# two poems (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover two poems. Page: Feed: --- ## [Fiction by Zvi Jagendorf: "Missing"](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/fiction-by-zvi-jagendorf-missing) _2026-08-19 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ "The illness was hers and she was not sharing it." ## [The Fortnightly Review in Review: Meet Chloe Phillips](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/the-fortnightly-review-in-review-f4d) _2026-08-17 · Joshua Corey · The Fortnightly Review_ Introducing our new North American Poetry Editor ## [Emily Wilson, 'Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea'](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/emily-wilson-crossing-the-wine-dark) _2026-08-17 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ This is a review of Emily Wilson’s recent essay collection, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature (Profile, 2026). ## [Two poems in Bicoastal Review](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/bicoastalreview) _2026-08-16 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ My poems “when asked why I will never be poet laureate of \[redacted\]” and “no” appear in the latest issue of Bicoastal Review . Both poems are accompanied by a reading. Read Here ## ["Hard Hats Aplenty" and Two Other Poems by Randolph Healy](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/hard-hats-aplenty-and-two-other-poems) _2026-08-15 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ "Male bats expelled / from the matriarchal roosts / swoop towards a mausoleum." ## [Dazzled with the height of place](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/dazzled-with-the-height-of-place-277) _2026-08-13 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ Translation, imitation and the genuinely useful poem ## [A Lonelier Planet: On Marc Vincenz](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/a-lonelier-planet-on-marc-vincenz) _2026-08-12 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ Mark Scroggins reviews Marc Vincenz's No More Animal Poems. ## [August 10, 2026: Fiction by Jill Williams](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/august-10-2026-fiction-by-jill-williams/) _2026-08-10 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ Steady as a sunrise, he poured the oil into her ear and tipped her head in the opposite direction. Within seconds, a large, lethargic bug came tumbling out of that greasy river. William grabbed its slick body, smashed it to the floor, and crushed it with the heel of his boot. “And stay out!”… Continue reading August 10, 2026: Fiction by Jill Williams → ## ["Monumental" by Mark Byers](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/monumental-by-mark-byers) _2026-08-08 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ "Lichens annexing new territory" ## [Listen to My Heart](https://hannahabrahamson.substack.com/p/listen-to-my-heart) _2026-08-08 · Hannah Abrahamson · Every Note, Every Line | Hannah Abrahamson_ Finally, some new music! ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lblxZMgInx6e) _2026-08-08 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [Two Poems in Jacket2's William Blake Folio](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/jacket2) _2026-08-06 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ Two poems from Promises to Keep — “self-fulfilling” and “the prophet laments his colleagues”— appear in Jacket2’s “The imagination is not a state”: A folio in honor of William Blake, edited by K Prevallet. These two poems are drawn from Promises to Keep (Wayfarer Books, 2026): a narrative in persona poems voicing the words of The Prophet, who lives in our present socio-political realities but is… ## [Ezra Pound and Homer's Latin](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/ezra-pound-and-homers-latin-604) _2026-08-06 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ Bearing the golden bough of Argicida ## [Translation: "Black Panther at the Laundromat" and One Other Poem by Kawaguchi Harumi](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/translation-black-panther-at-the) _2026-08-05 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ Translated from the Japanese by Rina Kikuchi, Penelope Layland, and Alvin Pang ## [Warm as Wood](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/warm-as-wood) _2026-08-05 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ I’m delighted that Headless Poet will be publishing a selection of my poems, Warm as Wood, in the autumn. ## [Review of Antony Anaxagorou, 'Heritage Aesthetics' (Granta, 2022)](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/review-of-antony-anaxagorou-heritage) _2026-08-03 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ Crawling semantics ## [Living What Tell Can't Say: On Philip Weinstein](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/living-what-tell-cant-say-on-philip) _2026-08-01 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ Jonathan H. Edwards reviews two books by Philip Weinstein. ## [Fantasy Western + Romance, and More](https://hannahabrahamson.substack.com/p/fantasy-western-romance-and-more) _2026-08-01 · Hannah Abrahamson · Every Note, Every Line | Hannah Abrahamson_ A review of the book Travel by Star by Paul Scott Grill ## [Can you sing the Epodes?](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/can-you-sing-the-epodes) _2026-07-30 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ A picture essay about annotations ## [Dispatch from Greece: Bond Over Meteora](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/dispatch-from-greece-bond-over-meteora) _2026-07-29 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ Martin Rosenstock discusses boyhood, vengeance, the divine, and James Bond. ## [July 27, 2026: Two Poems by Damon Hubbs](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/july-27-2026-two-poems-by-damon-hubbs/) _2026-07-27 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ ...and the mermaids with delicious songs, the skiffs,/ the water wry and satisfying. We watched the coast unfurl,/ birch bark to fish scales, opals, pearls —Is King Alexander alive?