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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The rule of a train poem is that you have to keep typing at a steady pace without stopping until the poem comes to a conclusion, so that it's like a train rolling out of the tunnel of your subconscious mind. Surprising things emerge if you force that. From Poems for Katie:

A Noble Gas
everywhere I’ve ever lived is tucked inside a blue balloon loosened in a child’s hand she’s standing in her fourth grade field her classmates counting down the soccer lines look almost real beneath her feet in painted grass an unseen bee inspects a clover waiting for the shade to pass when all at once their strings let go as if the sky itself could gasp and everywhere I’ve ever lived is pressing on the inner walls and pulling up her written note and when you find it tangled in the neighbor’s fence I hope you’ll call the number and tell whoever answers where it went

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Don't forget that the Rattle Poetry Prize deadline is midnight tonight! rattle.submittable.com/submit/38839...

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If you haven't seen it, check out The Poetry Shop—a curated online bookstore just for contemporary poetry with the browsable shelves you wish your local had. They feature a weekly poet interview with book recs. This week it was me and Poems for Katie:

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Poetry Shop 5: Timothy Green, author of Poems for Katie

Say the name Timothy Green and the literary journal Rattle comes to mind. If you write poetry (and submit it) you've likely received Green’s kind-hearted rejection, and maybe even the thrilling email ...

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In collecting Poems for Katie, it was astonishing to see how much the poems knew before I did. I was sad for so long, deeply but so quietly even I couldn't hear it. This one became the cover image.

The Giant Who Had No Heart Inside His Body
by Timothy Green

after Asbjørnsen and Moe

didn’t know where to hide it. It was a big heart, after all,
as huge as a Cadillac, as loud as a kick drum, and where
do you hide such a thing? He tried the barn, wrapped

in layers of aluminum foil and linen, hung on a hook
from the highest beam—but still the field mice found it.
He woke that night to the tickle of their tiny feet inside

the huge hollow of his chest. His own laughter chased
him through the darkness until he lifted the barn roof
and scared them off. Next, he tried the bottom of the lake,

sunk with stones to the deepest part. The surface rippled
softly with every beat of the mighty heart, but the sound
was muffled and the fish well-fed. For a while, it worked—

until the cellophane began to leak, and the hole inside him
filled with water, a well overflowing, and he wept for days.
When the hungry princess arrived, it was raining. He noticed

her bright umbrella. Eat, he said, having no other choice, his voice
rolling down from the clouds. And so she ate, slice by slice,
bite by painful bite for a year, until no one anymore might find it.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

You might remember when Katie Dozier was happily headed off to a low-res MFA program. Then suddenly we stopped talking about it, and pretty much haven’t mentioned it since. When asked, we’d say that something happened. Residency Review is the story of what happened. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX8LPQS1

Residency Review cover, a star necklace on a black review form.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Surprise new book! www.timothy-green.org/books/

Poems for Katie cover, an anatomical heart wrapped in aluminum foil

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The latest episode of The Poetry Space_ was a duel between AGNI and New England Review—you can probably imagine where radical honesty took it, but who actually won is anyone's guess. Listen in to hear why these are our most popular features:

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ep. 140 - AGNI vs. New England Review

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happy to have two poems from the forthcoming book in ONE ART today. "How to Pack a Parachute" could have been the title poem. Thanks to Mark Danowsky for curating them.

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Two Poems by Timothy Green

To Noise: An Assay after Jane Hirshfield We act as though you were only a nuisance. An irritating addition to the system of being. A no thing, never …

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Thrilled to have this leading off the new issue of 32 Poems! For years, Katie's been trying to get me to actually submit poems to the magazines I like. I've been terrible about it, but it's nice to have started now at the top of the list.

A Lesser Triumph by Timothy Green ... Yesterday I remembered applause ...

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Thanks to Lester Graves Lennon and Rosebud magazine for nominating this one for a Pushcart Prize! It's always such an honor to be one of the editors' favorite pieces in a year.

The End of Loneliness Is Not a Crowd,

is not a thousand patrons talking loud
inside a cafeteria, nor the cloud
of smoke that hangs outside, a dirty shroud
over the city. Nor the field, now plowed
in the distance, nor the farmer feeling proud
about his work. Is not a tree endowed
with fruit (not hanging low, not many-boughed).
The end is not the cows so crudely cowed
inside their pens like heavy furrows browed,
as tightly packed as their beefy bulk allowed
while they kicked and stomped and groaned aloud.
The end of loneliness can’t be ka-powed
like that. The judges aren’t so simply wowed.
That doesn’t mean it should be disavowed.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Just when you think you've seen it all, today's poem at Rattle by Julie Kane is a PechaKucha—it's a spinoff of a Japanese form of slideshow presentation, where you show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, and fit stories into exactly that length of time. 1/ www.rattle.com/old-maid-a-p...

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Old Maid: A PechaKucha by Julie Kane - Rattle: Poetry

She was our father’s only sister. Being Irish and the eldest child and only daughter, she was doomed to take care of her invalid mother. Old Maid, we whispered, like the card game where the loser gets...

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Our new book-length haibun crown is hot off the press! @katiedozier.bsky.social and I wrote these through the month of April, and posted them right here every day. Pick up your copy and help prove you don't have to follow all the antiquated rules to make meaningful books!

