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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Spooky Seasonn is here! Subscribe to my YouTube channel @anotherscreamqueen76 for unrehearsed, unscripted (for the most part), and all camp with a dash of Southern queer movie reviews. 🏳️‍🌈😈😱#31filmsofhalloween2025 #soonthedarkness #Igbtqhorrornerds #anotherscreamqueen76 youtube.com/@anotherscre...

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Another Scream Queen

Sassy and spooktastic reviews from horror filmdom. Unscripted. Unrehearsed. All camp.

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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Another Scream Queen

Sassy and spooktastic reviews from horror filmdom. Unscripted. Unrehearsed. All camp.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

NEW POEM #261: "When Friends Ask If I’ll Ever Marry Again" by Michael Boccardo (@mboccardopoet76.bsky.social ) "My sudden storm. My arched cathedral. Our tongues unburdened of every oath like the slow scratch of crows clotting the sky." stonecirclereview.com/when-friends...

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today's Featured Poem: "Deep Learning" by Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver.bsky.social), from The Alcestis Machine, published by Acre Books (@acrebooks.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/deep-le...

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Deep Learning

In another life, I am a voice for hire. Nights in a blanketed back room I give you names, side effects, animals, hours, kinks,

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This gorgeous poem from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social features on Poetry Daily. “the names of the doves calling in the hems of the day”. Music!

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Artists report on the inner life…every piece of art, every performance, is a state-of-the-soul address. We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction. —Jane Kenyon

Thoughts on the Gifts of Art
How do we justify the need for art in these troubled economic times. when budgets are being slashed, jobs lost, the physical health and satety of our citizens compromised? What's our excuse for existing and for needing money from the government to continue our work?
I think of it this way: that the media- the papers, magazines, Tv, radio-bring us news of the outer life. What's the government up to, where will the next mall spring up or the next solid waste disposal site, where's the latest outbreak of war and acute misery, what's the latest discovery in physics or medicine?
Artists report on the inner life, and the inner life distinguishes us from centipedes, although I may underestimate centipedes. The love of the absolute beauty of art, the longing for the well-being of the planet and all its creatures, the awe we feel in the face of life and death, the delights of the inward eye and inward ear, the understanding and nurture of the soul— these are the gifts of art. In a way every piece of art, every performance, is a state-of-the-soul address.
We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction.
"Tenderness toward existence," in the poet Galway Kinnell's lovely phrase, is what we lose when we lose art, or when we fail to value it properly.
Recent work by Yale psychiatrist Jerome Singer suggests that people whose imaginative lives are active commit fewer violent crimes, are more creative, and are more tolerant of human diversity. Art fosters the life of the imagination. How can this society afford not to foster
art?

Jane Kenyon

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Today's Featured Poet: Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Today's Featured Poem: "The Night of Her Funeral" by Jen Siraganian, from Issue 24 Volume 2 of Mizna. Read here: poems.com/poem/the-nig...

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The Night of Her Funeral

I wandered upstairs where the adults galaxied around our grandfather, a captivated audience

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today's Featured Poem: "Good Mare" by Sara Ellen Fowler, from Two Signatures, published by University of Utah Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/good-ma...

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Good Mare

I did not abandon you when the barn burned with contempt

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Elisabeth Adwin Edwards @eadwinedwards.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Bianca Stone.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Drafts, Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes about his poem "Paradise Lost." Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips on "Paradise Lost"

The poem that would eventually become “Paradise Lost” first appeared as a much longer and more robust poem under the title “from Lost” in a 2021 issue of Ploughshares; but even that poem was a fragmen...

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Wonderful poems. Check these out, especially if you have aging parents.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Today's Featured Poem: "The Boys of Cass and Pacific" by Luke Johnson, from Quiver, published by Texas Review Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/the-boy...

