Thank you @WTRlitmag
“this poem is about one
plate in the sink—but the rest—
what shall I do with the rest?”
This week’s #flashbackfriday is “Young Widow at the Kitchen Window” by @DSMPoet from the Summer 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read it here:
buff.ly/BfVgk53
#poetrycommunity
Thank you @ilanot_review
Kicking off our virtual launch of Flaw and Favor is Donna Spruijt-Metz! @DSMPoet
Thank you @heidiseaborn1
The poetry we need now! My list: @jorie_graham @lady_bronte @DSMPoet @CyrusCc37 @LKTuffaha @HarryetteMullen @landaudeborah ++ @FourWayBooks @PerseaBooks @WordWorksEditor @CopperCanyonPrs @CornerstoneUWSP @AAKnopf @GraywolfPress @uakronpress +tic tic tic electricliterature.com/10-bo…
Waiting for the Mortuary Team solsticelitmag.org/content/w… via @solsticelitmag
Thank you @BenYehudaPress !!
What do an egg, a square, and a key have in common? Ben Yehuda Press!
We are proud to be launching three new poetry titles this month:
Wu Wei Eats an Egg by Lucas Hirsch, translated from the Dutch by @DSMPoet
The Broken Heart is the Master Key by Baruch November

ALT Zion Square by Maxim D. Shrayer: “Maxim D. Shrayer’s voice speaks across generations. With a stubborn belief that poetry must be healing, Shrayer writes poems that break through boundaries and fears, accept defeat, and yearn for pleasure.” —David Biespiel, author of A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love

ALT Wu Wei Eats an Egg by Lucas Hirsch: “Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and ‘hollow language,’ Hirsch regularly explores the interior self, familial history, and the physical world.” —Wayne Miller, author of The End of Childhood
Thank you @WestTradeReview
“I find myself outside
of my body—watching
and narrating: 'the young widow
crosses the living room.'”
Excerpt from “Young Widow at the Kitchen Window" by @DSMpoet, in the new Summer 2025 edition.
Listen to the poet read it here:
buff.ly/0ndWAqf
#writingcommunity
First Father’s Day without my husband. Thank you Michael Simms at Vox Populi for giving this quirky elegy a home voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/…
Donna Spruijt-Metz retweeted
Four words, and already we are in Kafka Territory:
"Hey You! Papers, please?"
Donna Spruijt-Metz retweeted
It’s over a 100 years after the great Jewish crusader for free speech, Emma Goldman, was deported from USA for her speaking out. Yet history repeats itself.
People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out.
People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out.
We mustn’t stay silent.
Donna Spruijt-Metz retweeted
Donna Spruijt-Metz reading for us at AWP. We'll see you soon in LA; we'll be at T540, our 23rd year of attending AWP!
@DSMPoet @awpwriter #poet #AWP #AWP25 #poets #poems #poetry #SmartishPacePoets #creativewriting #poetrycommunity
youtu.be/InrinuRZLbs?feature… via @YouTube
This has been a year of suffering in the world—and in my small world with the sudden death of my husband. This book came fast, took me over, possessed me. I can’t wait to share it with you. Thank you, Melody Stanford Martin at @Wildhouse Press, for creating this beautiful cover.
Thank you Judith Magazine & @Rachel Neve-Midbar for giving this heroic crown of sonnets a home. My love, Gershom Spruijt זיכרונו לברכה, this is a stealth tribute to you.
judithmagazine.substack.com/…
Speaking with @PhilipMetres about his new book Fugitive/Refuge for @PsalteryLyre was a real blessing. Take a look if you have a moment.
"If I could write just one poem, or even a single line, that my descendants (in flesh or in spirit) would want to say, then it would be worth it."
@PhilipMetres interviewed by @DSMPoet on his new book, "Fugitive / Refuge" from @CopperCanyonPrs
psalteryandlyre.org/2024/10/…
A fine book, people! Also @IChristian3030 gives a great interview. Find that book. Find the poet!






















