count my hopes
Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oliviacirceThis is for Earth Day, but it also now makes me think about Maybe Happy Ending, which we saw in New York last week and absolutely loved. There are some parallels, although this is not (obviously) a poem about fireflies.
( I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth )
( I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth )
the improbable lady
Apr. 21st, 2025 03:04 pmoliviacirceI'm slightly more organized this year than I have been for the last few years of National Poetry Month, which means I have some real bangers coming up in the last week of the month. But I'm starting this week here, with Saeed Jones; I saw someone describe this poem as "heartbreakingly lovely," and it really is—I've had it on my list since I first read it at poetryisnotaluxury in 2023.
( In this field of thistle )
( In this field of thistle )
imp my wing
Apr. 20th, 2025 06:03 pmoliviacirceEvery time I post a George Herbert poem on or around Easter I think to myself, "but what if I posted 'Easter Wings' instead?!" The problem with "Easter Wings" is that it's a pattern poem, so the way it's displayed on the page is essential, and that is very annoying to code here in a way that reads effectively. Conveniently, however, the Wikipedia entry about the poem has some images of both manuscript and early print editions, and the text of the poem can be read at Poetry Foundation. So for Easter, go read "Easter Wings," if you care to, and feel some type of way!
And here's a bonus poem, because I was reading through The Temple (it's devotional poetry season) and I really love this one. I missed a day earlier in the month, so I think we can double up on Herbert—it has been a few years.
( Is there in truth no beautie? )
And here's a bonus poem, because I was reading through The Temple (it's devotional poetry season) and I really love this one. I missed a day earlier in the month, so I think we can double up on Herbert—it has been a few years.
( Is there in truth no beautie? )
define life
Apr. 19th, 2025 05:08 pmoliviacirceEvery single one of Terrance Hayes' American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is absolutely fucking stellar. I posted one last year, and I'm posting another one this year, but I really recommend the whole book. I like posting sonnets with other sonnets because I love looking at all the things the form can do. Sonnets are magic!! Hayes' sonnet (which I'm posting for today) also directly references the Rilke sonnet I'm posting as a make-up poem for April 16. And if you've been around here at basically any point in the past 18 (?!?!) years of poetry posts, you know I love poetry in conversation with other poetry.
( You must change your life )
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( You must change your life )
( You must change your life )
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( You must change your life )
1 week delay + pinch hits!
Apr. 17th, 2025 10:33 pmthedevilchicken posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
smut4smutThere will be a 1 week delay to the collection opening.
This will possibly be longer, depending on whether all remaining pinch hits are claimed - I'll post an update closer to the time. All being well, gifts will now be revealed at 20:00 UTC on Friday 25 April.
The collection will not open until all participants who fulfilled their assignment on time have received an assigned gift.
Several pinch hits still remain! The due date for these will be 20:00 UTC on Thursday 24 April. View the countdown here.
To claim: please reply to this post with your AO3 username and the name and number of the pinch hit you want to claim. Comments are screened. You can also email thedevilchicken+s4s@gmail.com if you prefer.
Anon commenting is fine but bear in mind that I cannot reply if you comment anon!
You don't have to be signed up to the exchange to claim a pinch hit, but you do need an AO3 account.
All pinch hits must comply with the rules here.
The minimum is (according to what the recipient requested) either:
a completed work of fanfiction of at least 1000 words, including at least 500 words of a sexual nature.
a completed piece of clean, finished line art. Complete nudity isn't required, but the art should be clearly sexual in nature.
This is a smut exchange, so all works must be rated Explicit.
Please check the medium requested carefully!
Currently all claimed!
( Claimed pinch hits )
This will possibly be longer, depending on whether all remaining pinch hits are claimed - I'll post an update closer to the time. All being well, gifts will now be revealed at 20:00 UTC on Friday 25 April.
The collection will not open until all participants who fulfilled their assignment on time have received an assigned gift.
Several pinch hits still remain! The due date for these will be 20:00 UTC on Thursday 24 April. View the countdown here.
To claim: please reply to this post with your AO3 username and the name and number of the pinch hit you want to claim. Comments are screened. You can also email thedevilchicken+s4s@gmail.com if you prefer.
Anon commenting is fine but bear in mind that I cannot reply if you comment anon!
You don't have to be signed up to the exchange to claim a pinch hit, but you do need an AO3 account.
All pinch hits must comply with the rules here.
The minimum is (according to what the recipient requested) either:
This is a smut exchange, so all works must be rated Explicit.
Please check the medium requested carefully!
Currently all claimed!
( Claimed pinch hits )
going where I'm going
Apr. 17th, 2025 08:23 amoliviacirceWe're flying home today after a pretty great week of theatre and friends and birthdays (I am very tired but also very happy), so I'm posting this one from the airport. Too on the nose, or just on theme? Either way, Ada Limón never misses.
( Every time I'm in an airport )
( Every time I'm in an airport )
islands and lemons
Apr. 15th, 2025 11:05 amoliviacirceThis is a summer poem, and it's not actually that summery today. But it's also a New York City poem, and a love poem, and I've been wanting to post it while in New York for a while. We'll be down on Bleecker later tonight to see a show at the Lucille Lortel.
( It is music opening and closing )
( It is music opening and closing )
a thousand windows and a thousand doors
Apr. 14th, 2025 08:39 pmoliviacirceI was thinking about going back to Auden for today, my 40th birthday, even though I changed the birthday rules in 2020. It's my 40th birthday! Also, I make the rules and can do what I want! I haven't posted any Auden in a couple of years, but I've been thinking about him—and, honestly, he was so prolific that I could just post Auden poems for a few hundred years—and then we went to the New York Public Library today and spent a while walking through the New Yorker Exhibit. And look, I really tried not to post this poem, because it's fucking depressing; it's also incredibly relevant, and also they have a draft manuscript that Auden sent to Benjamin Britten in 1939 in the exhibit at NYPL, so like. Here we are. Warnings for Nazis, etc.
( Refugee Blues )
( Refugee Blues )
all the golden nights
Apr. 13th, 2025 08:42 pmoliviacirceThis one's for all the shows we've seen (one more on Tuesday, or maybe two if we win a lottery for a Wednesday matinee), and especially for Audra McDonald in Gypsy today. And thanks to my wife for the poem suggestion. ♥
( This is the quiet hour )
( This is the quiet hour )
as if the tempest thirsted for the rain
Apr. 12th, 2025 09:03 pmoliviacirceNo poem for yesterday because I have been having too much fun?! WE'VE BEEN BUSY. Since arriving in New York, we have seen four shows, been to the Met and the Bronx Zoo, and seen many friends, and I am very tired and may need a vacation from my vacation. Tonight is the first night of Passover, though, so here is a poem that is just a little bit for that.
( Night, and the heavens beam )
( Night, and the heavens beam )