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We celebrate poetry that makes us better people. // We founded Paper Sigh because important poetry does not need to be perfect to be perfect to be published. // Submission guidelines at www.papersigh.com/submit.

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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're so happy to announce the publication of a new poem by Richard Onwuasor. Read it here: www.papersigh.com/poetry
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We're now on our break from socials. Feel free to still apply, though ... info. on our website ... see you in the future!
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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks to @papersigh.bsky.social for the feature 🤩 #poetry #poetrysky #naturepoetry #poems #poetryfeature
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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks so much for featuring me and your kind words about my work 🙏🙏🙏
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We're so honored to publish a feature with Gulfport, FL poet laureate Christa Fairbrother -- she reflects with us on memorable & moving lines of her own poetry published in Crannóg, Philly Chapbook Review, & Susurrus #poetrysky @christafairbrother.bsky.social www.papersigh.com/poetry
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Celebrate with poetry! www.papersigh.com/poetry #poetrysky
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Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Northeastern poet and scholar Juliana Spahr awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her 2025 collection news.northeastern.edu/2026/05/05/j... #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Summing up our feelings about what we want instead of data centers, we borrow a line from Lorca on his feelings about Andalusia: "Verde que te quiero verde." #poetry #poetrysky #lorca
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Soooo there may be some inadvertent horror poetry in a new pasta ad going around... "Tastes like family" is a key phrase #horrorpoetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Have you listened to the Emily Dickinson poems set as "Too Few the Mornings Be" by Ricky Ian Gordon, as written for Renée Fleming? #poetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A poem featuring a father -- by Bruce Weigl -- The Harp www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42748/... #poetrysky #poetry #fathersday
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The Harp
I think it was his harp, I think it was what he longed to make with his hands for the world.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Poetry for today -- Emancipation by Paul Laurence Dunbar poets.org/poem/emancip... #poetrysky
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Emancipation
Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Science-y poetry www.scientificamerican.com/article/poem... #poetrysky
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Poem: ‘The Soliloquy of Schrödinger’s Cat’
A meditation on life and the von Neumann–Wigner interpretation of quantum mechanics
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yes, more, not fewer www.countypress.co.uk/news/2618439... #poetrysky
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Isle of Wight moves a step closer to choosing its first Poet Laureate
Five candidates have been shortlisted in the quest to find the Isle of Wight's first Poet Laureate.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Poetry is therapy? Allows therapy? Sharing poetry is therapeutic? Discuss! www.bbc.com/news/article... #poetrysky
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Merthyr poet says spoken word is her 'biggest therapy' and on the up
With #Poetry amassing more than 93m Instagram posts alone, is the spoken word resonating more than ever?
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
May you find your positive starting thought this morning, so your poetry may find room to breathe #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Weekend reading ... #poetry @cavankerrypress.bsky.social #noelquinones Orange by Noel Quiñones #poetrysky
Orange by Noel Quiñones
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thinking how this Friday Eve -- Thursday, you may call it -- may blossom with weekend energy, so we may rest this weekend too #poetry #poetrysky Submissions open at papersigh.com
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Poetry makes its way www.bbc.com/news/article... #poetrysky
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I wrote a poem about my son - years later it appeared on his exam
Emily Cullen says she couldn't believe it when her son told her about the poem, which she had written seven years earlier.
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Todd W. @toddwe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Alden Ehrenreich's tie at 79th Tony Awards reminds of Abraham Lincoln's tie this 1865 "Cracked Plate" Photograph of Lincoln www.si.edu/exhibitions/... #TonyAwards #AldenEhrenreich
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"Cracked Plate" Photograph of Lincoln | Smithsonian Institution
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Was that paint roller or pain troller? Either is fine... #poetrysky #words #poetry Submissions open!
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Poetry's page is endless. www.bbc.com/news/article... #poetrysky
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Laureate's poem adorns steps at Stockton Waterfront park
Simon Armitage says he was inspired by the River Tees in the specially commissioned piece.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Have you read it? Kevin Young wins "the world's largest international prize for a single book of poetry written in or translated into English" www.cbc.ca/books/americ... #poetry #poetrysky
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American writer Kevin Young wins $130K Griffin Poetry Prize | CBC Books
The prize was awarded June 3rd at a ceremony in Toronto. Alongside Young, Vancouver writer Joseph Kidney took home the $10K Canadian First Book Prize.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
$7.7M to 40 literary arts orgs! literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t... #writing #literaryarts #poetry #funding #grants #artsfunding
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Literary Arts Fund Awards $7.7 Million to 40 Organizations and Publishers Nationwide | Literary Arts Fund
New York, NY (June 4, 2026)—The Literary Arts Fund announced today $7.7 million in inaugural unrestricted general operating grants to 40 literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states, ...
