb 17

Today's Feature:

In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Drafts, Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes about his poem "Paradise Lost."

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