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    May 7, 2018
    Darlings, if your owners say you are / not usually like this / then I must take them / at their word —Hanif Abdurraqib poet.ly/PLz930jSlRC
    Full text of the poem "For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut" by Hanif Adburraqib, a single prose-block stanza with slashes throughout. (Link to poem in tweet.)
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    Jan 17, 2019
    all this I read in the papers, in the sunlight, I read with my cold, sharp eyes. —Mary Oliver bit.ly/2Hil9EA
    Black text on a white background of Mary Oliver's "Every Morning"
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    Submissions to POETRY are now open! 📝 bit.ly/2I7khAm
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    Dec 4, 2018
    did our grandmothers flee the fields of embers so we could find each other here? friend, you are the war’s gentle consequence —Danez Smith poet.ly/Y6lS30mQw6j
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    Sep 2, 2018
    Sometimes I don’t believe I exist until someone calls me beautiful. —Hieu Minh Nguyen 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow poet.ly/5P1r30lCxN3
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    Aug 8, 2018
    I wish I was only as cruel as the first time I noticed I was cruel —Kaveh Akbar in the March 2018 issue poet.ly/tHtl30iIzCe
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    Aug 21, 2018
    I am in the mood / to be forgotten. —Hanif Abdurraqib in the May 2018 issue poet.ly/zWI830jNnoe
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    Oct 8, 2018
    Spend some time with the work of Native poets for #IndigenousPeoplesDay2018 (and every day after!) poet.ly/Csjo30m8SM9
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    Aug 13, 2017
    my country is made in my people’s image if they come for you they come for me too —Fatimah Asghar poet.ly/jKPW30emRAY
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    Nov 18, 2018
    I balk. I lazy the bed. I wallow when I write. I truth when I lie. I throw a book when a poem undoes me. —Tiana Clark poet.ly/jWEp30msS1A
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    Mar 5, 2019
    because you kiss the parts of my body I hate most —Eloisa Amezcua bit.ly/2H97UEC
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    Jun 11, 2021
    Submit to POETRY's Collaborative Issue edited by Su Cho! Show us the active exchange through collaborative poems, epistolary exchange, call and response, ekphrasis, multiple translations and mistranslations, and forms not yet defined. Deadline: 7/1 bit.ly/3goFnuF
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    Dec 2, 2019
    I wished I had seed to toss into that green, just to see what would root. —Katie Farris @katiefar bit.ly/2rL6c6I