… Continue reading July 27, 2026: Two Poems by Damon Hubbs → ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6H22zxsbCluk) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [Translation: Excerpt from Personal Identification Number, a Novel by Lidija Dimkovska](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/translation-excerpt-from-personal) _2026-07-25 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ Translated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer. ## [One of the lesser order of recording angels](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/one-of-the-lesser-order-of-recording) _2026-07-23 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ Reading Philip Gross since 1989 ## [Fiction: Excerpt from "Earth 7" by Deb Olin Unferth](https://fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/fiction-excerpt-from-earth-7-by-deb) _2026-07-22 · Paige Blackburn · The Fortnightly Review_ "The air blowing through. Lights clicking on and off. The glug of water outside." ## [July 20, 2026: Two Poems by Mike Wilson](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/july-20-2026-two-poems-by-mike-wilson/) _2026-07-20 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ Wendy, vertical in the horizon,/ finger-texts to vulnerable hearts/ helpless words of sympathy/ that isn’t sympathy at all/ in a coked-up dream/ of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.… Continue reading July 20, 2026: Two Poems by Mike Wilson → ## [A metrical appendix](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/a-metrical-appendix) _2026-07-20 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ This supremely geeky appendix to an already niche post is going out just to paid subscribers as per my usual practice for more technical research findings pendant upon a previous piece. ## [A Quiet Cafe](https://hannahabrahamson.substack.com/p/a-quiet-cafe) _2026-07-18 · Hannah Abrahamson · Every Note, Every Line | Hannah Abrahamson_ "If only you'd come, if only you'd stayed..." ## [Two poems in PN Review](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/two-poems-in-pn-review) _2026-07-17 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ I have two poems in the new PN Review, and on this occasion they are among the sample material available on the website so you can read them both here. ## ["waking with nightmares" published in Vita Poetica](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/waking-with-nightmares) _2026-07-16 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ “The Hypocrites address Dante,” Gustave Dore \[ Dante's Inferno \] "waking with nightmares" written after a section of G.K. Chesterton’s book The Everlasting Man and is now published in Vita Poetica along with a reading of the poem . It’s a little dark, but that’s kind of the point. . . ## [What to read about Homer?](https://vamoul.substack.com/p/what-to-read-about-homer) _2026-07-16 · Victoria · Horace & friends_ Suggestions from the beginner to the adventurous ## [July 13, 2026: Two Poems by Stuart Watson](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/july-13-2026-two-poems-by-stuart-watson/) _2026-07-13 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ ...lying on a rock with your legs splayed/ as chill Aegean water drained/ like fingertips and drops of eyesight/ from your breasts, slumping sideways/ yet young and firm enough to reach/ like innocent Icarus to the sky...… Continue reading July 13, 2026: Two Poems by Stuart Watson → ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/o75iWthgRRY8) _2026-07-13 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [“…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" nominated for a Best of the Net](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/flight-botn) _2026-07-12 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ “…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" (which is a golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial”) was nominated for a Best of the Net by Flight: A Literary Sampler Read Here ## [“Reach out your hand…” \[CNF\] published in Southern Humanities Review](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/reach) _2026-07-09 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ "Reach out your hand..." is a nonfiction piece which braids Caravaggio's painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Elizabeth Ohlson Wallin's photo The Doubter, sexuality and gender identity, theology, basic survival, and high school hallways, all while Nickel Creek's "Doubting Thomas" plays in the background. Very proud to have it appear in Southern Humanities Review. ## [Michael Kleber-Diggs and I are excited to offer "Igniting Creativity," an online creative writing workshop on Sat. 8/8/26! #TheMultitudes](https://sunyungshin.substack.com/p/michael-kleber-diggs-and-i-are-excited) _2026-07-09 · Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英 · Heart Eater_ Registration information + two poems by Michael, and a prompt inspired by them ## [For the Love of Growing Things & Kindred Souls](https://hannahabrahamson.substack.com/p/for-the-love-of-growing-things-and) _2026-06-27 · Hannah Abrahamson · Every Note, Every Line | Hannah Abrahamson_ "These are a few of my favorite things..." - Maria ## [Two Poems in 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories (A Blacklandia Anthology)](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/blacklandia-anthology) _2026-06-26 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ My two poems “response time” & “Death Still Checks in on Me” (after a poem by the wonderful and talented Maya Williams) appear in 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories (A Blacklandia Anthology). ## [Because in a poll, 90% of Republicans in Minnesota prefer the old Minnesota State Flag to the new one...](https://sunyungshin.substack.com/p/because-in-a-poll-90-of-republicans) _2026-06-23 · Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英 · Heart Eater_ I am re-posting my July 2020 article I originally posted on Medium (available to members only