Sam MacIlwaine

Rock climber and writer. X is mostly poems.

[tada 📣 @bergman_esque]

You know a book is going to be fire when this is the opening paragraph.

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“How difficult it is to move then. / How impossible to believe that anything / could lift that weight.”

— Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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This poem appeared in All the Honey by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, published by Samara Press, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

W.S. Merwin

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—Derek Walcott

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

This magnificent poem by Todd Dillard is easily one of my favorite poems of all time. What a masterclass in line-breaks and meaning-making! Also a brilliant balancing act of abstractions and concrete specific imagery. Just read this with class — I had perfect attendance and it was a perfect class. The students were thrilled and had so much to say. Feels really good to see a bunch of 18-year-olds get so excited about poetry.

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Friedrich Kunath, “Storms Never Last”, 2023

[Peege @bloodsigns]

how your heart pounds inside me

Wisława Szymborska

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

[‎ َ @twilightstardew]

unlearning the notion that sensitivity is a weakness

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Bianca Stone

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

where the past turns, its face sparking like emery,
to open its grace and incredible harm

[Justin Karcher @justin_karcher]

Big thx to @stonecirclerev for resharing my poem

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“Between the tongue's tip and the first edge of the invisible.” A poem by Charles Wright.

[Alicia E. Stallings @ae_stallings]

A fine and under-appreciated poet:

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

a little weird one