iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m excited to have a poem in the summer issue of the wonderful new literary magazine Portico

030

Reposted by Steven Searcy

Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

“*Nature Poems To See By* has the power to help our forgetful world remember the art of poetry. Peters’s comics illustrate (both figuratively and literally) what it means to see everything around us with a poetic vision—full of attention, wonder, and gratitude.” @stevensearcy.bsky.social

mereorthodoxy.com

The Artist’s Pen Bodying Forth the Poet’s Imagination

This book ought to be in every public library, with hopes that readers will discover a winsome introduction to poetry or find a lost delight rekindled.

021

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I’m excited to have a poem in the April issue of First Things!

220

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I’m happy to have a poem in the current issue of James Dickey Review. Thanks to editor Bill Walsh!

020

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

(It should never be presumed, but specifically in this case I would note that this poem’s content is not based on my own experience.) deltapoetryreview.com/2026feb-sear...

deltapoetryreview.com

Steven Searcy, Poet

000

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I have a poem in the current issue of Delta Poetry Review

140

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Thank you for doing the Internet this service!

120

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Do you know if there will be a better option for US orders? I’d really like to pick up a copy! The Carcanet site directs to an IPG page for US orders with US-based shipping, but your book is not listed there (yet anyway)—I know you may have no clue about these kinds of details…

010

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The topic of discussion was my recent essay in @newversereview.bsky.social, “Limiting Poetry’s Feedback Loop”: open.substack.com/pub/newverse...

open.substack.com

Limiting Poetry's Feedback Loop

On Writing Poems for People in the Real World

041

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I got the chance to have a conversation with Matthew Buckley Smith on the Sleerickets podcast: www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/...

140

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

…the fact that it’s easy to find so many poems that are explicitly talking about poetry, the life of the poet, etc., is the key point I wanted to highlight, a tendency which seems to me not very healthy for the art form in general. Thanks for reading and sharing!

020

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

“Energetic”—ha! Just seeing these comments. I truly wasn’t out to get Collins specifically, but he happened to provide several good examples of the kind of things I wanted to point out. Each of those individual linked poems are not necessarily bad in isolation, but…

110

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Grateful to receive my first Pushcart nomination from Forgotten Ground Regained! Many thanks to @rhunedhel.bsky.social

172

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I was honored to receive my first Best of the Net nomination from the fabulous journal New Verse Review!

062

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I’m excited to have two poems in the latest issue of Blue Unicorn. Here’s one:

020

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I’m happy to have a poem in Atlanta Review. The Spring/Summer issue also includes a section of work by living authors from another country (in translation)

010

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

My 7yo enjoyed reading this recently!

120

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The B-rhyme that won’t go away epitomizes marcescence

040

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Monomaniacal Petrarchan sonnet? 😆

120

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed these. And I greatly appreciate your cover photos!

010

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m excited to have two poems included in the latest issue of New Verse Review. Check out the full issue for tons of excellent poems! www.newversereview.com/2-1-steven-s...

0101

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thanks for the shout-out, Eric! The entire issue is full of really good stuff!

010

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I didn’t write this poem in response to your call, but it was the only alliterative poem I had that fit the theme.

100

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I have a new poem in the Winter 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, alongside some other very nice work. Thanks to editor @rhunedhel.bsky.social Check out the issue: alliteration.net/current-issue/

262

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Could call it a chiastic rhyme scheme?

020

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Thanks to the editors of @ballastjournal.bsky.social for including this little anagrammatic curio in the most recent issue!

071

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Jimmy Carter was actually a capable poet and released a collection in 1995 called Always a Reckoning (which I discovered a few years ago via my local library). Here’s one of my favorites.

1104

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

A poem about the incarnation, from my book Below the Brightness, originally published by Ekstasis

040

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I’m grateful to have this new poem in the latest issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal

051

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

My first collection of poems has been released into the world! Grateful to the team at Solum Press for turning these poems of mine into a genuine physical book (and a very beautiful one, if may say so, in my completely unbiased opinion…). www.solumpress.com/publications...

2245