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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 21h

"We have a 'bird cam' that I often have open on my computer so I can give myself frequent breaks and stare mindlessly at birds while I’m working." Read our latest lovely interview with poet-author Sarah Carey! www.poetose.com/pub/creators...

"We have a 'bird cam' that I often have open on my computer so I can give myself frequent breaks and stare mindlessly at birds while I'm working." -Sarah Carey

"The whole concept of roots in its many definitions intrigues me. I'm currently working on several poems that explore roots, not only from the genetic/physiological/ancestral perspective, but from environmental/ecological perspectives as well." -Sarah Carey

"I have learned over time that I grew the most from some of the most vivid disappointments I've experienced." -Sarah Carey

"Don't be afraid to take risks in your life, and recognize that risk does not always announce itself with a capital 'R.'" -Sarah Carey

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I’m trying hard to find my way back home but it’s getting dark and I’m not ready..." "Hey Cowboy" by Timothy Geiger: www.poetose.com/pub/hey-cowb... #poem #poetry #publisher #writing #writers

"Hey Cowboy" by Timothy Geiger: https://www.poetose.com/pub/hey-cowboy-timothy-geiger#

Handwritten poem "Hey Cowboy" by Timothy Geiger: https://www.poetose.com/pub/hey-cowboy-timothy-geiger#

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re delighted to nominate these poems and creative nonfiction pieces for Best of the Net: www.poetose.com/nominations.... We are grateful to all our wonderful contributors! Keep writing and putting beautiful things in the world 💚

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"In Her Final Fall" by @donranard.bsky.social: www.poetose.com/pub/in-her-f... #poem Donald A. Ranard's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, North American Review, New World Writing Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, The Washington Post, The Best Travel Writing, and many other publications.

"In Her Final Fall" by @donranard.bsky.social: https://www.poetose.com/pub/in-her-final-fall-donald-a-ranard#/

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A wonderful conversation with Poetose author & high school teacher @patrickhueller.bsky.social & Journey of an Aesthete Podcast's Mitch Hampton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6X... Patrick and Mitch talk about Patrick's love for the profession of teaching, catching the teacher bug, reading, and more!

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S8: Poetry and Education, A Conversation with Patrick Hueller

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"love baked into little cakes" by Daniel A. Rabuzzi: www.poetose.com/pub/love-bak... A Pushcart nominee, Rabuzzi has had poetry chapbooks published by Moonstone Arts Center (2025), and Finishing Line Press (2026).

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Coffee Shop Gallup" by Diana Raab: www.poetose.com/pub/coffee-s... Raab is a poet, memoirist, teacher, and award-winning author of 11 books and editor of three anthologies. Her latest collection, WALKING MYSELF HOME: HAIBUN & HAIKU is due out in 2027 by Finishing Line Press. www.dianaraab.com

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"In the Pool" by Bruce Morton: www.poetose.com/pub/in-the-p... Bruce Morton divides his time between Montana and Arizona. He is the author of PLANET MORT (FootHills Publishing, 2024) and the chapbook OLIVE-DRAB KAHKI BLUES (FootHills, 2026). #poem #poetry #writer #writing #publishing

"In the Pool" by Bruce Morton: https://www.poetose.com/pub/in-the-pool-bruce-morton#/

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Fifty Times the Weight" by Candace Angelica Walsh: www.poetose.com/pub/fifty-ti... Candace Angelica Walsh is The Connecticut Poetry Society's 2026 Experimental Poetry Prize Winner, a Best of the Net Nominee, and New Ohio Review Nonfiction Prize Finalist. #poem #poetry #poet #writer #publishing

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Ticket to the Gun Show" by Billie Pritchett: www.poetose.com/pub/ticket-t... Billie Pritchett teaches in the Department of Liberal Arts and English Education at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. #poem #poetry #writing #writer #literature #publishing

"Ticket to the Gun Show" by Billie Pritchett: https://www.poetose.com/pub/ticket-to-the-gun-show-billie-pritchett

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Trill" by J.D. McGee: www.poetose.com/pub/trill-jd... J.D. McGee teaches high school literature in South Florida. The recipient of several national awards and honors, he is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University. #poem #poetry #poet

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Overpainting History" by Reiner Heidorn: www.poetose.com/pub/overpain... Heidorn is a German painter with a focus on freshwater microorganisms, plants, and chlorophyll. He has collected old school maps and paints them over, including maps from the Nazi regime.

