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Diary Poems

X. P. Callahan

Verbal snapshots of my daily life or whatever else may be on my mind. Mostly syllabic, occasionally ekphrastic (which is not the same as illustrative).

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6.26.2026

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6.24.2026

Digital re-creation, verbatim, of actual text thread, 23 June 2026. Participants: Laura Pilnick (top left), Tracy Hadley and Marcia Jamison (top right), and Denise Wagner. Used with permission.


DENISE WAGNER, mosaicist, hasn’t been...

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6.22.2026

JONATHAN POTTER is the author of House of Words (Korrektiv Press, 2010); Tulips for Elsie (Korrektiv Press, 2021); Sunrise Hexagrams (Korrektiv Press, 2022), comprising Sunrise Yin (volume 1) and Sunrise Yang (volume 2); The Sweet Spot in t...

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6.19.2026

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Longtime readers may have seen this poem before. It originally appeared in Rattle no. 81, spring 2020.


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6.17.2026

Photo: Raphael Renter

Here at Diary Poems, although I sometimes append a craft note to a poem and discuss the poem’s formal properties, I’ve never felt the need or desire to discuss a poem’s meaning.

But sometimes a poem is unusually liab...

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  • X. P. Callahan

    Poet. Bookmaker. Translator (French and Spanish poetry and criticism). Publisher at Monday Editions. Former editor at Random House, University of Washington Press, Stanford University Press. Work in RATTLE, CALYX, elsewhere. Lives in New Mexico.

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