an assortment of thoughts

The poetry blog of nightquills.

[lightgaswaterelectricityrent]

[farmgf]

IT’S SPRINGTIME YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. PASS THE INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP BY ADA LIMÓN

[farmgf]

IT’S THE GREENING OF THE TREES THAT REALLY GETS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!

[tendermimi]

— Ocean Vuong, Because It’s Summer

[pityroad]

— Holes, Eileen Myles, from ‘I Must Be Living Twice, New & Selected Poems 1975-2014’

[ololygas]

Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

[aliasalias]

when i grow up i wanna be a dandelion

[havingapoemwithyou]

Gold by Donald Hall

[iwilleatyourenglish]

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[loveridden1999]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[heteroglossia]

“I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognized by burning.”

— A.R. Ammons, “A Poem is a Walk”

[lunchboxpoems]

JAMES A. PEARSON

[havingapoemwithyou]

keeping things whole by Mark Strand

[16tinyfrogs]

hymn for a choking songbird

this is a fun one! it's about the hades and persephone that exist in hadestown, specifically in epic ii and chant 😁

[ronandreams]

erin lecount, sweet fruit

[havingapoemwithyou]

The Way It Is by William Stafford

[ahotknife]

megan lynne

[havingapoemwithyou]

Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard