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writer & creative consultant // co-founder & editor-in-chief of @siblinijournal

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

What I'm going through
at this very moment
can never be changed.
It cannot be arrested.
It feels like the sun in your chest.

--Franz Wright

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

WS Merwin

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

Preserve my tongue and I will bless you again and again..

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W.S. Merwin
from " Lemuel's Blessings "

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

With both hands I've forgotten, I keep
Having forgotten, I keep
Having forgotten. I'll have no such shrines here.
I will not bow in the middle of the room
To the statue of nothing
With the flies turning around it.
On these four walls I am the writing.

WS Merwin

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

Brevity. And velocity.

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

Closing out another successful week of favorite poems with this banger by Aria Aber:

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

Please enjoy this daily favorite poem by Richie Hofmann

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

...I call you,
father and master: all around,
my companions are failing, thinking
you do not see.

Louise Glück
from The Wild Iris

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Father's Day Urtext

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Another poem by Denis Johnson, this one from The Veil (1987)

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

I am you when I am I.

- Paul Celan, "In Praise of Distance" (1948)

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

Stimmen, Stimmen. Höre, mein Herz

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The First Elegy, Rilke

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

Is everyone ready for a favorite poem by Carl Phillips?

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“I could not get enough of giving you coronation bundles.” A poem by Sharon Olds.

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

C.D. Wright ~

some blue air fell over me
what I want is less clear to me
now than it was then

[Miranda Holmqvist @MirandaHqv]

Jack Gilbert

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Naomi Shihab Nye

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“My mortal body was the only currency.” A poem by Richie Hofmann.

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

I try to. I cathedral. In desire. In anger.