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katherinegarrison.bsky.social
Came across this wonderful poem in @upthestaircase.bsky.social on my travels today. www.upthestaircase.org/james-king.h...
James King
James King holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and serves as Poetry Editor for Bear Review . A two-time Pushcart nominee, his work has appeared in Moon City...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Sometimes I glimpse the future
in the evenings. It appears
like a doe on silencing moss,

foraging among pocked leaves,
drinking the last light in the pools.

Chase Twichell
Sometimes I glimpse the future in the evenings. It appears like a doe on silencing moss, foraging among pocked leaves, drinking the last light in the pools. It doesn't even raise its head to look at me. I'm not a danger to it, trapped as I am in the purely human.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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upthestaircase.bsky.social
Ready your poems. This summer we are bringing back our themed issues! On May 1st we will open to submissions for our Kindred Issue: Poems on Platonic Love.

More details soon.
March 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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upthestaircase.bsky.social
We are bringing our themed summer issues back ✨️

We will be looking for poetry and art submissions that highlight friendship and community for our August issue. Submissions open May 1st 👀
April 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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upthestaircase.bsky.social
The new issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly is here 👀 www.upthestaircase.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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susanlleary.bsky.social
Jay Hopler in STILL LIFE ♥️
The Vacation Over The vacation over, see from the train who remains on the beach playing, bathing in the waves; their vacation isn't over yet: is this how it's going to be is this how it's going to be to leave this life?
April 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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forgottenpoets.bsky.social
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"Even in the fisherman's net..."
—Mourid Barghouti

#poetry #poem #poems #freepalestine
The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries The smell of the sea.
March 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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From 'Olives' (1915)
—Orrick Johns
In the latest issue of #ForgottenPoets

#poetry #poem #poems
Somewhere Now I know I have been eating apple-pie for breakfast In the New England Of your sexuality.
March 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Straw For The Fire: From His Notebooks
—Theodore Roethke (tr. David Wagoner)

#poetry #poem #poems
If you can't think, at least sing.
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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poetrygal.bsky.social
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March 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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siirisk.bsky.social
The whole poem is a masterpiece
Guilty of dust by Frank Bidart up or down from the infinite C E N T E R B R I M M I N G at the winking rim of time the voice in my head said LOVE IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND WHAT YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE * then I saw the parade of my loves those PERFORMERS comics actors singers forgetful of my very self so often I desired to die to myself to live in them then my PARENTS my FRIENDS the drained SPECTRES once filled with my baffled infatuations love and guilt and fury and sweetness for whom nail spirit yearning to the earth * then the voice in my head said WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS REVOLT AGAINST IT WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE 1984
February 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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fictivedream.bsky.social
"I dip my sashimi into soy sauce and lick at the tip, tasting an ocean of promise, while Markus rehashes all our boiled hurts." Eating Out by Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/02/20/e...
February 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"We know the Nazis loved America..."
—Zaina Alsous

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Violence We know the Nazis loved America; Hitler yearned to paint a twin, a green room where the dead are everywhere. Asked Abraham before the flame, to the obedient tribe What are these statues you cling to? Why calico, why Spanish moss, why the crickets scream. In a segregated graveyard, no stone reads private or public; the local jail is everywhere. Before another body is buried, a window is broken. A window was broken. The window is broken. In a high school history class, white children raised their eyebrows when I raised my voice. I don't know what they thought I was capable of; I wish I was more capable of it.
February 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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forgottenpoets.bsky.social

From ‘Poems & Prose 1949-1977’
—Harold Pinter

#poetry #poem #poems
I Know The Place I know the place It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
February 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
C.D. Wright
GIFT OF THE BOOK lights go off all over rhode island everyone falls into bed I stay awake reading rereading the long-awaited prose of your body stunned by the hunger
February 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Philip Whalen
IV Sun in the bamboos Beside the lake The ducks behaving Scandalously
February 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Michael Earl Craig #smallpoemsunday
28 April 2016 When you were dying people talked about you in the past tense which I found annoying. Now that you have died people refer to you in the present tense which I also am struggling with.
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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vismai.bsky.social
Sharing an old poem titled 'On Valentine's Day...' on Valentine's Day though it's not 'on' Valentine's Day :)

from Issue 64 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social
www.upthestaircase.org/vismai-rao-i...
February 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Oh hey guess who decided to show up. 💌

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Han holding Larks in front of their poetry shelves. Han is pink from a deep, post-work bubble bath bath, haha
February 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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opjohn.bsky.social
Fight the power.
February 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
nepalipoet.bsky.social
In a new social media platform while the world is burning in every possible sense.
February 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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upthestaircase.bsky.social
Issue #68 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is now live!

Check it out here:

www.upthestaircase.org
February 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
Last call!!! Come hang with us!!!!
fklein907.bsky.social Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · Jan 31
Tomorrow! Join me, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @toddedillard.bsky.social for the launch of my book Another Life! We’re going to read and talk and celebrate poetry
A graphic saying another life book launch reading, Saturday February 1st at 10 am Alaska time, 2pm eastern and showing pictures of readers Frances Klein, Han Vanderhart and Todd Dillard
February 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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upthestaircase.bsky.social
Ready your submissions 😊

UtSQ will reopen for submissions on February 1st.
January 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM