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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

6/ Which is why I say haiku are "two worlds in one breath."

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

5/ So to think of haiku in a way that's respectful of the tradition, you have to see it as a kind of tiny PechaKucha. It doesn't matter how many syllables you cram into the length of time, it's the length of time that matters—in the haiku that's one breath.

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

4/ What's especially interesting about this cool concept, though, is that it might illuminate why haiku are not 5-7-5. In the Japanese, those are 5-7-5 mora, not syllables. Like measuring a poem by time rather than meter, mora is a unit of DURATION rather than stress.

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

3/ We're used to measuring poems by line length or meter, but measuring time is something we hardly ever do outside of a poetry slam.

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

2/ The whole presentation, then, should be exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. And if you click the link, you'll see the audio recording is ... 6 minutes and 40 seconds, plus an extra few seconds of silence on either side of the track.

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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

3/ Killed in action during WWI at 34, Hulme left a small but mighty legacy. His bold ideas endure, proving a few poems can change everything. Learn more about rest of the Imagist legacy on this week's episode of The Poetry Space_: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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ep. 104 - The Imagists

Podcast Episode · The Poetry Space_ · 06/13/2025 · 55m

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

2/ Hulme wanted poetry be “hard and dry,” free of romantic fluff. His influence on Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others cemented modernist verse, turning words into crisp, photographic images.

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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 · 01/06/2025

Thanks, Matthew, good one to bring up—I don't think we've read that on the podcast before! Also good suggestion!

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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

10/ Another great little Imagist poem, "Fog" by Carl Sandburg:

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

Mike White's "NASCAR" from Rattle 32 is the first to come to mind—note the way the triple-metaphor relies on the immediacy of the image of the dog: rattle.com/nascar-by-mi...

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

8/ What's your favorite use of imagery in a poem? Share some in the comments and we'll share them on the next episode of The Poetry Space_! I'll add some more too.

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

7/ Images are processed more quickly and permanently than the other senses we can evoke—and they function most effectively in the symbolic realm where the wisdom of our holistic right-brains reside. Images are the stuff of dreams, and dreams are the stuff of poetry.

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

6/ The Imagists—Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, etc.—recognized this, and taught us all to be visual writers ever since.

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

5/ We read body language, we remember subtle differences in faces, and our recognition of visual symmetry is the foundation to our sense of beauty itself. Our brains care so much about vision that we evolved whites in our eyes just so that we can see what others are seeing.

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

4/ As scavenging hunter-gatherers, we relied primarily on sight for threat-detection and food acquisition, and honed those tools even further as a key component of group social structure.

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

3/ Why is imagery such an important element in poetry? Around 40% of of human cerebral cortex is devoted to image processing—more than all the other senses combined.

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

2/ That painting is Charles Demuth's "The Figure 5 in Gold," inspired by one of the great William Carlos Williams poems:

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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

7/ That's my perspective, anyway. But I'm curious what everyone things about spirituality in poetry. What is the most spiritual poem to you? I'll add more examples throughout the day.

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

6/ But any poem can be seen as the product of this kind of attention. The poets job is to notice their own attention, and to bring forward its complexity into our working vocabulary. It doesn't matter what the poems are about. rattle.com/the-play-of-...

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The Play of Lovers by Colette Inez - Rattle: Poetry

Pears soft to the thumb, wine.

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

4/ To me, poetry is an ecstatic conversation with the deep mystery of our own existence. There are things we can know before we know them, somehow, and art is the process of pulling that symbolic, gnostic wisdom into the model of the world we inhabit.

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

3/ If you've been following anything I do, including my discussion with Li-Young Lee last weekend, you know that I think of poetry as a spiritual practice even though I don't adhere to any religion. youtube.com/live/OrXBGgs...

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Li-Young Lee | Rattlecast 292

YouTube video by Rattle Poetry

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

2/ We'll be joined by one of my favorite poets, Chris Anderson, who is a Catholic deacon, but uses the creative imagination to leap deeper into the core of his faith. deaconchrisanderson.com

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Deacon Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is a believer and a walker in the woods. I am also a Catholic deacon, an English Professor at Oregon State University, and a writer.

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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

Anyway, it's fun to be a part of this new trailblazing for writers. The future is coming.

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

Because you own one of the 99 copies that exist, you can think of the book as a potential investment—something that just doesn't happen with the traditional mass-production publishing system.

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

Buying a copy of the limited edition ebook can be done with a credit card, and Alexandria's checkout process create a wallet where the book lives and can be send straight to your Kindle.

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

… each with a different cover, all of them combining to zoom closer in a fractal loop: www.alexandriabooks.com/collection/h...

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