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Look" by Sandy Solomon: www.poetose.com/pub/look-san... Sandy Solomon’s book, PEARS, LAKE, SUN, which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, was published simultaneously in the UK by Peterloo Poets. #poem #poetry #poems #writing #publisher

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're delighted to have Canela Tustin starting this month as our Fall 2026 intern! Canela is a college student and writer in Cambridge, MA. She studies math and comparative literature. In her free time, she likes to drink tea, read, blog, and learn to cook. Her website is canelatustin.com

Canela is a college student and writer in Cambridge, MA. She studies math and comparative literature. In her free time, she likes to drink tea, read, blog, and learn to cook. Her website is canelatustin.com

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Minnesota Public Radio (@mprnews.org) recently featured Poetose author and High School English Teacher Patrick Hueller (@patrickhueller.bsky.social)! 👨‍🏫 Listen to the recording of the broadcast here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... Thank you, Emily Bright, for this wonderful interview!

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"For years, I’d been brainstorming something of a teaching manifesto. Instead, I wrote these poems." Happy pub day to @patrickhueller.bsky.social! FALLING, IN LOVE WITH TEACHING is available. Read an interview with him: www.poetose.com/pub/creators... poetose.substack.com/p/creators-o...

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Gray spirals hold your voice I press it to my ear while the years run backward..." "Moon-Snail Shell" by Alisha Fernandez: www.poetose.com/pub/moon-sna... #poem #poetry #writers #writing #literaryjournal

Moon-snail shell

Gray spirals
hold your voice
I press it to my ear
while the years
run backward.

My small fingers
sifting sand
in golden ratio,
your invisible
hand around mine.
A foamy ocean
mouth swallows
our skipped stones.
We dance across
driftwood ribs
and find the singing
tidepools,
dipping our ankles with
the sunbathing starfish.
We never made wishes into the waves.

I trace the gray edges of this shell,
the way your thumb must have curved
around me,
humming sunshine
before you left.

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Jane” by Tina Barry: www.poetose.com/pub/jane-tin... Tina Barry’s third collection I TELL HENRIETTA, with art by Kristin Flynn, was published in 2024 (Aim Higher, Inc.). She is the author of BEAUTIFUL RAFT and MALL FLOWER (Big Table Publishing). #poem #poetry #publisher #writers #literaryjournal

Jane

by Tina Barry
Jane,
Your son calls to say you’re dying.
While you could still talk, I asked

if you remembered the design
studio where we met.

More exhale than words: I remember.
Drowning in that strange sea of satin and chenille,

piles of plush cotton, we butted tables
together, safe on our fabric-strewn raft,

crafted a language we shared for 40 years.

Jane,
All spring I’ve been stuck
without you in this in-between

my skin numb to the velvet of flowers.
Finches flash, gaudy in their pinwheel-yellow

coats. A color you once mixed in a minute—
lemon, cadmium, the tiniest dot of Vandyke brown.

For you, nothing could be bright enough.

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"She wears an apron, always, red-stained with tomato sauce and wisps of flour..." "The Apron" by Linda Scacco: www.poetose.com/pub/the-apro... Linda Scacco is a semi-retired psychologist who loves stories about family, connections, and resilience. #poem #poetry #poet

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"The Apron" by Linda Scacco

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Hueller’s FALLING, IN LOVE WITH TEACHING, isn’t just about his love of teaching. It’s about falling in love with humanity itself...” www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm... #teaching #teacher #poetry Thank you for this beautiful & insightful interview, Jenn Hollmeyer (@jennhollmeyer.bsky.social)!

“Patrick Hueller’s Falling, in Love with Teaching isn’t just about his love of teaching. It’s about falling in love with humanity itself.” -Jenn Hollmeyer

“Falling, in Love with Teaching serves as a powerful reminder that real wisdom isn’t expressed through rote recitation of dates and facts. It’s expressed through the heart, from person to person, and from poet to reader, in lessons that will last a lifetime.” -Jenn Hollmeyer

Book cover for FALLING, IN LOVE WITH TEACHING

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"...sometimes i follow the scatter of age spots with one finger, counting them like porch lights on a road i’ve taken home a hundred times..." "Arthritic Shoulders Make Nice Homes" by Adalain E. Sans: www.poetose.com/pub/arthriti... #poem #poetry #poets

Arthritic Shoulders Make Nice Homes by Adalain E. Sans, 2026

when my breath catches
i rest my chin
on the shelf of your shoulder,

mouth pressed
to the small ridge of bone
beneath your skin.

sometimes
i follow the scatter of age spots
with one finger,

counting them
like porch lights
on a road i’ve taken home
a hundred times.

between your collarbone
and shoulder blade,
there is a hollow
made for returning.

i fit there.
i’ve been there before.

warm beneath my cheek
the ache
loosens its grip.

the hollow becomes home.

outside,
the world keeps asking
something of me.

here,
it asks for nothing.

