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Apprehensions
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Knowing the very page that spelled his doom,
The five-year-old who’d just begun to read
Carried the great book to the living room,
Threw hims...
Bless Her
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What was the sound of my mother's voice?
What is it now? A fitful timbre,
Maybe, the keys of a telegraph
Typing out a telegram
To me. To...
Hubris
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In high school, when we read Greek tragedy,
the word hubris was mentioned
over and over: moral? Explanation
to account for the hero’s fall?...
A Thousand Thanks
11.26.25: That was the date
The Sonneteer went live. And now, thrice a week,
the A+ poems arrive—an easy, unique
way to remain literate. There is no debate:
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Each poem requires on...
Another Job of Work
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One night after smoking a lump of hash
I bumped into a boss like a blunt threat
who told me to take a shift on another ship.
He stood like a...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Publisher of The Sonneteer. Founder of QuickMuse.
You Call This Poetry!
Poet (my latest book is Loving in Truth: New & Selected Poems, LSU Press, 2020), critic, dance critic. Retired from Skidmore College, live in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Stephen Edgar is an Australian poet living in Sydney. He has published fourteen collections of poetry, the most recent being Imaginary Archive (Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney, 2025). His website is www.stephenedgar.com.au
Scholar, translator and poet living in Paris.
Fourteen lines at a time.
David Livewell was born in Philadelphia. He won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for his last book, Shackamaxon. His new book, Pass and Stow, has just been published by Paul Dry Books.
Amit Majmudar's translation of and commentary on the Isha Upanishad
Midge Goldberg received the 2026 New Criterion Poetry Prize for The Whole Gray Lake's a Sky. Her second book, Snowman's Code, received the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award. She is also the editor of Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press).
Posts at https://111-words.ghost.io/
I am an independent writer and poet.
Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (2022). He has translated and edited many volumes of prose and verse, and his work has appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere.
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