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Psst ... Submissions open ... papersigh.com ... Your work doesn't have to be perfect to be perfect to be published ... #poetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Huh. Progressive (prob the most) church group with poetry search ... www.uua.org/worship/word... Our friends often refer to this as that church where they are cool with you to remain atheist or pagan or agnostic or humanist or... (if that's how you found them) #poetrysky #poetry
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Poetry for Worship
WorshipWeb provides meaningful, inspiring resources for Unitarian Universalist (UU) worship services and personal spiritual practice.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
y'all ever stare at fabric in the fabric store and find poems there? #poetry #poetrysky (And, yes, we were in an indie fabric sewing quilting store recently)
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This morning, we're reading about poet David Henderson (1942-2026) poets.org/poet/david-h... #poetrysky #poetry
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David Henderson, born in Harlem, New York, is a poet, biographer, and cofounder of Umbra Poets, an influential collective of poets and writers who were central to the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Poetry sustains Let them know Check some poetry books out from your local library #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
OLD POEM alert ... people.com/oldest-survi... #poetry #poetrysky
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Oldest Surviving English Poem Gets Discovered in Medieval Book in Rome by 'Speechless' Researchers
Irish researchers Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner were left speechless after discovering the oldest surviving English poem, 'Caedmon's Hymn,' in a book in Rome.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
...wow, it's like the Buddha couldn't help but speak in poetry...
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
S U B M I S S I O N S O P E N #poetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Hello Saturday, the day of Sāturnī, whose planet is Saturn ... though in German, there's sunnunaband (Sun eve) and Samstag (shabat) varyingly used ... so all this in a word, holding histories, while the person who speaks the word may mean one thing too and the person who hears it another too and ...
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today has been a day of listening to words before sentences before paragraphs before pages. The precision ringing, bells through some tender times.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We saw a very cool black snake yesterday. It was cool because was snake.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
we read the guide Get Easy Money -- what to do: break the law not for justice but for evil #poetrysky #poetry
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
S U B M I S S I O N S O P E N #poetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Do you know Poets in Pajamas?! poetsinpajamas.wordpress.com
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Poets in Pajamas Reading Series
Connecting Readers and Writers Across the World
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ohhhh ... poetry may still be blistering! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... #poetrysky Sasha Debevec-McKenney
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American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘blistering’ debut poetry collection
The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
We're pleased to publish new poetry by @abigailgeorgepoet.bsky.social at papersigh.com #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Sometimes a poem is how we talk with the past while hoping those faraway overhear #poetry #poetrysky Submissions open at papersigh.com
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How do y'all feel about narrative poetry, like The Story of Sinuhe? (Various title translations.) Is there room for new 'poetey epics' today? #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Minnesota has a youth poet laureate now! www.mprnews.org/episode/2026... #poetrysky #poetry
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Minnesota names its first youth poet laureate
Sienna Lee, a junior at Moorhead High School, was honored as the inaugural youth poet laureate by the Minnesota Humanities Center.
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We really love reading these submissions! Poetry! Keep 'em comin'! #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Poet 1: Whatcha thinkin' about? Poet 2: If the 2nd-person for this poem should be imperative or narrative, & if narrative, in past, present, or future. 1: *blinks* You also write prose, don't you? 2: I'm also thinking about the personification of dolphins Ah, poet conversations #poetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
You know those Sondheim lyrics for "Sunday" -- Sunday / by the blue purple yellow red water / on the green purple yellow red grass... -- what nice sense-making, even if you don't know the musical, or even the painting in question #lyrics #poetryish #poetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Morning, poetry people. Now, be honest, when's the last time you had friends lean and drape about a living room and read out some stanzas for each other? #poetrysky (Submissions open, btw)
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
When non-writers hear writers encourage other writers to submit... do you think they ever pause... and wonder what the heck we're so ready to submit ourselves to? // Oh -- and submit! Submissions open - papersigh.com #poetry #poetrysky
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Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Ah, May 7th. We'll go with the traditional phrase: May the 7th book of poetry be with you this month. #poetrysky (submissions open)
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Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thank you, @papersigh.bsky.social, for giving this one a home.
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