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Join English teacher & poet @patrickhueller.bsky.social for a talk, reading, Q&A, and book signing on Thursday, September 3 @subtextbookstore.bsky.social 👨‍🏫 Drawing on his experience in the classroom, Hueller writes with humor, honesty, and care about teaching. subtextbooks.com/events/51052

Drawing on his experience in the classroom, Patrick Hueller writes with humor, honesty, and care about teaching. Join us for a short talk, poetry reading, audience Q&A, and book signing the evening of Thursday, September 3 at SubText: A Bookstore.

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Remember that you are a transitional being—a provisional presence among countless other provisional beings." A beautiful interview with Boston-based author, critic, translator, and professor Patrick Sylvain: www.poetose.com/pub/creators... #poet #poetry #authorinterview #publishing #writer

"Haiti’s history is never merely historical for me—it is lived memory. Colonialism, revolution, occupation, dictatorship, migration, and resistance continue to shape the emotional and political landscape of Haitian life. My poems often explore how these histories remain inscribed upon bodies, languages, and landscapes." -Patrick Sylvain

"Poetry, for me, is a space where complexity can exist without demanding immediate resolution. If the poems possess any power, I hope it comes from their willingness to remain with difficult truths rather than turning away from them. Human experience is rarely singular, and poetry should honor that multiplicity." -Patrick Sylvain

"I no longer believe language can fully capture reality. Rather, I think poetry approaches truth asymptotically—it moves toward it without ever completely possessing it. That uncertainty is precisely what keeps me writing." -Patrick Sylvain

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy pub day to poet Sarah Schwartz! Read a wonderful interview with her on our website: www.poetose.com/pub/creators... or via our Substack at poetose.substack.com You can get a copy of THE CALLING at: www.poetose.com/store/p17/th... #poetry #poet #poems #publisher #writers

Sarah Schwartz's beautiful debut collection of poems, THE CALLING, contends that we are each called to a way of seeing the world. Moving from the microscopic view of a chemist to the macroscopic view of a geologist, the mathematical view of an architect to the exuberant view of a painter, these poems both delight in and resist the notion of an “occupation.” Schwartz writes: "We are made of many strange shapes, and we don’t even think about it." These poems ponder our abundant strangeness and don't shy away from "what is most radical about human existence."

“With THE CALLING, Sarah Schwartz takes on the guises of various professions, ranging from ‘The Astronaut’ to ‘The Matriarch’ to ‘The Poet,’ to ask meditative questions about what it means to be human and the lines between ‘biological essentialism versus cultural socialization.’ The speakers in these poems are seeking answers about life’s abounding mysteries: the nature of desire, how to form meaningful connections, among others. Schwartz’s poems are like little jewels, finely shaped and expertly polished.” ~Stevie Edwards, author of THE WEATHER INSIDE and QUIET ARMOR.

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Sometimes I pick at myself, and pull at snagged threads of my life, words, deeds, thoughts, woven in weft and warp, pulled against my bias, well-worn, yet form-fitting..." “Threadbare” by Richard Stimac: www.poetose.com/pub/threadba... #poetry #poem #poet #literaryjournal #litjournal

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"They are everywhere, eggs imperceivable, clinging to the bottom of cans, their webs the same drab color as the cabinets..." "Grain Moths" by Anne Moore Odell: www.poetose.com/pub/grain-mo... #poem #poetry #publisher #writer #writers

"Grain Moths" by Anne Moore Odell handwritten poem

Paul Zeidman @pezscreenwriting.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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Great talk w/writer/poet @sherrevernon.bsky.social n (TRANSLATING BLUE) on @podcastcwl.bsky.social about loving the sound of words, striking a balance when you write, how complexity is important, and the value of finding the right word spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/EeZQllTwX4b youtu.be/QdgVI5jF5Zw

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Writer/poet Sherre Vernon (TRANSLATING BLUE) talks about loving the sound of words, striking a balance when you write, how complexity is important, and the value of finding the right wordhttp://sherre...

