"When I think about the Hall of Dead People I look under my feet. How beautiful and mossy they smell."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Ekstasis by @jennymolberg.bsky.social (2025 The @adroitjournal.bsky.social) theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
"You can also save someone’s life by loving them, by just being with them so they’re not alone." - @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in the intro to this beautiful and gutting poem about friendship by @jennymolberg.bsky.social
A text graphic featuring a portion of Jenny Molberg's poem.
A photograph of poet Jenny Molberg. She has long dark blonde hair and is standing in front of a textured wall. Her hair is covering her face.
“It can be so hard to accept help from others, especially if you pride yourself on being self-sufficient," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1387 of The Slowdown.
Read “Different Kinds of Sadness" by @jennymolberg.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4oIADBE
For the first time in our 54-year history, we’re thrilled to name a Nonfiction Editor to the masthead: the essayist, poet, cultural critic, and all-around beautiful human Hanif Abdurraqib. He's excited to read your essays! Read more about Hanif below, or visit his website: https://www.abdurraqib.com
Description of accepted AWP panel, "Unsilenced: Poetic Testimonies of Domestic Violence"
I'll be at #AWP26, with @jennymolberg.bsky.social, @michellementing.bsky.social, Iliana Rocha, and Lisa Fay Coutley
Finally, celebrate with me by buying a book from Tupelo's remarkable and important catalogue -- @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, @jennymolberg.bsky.social, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social -- and so many more!
“My sister lies awake, recording sputters
that drum her belly like two bagged birds.
These days I want to sleep, really sleep, with the window
thrown open. I want to meet my sister’s son.”
-Jenny Molberg
www.poetrynw.org/jenny-molber...
White text on a black background: On the beach we'd found a giant Pacific chiton, prehistoric in orange armor, vulvar foot still pulsing between its gills. Jenny Molberg, "The Red Negligee"
Jenny Molberg, a white woman with long blond hair arranged in waves over her left shoulder. She is wearing large blue hoop-style earrings and a black top and is seated in a darkened room with bookshelves by a window.
"On the beach we’d found a giant / Pacific chiton, prehistoric in orange / armor, vulvar foot still pulsing / between its gills ..." This week's miCRo is "The Red Negligee" by @jennymolberg.bsky.social, a love poem with complex emotional sentiments. Link in first comment:
An early holiday edition of the Friday Five!
Music by SG Goodman, McKinley Dixon and Oldstar
Words by Ione Skye and @jennymolberg.bsky.social
Get into it: aarikdanielsen.com/blog/july-04...
Yes, me too! Excited to read your work.
Big thanks to The Missouri Review for featuring my poem as the Poem of the Week! missourireview.com/number-1-by-...
Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
Israel has just assassinated two Palestinian journalists. I learned about the assassination of Hossam Shabat from breaking news that interrupted the news of the assassination of Mohammad Mansour.
Hossam’s car was targeted by an Israeli missile.
BRING IT ON, DREAD. www.versedaily.org/2025/pentime...
Thank you for sharing, Mary ❤️
Wow: this poem. "Pentimento" by Jenny Molberg on Verse Daily today. @jennymolberg.bsky.social www.versedaily.org/2025/pentime...?
A dream come true to have a poem in APR. I hope this reaches those who need not to be alone in this. 💛
Glad to feel a glimmer of Texas pride in this hot mess.
Thanks to North American Review for naming my poem,”Veronica,” a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, surrounded by many poets I admire. Here she is 💜
"Poems are the best time machines humans have invented so far" - @erinwriter.bsky.social
👏 Phenomenal discussion on writing and revision with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @jennymolberg.bsky.social @erinwriter.bsky.social and Jenny Yang Cropp www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov31...
Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two — And see what worms are eating At the rind.
Aren't you
CONGRATULATIONS to Andrew Garvin, winner of this year’s Prufer Poetry Prize, selected by Sarah Ghazal Ali. Andrew will receive $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of PLEIADES. Read more here: pleiadesmag.com/congratulati...
Thanks for sharing, Chen Chen, from The Trees Witness Everything
new David Wojciechowski ALWAYS a cause for celebration!
"The director is having fun with angles. He falls down the stairs. He fires a gun at his temple and the ocean pours out. Two ghosts float out of an accident. They spiral like water and disappear..."
https://www.havehashad.com/2aez7
Winter Poem Nikki Giovanni once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kiss it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then i reached to love them all and i squeezed them and they became a spring rain and i stood perfectly still and was a flower
Nikki Giovanni ❤️
Sending so many positive vibes 💜
A blue, black, and white graphic showing the names and author photos of this year's Poetry Faculty for our Adult Writers Online Poetry Faculty: Leila Chatti, Tyree Daye, Christian Gullette, Lisa Low, Richie Hofmann, and Natalie Shapero.
We're absolutely glowing about our Poetry Faculty for this round of our Winter Online Adult Writers Workshops. See the entire faculty and apply by December 15th at the link below!
kenyonreview.org/event/winter...
