#poetrymonth — Public Fediverse posts

My latest blog is all about poetry...enjoy!

https://www.jacquigreaves-author.com/blog/a-month-of-poetry

#Poetry #Poem #PoetryMonth #WritingCraft #WritingCommunity #ReadersOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #PoetsOfMastodon

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 30 Zarina Divided by @[email protected] As the Partition divides Hindu and Muslim neighbors, Zarina naviagates loss of friends, a move, and mom's complex pregnancy. When an accident leaves Zarina with guilt she decides her mom is safest with her away at boarding school.

Mistodon: April is #poetrymonth (the cruellest month!), so fittingly we have paid tribute this month to many celebrated poems and poets in the new, literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection! You can check it out at 16colo.rs or download it for local enjoyment via mistigris.org

Mistigram: April is #poetrymonth (the cruellest month!), so fittingly we have paid tribute this month to many celebrated poems and poets in the new, literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection! You can check it out at 16colo.rs or download it for local enjoyment via mistigris.org

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 28 A novel-in-verse about life after loss, 13 Ways to Say Goodbye beautifully renders the power of sibling bonds, the depth of grief, and the strength of learning to love again, perfect for fans of Everywhere Blue and The Distance to Home, from the author of The Song of Us.

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 27 The Trouble with Heroes by @[email protected] "One summer. 46 mountain peaks. A second chance to make things right." #KidLit #VerseNovel #MixedMedia

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 26 The Song of the Orphan's Garden by @[email protected] "Lyriana and Brob are the only ones who can save the Orphan's Garden—but only if they can put the ages-old battle between Humans and Giants aside and find a way to work together." #VerseNovel #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 25 The Poetry of Car Mechanics "In this powerful middle-grade novel-in-verse, Dylan seeks solace in birdwatching and poetry in the woods behind his grandfather’s auto shop—but when he rescues an injured hawk, he must learn to confront the broken parts in himself, too." #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 24 The Only Branch of the Family Tree by Sherryl Clark "A story about secrets, forgiveness and finding a way for relationships to blossom." #KidLit #VerseNovels

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 24 The Oasis by Lorisa D. Wiedenheft Charly Harding and her brother live with Granny, but when their double-wide burns to the ground they move to a dingy motel. Granny nearly collapses under the stress. With her birthday looming, Charly relies on close friends for help. #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 23 Pearl is not allowed to attend sleepovers or parties. Dad has always taught her to distrust adults. So when Dad doesn’t come home and Pearl is left alone, she must decide: keep her life secret and go it on her own? Or violate the “rule” and trust another adult to help? #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 22 The House at the Edge of the World by Nadine Aisha Jassat. "Amal and big sister Sara...chas[e] a maze of cryptic clues and eerie rumours. The closer they get to...Hope House’s secrets, the more they suspect that the house itself might have its own story to tell…" #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 21 The Girl in the Walls by @[email protected] I absolutely love this story. A neurodiverse girl, sent to stay with her grandmother over the summer, faces generational trauma literally haunting the home. #KidLit #Horror #GhostStory #MG

📚👍 #PoetryMonth The First Year by @[email protected] "...A sudden surprise appearance in Nate's life threatens to throw him completely off course. And The Beast - the anger he tries so hard to control - reappears. Will Nate find a way to keep himself and his family together?" #VerseNovel

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 19 The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez by Jasminne Paulino "...A neurodivergent seventh grader...dreams of traveling to the stars one day...When his teacher says "not yet" for the millionth time, Alex [is] ready to try show he is capable of the extraordinary." #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 18 Spark by @[email protected] "For any young person who's ever felt powerless against the world, here are two kids doing all they can to understand their natural world and preserve it." #KidLit #VerseNovel

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 17 Safe Harbor by @[email protected] As a girl navigates her parent's divorce, an international move, and finding safety and home, her emotionally journey becomes entwined with a seal pup she helps to safety at an animal rehabilitation center. #VerseNovel #Poetry #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 16 Cooper wrestles with what “shine” means for a black girl in a 1963 predominantly white community as the Birmingham church bombing, Kennedy's assassination, and Beatlemania sweep the world. She learns of race, class, faith, and finding your place in a loving family. #kidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 15 Please Pay Attention by Jaimie Sumner "A girl with cerebral palsy navigates loss, grief, and the aftermath of trauma following a school shooting in a world that wasn’t built for her" #KidLit #VerseNovel #Resilience

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 14 #KidLit #VerseNovel Oh Give me a Home by @[email protected] America and Africa collide as Jane tries to answer “Where am I from?” Will she find a best friend a continent away from life in Africa? @[email protected]

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 13 Octopus Moon by Bobbie Pyron. "Pearl wishes she was...a turtle, with a hard outer shell—it hurts too much to feel everything. As Pearl finds her way back to herself. She discovers just like the moon is always there...she’ll always be herself even when she doesn’t feel whole."

#PoetryMonth #poetry #activism

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 12 A DOUBLE title day for the weekend. Neshama by @[email protected]! "A bullied girl who communicates with ghosts finds her inner strength in this haunting novel in verse that will resonate with anyone who has felt themselves to be different."

