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Jacquelyn Arends @jacquelynarends.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Finding the idea a bit tempting right now of formatting quotes like these onto a free, small card printable for anyone to leave one with a doctor or specialist denying them care. (I know; it’s unlikely it would get them to think. Still though…)

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#Poetry from Anya Krugovoy Silver’s posthumous collection, after fourteen years with metastatic breast cancer: Pt. 2

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poetry from Anya Krugovoy Silver’s posthumous collection, after fourteen years with metastatic breast cancer: Pt. 1 #poetry

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There are two lessons in this poem by Heaney - listen to your wife & admit when you are wrong & no better way than by writing her a sonnet I love the comparison to the biblical miracle I wonder did owner of the house like his skylight as much as Heaney? #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Happy #smallpoemsunday Bring on the light for all of us, please 🖤🕯🖤 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We haven't risen yet to the level of ourselves....

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

St. John of the Cross trans. Rhina P. Espaillat #poetry

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Li-Young Lee. I decided to avoid the famous poems and to strictly limit myself to one page poems. These all happen to be from Book of My Nights. #poetry

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Late last year I read Louise Bogan’s collected, The Blue Estuaries, and meant to post samples from it then. Although there was much to appreciate, I seem to like her best when she’s writing in the “Small Clean School” style: poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poe...

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Today’s Poem: Knowledge

The wordless lesson in the great leisure of eternity

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I feel like Linda Pastan missed an opportunity when she left this poem in free verse, as the formalist knows the pain of a rogue syllable like no other. Still, a good chuckle!

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I’m late to Jacob Shores-Argüello’s In the Absence of Clocks. His subject, Ukraine, is as relevant as ever, though part of his book is set in the Orange Revolution of the aughts.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Overall, I preferred The Niagara River (which immediately made Kay Ryan a favorite poet; I was keen on nearly every poem) to Erratic Facts. But who’s complaining when you’ve got gems to hold to the light? #poetry

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

My ear would be so pleased if more contemporary poets heeded Annie Finch’s observation in A Poet’s Craft when giving iambics a whir. #poetry

Annie Finch describes the problem of inserting trochaic feet into iambic poems in the absence of a linebreak or caesura.

Annie Finch describes the popularity and effects of trochaic feet in the first foot of a line.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I know a fae trap when I see one

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

“Indian Love Song,” Sarojini Naidu. A perfect way to orient the ear toward anapests—& this close could double as a hymn! “For Love shall cancel the ancient wrong and conquer the ancient rage, Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age.” open.substack.com/pub/anniefin...

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A V-Day Gift: Scanning the Rhythms of Passion and Peace in Sarojini Naidu's "Indian Love Song"

Anapests and bacchics, ghost cups and half wands, ...and a note on reading aloud!

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

One thing I wouldn’t have realized about Plath w/o picking up her collected: She was obsessed with slant consonantal end-rhymes. Might this correlate to her first love being visual art? Versus, say, singing (assonantal rhyme being so woven to the ear)?

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Today’s Featured Poem: “Daughter” by ‪@danushalameris.bsky.social, from Blade by Blade, published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/daughter/

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Daughter

Daughter, I say, and I mean a list of what-ifs, a cacophony of sorrows.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I decided to explore #AnyaKrugovoySilver via the bookends—her first and her posthumous last volumes. From the first:

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Often in the free verse, I will start out with accentual lines. As the lengths start to alter more, often the natural phrasing within the sentences across the lines either maintains or chronically reverts to the previously set beat count—one subtle way that free is rarely free.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes." Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.

This poem will be available in an accessible online format at Poetry Magazine's website shortly. You'll also be able to listen to me read it.

Cover of Poetry Magazine's June 2025 issue:
half-carton of eggs, with the letters P O E T R Y painted on them.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My unread #poetry stash was already substantial and is growing embarrassingly fast (with Merwin, Kooser, more James Richardson, Anya Krugovoy Silver, Li-Young Lee, and some translations en route 😳) while I slowly rotate through a few thick tomes… and relish the elegance of #RichardWilbur again.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Matthew Wickman’s interview w the husband of the late Anya Krugovoy Silver is astounding. I must sheepishly admit that every time I read one of her poems I think, “I really need to buy one of her books,” and yet, I haven’t. That will change this year! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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Ep. 105: “Among the Losses”: Remembering the Poet Anya Krugovoy Silver, with Andrew Silver, Mercer University

Podcast Episode · Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast · 05/13/2025 · 1h 12m

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Richard Jordan @rich-jordan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Jim Harrison, "Another Country"

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

One of the problems with writing ecological poems or poems with nature metaphors when you aren’t a biologist is that things you’ve been misinformed about sometimes sneak into the core of a poem you’ve slaved over, ruining it. Happened to my latest effort--but I'm glad I caught it.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A poem from #WisławaSzymborska about sea cucumbers (and a lot more): entropypost.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/a... The translation used is from the collected that came out when she won the Nobel Prize, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanaugh.

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Autotomy

Wislawa Szymborska is a philosophically inflected poet who investigates unanswerable questions with immense élan and delicacy. This particular poem has deeper meaning and inferences in philosophy, …

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Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 16/03/2025

Poets!! I'm excited to announce that i am the guest editor for the Spring 2026 issue of @pshares.bsky.social. It is an honor and a joy! If you want to add to the vibrant, healing rhythmical chorus I'm creating, send them along!y I'd love this issue to sing, especially with a diversity of meters.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A phenomenal human and a self-giving leader in a time when that feels in short supply. Enter your rest.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 282, our March - April 2025 issue. Read the full editorial on our Substack: carcanet.substack.com/p/pn-review-...

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But the idea of the hymn as a poem is more problematic – a poem which aspires to leave its author behind, which has a collective voice and belongs to a communion. The idea attracts me: the hymn is recognised as an extension of liturgy and an intensification of scriptural lessons. It engages common feelings in a direct way. It can be a language of deep connection and harmony. Of course, all of these qualities have a downside: sentimentality, triumphalism, self-righteousness.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The new Congress wants to gut Medicaid to make room for tax breaks for billionaires. We won’t let that happen. Take action now! go.caringacross.org/a/no-cuts-me...

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Tell Congress: No Cuts to Medicaid!

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There is nothing like a black bear slapping his palm on each of two windows not eight feet from you and seemingly waving hi to create a little midnight excitement! I waited to approach the window, only to see a red fox (yay! I feared they were gone) and a skunk in quick succession.

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Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The last two springs nature visited me in the form of fox kits. I routinely got to spy their antics in the driveway at night—no small gift when you are housebound w illness! Alas, a dark, nocturnal mystery-animal has kicked the foxes out of their den (beneath a neighboring shed).

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