Shevchenko: 'Oh bury me, then rise ye up'

"A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly 'discrediting' the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on a statue of a Ukrainian poet. ... Kozyreva was arrested on February 24, 2024, after she glued a verse by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko onto his monument in St Petersburg... The verse from Shevchenko’s My Testament read, 'Oh bury me, then rise ye up / And break your heavy chains / And water with the tyrants’ blood / The freedom you have gained'..."

— Russia sentences 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after poetic anti-war protest, Mariya Knight and Caitlin Danaher, CNN, April 18, 2025

Poems

Aracelis Girmay, "Second Estrangement" (Archive.org)

William Bronk, "Night and Day" (Archive.org)

Anna Swir trans. by Piotr Florczyk, "A Wife Says to Her Husband" (Archive.org)

The reason I have Archive.org links is that I used to use Twitter for poetry, but Elon Musk destroyed Twitter, and the poets left.

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Poems

Mark Strand:

Mark Strand pic.twitter.com/pQ2leqxM7d

— Twila Newey (@motleybookshelf) December 26, 2021

James Wright:

“I held the man for nothing in my arms” - James Wright pic.twitter.com/lHnTwwpikM

— Jack Jung 정새벽 (@daybreakjung) December 26, 2021

Czesław Miłosz:

A Halloween poem from Czesław Miłosz. pic.twitter.com/pXSld2lf1c

— Jim May (@jamesdavismay) October 31, 2021

John Burnside:

the equinox approaches! 🍂 i'd love a thread of fave autumnal poems.

here's an almost unbearably tender one by john burnside: pic.twitter.com/3gXQY0OjnH

— alina pleskova (@nahhhlina) September 20, 2021

Ben Mirov:

I feel like I have never seen anything / and I am seeing things for the first time / and this is the first thing I have ever seen.

Ben Mirov pic.twitter.com/WxurFF3dEe

— Tom Snarsky (@TomSnarsky) September 15, 2021

Louise Gluck:

This poem is from Ararat by Louise Gluck. I’m currently sitting at my desk trying not to totally lose it. In seven years, I haven’t found an articulation that really captures what my mom went through after she lost a child. I found it tonight. That’s why poetry is a gift. pic.twitter.com/NeaBo8C0nh

— Sarah Kersey (@sk__poet) October 16, 2021

Etheridge Knight:

"fuck / the whole muthafucking thing / all i want now is my woman back / so my soul can sing" pic.twitter.com/ES3uvgdHXs

— just Bailey (@BaileyC213) September 21, 2021

Three poems

Going through my bookmarks. Here are three poems that surfaced at random.

Eric Yip, “不 / NO”
William Dickey, "The Food of Love"
Ada Limón, “Against Nostalgia”

Feels surreal to have 4 new poems out in @adroitjournal, which was one of the very first journals I came across when I started reading/writing poetry… Thank you to the editors for giving these poems a home alongside such fantastic work 💫https://t.co/2dvHjY3TNw pic.twitter.com/C5Whw2CUUb

— Eric Yip (@metapheric) August 18, 2022

William Dickey's "The Food of Love," from The Rainbow Grocery (1978). pic.twitter.com/cw1xOXFcb3

— Forgotten Good Poems (@ForgottenGPoems) November 30, 2020

Another absolute favorite by @adalimon: pic.twitter.com/FkFWoAwL0z

— Dr. Maya C. Popa (@MayaCPopa) August 19, 2022

Poems

"make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came"
Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"

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Poems I've seen shared on Twittter in the last month or so.

Today's poetry thread: GRATITUDE

Here's a keeper. ⚡️ Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/0T98TOvlSF

— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 21, 2022

Today's poetry thread: SURVIVAL

Here's one I keep in my pocket like a 🔥. Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/quZ6qm52Yu

— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 6, 2022

Jon Anderson pic.twitter.com/0p9ceLHQfY

— Tom Snarsky (@TomSnarsky) October 11, 2022

“Carry my heart to some shore that my feet will not shatter do not let me pass away before I have a name for this tree under which I am lying.”

Audre Lorde, “October” from The Black Unicorn pic.twitter.com/a4gStpzXSG

— I.S. Jones 🦌🌑 (@isjonespoetry) October 10, 2022

from Inger Christensen’s “Alphabet.”Translated by Susanna Nied pic.twitter.com/xxsYO2NtO6

— Christopher DeWeese (@_ChrisDeWeese) October 11, 2022

Louise Glück for the beginning (and end) of October pic.twitter.com/6mKGN3z5GK

— Sam DeFlitch (@sdeflitchy) October 3, 2022

the poem in question ~ pic.twitter.com/Ig4i0uv9M0

— dev murphy (@gytrashh) October 12, 2022

Victoria Chang @VChangPoet said this in class tonight and I wrote it down not just in my notebook but in my heart:

"Every day is an elegy to the poem you never wrote"

— D. A. Powell (@Powell_DA) October 12, 2022

Today's poetry thread: BREAKUPS

Here's *the* breakup poem I wish I had written. Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/sVMMq4yh2U

— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 5, 2022

i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.

Lucille Clifton pic.twitter.com/Qbz8UzA39b

— Jason Myers (@jasonpmyers) October 4, 2022

Oh wow, THIS by @rocketfantastic! pic.twitter.com/6uDFDM54IK

— Nikita Gill (@nktgill) October 4, 2022

Today's poetry thread: YOU

Here's a little stunner by Franz Wright. Feel free to add poems to the thread. pic.twitter.com/iPdZrGcjVo

— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 2, 2022

Thanks to the editors of @WillowSprings for including this little poem in their new issue. pic.twitter.com/gtCJe1YZJr

— Juliana Gray (@JGray_Writer) September 25, 2022

"Listen. The rug is wet because
I stood here."

Love this poem by the wonderful Jill Osier and her chapbook, FROM (@BullCityPress). pic.twitter.com/XXLgmEHPih

— Jason Tandon (@jasontandon_) September 25, 2022

Today's poetry thread: LONELINESS

Here's a poem so lonely it turns itself to magic. 🔥 Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/XejxRgws5X

— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 10, 2022

poem I read over the summer, stuck with me since pic.twitter.com/EXQPL6ljbX

— james (@jmcetc) October 7, 2022

I often forget that Leonard Cohen was as good poet as well as a songwriter. pic.twitter.com/3Uw1ZZkLBh

— RobertAllenPoet (@RobertAllenPoet) October 12, 2022

God is its howling.

- Paul Celan, "Nocturne" as translated by John Felstiner pic.twitter.com/odY6VzrXM4

— Alina Stefanescu (@aliner) October 12, 2022