I'm just a poet, encouraging teachers to include #VerseNovels in their #PoetryMonth! You can find history, science, and math in this past year's #MiddleGrade novel-in-verse list. And more in 2026 verse novels!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:np6r6c4xxa3sdk4hicc57sye/post/3miee7y2yjj2j

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 12 Little Bones "A grieving girl stumbles into a magical dilemma that may just set her on the path to healing in this exquisite debut novel in verse about loss, friendship, and the power of imagination to help us find our way." #VerseNovel #KidLit

✨️♡🌳🌰🌳♡✨️ existence fractures in oak's shade I drop 10,000 hearts #EastCoastKin #ShowHeart #ImageAndVerse #Cassiopeian #Exist #SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #micropoetry #photography #macro #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth #classicmono

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 11 One of my favorite authors had an #NIV publish last year. @[email protected] teaches so many #verseNovelists at @[email protected]. Lilac and the Switchback: Lilac navigates acceptance, kinship care & friendship, during her aunt's dangerous pregnancy.

It's special podcast for #LitFriday and #PoetryMonth!

Shizuka Omori reading her Six Tanka from the new issue of Literary Imagination, with translations by Yuki Tanaka, followed by a conversation with editor Paul Franz about tanka and translation

https://tiny.one/ycktmu3j

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 10 Kimmy Carson is not Scared "If Kimmy is frightened... her heart might stop. Because of her heart condition, Kimmy resigns herself to low-risk activities like chess...But she's nearly 13, and dying to go to the school Halloween horror maze with her friends." #VerseNovel

John Liddy, one of the most distinctive voice in Irish poetry, will read the original Graves poems, while Julieta Benjamin, whose work is included in Paraguay’s National Reading Program, will read Claribel Alegría’s translations. Quay Books: 6.30 pm. Tuesday 14th April.
#BooksAtOneCommunityFund.#limerickcity #limerick #limerickevents #AprilIsPoetryMonth #LimerickPoetry2026 #PoetryMonth

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 9 It's all or Nothing Vale "No one knows hard work and dedication like Valentina Camacho. And Vale’s thing is fencing. She’s the top athlete at her fencing gym. Or she was . . . until the accident." #NovelInVerse #NIV #VerseNovel #Disability #ChronicPain #Fencing #KidLit

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 8 My dear critique partner Ranjeeta's #MG #NIV published last year. And let me tell you, this #VerseNovel dances on the page! Meenakshee has not spoken since the loss of her mother. But she is desperate to advocate for abused elephants. Accompanied with beautiful illustrations.

This Tuesday at 1.00 pm at 11 Sarsfield Street, Limerick. V94 K330. Lunchtime pavement event, celebrating the spirit of the book "A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed" by James Fenton.
#BooksAtOneCommunityFund.#limerickcity #limerick #limerickevents #AprilIsPoetryMonth #LimerickPoetry2026 #PoetryMonth #gardening #garden #flowers

In mid-century Mallorca, the Limerick-connected poet Robert Graves and the Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet Claribel Alegría lived as neighbours. Their friendship developed into a creative collaboration, with Alegría translating a wide selection of Graves’s poems into Spanish, later published as "Cien Poemas de Robert Graves."

For one evening in Limerick, that conversation continues.

#BooksAtOneCommunityFund #AprilIsPoetryMonth #LimerickPoetry2026 #PoetryMonth #limerickwriterscentre

1.00 pm 11 Sarsfield Street, Limerick. V94 K330 Lunchtime pavement event, celebrating the spirit of the book "A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed" by James Fenton.
#BooksAtOneCommunityFund. @books_at_one #limerick #limerickcity #limerickedgeembrace #limerick #limerickevents #limerickwriterscentre https://limerickwriterscentre.com/.../april-is-poetry.../ #AprilIsPoetryMonth #LimerickPoetry2026 #PoetryMonth

✨️🪻🐝⛩️🐝🪻✨️ guardians at the gate lilac's scent swings o p e n #BlueSkyArtShow #Openings #EastCoastKin #Cassiopeian #Guardians #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #photography #macro #BloomScrolling #ImageAndVerse #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth

“A poem can be compromised but should never be a compromise”

Today's #PoetryMonth #LitFriday read is Mathew Weitman's "Adagia" — an aphoristic meditation on the nature of poetry — from the new issue of Wallace Stevens Journal

Read free, #S20 #OpenAccess via Project MUSE
https://tiny.one/2p8zx48m

🚂 Aren't trains the best? April is #PoetryMonth! We discovered this 1935 ode to the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) in an issue of the “Interborough Bulletin,” an employee magazine published by the IRT which ran several subway and elevated lines in #NYC at the time.

🚂 Aren't trains the best? April is #PoetryMonth! We discovered this 1935 ode to the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) in an issue of the “Interborough Bulletin,” an employee magazine published by the IRT which ran several subway and elevated lines in #NYC at the time.

I enjoyed reading this poem from @tolu today.

https://newpoetry.ca/2026/03/20/provisions/

#PoetryMonth #CanLit

As we lead up to #poetrymonth I am going to post some recent work that I have come across online over the next two weeks.

