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Anthropology of a Small City | Pangyrus
Tonight, this amorphous faith in chaos lives inside me the way the luminance of street lights lives inside the night mist. This ribbon of hot mix asphalt fl ...
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August 22, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: Wang Jiaxin on "In the Native Place of Laozi" from At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems published by @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
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What Sparks Poetry: Wang Jiaxin on "In the Native Place of Laozi" from At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems published by @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/in-the-...
In the Native Place of Laozi
Legend has it that Laozi was born an old man
Laozi had no childhood
No one but Confucius, who asked him about the rites
Knew who Laozi was
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June 22, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: Wang Jiaxin on "In the Native Place of Laozi" from At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems published by @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/in-the-...
What Sparks Poetry: Wang Jiaxin on "In the Native Place of Laozi" from At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems published by @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/in-the-...
"The kindness of one human being to another in times of mass hatred and violence deserves more respect than the preaching of all the churches since the beginning of time." - Charles Simic
February 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
"The kindness of one human being to another in times of mass hatred and violence deserves more respect than the preaching of all the churches since the beginning of time." - Charles Simic
In the midst of the most chaotic and stressful Xmas/new year period of my life, it’s a welcome boost that the very fine folks at Anacapa Review saw fit to publish a recent poem in their excellent journal. It’s an honor to get published alongside such fine company.
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Jon Lavieri
The Nameless Hours There’s a vortex of bees humming around my skull.Clock says I’ve only been sleeping a couple of hours.Something inside me falls off a shelf.I get up and take pills to quiet the hive...
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January 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
In the midst of the most chaotic and stressful Xmas/new year period of my life, it’s a welcome boost that the very fine folks at Anacapa Review saw fit to publish a recent poem in their excellent journal. It’s an honor to get published alongside such fine company.
anacapareview.com/jon-lavieri-...
anacapareview.com/jon-lavieri-...
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But it’s only
heartbeats that allow the wind to stir
the branches in their greening frenzy.
—Bruce Weigl
heartbeats that allow the wind to stir
the branches in their greening frenzy.
—Bruce Weigl
A Fabulous Night for … by Bruce Weigl - Rattle: Poetry
The world will always knock
you down. Get back up.
The world will always put
you down. Laugh it up.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
But it’s only
heartbeats that allow the wind to stir
the branches in their greening frenzy.
—Bruce Weigl
heartbeats that allow the wind to stir
the branches in their greening frenzy.
—Bruce Weigl
“Writing is a way of saying you and the world have a chance. All art is failure.” Richard Hugo
April 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“Writing is a way of saying you and the world have a chance. All art is failure.” Richard Hugo
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Rock on, Senator Booker!
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Rock on, Senator Booker!
A huge thanks to the folks at The RavensPerch for putting up three of my poems. At the Center of the Center of Everything was the prose poem of the bunch, something I keep getting more interested in over time.
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AT THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING HAIBUN FOR OSCAR AND VALERIA BY JON LAVIERI - The RavensPerch
A slow-moving storm has been leaning over us for hours. You can feel in the air the oncoming night of January rain, but I’m waiting in the car outside Trader Joe’s, listening to torn-off strips of con...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A huge thanks to the folks at The RavensPerch for putting up three of my poems. At the Center of the Center of Everything was the prose poem of the bunch, something I keep getting more interested in over time.
theravensperch.com/at-the-cente...
theravensperch.com/at-the-cente...
Nice surprise this morning to see the new issue of Stone Poetry Journal including my poem, Language Barrier. It's a great looking issue, and an extra honor to see an old friend, David Dodd Lee in the same issue. Much thanks if you get a moment to take a look.
stonepoetryjournal.com/jon-lavieri/
stonepoetryjournal.com/jon-lavieri/
Jon Lavieri
Language Barrier on the train from Lagos to FaroI hear the white noise of dialectsthat don’t belong to me – the patient grandmother teachinga little boy to sound out the namesof towns with to…
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February 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Nice surprise this morning to see the new issue of Stone Poetry Journal including my poem, Language Barrier. It's a great looking issue, and an extra honor to see an old friend, David Dodd Lee in the same issue. Much thanks if you get a moment to take a look.
stonepoetryjournal.com/jon-lavieri/
stonepoetryjournal.com/jon-lavieri/
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Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know
January 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know
