Sunday Recap & I’m a protest poet by Maggie Devers

Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.

Jul 14 - Bricklayer by Katrina Kaye @poetkatrinakaye on Instagram, Threads, and BlueSky. Her website: poetkatrinakaye. Her chapbook No Longer Water is available through Echobird Press

Jul 15 - Twenty-First. Night. Monday by Anna Akhmatova

Jul 16 - i'm going to spoil the ending for you by Katie Cecilia @katiececiliapoetry on Instagram. Her book Ebb and flow: a poetry collection is out now. katie ♡ on Substack

Jul 17 - Two of Cups by Maggie Devers

Jul 18 - unwritten by Zaïnab El Meziani @zainabelmeziani on Instagram. Her book Matters of the Heart: A Chapbook of Love Poems is out now. You can read more of her work on her website: www.zainabelmeziani.com. Zaïnab El Mezianion Substack

Jul 19 - I feel the weight of always needing to be helpful by Eden S @edenspoems888 on Instagram. Her book Cauldron of the Cosmos is out now

June 20 - I’m a protest poet

Maggie Devers

And my lines ooze love
With every frivolous word.
Where else to put such horrors,
How else to remind you:

Of the way new tree shoots
Poke up high and straight at first,
Yearning for the light
And tremble slightly in the wind

And how you can’t even remember
What the elm looks like without leaves—
Well you can—
But right now it is so, so green

And the blades shimmer
As the sun passes through
So gently.
How tender we are.

How else to remind you:
How tender we are.

Submissions are open. If you have a poem you want me to read on the podcast, now’s the time.

I’m looking for the one that lights you up. The one you’re proud of. The one you can’t read without crying. The one that makes you feel something big.

Let’s make space for the one this Fall on One Poem Only.

Deadline is Thursday, July 31.

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