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Award winning poet, nonfiction writer, and creative writing professor My dog is posting an adventure story. See links. Substack is always free.

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In Twenty Years of PoemoftheWeek.com, Jude Jordan AKA @puggrumbles says, “A long poem is a covenant. You’re asking the reader to walk with you longer than they normally would—through fire, through fog, through flood. For their time, you must offer gifts. Not just once, not just at the end, but every few lines...” Read more of her wisdom and her incredible long poem, “After the Farmer’s Market,” on PoemoftheWeek.com this week as well as in the pages of Twenty Years of PoemoftheWeek.com, which just came out on Valentine’s Day—order link in bio. Then come back here to give Judy some of your love, your admiration, your dreams. @madvillepub @krayoncarr @mrcharlesnpp @thepoemoftheweek

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TWENTY YEARS OF POEMOFTHEWEEK.COM IS OFFICIALLY IN THE WORLD, AND I COULDN’T BE MORE THRILLED, Y’ALL!

Do I have a physical copy yet? No! USPS informs me they got stuck in a mud puddle and while they were changing their tire, they had to help an old lady cross the street, and then they had to help a neighbor immunize their hound, and well, things got out of control. Whew, what a whirlwind, but now that they are back in business, I’ll have my copy soon!

To get YOUR physical copy, order here: the link is in the bio, and if you’re not convinced just yet, if this anthology of verse 20 years in the making hasn’t lodged itself in your heart, take a moment to enjoy this AMAZING poem that launched the entire project 20 years ago when I first read it in @puggrumbles class, “Mt. Pisgah” by the one and only James Kimbrell. If this poem doesn’t worm its way like a stint into your aortic valves, what will? Nothing, I tell you. NOTHING. My best, @themeanderingpoet , founder and editor of @thepoemoftheweek @madvillepub @krayoncarr

Mt. Pisgah

It was the middle of the night and I had lived
A long time with that country, with the hay
Rakes and rock paths and the beam bridge
Above the snake-thick waters. It was
The middle of the night so far into the field
The deer began not to notice the moons
In the shallow bean row puddles. That’s how dark
Fell over the road that led into town and kept us
All from moving. Still, when the train passed,
Milk shook in its bucket and the earth sank
In a little. So each year when the corn shrank
Back to stubble, the mud strewn with husks,
More than anything silence grew tall there
Between the kitchen window and the shed’s
Roof and the one note rust made in the stuck
Weather vane, in the rooster holding north.

-from The Gatehouse Heaven, celebrated with permission of the poet

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3 days without power and today, the 3rd day of listing off the AMAZING poets celebrated in TWENTY YEARS OF POEMOFTHEWEEK.com!! There are so many, I have to make 5 separate posts to list and tag them all. Give them your 💕 your 👏 your belief! Then please preorder the book—LINK IN BIO!

@tamihaalandmt
@forrest.hamer
Sam Hamill
@smallishpoems
@gus1679
Lee Herrick @lisaleehello
@ishmaelangaluuk
@leanne.howe
@trhummer
@poetmajorjackson
@jlgjacobs
@lukejohnsonpoetry
@puggrumbles
@allisonjoseph8882
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Suji Kwok Kim
James Kimbrell
@chriskita
@_ruth_e
@jasonykoo
@edboklee
@manjufrodo
Raina Leon
Hugh Martin

More coming soon…

PREORDER LINK IN BIO

@themeanderingpoet @krayoncarr

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We are going to be honest: the COVID lockdown threw us. SPD closing threw us. What’s happening with funding the arts is throwing us.

But here’s the other thing: after a most beautiful @awpwriter conference, after the last month or so with the Orange Marblehead in office, we know we need the arts and support for the arts more than ever.

In other words: we are digging in. We are letting 2025 be the year that we don’t go down but the year we came back!

Please stay tuned: we have Judy Jordan’s book coming out next, and we wanted you to have a little sneak peek of the galleys cover!

Before we go, we have need a little help: we haven’t found a new distributor since SPD closed. Any advice? Recommendations? We definitely need our books back out in the world!

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Camping in the rainnnn

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