Houston's Terry Jude Miller, a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, has been published in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Lily Poetry Review, & The Comstock Review.
Visit The Great Texas Poetry Project on Instagram. Texas Poets reading poems. A collaborative project between 2025 Texas Poet Laureate @writeroctavioquintanilla & 2026 Texas Poet Laureate @Prufer_Kevin
Won a First Place for my poem, "Sleepy Superstition", in the “DEEP SOUTH LORE” contest (Sponsored by Dave Schjott) conducted by the Alabama State Poetry Society. Thanks to Jerri Hardesty for letting me know.
most folks don’t know the sound of smoke.
though they hear it. though smoke gets mistaken
for silence. most folks think they’re saying nothing
when they’re saying the most.
—José Olivarez
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It seems wrong
to curl now within the confines
of a poem. You can’t hide
from what you made
inside what you made
or so I’m told.
—Diane Seuss, born #OTD in 1956
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Iron Oak Editions seeks fiction and CNF queries and full poetry manuscripts.
Submission guidelines at the link below:
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This week’s guest is celebrated poet of the American West, Robert Wrigley. He'll read from his most recent poetry collection, The True Account of Myself as a Bird, as well as new poems. Join us live at 8pm ET!
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
—Theodore Roethke, born #OTD in 1908
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Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for Being;
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, born #OTD in 1803
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