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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Just in time for your #NationalPoetryMonth reading lists: a Split This Rock book sale! Take 15% off titles on our “2025 Poem of the Week Series Poets” list on our Bookshop storefront with code BSO15 until 4/1. Check out books on the list at: bookshop.org/lists/2025-poem-of-the-week-series-poets

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2025 Poem of the Week Series Poets

ABOUT THE POEM OF THE WEEK SERIES Split This Rock's Poem of the Week Series publishes a contemporary poem online each week  and sends them via our free Friday email newsletter.

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Malcolm Friend @friendlypoet.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Puerto Rico actually has a simple solution to not having three of its best players in the World Baseball Classic this year. Just ship some unis to the Dominican Republic and hope they don't realize the wrong flag/country are on the

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Malcolm Friend @friendlypoet.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

It definitely arrived in 2025, but since I just got it out of my mailbox yesterday day, I'm opening my New Year with the latest from Poetry Northwest

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Malcolm Friend @friendlypoet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A late post, but hella excited to have a poem up on the Poetry Northwest site! Shout out to @cameronbarnett.bsky.social for the inspiration! www.poetrynw.org/poetry/solem...

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Solemn Seattle Aubade | Poetry Northwest

There are houses drowning every night here. What a sin

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Malcolm Friend @friendlypoet.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Hella excited for my poem "Diasporican Rechristening" to be included on this playlist put together by @splitthisrock.bsky.social and the 2025 Poetry Coalition!

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Today on the site, contributor @friendlypoet.bsky.social shares a plátano purchasing playlist that celebrates the delicious, and often mispronounced, starch. Link in comments.

Malcolm Friend, a Black man with a beard and mustache wearing a Mariners cap and black tee that reads, "Souf," stands in front of a metal shack with a blue metal fish on its side.

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Malcolm Friend @friendlypoet.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It probably arrived earlier but I'm bad at checking my mail, so I got this gift over the weekend. Excited to have my poem "Plátano Purchasing Theory" in the latest issue of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social!

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We are relearning Spanish or we are practicing Spanglish or we are remembering that language is just another tool of empire. Poem of the Week is “Diasporican Rechristening" by Malcolm Friend. Poem as audio & text: bit.ly/3ZjfAv5 @friendlypoet.bsky.social #PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poem #Poets

Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Malcolm Friend in a circular frame. Malcolm Friend smiles and looks toward the viewer. He wears a bright blue Seattle Mariners baseball hat and a black t-shirt. In the background there is a Puerto Rican food truck.

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Malcolm Friend @friendlypoet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hella excited for "Diasporican Rechristening," a poem following in the footsteps of Pedro Pietri, to be @splitthisrock.bsky.social's Poem of the Week! I can't possibly express the gratitude to be part of a series I've been admiring for over a decade! www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

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Diasporican Rechristening | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

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Malcolm Friend @friendlypoet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

So exciting news today because I'm the Poem-a-Day at poets.org! Can't think of too much else to say right now except a huge thanks to Willie Perdomo for believing in this poem and in my work! poets.org/poem/caliban...

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Caliban Theory

who am i? either i’m nobody or i’m the cramped quarters of any vessel voyaging the sea

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO GLASS POET LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA @lenakt.bsky.social, WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.nationalbook.org/awards-prize...

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National Book Awards 2024 - National Book Foundation

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Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei @rsbartolomei.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

US statehood isn’t a decolonizing option for Puerto Rico. Also, most voters casted their vote against it.

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