over there)... ## [Review of Promises to Keep from New England Literary News](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/neln-ptk-review) _2026-06-23 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ Faith, love, and anger in Matthew E. Henry’s new collection “The day of reckoning / has arrived,” writes Matthew E. Henry in his new collection, Promises To Keep (Wayfarer). That day is each day, and this book serves as a reckoning itself, with the contradictions, the inequity, the many and varied iterations of violence and hate. Wrath and love hold hands in these poems, many of them voiced by a… ## [June 22, 2026 : Fiction by Patrick Trotti](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/june-22-2026-fiction-by-patrick-trotti/) _2026-06-22 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ The smile was widening in real time. She was laughing at him. He even heard her say that it served him right, not to have another smoke for as long as he lived. The bitch was in her element and he had no control over any of it.… Continue reading June 22, 2026 : Fiction by Patrick Trotti → ## [Poems from Out West](https://hannahabrahamson.substack.com/p/poems-from-out-west) _2026-06-20 · Hannah Abrahamson · Every Note, Every Line | Hannah Abrahamson_ These two poems were inspired by the vast flatness of North Dakota, and the wild beauty of Jenny Lake, WY. ## [“tohu va-vohu" published in Plough](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/tohu) _2026-06-17 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ “tohu va-vohu” exists at the intersection of a Biblical creation narrative and the destruction of Black communities. It’s now published in Plough Quarterly Read Here ## [June 15, 2026: Two Poems by Emily Garland](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/june-15-2026-two-poems-by-emily-garland/) _2026-06-15 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ ...you’ll pretend my hipbone is your french fry. your plastic bag. you’ll still be flapping (of course, you’re always flapping) and with the branches of my fingers in the soft down of my body, i’ll throw the curtain open...… Continue reading June 15, 2026: Two Poems by Emily Garland → ## [Voices in Verse Coffee House (NHCSB May 19, 2026)](https://www.mehpoeting.com/updates-and-musings/nhcsb) _2026-06-13 · Matthew Henry · Recent Publications & News - MEHPoeting_ Two video clips from my reading at The Voices in Verse Poetry Coffee House at New Heights Charter School of Brockton on May 19, 2026. “Lady Daedalus” was first published in my chapbook Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020). “reflection” was first published in The Decolonial Passage and nominated for a Best of the Net. Both are ekphrastic poems included in my forthcoming collection Selling the… ## [Asians in Space + a Bao Phi poem + "Shakari" & that BLADE RUNNER "wet look" (aka Asian) Urban Streetscape in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU...](https://sunyungshin.substack.com/p/asians-in-space-a-bao-phi-poem-shakari) _2026-05-30 · Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英 · Heart Eater_ This post is dedicated to my son, who was born in 2000 (Year of the Metal Dragon). ## [To My "Favorite" Class Upon Their Graduation](https://hannahabrahamson.substack.com/p/to-my-favorite-class-upon-their-graduation) _2026-05-27 · Hannah Abrahamson · Every Note, Every Line | Hannah Abrahamson_ A commencement speech for my 2026 graduating class : : plus a poem about endings & beginnings ## [Poems from the Month of April](https://hannahabrahamson.substack.com/p/poems-from-the-month-of-april) _2026-05-16 · Hannah Abrahamson · Every Note, Every Line | Hannah Abrahamson_ April is National Poetry Month :: I decided to write a poem a day, and learned some interesting things about my writing process. And of course, this post includes some poetry! ## [April 30, 2026: Two Poems by AnneMarie Miles](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/april-30-2026-two-poems-by-annemarie-miles/) _2026-04-30 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ Now, my husband’s got the look,/ the you’re-just-jealous kind of look/ when I tell him the fate of that stuffed giraffe,/ & my husband, who hardly ever sees perspective,/ who says “Dickinson” in that mocking voice (“ah, yes, her”)/ places a hand on my knee, defends my brother & says,/ “He's just lonely.”… Continue reading April 30, 2026: Two Poems by AnneMarie Miles → ## [Happy National Poetry Month! (belatedly)](https://sunyungshin.substack.com/p/happy-national-poetry-month-belatedly) _2026-04-24 · Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英 · Heart Eater_ "Different Ways to Pray" by Naomi Shihab Nye + a writing prompt ## [April 23, 2026: Fiction by Drew Gummerson](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/april-23-2026-fiction-by-drew-gummerson/) _2026-04-23 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ That bastard Lyle, he said, he’s just come and collected the Chevy. Him and two big guys. He and Audrey have apparently contested the will. It wasn’t signed. It wasn’t witnessed. It ain’t worth shit. I’m warning you bro, he’s coming for your balloon.… Continue reading April 23, 2026: Fiction by Drew Gummerson → ## [April 20, 2026: Three Poems by Steve Passey](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/april-20-2026-three-poems-by-steve-passey/) _2026-04-20 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ ...and I never minded getting up early and in the shop they’ve got an old vending machine for dollar-a-beer beers for the employees and the other guys taught me to say pinche guero but I know that one and they laugh at how I say it so I say que onda motherfuckers and they laugh louder and I can stay here a while, yeah, I can hack this...… Continue reading April 20, 2026: Three Poems by Steve… ## [April 16, 2026: Sheldon Lee Compton, RIP.](https://revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/april-16-2026-sheldon-lee-compton-rip/) _2026-04-16 · Revolution John · REVOLUTION JOHN._ Revolution John wouldn't exist without Mr. Compton. … Continue reading April 16, 2026: Sheldon Lee Compton, RIP. →