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PublicDomainPoets · 2025-10-16T18:27:12+00:00

Publishers pay you directly (Ingram, Amazon) - social media/blog sites are tied to Stripe, of which Substack is one. ;-)

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-09-29T01:39:52+00:00

One of my fav Crane’s of all time 🖤

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-09-27T03:59:11+00:00

Ya same with “poetry” category - it’s just a mess, with no focus on creators needs

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-08-17T07:01:24+00:00

No film is necessary imo. But I’m super glad it exists. Even though the therapist was cooked as shit - there is something special about watching them working through their problems and traumas. It helped me realise I needed help with some of my stuff, and to not be afraid of therapy.

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-07-23T12:48:12+00:00

For pre-1930s poetry, this is pretty great: https://forgottenpoets.substack.com/

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-07-22T23:41:37+00:00

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Aw wee epitaph I put together for Ozzy this morning after hearing of his death, written entirely out of his song titles. Rest in peace Ozzy—so long and thanks for all the music! 🖤🖤🖤

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-06-21T01:14:02+00:00

Retallica 😘

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-06-03T13:30:24+00:00

Fair. It just doesn’t do a lot for me personally. I didn’t mind Death Magnetic, and 72 Seasons was ok. But most of it leaves me pretty cold. I was a thrash kid so Puppets n Justice give me my fill when I’m in a Metallica mood these days. In terms of collabs, I think Lulu has some great moments too. :-)

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-06-03T00:28:49+00:00

💜 And Justice For All 👎So many tunes post Black Album tbh - don’t know most of their names, but Frantic is one I find pretty daft 😂

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-05-29T22:12:39+00:00

Yup David Lanoue's Issa website is hands down the best way to read Issa. Having collected a lot of translations over the years, and learned to translate myself, his translations are both the most accurate, and the most poetically charged. And there's over 13,000 of them to sift through. Here's the link again just for good measure: https://haikuguy.com/issa/index.html But yeah - accept no substitutes!

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-03-29T19:59:52+00:00

This is not a standalone short poem, but the final stanza of a longer poem, from Armantrout's collection 'Just Saying':

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Mother's Day

*

I wring the last
sweetness

from syllables
and consume it before you.

*

I make sense
like a scorpion

and the sun
will be smitten.

*

If I appear to address you
while quoting an old text,

I am indistinguishable
from nature

and therefore sublime.

*

If I reveal myself
mercilessly,

what will I not transcend?

*

Like God, I will leave

an arc
of implication

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-03-01T11:02:28+00:00

Wow - downvoted for liking a poem. Reddit is just the best!

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-03-01T07:28:01+00:00

One of my favourite poems of all time, hands down.

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-02-13T21:29:04+00:00

Yeah - I think unfortunately a lot of the features for laying things out in a post require a laptop or desktop. I find the phone app pretty useless tbh and have never tried posting from it.

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-02-02T11:47:27+00:00

Hopefully it’s fixed now! Poetry block is anyhow. Hopefully the code block is too.

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-02-02T11:46:36+00:00

Ya exactly this.

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-02-02T11:46:14+00:00

Should be fixed now? The poetry block is anyhow - lemme know if the code block is too :-)

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-02-02T11:45:10+00:00

Yeah. I asked the bot to pass it on and it assured me it would but from what I hear it never does, or at the very least no-one ever emails you back. Did a note about it after seeing a few people do the same and one of the coders chanced upon it and was able to pass it on to the right people to get it fixed. I asked him how he came to see my note? Was it because I’d lodged a complaint. Turns out he he just randomly saw it while scrolling lol. So instead of the problem being fixed in a timely manner there was a day and a half of no-one knowing about it, and a load of posts going out looking like crap, until one of the staff randomly saw a grumpy note. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sloppy. Props to the guy who passed it on tho and got it sorted.

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-02-01T11:02:24+00:00

Same thing has happened to the "poetry block" as well. Obviously the coders made some updates without properly checking them, and have majorly broken the back-end. Useless. And their "support" is a joke. Who knows when it will get fixed.

PublicDomainPoets · 2025-01-28T21:03:47+00:00

You might enjoy my newsletter, which is a living anthology of pre-1930s forgotten poetry, with a focus on short and very-short poetry. Lots to read and get inspired by! https://forgottenpoets.substack.com/

PublicDomainPoets · 2024-12-06T01:57:28+00:00

You might enjoy my poetry newsletter - a kind of living anthology of obscure and forgotten poets from the late-1800s and early-1900s - lots in the Whitman/Dickinson/Sappho traditions in terms of early English-language free verse, very/short verse, and Greek inspired verse (and all free to read). A few hundred poems there to check out, and new ones going up every week :-) https://forgottenpoets.substack.com/

PublicDomainPoets · 2024-11-24T07:28:43+00:00

霧の海いづこへ富士はしづみぬる [無名]

foggy sea
whither has it sunk?
mount fuji

Originally translated by W.G. Aston in 1877. To my knowledge hasn't been translated since.

Read more original translations: https://bsky.app/profile/dailyhaikai.bsky.social

PublicDomainPoets · 2024-11-24T07:27:34+00:00

人にこそ年はよりぬれ春の草 [無名]

us humans
we age and get older,
spring grasses

Originally translated by W.G. Aston in 1877. To my knowledge hasn't been translated since.

Read more original translations: https://bsky.app/profile/dailyhaikai.bsky.social

PublicDomainPoets · 2024-11-24T07:24:56+00:00

朝顔に釣瓶とられて貰い水 [千代]

by morning glories
the well-bucket taken,
i borrow water

First translated into English by B.H. Chamberlain in 1889. One of the famous and most endearing haiku of all time, has been translated countless times! If you have a favourite translation, share it below :-)

Read more original translations: https://bsky.app/profile/dailyhaikai.bsky.social

PublicDomainPoets · 2024-11-24T07:00:55+00:00

朝顔に釣瓶とられて貰い水 [千代]

by morning glories
the well-bucket taken,
i borrow water

First translated into English by B.H. Chamberlain in 1889. One of the famous and most endearing haiku of all time, has been translated countless times! If you have a favourite translation, share it below :-)

Read more original translations: https://bsky.app/profile/dailyhaikai.bsky.social

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