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Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

deepening your practice of poetry, mindset, and wonder

Following and explaining wonder through poetry. Great source of poetry insight.

- Alex Kazemi

iti te kupu: small words in a vast universe

By Nadine Anne Hura

Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Nadine is a brilliant and different voice (check out her essays in The Spinoff too) with the gift of being able to deftly weave personal, political and environmental threads together in an engaging and poetic way. Her writing is fresh, honest and will make you think.

- Alex Kazemi

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

By Devin Kelly

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

Well worth a look if you love poetry (yes!). Devin Kelly has written some achingly beautiful essays on wonder, grace and long distance running and here looks at poetry in a way that can only magnify your spirit.

- Alex Kazemi