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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Aug 10

Deep thanks to @poetrycurrency.bsky.social for featuring these two poems--which are proof I'm a) still writing about foxes and b) still writing, even though a doctor drilled a hole in my head. 😂🦊🤷‍♀️

$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · Aug 10

Every mother’s nightgown has a sill and a jamb.
Has a child who touches her face and walks through.
Each nightgown dreams it’s made of glass
or is hungry for a name to hold the wind inside.

The latest $ feature is by Sally Rosen Kindred (@sallypoet.bsky.social)!

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Sally Rosen Kindred | August 2025 – $ – Poetry Is Currency

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Jun 7

Folklore friends, this summer reading is meant for you--Selkie Moon, by @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social , is a selkie story told freshly and tenderly from the daughter's p.o.v. Its lush island dreamscapes swept me away. And oh, the sentences! Such enchanting sentences!

A copy of the book Selkie Moon, whose cover shows a moon reflected in the sea and surrounded by seals, appears on a desk between an amethyst and a black and white polished stone, along with blue eyeglasses.

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Jun 6

So thankful for you and your amazing poems, Abbie!

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Apr 27

wow.WOW.

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Apr 26

Still have a few open seats in this May workshop. Poets and dreamers, come write with us!

Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Apr 7

Poetry Friends, I'll be teaching this new online async workshop in May! Hope you'll join us!

Here, There, and OtherWhere: Dreaming Spaces/Places in Your Poems — The Poetry Barn

Dates: Monday, May 5 - Sunday, June 1 Format: Asynchronous ( learn more ) Poet Naomi Shihab Nye has said, “place is really the gravity for poetry. Poetry exists in terms of how it springs out of...

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Apr 7

Poetry Friends, I'll be teaching this new online async workshop in May! Hope you'll join us!

Here, There, and OtherWhere: Dreaming Spaces/Places in Your Poems — The Poetry Barn

Dates: Monday, May 5 - Sunday, June 1 Format: Asynchronous ( learn more ) Poet Naomi Shihab Nye has said, “place is really the gravity for poetry. Poetry exists in terms of how it springs out of...

www.poetrybarn.org

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thank you--

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Feb 13

Everything is burning down, and also, I am thankful to New Ohio Review for including this small grief poem.

Cover of new issue of New Ohio Review. It's a broad-stroked painting of a face in orange and white on a yellow background.

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Jan 28

terrific poem. and yes to clarity and action. May my anger make me an instrument

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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · Jan 24

Kay Ryan, my goodness

"Eggs" by Kay Ryan

We turn out
as tippy as
eggs. Legs
are an illusion.
We are held
as in a carton
if someone
loves us.
It's a pity
only loss
proves this.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Dec 14

“If a star, hydrangea me blue.” 💙

—C.T. Salazar in HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING (Acre Books)

@ctsalazar.bsky.social

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Dec 11

Was there no loneliness like the ziti's? 🤷‍♀️

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Dec 7

Damn Rita Dove is so stunning 🔥🔥

From insta account @poetryisnotaluxury

Rita Dove

PITHOS

Climb
into a jar
and live
for a while.

Chill earth.
No stars
in this stone
sky.

You have ceased
to ache.

Your spine is
a flower.

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Dec 5

It may be my 100th time, for all I know. But I'm just as grateful to read it today as I was the first time. Thank you!

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

@sallypoet.bsky.social never ceases to amaze me. Check out this haunting piece published in the latest issue of Plume Poetry.

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Anatomy of Late - Plume

Anatomy of Late It looks like a fox, when it’s sleeping. No, its body won’t be that red, that curled certain with tufts of sky. It looks like the moss that covers your dream of the fox when sleep be...

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Dec 5

Oh, thank you so much, Michael! 💜

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Dec 5

"when did sleep become a test run" This, yes--

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 30

"and try to tell my mother." This killed me. If I'd been your friend, I'd have believed you. I believe you now

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 30

@jessicacuello.bsky.social, I cherish this pointed (porcupine joke, see what I did there?) poem for its surprise wings (oh, oops, spoiler)

Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · Nov 29

A piece that I wrote for teachers and it's 100% TRUE

Thanks @sfreligh.bsky.social for the prompt.

@porcupinelit.bsky.social is a journal for teachers. Thanks @writesloud.bsky.social & @readinstead.bsky.social

Now is a good time to support teachers, particularly in the public schools

Why We Resented the Teacher Inservice Speaker Who Was Paid $30,000 for the Day

Jessica Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, and more.

www.porcupineliterary.com

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 29

Wow.

Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · Nov 29

A very personal poem of mine, "Wheatfield with Crows," was published by @rustandmoth.bsky.social today:

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Wheatfield with Crows | Rust & Moth

I have been failing for years to write a poem about dying. This isn’t true. I’m still lying about suicides. I haven’t said anything. Omissions are blessings that catch up to you eventually. Van Gogh p...

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 29

Oh, this is a knockout.

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

Okay, that does sound kind of narrative. I fold.

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

Please report back on how this goes. If you hear a lot of "eye eye eye" it may be more like "ay ay," and they are agreeing (and deeming you captain of the ship, for good measure).

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

For real? But it's such a lyric. It's a moment's monument, for sure.

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

This is facts. And also, I love my dog, but I would NOT let her make me a sandwich. Trust issues

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