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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m sad to announce that, as of Jan 2025, Couplet is going on an indefinite hiatus. Thanks so much for reading and contributing and making this special little project sparkle. Long live pairs of poems!

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This pair of poems (by me) recently appeared in @coupletpoetry.bsky.social --

In the Forest of a Thousand Trees We Cannot Find Two Leaves Alike

I wake still lost in the woods of you,
in the would we of you —
we would, it seems. I know
you don’t love
secrets as I do but we are
alone in the forest of us
and always will be.
The path we followed
folded up behind us
in the night. We know
the sun has risen
by the new shadows around us,
by the shree of a nighthawk
starting its day.
Does a new path
appear ahead? It does not
matter for now, for now
we remain here, touching.
Dappled light
washes us green,
and clean, and new.

Morning in Early June and It’s Already Hot and So Are You

I want to stand in this newly mown field all day
and call your name three times
however many times it takes
until you appear
to grant me three wishes
wishes I would no longer need
once you have appeared
with my name on your lips
my lips on your name
I swear this distance between us
is a kind of violence
though perhaps without distance
there would be no such thing as desire
the air here smells of overripe berries
and drying grass
the sun heats my skin
past the point of pleasure
which my darling is how I know
how I know the field of want is real

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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here are two poems in Couplet Poetry #7 (@coupletpoetry.bsky.social), one in which I'm proud to appear alongside wonderful folks like @amorak.bsky.social Both poems are erasures from the US Marine Corps Small Wars Manual; one is the very last one in the book. coupletpoetry.com/chris-santia...

Screenshot of the first two stanzas 6.7 (Infantry Patrols: Laying Ambushes) In Couplet Poetry #7

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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hearty congratulations to Issue 6 contributor @whichistosay.bsky.social whose poem “Facebook Marketplace” is today’s feature on @poetrydaily.bsky.social !

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Reuben Gelley Newman @joustingsnail.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The first part of Lena Crown's "Facebook Marketplace" in today's @poetrydaily.bsky.social!! 😱 So glad we got to publish this clever, arterial, beautifully built poem in the spring Issue 6 of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social 😊 Huge congrats and gratitude to @whichistosay.bsky.social 👏

The boy with the couch and coffee table
had recently been left.
It came as a set, he said, She liked
midcentury modern, bought from Amazon.
The table legs splayed out just like a foal’s,
young and spindly—emulating, but only
emulating, instability.
Thirteen stories down, a jogger dodged
tectonic plates of concrete knocked askew
along the park, which stretched mutely toward
the horizon, the Arch a sterling thread
plucked loose from the seam.

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

One of my 2 poems in the new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social 🖤🪽

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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Thrilled to have a pair of poems in the amazing new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social!! Read em at coupletpoetry.com/mike-bagwell

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Two of my poems up in the terrific new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social. The whole issue is full of bangers. Honored to have my words in such company. coupletpoetry.com/amorak-huey/

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your friend dusti @dusti.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This pair of prose poems by Sophie Klahr in @coupletpoetry.bsky.social is ❤️‍🔥 coupletpoetry.com/sophie-klahr/

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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Issue 7 is live!!!! Featuring work by @amorak.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social Wayne Koestenbaum, Sophie Klahr, Kent Shaw, Chris Santiago, SJ Pearce and many more! coupletpoetry.com/issue-7/

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Kent Shaw @kentdshaw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm excited to have work in the new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social! I'm excited to explore the issue! coupletpoetry.com/kent-shaw/

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Kent Shaw – Couplet Poetry

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

With gratitude to @coupletpoetry.bsky.social, especially editor-in-chief @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, here's one half of my "couplet" (with no malice to philosophers or landscapers). You can see the other half--and its beautiful company--here: coupletpoetry.com/issue-7/

See https://coupletpoetry.com/jane-zwart/ for more accessible text.

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Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽 @daybreakjung.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Thank you @coupletpoetry.bsky.social for giving home to these two poems! You can check out their beautiful new issue via this link coupletpoetry.com/issue-7/

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I have a pair of translations in the new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social! They publish a lot of contemporary poets I admire so I’m especially proud to have my work appear there. coupletpoetry.com/issue-7/

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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

It’s true! We re-open for the month of Feb 💜💜 Will u b our Valentine?

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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Couplet is hosting a launch reading/celebration for Issue 5 next Sunday (11/19) at 3pm EST. Stop on by?? meet.google.com/vzr-bcvn-yey

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Shira Dentz @shirad.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

sharing a pair of poems in the new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social & looking forward to reading all the poem pairs in this issue! coupletpoetry.com/shira-dentz/

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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Hello Blue Sky! Issue 5 of Couplet is live in the world!! We are so proud of this stunner 💎 Check it out below!! coupletpoetry.com/issue-5/

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Welcome to Bluesky @welcometobluesky.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Couplet Poetry is now on Bluesky. We say welcome to our new user. Welcome Couplet Poetry

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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

All acceptances and declines have been sent out for Issue 5. THANK YOU to all who submitted! We have a fantastic issue on deck, coming to an Internet near you in November!

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