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Mark your calendar for #LitMagWeek from Sep. 28 to Oct. 2! We'll be joining >100 literary journals, magazines, & presses to offer discounts, share insider stories, and more. Learn more: LitMagWeek.com Thanks to Brett Van Emst of @midnightmindmag.bsky.social for this idea & brilliant execution!

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thank you to Sundress Publications and Guest Editor Merrick Sloane for featuring poems from Soon Jones’ THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE! Read Soon’s poems, “Half/Slice” and “You Cannot Serve God and Mammon": sundressblog.com/2026/07/14/t... sundressblog.com/2026/07/15/t... #poetry #poems #poet

The Creative Writing Life podcast @podcastcwl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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Writer/poet @eichelbard.bsky.social (EVERYTHING IS) talks “translating the untranslatable”, adding human detail, why writers should write everything, the Stargate universe, and “don’t show, let them see” spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/jw01GIjCM4b youtu.be/X-gVmlxRWE4

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Miguel Eichelberger by The Creative Writing Life

Writer/poet Miguel Eichelberger (EVERYTHING IS) talks “translating the untranslatable”, adding human detail, why writers should write everything, the Stargate universe, and “don’t show, let them see”h...

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Miguel Eichelberger @eichelbard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Got the wonderful opportunity to talk about my work on The Creative Writing Life Podcast @podcastcwl.bsky.social about my book, Everything Is from @poetose.bsky.social #Poetry

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Paul Zeidman @pezscreenwriting.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A great talk w/writer/poet @eichelbard.bsky.social on @podcastcwl.bsky.social about “translating the untranslatable”, adding human detail, why writers should write everything, the Stargate universe, and “don’t show, let them see” spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/jw01GIjCM4b youtu.be/X-gVmlxRWE4

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Miguel Eichelberger by The Creative Writing Life

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Characters: A short poem in English, French, and Japanese" by Andrew Milne: www.poetose.com/pub/characte... #poem Milne is a writer based in Vancouver. "Characters" is an unusual work for him, since it depends on the visual form of the Chinese characters, which have to be seen as well as heard.

Handwritten poem, "Characters," by Andrew Milne

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Long winter. How my life unfolds..." "Don’t Waste Sorrow" by @lanaayers23.bsky.social: www.poetose.com/pub/dont-was... Lana Hechtman Ayers has shepherded over 150 poetry collections into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. #poem #poetry #publisher #writer #writers

Photo by Lana Hechtman Ayers of trees by a body of water with mountains in the backdrop.

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"...I don’t know who I will be today— the bird on the wire or the bird in flight..." "Sighting" by Meghan Sterling: www.poetose.com/pub/sighting... #poem

"Sighting" by Meghan Sterling

Delicate birdsong
and yesterday’s rain
disappearing into grass
and pavement, down
sewer grates and gutters,
the greedy river wild and
stuttered with wind like
a fork’s metal tines. I don’t
know who I will be today—
the bird on the wire or the bird
in flight. Silver tarnished or polished.
How can I be enough
do enough, feel enough.
O river bird. O drowned hours.

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Jo can fly. But don’t look up, she won’t be in the sky overhead, the one we can see, the sky that hosts all things that fly..." "The Sky Below" by Philip Matcovsky: www.poetose.com/pub/the-sky-... #prosepoem #prosepoetry #poem #flight #publisher

The prose poem, "The Sky Below," by Philip Matcovsky:

Jo can fly. But don’t look up, she won’t be in the sky overhead, the one we can see, the sky that hosts all things that fly. Jo sails the inner sky, where there isn’t a bird, plane, or sun, just a vacancy, an endless hole. Inside the belly of Earth there isn’t a mass of fiery metal as hot as the sun, like scientists claim, but an emptiness instead that provides relief, Jo says, the inner sky, where she floats mostly, kind of hovers in place, as if a gentle hand is holding her up. She spreads her arms and legs to feel like a star. Jo describes it as cleansing; compares it to sitting on the beach being washed by the ocean’s breath and the rocking sound of waves, forward and backward. Before and afters are rinsed away there, in the sky below your feet. My favorite part is that Jo talks to Earth from the inner sky, not to invisible earth creatures, but to Earth itself. What is said between them is very personal, about who she truly is, and where she comes from. I’m left to imagine the details.

