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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Still amazed to be in this issue of Threepenny. It’s always been a favorite journal and the experience has been wonderful, including being in the same issue as Sharon Olds!

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One of my favorite openings to a poem. “Sole Custody” by Jack Millar

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I saw one almost this cool last year for the first time, like a giant ribbon wrapped around a cloud

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

She was one of those lighthouse figures that show us who we ought to be

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

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Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: March 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOOK As its title...

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Plume’s recent issue is great. There’s a Kurt Cobain poem but this actually may have been my favorite

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

People on Nextdoor need to chill out. Headlines are like “What the hell was that?” And “I’m so angry right now!”

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Every once in a while I like to scroll back through my poems and realize the ones I thought were great actually sucked and the ones I thought sucked were actually pretty okay

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

From Pushcart L “that blue-veined arrhythmia in a corncob of stars”

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Nice poem @rustandmoth.bsky.social published last year. This is exactly what my oldest son used to do, list of people who loved him. It’s a nice practice for everyone, really

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“As soon as you begin to ask the question, Who loves me? you are completely screwed, because the next question is How Much?” @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Kids getting ready for bed, brushing teeth. My wife goes in and soon I hear (in angry voice) WHAT IS MICROPLASTICS???

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 27/05/2026

In a new encyclical, Pope Leo XIV weighs in on artificial intelligence: “We are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Y2oE2a

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“Is it winter in our city? The city with no name? Is it long ago?” D.Nurske

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is cool to see. William McRaven, a retired four-star admiral, has a poem in The Atlantic this morning: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

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The Burden They Carry

A poem

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This 32 Poems issue is amazing. Every poem is my favorite. But this David Kirby poem is sooo good

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I love this poem by Nick Lantz @rattlepoetry.bsky.social awarded their prize for metaphor. “A woman married a skull. He had a beautiful singing voice but had never cleaned a toilet in his life.” rattle.com/dolorimetry-...

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Dolorimetry by Nick Lantz - Rattle: Poetry

A woman married a skull. He had a beautiful singing voice but had never cleaned a toilet in his life. On her birthday, he bought a gold ring for himself.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I have to tell you

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Grist has such beautiful issues. Cool to be in it with other writers I admire like @janezwart.bsky.social (whose book just arrived yesterday) feels like ages ago I wrote this but thanks to the journal for selecting it!

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

“Let me at least fail at my life.” -Jack Gilbert

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

New poem up on BOOTH. Thanks to the editors for publishing this! booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/t...

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The Reproduction – Booth

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My 6 yo made all these little books and I realized they’re all haikus. A taster: Heavy, sad, down low, Caleb walked across the pine needles. His dog did not like it.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Unsurprisingly, some work from the last decade seems once again to speak to this moment

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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Spent the last 2 weeks being astonished by this James Tate poem from a book I checked out from the library (his “Shroud of the Gnome”):

NEVER AGAIN THE SAME
Speaking of sunsets, last night's was shocking.
I mean, sunsets aren't supposed to frighten you, are
they?
Well, this one was terrifying.
People were screaming in the streets.
Sure, it was beautiful, but far too beautiful.
It wasn't natural.
One climax followed another and then another until your knees went weak and you couldn't breathe.
The colors were definitely not of this world, peaches dripping opium, pandemonium of tangerines, inferno of irises,
Plutonian emeralds,
all swirling and churning, swabbing, like it was playing with us, like we were nothing,
as if our whole lives were a preparation for this, this for which nothing could have prepared us and for which we could not have been less prepared.
The mockery of it all stung us bitterly.
And when it was finally over we whimpered and cried and howled.
And then the streetlights came on as always and we looked into one another's eyes—

ancient caves with still pools and those little transparent fish
who have never seen even one ray of light.
And the calm that returned to us was not even our own.

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

“It's today. And death tolls continue to climb. You think I want the truth?”

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Mary Oliver

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I’m sorry but shitposting Amanda Gorman as a person for trying to write after a tragedy is pretty close to the lowest we can be as poets. Don’t do this.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 03/01/2026

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 31/12/2025

"Today’s poem is about fathers and sons, and about loss. It is also about the small, shining parts of our lives that survive us and get passed down to the next generation," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1424 of The Slowdown. Read "White Hot Star" by W. Todd Kaneko: bit.ly/4q25OsO

Graphic featuring a portion of W. Todd Kaneko's poem

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“And the dream has a pain in its heart” poets.org/poem/dream-4

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Dream On

Some people go their whole lives

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It was a big year for rejections, ending with a bang!

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Jim Harrison

LARSON'S HOLSTEIN BULL

Death waits inside us for a door to open.
Death is patient as a dead cat.
Death is a doorknob made of flesh.
Death is that angelic farm girl
gored by the bull on her way home
from school, crossing the pasture
for a shortcut. In the seventh grade
she couldn't read or write. She wasn't a virgin.
She was "simpleminded," we all said.
It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars.
She's lived in my memory for sixty years.
Death steals everything except our stories.

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If the New Yorker poetry anthology is representative, my favorite decade for poetry was the 80s

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A #Skydiver Appears to Fall from the #Sun in a Stunning Image #photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...

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Seth Peterson @sethpeterson.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I must say one disturbing thing I’ve noticed in the poetry community is many people think they have deep knowledge of something bc they “researched” it for their poem. Don’t do this. If anything, poetry should make us more humble about our lack of understanding.

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