Diary Poems

Everything matters. Poetry by Mark Rico.

I am a published poet who has won and been runner-up in poetry contests. For years I took a break, but then I found another way of being a poet: on Substack. Here I post poems as and when. Subscribe for free / Freedom is poetry.

On the process of writing and publishing poetry books.

Weekly poems, essays, & short stories.

Bonus french fries (poems! jokes! insider info!) in your inbox

Streaming ideas, art and poetry to your inbox.

Value Investing, Life/Philosophy and Classical Music Explained

Poetry curations & literary lessons designed to transform your writing life

Reporting on free speech, civilization, and humanity.

An unprecedented insight into the life of an SLA.

Poems, literary excerpts, opinionated opinions.

Weekly poems and writings on finding your way through the mud.

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

My personal Substack

A weekly weaving of stories and resources to strengthen the fibers that bind people and pets.

A place for poetry, stories and thoughts. Have a seat on the grass with me. Let's talk a while.

Most of what I post here is typed on one of my many old manual typewriters.

On LeeAnn's Punctuated Poetry I share poetry about our extraordinary ordinary lives.

man of aran is alan girling of Canada who writes poetry that responds to or is paired with visual creations of all sorts.

Discussion on various issues surrounding the bicycling advocacy space.

My personal Substack News and information about my poetry publications can be found here: https://www.deborahkaykelly.com

Through my stories, poetry, and art, I explore the borderlands that lay between the human and more-than-human worlds, and the ways they overlap and mirror each other.

Meditations on what I'm reading and watching. New entries are published approximately whenever I feel like it.

Poems--first drafts, super-old ones, and everything in-between.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Random opinions with drawings.

Poet and Editor Brian Spears shares close readings and appreciations of individual poems. Mostly contemporary, mostly by people still writing today. And maybe some pictures of things I've crocheted.

Field Notes is my newsletter containing glimpses into my life — things I’m writing, reading, watching, listening to, thinking about. I hope Field Notes brings you a smile, gives you a reason to slow down, and makes you feel more connected to our world.

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News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Writer, Poet, Former Indie Bookstore Owner (yay for indies), water spirit, breast cancer survivor. Winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, Midwest Book Awards Finalist

A living anthology of short poems and pictures from the late-1800s and early-1900s.

Poetry once a week, sometimes political, always music.

Written Tales Magazine, bringing literature back to the forefront through poetry, short story, and prose. We're a magazine that helps writers become better writers and a place for readers to enjoy creative writing at its finest.

Free bi-weekly reports on the writing life, publishing, and books from a widely-published, award-winning veteran of publishing who's also been a print, radio, & online book reviewer as well as a professor of creative writing.

Hybrid curiosities, memory, queerness, disability. Poetry, essay, creative non-fiction. Come for the words; stay for the vibes.

Under Construction, where the door is always open, is about making art with language.

A community of poets generating new works inspired by poems in the public domain.

Son of Latvian immigrants, Virgo, slightly hard of hearing, photo-taker, essayist, buoyant pessimist, susceptible to onslaughts of memory…

Weird, beautiful essays and haiku comics for weird, beautiful people

Thinking through poetry

Posting the occasional poem and the occasional meditation on that poem. Or, in other words: weekly essays on poetry and more.

I offer poetry that seeks out the sacred in the ordinary, accompanied by original photography. No politics, no hot takes, just poetry.

Curating fee-free (AND paying/funded) calls and competitions—plus other resources—for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Splash around in our red rubber poetry boots and yellow slickers and see what poems might rise to the surface. Rev up your writing practice. Explore what poetry can do and write with abandon! Learn and do! Your online workshop is here!

Poetry and prose

I'm alive with the weight of you, To keep you safe I slay the dawn

Poems, prompts, reflections, community