Katie Mansfield

viet-am she/her | (poe)trying my best with the occasional dash of prose | latest in Silly Goose Press

[Katie Mansfield @mansfieldnotes]

I have an essay out today! Major thanks to my mentor @KGoodMarable for being such a champion of this piece & encouraging me to let it live somewhere beyond the recesses of my Google docs

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

I know I've been saying it every week as of late, but I'll keep saying it as long as it's true

This latest run of 68to05 essays has been incredible. To add to the choir this week, @mansfieldnotes on Belinda Carlisle's 1987 album HEAVEN ON EARTH:

https://t.co/D6KQ4IYto5

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“Lord, let them know the kind of love that unhinges / the brain, blesses the air with the exuberant / stupidity of mourning doves”

— Matthew Olzmann (@MatthewOlzmann)
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This poem appeared in The Swannanoa Review, Issue 1, Spring 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Anthony Etherin @Anthony_Etherin]

LOVE SONNET OF THE CAUTIOUS ROMANTIC

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

what are years if not measured by trees

[jenna @scholasticthot]

i keep coming back to this amazing poem– "interference & delivery", by dean young.

[Arvind @PizzazzyCalvin]

Reposting these two wonderful poems cuz this is the point of it all 🫶🏽

Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara

Having "Having a Coke with You" with You by Mark Leidner

[anomali @Anomali210830]

The seventh fold

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

—— Anne Sexton’s “Just Once”

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“I want to give you your history back. / Your fingers back. I want to tell you yes.”

— Kallie Falandays

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

John Berger, from 'The Shape of a Pocket'

[Liste @endliste]

Moon, you old coin, the night spends you wisely

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

Today in favorite poems: Eduardo C. Corral

[anomali @Anomali210830]

how a moment can last longer than a decade

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

Eileen Myles. “I want to live / in my thoughts / of you, I believe / in you like a door / that returns”

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“It’s like the place we never got to, to which I keep / arriving.”

— Jacob Sheetz-Willard 
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This poem appeared in Chestnut Review, Autumn 2024 (Volume 6, Number 2). Shared here with deep gratitude.

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

...me claiming I could fix it.

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“Who wants to get married again, anyway?”

— Susanna Styve
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This poem appeared in Miscellaneous, Tender by Susanna Styve, published by Laurel Poetry Collective, 2003. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[HAD @havehadhavehad]

segueing into spooky season here on HAD today with... @megannn_lynne !!

https://t.co/qQBvBRBzOF

[Bill @wjneumire]

Kate Baer

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

Nikki Giovanni