The Night Heron Barks

A Sanctuary for Poet and Poem; an online poetry journal. Also the team behind Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, @starbassoon. EIC: Rogan Kelly, @jerzypoet

[The Night Heron Barks @HeronBarks]

The new issue of The Night Heron Barks is live!

https://t.co/7tzovd50dB

[River Glass Books @riverglassbooks]

“I shape my best hours alone,
squinting through glass, remembering”

—from “Koan of Shivers” by @RobertOkaji

1st pub’d in @HeronBarks. Many thanks to @JerzyPoet & editorial team for giving this poem its first home!

Forthcoming in SCARECROW SEES Jan 2025

#poetry

[Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan]

Very excited about our @BendingGenres October 25- 27 weekend workshop with @JerzyPoet Rogan Kelly!!! A BG community writer, and the EIC of @HeronBarks and @StarBassoon. Rogan will provide a super course, and content!!! https://t.co/sMBZyFfcIK

[makshya worldwide @processdaily]

Will you walk with me?

Maggie Millner (!) selected Shade is a place for the National Poetry Series! I celebrated by spending summer glad for my life, mistakes, & misguided attempts at relief (at livingness?)

Thank you all for shade walking me back to me

https://t.co/ynKp6T48tc

[Jon Riccio @JonRiccio]

All gratitude to mentors @adamclaypoet, @Faun1111, Angela Ball, @UtopiaMinus, & Farid Matuk.

[The Martins Deep. @MartinsDeep1]

Feeling hopeful and grateful for the support so far. Every repost and donation is greatly appreciated.

Let's keep spreading the love, fam! 🙏

Gofundme link: https://t.co/ofuTwafH3R

[Suzanne Frischkorn @litwindowpane]

It’s Publication Day —WHIPSAW is officially out from @Anhinga_Press!

https://t.co/dzlTKJ5yAu

[Rain Taxi @RainTaxiReview]

The artist Agnes Martin slips in and out of Lauren Camp’s "An Eye in Each Square” (@RiverRiverBooks) like a wraith, an invisible companion. New review by Richard Oyama in our Online Edition: https://t.co/mfu5SMO2xN

[Vismai Rao @vismairao]

New poem in this gorgeous issue of @upthestaircase 🥲
Ever grateful to @aprilmbratten 💙
https://t.co/kWvKS22Hqp

[RMP @RachelleMParker]

Yay. Such good news. Have a read and a listen and look at the painting chosen for my poem. Thank you @jerzypoet and team @heronbarks https://t.co/Wp3e45VoQx ✨✨✨

[Ran Off With the Star Bassoon @StarBassoon]

Submissions close December 31st; short form, hybrid prose, flash, CNF, micro prose, lyrical essay, or prose poems. Under 1,000 words. https://t.co/wbaftpAAso

[Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar 🏳️‍🌈 @RHeimowitz]

I've barely had the chance to celebrate that this poem appearing in the most beautifully curated edition of @HeronBarks but now it has also been nominated for a Pushcart. Thank you @jerzypoet for supporting my work.

https://t.co/jv0EjgZfDg

[Sean Thomas Dougherty @SeanLemonhead]

I am very honored to have the opening poem from my book Death Prefers the Minor Keys read and shared by the always luminous Major Jackson on today's issue of The Slowdown.
https://t.co/znWW1CP7n8

[Vismai Rao @vismairao]

"The boatman tells me eyeshine that spangles
these high-summer shallows comes from gators
that dangle their primeval bodies like lightning rods
fixed between two atmospheres"

Stunning imagery & a gorgeous last line🔥🧡

Frank Paino in the new @HeronBarks
https://t.co/5YxkLfOpwR

[Vismai Rao @vismairao]

"I never heard God speak out of a thing
I wasn't drawn into, hadn't become"

Three poems by H.L. Hix in @HeronBarks
https://t.co/JFN0JNEUdS

[Pat Foran @pdforan]

“I’d like to share a beer with him, a cigarette,
tug at the silver light of our dawdling death.
But that’s not it, I think. …”

Sitting on a Soccer Field at the Edge of Carson City by @scottneuffer in @HeronBarks https://t.co/lYMKl5W66y

[Vismai Rao @vismairao]

"In an outdoor fireplace my fingers add flame to wood
At a park bench, a sandwich materializes between my fingers"

So struck by this poem "A Visual Meditation on Natural Gestures" by Will Conley in @HeronBarks
(There's also a video of the poem in sign)

https://t.co/c4lMc36aaB

[Pat Foran @pdforan]

“There were boxes of them, the memo books stacked like money and fastened together with rotting rubber bands. She wore his sweatshirt—the hem stained with bleach—and rolled the sleeves up. Things began to make sense.”

Memo by @be_hahn in @HeronBarks https://t.co/8Wr44QJQbP

[Vismai Rao @vismairao]

"We lived on prayer
—hoping that when the day ended, a day
will begin between two horizons, slightly
slanted: tilted to balance our thoughts."

Gorgeous word magic by @laughingyeti in the new @HeronBarks 💙
https://t.co/Npf4l6cJpl