Handwritten prose poem, "The Sky Below," by Philip Matcovsky:

Jo can fly. But don’t look up, she won’t be in the sky overhead, the one we can see, the sky that hosts all things that fly. Jo sails the inner sky, where there isn’t a bird, plane, or sun, just a vacancy, an endless hole. Inside the belly of Earth there isn’t a mass of fiery metal as hot as the sun, like scientists claim, but an emptiness instead that provides relief, Jo says, the inner sky, where she floats mostly, kind of hovers in place, as if a gentle hand is holding her up. She spreads her arms and legs to feel like a star. Jo describes it as cleansing; compares it to sitting on the beach being washed by the ocean’s breath and the rocking sound of waves, forward and backward. Before and afters are rinsed away there, in the sky below your feet. My favorite part is that Jo talks to Earth from the inner sky, not to invisible earth creatures, but to Earth itself. What is said between them is very personal, about who she truly is, and where she comes from. I’m left to imagine the details.

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"My sponsor says: get a plant your first year sober; no relationships..." "Gardening at Night" by Alex Stolis: www.poetose.com/pub/gardenin... #poem #poetry #poet #publisher #literaryjournal

Gardening at Night handwritten by Alex Stolis

My sponsor says: get a plant
your first year sober;
no relationships.

At Home Depot I pile a cart—
shredded mulch, orange-stickered
shovels, rake. Forget gloves.

Your mom rolled her eyes, made
gallons of lemonade. I chain-smoked,
dug tight rows and misted rainbows;

scalped the lawn between jobs,
sleepwalk watered—hose
swaying in time with crickets.

Next spring was bone dry
then biblical deluge, then you:
toddling barefoot behind me

through fresh-cut grass, babbling
to dandelions—
too pretty, too pretty.

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poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We're excited to participate in #LitMagWeek this fall, September 28 – October 2. Mark your calendar and keep an eye out for discounts, behind the scenes content, and stories of lots of literary magazines. We'll be sure to give away some merch including our popular book earrings and notebooks ;)

Notebook featuring bunnies in a purple reading room library

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“I am so glad to have read Soon Jones’ work. This collection spoke so unflinchingly about identity and the grieving that can come with shedding our internal and external pasts. All of it was just so beautifully haunting.” —Margaux Williamson, writer & bookseller www.poetose.com/store/p16/th...

“I am so glad to have read Soon Jones’ work. I appreciated how this collection spoke so unflinchingly about identity and the grieving that can come with shedding our internal and external pasts. All of it was just so beautifully haunting.” —Margaux Williamson, writer & bookseller on THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE by Soon Jones

These Aren't My Woods Anymore by Soon Jones

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A lovely poem, “By the Cam,” by @sandysolomon.bsky.social who spends part of the year in England: www.poetose.com/pub/by-the-c... #poetry #poet #poem #publisher #publishing #smallpress #england

Punter on the River Cam with people in the boat

poetose.bsky.social @poetose.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"Love is one of the essential experiences of being alive. Through love we mature, we grow, and we gradually become whole. Love enables us to see ourselves more clearly, to hear our own inner voice, and to understand who we truly are." ~Xue Di www.oceanstatestories.org/q-a-with-xue...

"Blue White Water is a sequence of twelve interconnected prose poems. At its heart is a melancholy love story based on a relationship I experienced while living in mainland China. The work explores urban life, the landscape of the modern city, the restlessness of youth, and the atmosphere of repression, longing, and illusion that defined that era. It tells the story of a lonely poet and his love for a beautiful, gentle woman. That love flows like water—bringing joy and bewilderment, tenderness and distress. Desire is inseparable from the pressure of the political climate. At times the water is clear; at others it is polluted. Sometimes it rushes forward in torrents; sometimes it dries up altogether. That is the blue and white water flowing through the heart of a young poet." -Xue Di

“Night is my favorite time of day. I love its stillness, its power to gather one’s thoughts, and the harmony it offers to solitude. At night you can hear your own inner voice more clearly. You can also hear nature breathing peacefully as it rests. That quiet breath carries a fragrance of its own, one that completely captivates the creative spirit.” -Xue Di

“Love is one of the essential experiences of being alive. Through love we mature, we grow, and we gradually become whole. Love enables us to see ourselves more clearly, to hear our own inner voice, and to understand who we truly are. Through the person we love, we come to understand ourselves more deeply and discover the meaning of our lives.” -Xue Di