Bluebird Review

"#Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost 📝 Submissions are open and free until July 18th at 12pm PST. bluebirdreview.com/submissio…

Ya'll, did you know submissions are free at Bluebird? We might charge later when we get greedy and popular, but for now, they're free. bluebirdreview.com/submissio…

Feast your eyes upon this lovely work by Libby Gerdes. @libgerdes Post-grad Unemployment "Watching the occasional come and go of my neighbors and gust of wind ruffling tree branches—evidence of life outside continuing, softly, without me." bluebirdreview.com/free-vers…

"The family slum has become a football stadium." bluebirdreview.com/free-vers…

"#Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." - Carl Sandburg

"#Poetry is a way of expressing things that I can't say in ordinary conversation." - Jewel Kilcher

"#Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge." - William Wordsworth

"#Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads." - Marianne Moore

"#Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own." - Salvatore Quasimodo

"#Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance." - Carl Sandburg

"A #poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning." - James Dickey

"#Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

Hey poets, I'm on a forced, bronchitis-induced vacation this week. Submissions are open, but I won't be reading until next week. 😷 Thank you. As you were.

"#Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." - Robert Frost

"#Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." - Charles Simic

"#Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment." - Carl Sandburg

"A #poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep." - Salman Rushdie

"#Poetry is an act of peace." - Pablo Neruda

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