Cover of Did You See the Moon Honey by Katie and Tim. A view of a fence looking up at the sky in neon colors.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It's really an honor to win the favorite award for an issue of Modern Haiku. There's so much great work by so many poets in every issue, and I respect that community so much.

Awards list from Modern Haiku's fall issue

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Attn: Houston Poets! There are a few slots left for our Hot Haibun workshop this August. Spend two intensive afternoons diving into the form with me and Katie Dozier!

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

In this week's episode of The Poetry Space_ with @katiedozier.bsky.social, two of my favorite poets go head to head in another date nite duel: Stephen Dunn vs. Kay Ryan. Three rounds. Three random poems. Lots of funny outfits. Listen here to find out who won: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

T.E. Hulme, poet and visionary, founded the Imagist movement in early 1900s London, crafting a sharp, vivid style that reshaped modern poetry. His life, though, was cut tragically short. 1/

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Imagism was a relatively brief trend in poetry, and maybe that was because it taught such singularly valuable lesson: even in poetry, imagery is king. 1/🧵

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Q: What literary publishers are especially modern and forward-thinking? For example, I love they way @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social focuses on community. @atticusreview.bsky.social is moving to the blockchain. Who else out there is thinking way ahead of everyone else?

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This week on The Poetry Space_ with @Katie_Dozier, we're talking about spirituality in poetry. 1/🧵

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Last year's haibun crown, Hot Pink Moon, is now available as limited-edition NFT! 1/🧵

Animated cover of Hot Pink Moon showing fireworks over a city.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Day 18. I kind of got lost in a sea of interesting reading with this one.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Day 16. I'd never heard of ghost craters—craters filled in with lava that make a kind of geological palimpsest—until @katiedozier.bsky.social's haiku yesterday. That was fun to play with.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Day 14 was a busy one, so this haibun is ready with a few minutes to spare. @katiedozier.bsky.social's haiku yesterday had a great cut: every note a memento mori

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Day 12. This is the earliest I've started writing, but it took the longest to finish. I had a plan going in, but I couldn't make it work, so had to scrap it and go in a different direction. @katiedozier.bsky.social's haiku was this: reading a poem out loud jump start!

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Day 10 of the crown … work and life have been very tiring this week, but it feels good to sneak in a poem every other day. Should try this writing thing more often.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

With "Mohs surgery" as part of @katiedozier.bsky.social's haiku yesterday, there was only really one place to go with this—but that makes finding the surprise even easier. Haibun 8:

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Day 4 of the haibun crown. @katiedozier.bsky.social's haiku was: behind [every frame] curation

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Day 2 of our new National Poetry Month haibun crown. This was @katiedozier.bsky.social's ku to kick it off: erasure poem I black out old windows So I use those words within my haibun. I didn't want to start out a fun project on a downer, but I'm in a mood, so it's true to the moment.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We're excited to be going to Poetry at Round Top at the end of April—we've never been, but people keep telling us it's beautiful. @katiedozier.bsky.social and I are teaching a workshop on "Poetry Publishing in the Digital Age"—talking about everything from traditional publishing to PoD and NFTs.

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Home | Poetry at Round Top

Poetry at Round Top is an annual festival presenting the nation's most exciting and prominent poets over three days of readings, workshops, and conversations on craft

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This week on The Poetry Space_ we're going to talk about how to make poems interesting—in a way, it's all that matters. How does a poem draw you in and make you pay attention? 1/4

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The first poem we we talked on this week's episode of The Poetry Space_ was "The Road Not Taken"—one of the most iconic and misunderstood poems in English. It's actually a joke! But such a rich joke, which makes all the difference. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/CBMxa6C6wRb

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We invented a new type of show on The Poetry Space_ last week—the Poets' Duel! We were reading poems from different books before bed one night and realized this is a great format for some fun competition. First up Bill Knott vs. Ruth Stone: open.spotify.com/episode/3e0z...

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ep. 90 - Duel! Bill Knott vs. Ruth Stone

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The new Rattle.com has launched! We're still working out some of the bugs, but it's mostly ready. The professionally developed site is so much faster and more functional than the hodgepodge I'd put together myself over the last 20 years. Stop by and give it a shake!

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The second half of our episode on poetry workshops is out. Learn about the dangers of the McPoem in this episode of The Poetry Space_! open.spotify.com/episode/4nG1...

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ep. 89 - Workshops Part II

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I wish I could share the experience of counting all the votes and hearing so much thoughtful and impassioned feedback on a set of poems. But sharing some of the quotes is always a worthy taste of it.

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Looking for some more poems ABOUT poetry workshops for this week's episode of The Poetry Space_! Any suggestions?

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

& still the faith that these feet Ours & our children’s, will trace something Beautiful, an arabesque on ice, the perfect cursive Of a name that will melt away —Dante Di Stefano

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“The Skaters” by Dante Di Stefano

At the rink, they whoosh, these little bundled Beings, their scarves graffitiing the air My daughter weaving among them, her long legs Pumping, the bright pink kitty earmuffs, a blur

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

8 poets listed their Twitter/X handles in the winter issue (set up in early fall). 0 poets chose to list X handles in the spring issue. Oof.

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