To start, today I am sharing this wonderful fragment of a longer work by Steven Ross Smith "Diptych from Petal & Fracture (manuscript in progress)," published in PublicReverie.com (h/t Theresa Smalec)

https://publicreverie.com/diptych-by-steven-ross-smith/

I love how Steven invokes the romantics, calling out with an exclamatory `O` as he rails against the all too relevant subject of conflict, the mechanics of war, and the blooms of grief inflicted on the human body, the families and communities broken in its wake.

As he speaks to " life in un/ fathomable billion-bloom" the language fragments, words spreading across white space of the page/screen, un-done-in by the tragedy inflicted on human society and its members.

Can't wait to read the full work!

The debate: hatred of poetry

August marks National Poetry month: for some, the chance to celebrate one of the most cerebral art forms,…
#NewsBeep #News #Technology #AU #Australia #Literature #PoetryMonth #RedRoom #WheelerCentre
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/54064/

“Mark Turcotte’s work reflects the complex and beautiful landscape of both our state and the country as a whole through his unique perspective as a Native writer who has lived across the US but has found a home here in Illinois,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “I congratulate him on his appointment as the sixth Illinois Poet Laureate and also extend my gratitude to outgoing Poet Laureate Angela Jackson on her years of service in this role.”

https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-celebrates-arts-with-new-poet-laureate #PoetryMonth #Illinois

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗥𝗶𝗳𝗾𝗮" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗹-𝗞𝘂𝗿𝗱 -

A poet from Palestine and from a tradition of global Resistance, El-Kurd explores his own role in history and contemporary dispossession. Rifqa is the poet's grandmother, an icon of resistance and of home, of identity and homage. "Somewhere in this poem / Edward Said throws a rock."

#poetry #poetrymonth #arabamericanheritagemonth #rifqa #MohammedElKurd #palestine #arabliterature #resistanceliterature

April is #DalitHistoryMonth. It is also #PoetryMonth for a number of English-speaking netizens. A few years ago I had done a twitter thread of Dalit and Bahujan poets. This year, I will try to do women. (I apologise in advance for the lack of alt+text transcript, since I would have to handtype it.)

Apr 1: Today is National Poetry Month! https://www.cute-calendar.com/44070 #PoetryMonth

Let's get this paid off. Now. I don't play when it comes to family or mental health. Share share share, and give what/if you can. https://ko-fi.com/therisingtithes/goal?g=1 #Poet #PoetryMonth #WritingCommunity #GamingCommunity #Poets #SFF

Beyond beguiling barrenness of tar
Fire sing-song soft and baying
Fire portending char

Beyond beguiling barrenness of tar
Chimney-piping flecks of star
Gloom-fall jubilant and parading

Beyond beguiling barrenness of tar
Fire sing-song soft and baying.

#triolet
#poem
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#poetrymonth

This blog, TRIGGER WARNINGS, Comix That Will Push You Over The Edge is just the kindest. Hardcore Visual Poems!

Happy #PoetryMonth

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-> minicomics no matter what #88

#comix #comics #comicbooks #sketchbook #drawing #riffs

Apr 1: Today is National #Poetry #Month! http://www.cute-calendar.com/42532 #PoetryMonth #holiday #event #observance

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

Highlights of my planned reading for April 2024!

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https://youtube.com/shorts/upYEnf_m2tQ

April, as some of you may remember, is #poetrymonth.

So the Voice of Dog will have a poem for you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, all month, read by one of our narrators.

First episode will be available tomorrow morning!

#Poetry, #PoetryCommunity, #PoetryLovers, #PoetryCorner, #SpilledInk, #WritersCommunity, #AmWritingPoetry, #VerseOfTheDay, #Micropoetry, #PoetryIsNotDead, #WrittenWord, #PoetsOfMastodon, #PoetryLife, #PoetryGram, #WordArt, #PoetryDaily, #PoetryMonth, #PoetryPrompt, #PoetryLove, #InkAndVerse

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“But actually, to practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Dance on your way out of here. Sing on your way out of here. Write a love poem.”

Kurt Vonnegut

#Quote #KurtVonnegut #Art #Writing #Poetry #PoetryMonth @poetry

“Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street.”

Federico García Lorca, Hours of Stars

#Quote #FedericoGarcíaLorca #Poem #Poetry #PoetryMonth @poetry

I'm one of the folks who has been working on this project for months, thrilled to see it finally publicly announced - introducing the first ever Chicago Poet Laureate, avery r young! Look for lots of amazing poetry opportunities with avery r young in 2023-24!
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2023/4/24/23693586/avery-r-young-named-chicago-poet-laureate

#Chicago #Poetry #PoetLaureate #ChicagoPoet #ChicagoPoetLaureate #PoetryMonth

Lamentations

‪Write me a book‬
‪of lamentations ‬
‪passionate & profound ‬
‪pure expressions

‪of loss & longing ‬—
‪you will discover ‬
‪true sorrow is sacred ‬
‪& your songs psalms.

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetrycommunity #poetrymonth #poetry #WritingCommunity