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The Boys of Cass and Pacific – Poetry Daily

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

blue of the sky without violence blue dust on the grapes on the vine blue mist on the pond’s dark face —Han VanderHart one of three new poems in the new @screendoorreview.bsky.social 💙 read the full issue here: www.screendoorreview.com/issue-19/

BRIEF CATALOG OF BLUE

blue of my brothers' eyes
my sisters' eyes
blue-flowered pioneer dress
my mother made me
blue bonnet, blue apron
blue of the sky without violence
blue dust on the grapes on the vine
blue mist on the pond's dark face
blue glint of the blackberries
blue of the early morning
blue-white of the damp laundry on the line
blue of the juniper berries
blue of the cornflowers, chicory
pale blue Ameraucana eggs
blue gleam of the rat snakes
blue shadow and hiss of the
electric spark
kerosene flame
barn fire

poem by Han VanderHart, published in Screen Door Review

Forthcoming in Larks with Ohio University Press

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Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🌟 It’s live! 🌟 The inaugural issue of Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry is now available online! 🎉✨ Thank you to everyone who’s supported this journey. We're so excited to share this first issue with all of you.💛 📖✨Read the full issue today here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue1

A promotional image for the inaugural issue of Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry featuring the cover of Volume 1, Issue 1. The cover features a blue and salmon pink color scheme with an illustration of a woman who is depicted as a vessel, filling up with her own tears. The text reads: "Inaugural Issue Out Now! January 29, 2025."

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Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

2nd poem in @screendoorreview.bsky.social is a collaboration w/ @poemsandcake.bsky.social! This poem spotlights two teachers who had a huge impact on my life. Read the entire issue here: www.screendoorreview.com/issue-19/.

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Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Poem In Which I Never Had Low Self-Esteem” is up at @screendoorreview.bsky.social. While every publication is special, a publication in a journal that spotlights queer voices means a little more to me as a proud homo. Issue 19 is so good! www.screendoorreview.com/issue-19/

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Abundant thanks to the @screendoorreview.bsky.social for accepting my poems in a journal that features queer voices of the South. So proud to share this safe space with poets of the queer community. Below is one of my poems “All of Them Gentlemen” Read the entire issue at screendoorreview.com.

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Screen Door Review @screendoorreview.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Our poets! We haven't found everyone here yet but here's who you CAN follow: @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social @eurydicespeaks.bsky.social @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social ...& you should definitely follow them. ❤️

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Honored to not only have two of my poems between the covers of Hayden’s Ferry Review, but share this space with Sean Reynolds, Ben Kline, Sydney Mayes, and many other talented writers. Gratitude towards poetry editor Zack Lesmeister for believing in my work.

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Honored to not only have two of my poems between the covers of Hayden’s Ferry Review, but share this space with Sean Reynolds, Ben Kline, Syndry Mayes, and many other talented writers. Gratitude towards poetry editor Zack Lesmeister for believing in my work.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

happy @theparisreivew.bsky.social is sharing “poem to my yellow coat” day to all who celebrate

Lucille Clifton

poem to my yellow coat

today i mourn my coat.
my old potato.
my yellow mother.
my horse with buttons.
my rind.
today she split her skin
like a snake,
refusing to excuse my back
for being big
for being old
for reaching toward other
cuffs and sleeves.
she cracked like a whip and
fell apart,
my terrible teacher to the end;
to hell with the arms you want
she hissed,
be glad when you’re cold
for the arms you have.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This poem of mine was in Paris Review last year. I don't know what's going on over there, but they're preparing to publish another poem by me this year.

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Luke Johnson @lukejohnsonpoet.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A poem for my daughter and your daughter and cross continental echoes. @ghostcitypress.bsky.social ghostcitypress.com/poetry0125/2...

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Luke Johnson — Ghost City Press

Doppelgänger 

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This memorializes everything that Lynch was to his art. “Self-Portrait as David Lynch” by David Roderick

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today’s Featured Poet: Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX who was raised by former undocumented parents. As a finalist for The Wisconsin Poetry Series, his debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is out now, University of Wisconsin Press.

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Saúl Hernández @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Thank you @poetrydaily.bsky.social for featuring my poem!

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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Oh, Mr Lynch, a world without your genius must be a dream

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A truly gifted actress. I saw her and Maggie Smith as Lady Wishfort and Mrs Millament in William Congreve's The Way of the World at the Theatre Royal in London in 1985. She was brilliant (in the British sense and the American sense as well). A treasured memory 💜

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