The NEW current roster of members to post poems

Last updated 05/09/2026 (American style date)

IMPORTANT
Due to Debi having to take a family leave from The Poetry Collective for at least the next month or longer, see messages from co-admin @TonjaE for any changes or updated information. Please also note that Tonja is on Australian time.

The list below is the next date of your Saturday to post a poem of your choice to the group, and new AVAILABLE dates as well. We look forward to it!

✅@DebiCates = 09/20/2025 Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
✅@SandraArdnas = 09/27/2025 A Kiss by Ana Horvat
✅@timspalding= 10/04/2025 Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
✅@amanda4242 = 10/11/2025 The Song of Songs 7:1-9
✅@AnishaInkspill = 10/18/2025 Cinderella by Roald Dahl
✅@LolaWalser = 10/25/2025 One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
✅ Moderator's Choice = 11/02/2025 Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
✅@TonjaE = 11/08/2025 Lose Yourself by Marshall Mathers
✅@GraceCollection = 11/15/2025 The Raincoat by Ada Limón
✅@elenchus = 11/22/2025 what if a much of a which of a wind by e e cummings
✅Moderator's Choice = 11/29/2025 Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda by Shel Silverstein
✅@PaulCranswick = 12/06/2025 To Sleep by John Keats
✅@louisisaloafofbreb = 12/13/2025 A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
✅@hamlet61 = 12/20/2025 As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
✅@charl08 = 12/27/2025 Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay
✅@Btodd3 = 01/03/2026 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
✅@Interstellar_Octopus = 01/10/2026 A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
✅ Moderator's choice 01/18/2026 The Stars Go over the Lonely Ocean by Robinson Jeffers
✅@noseinabook58 = 01/24/2026 House On A Cliff by Louis MacNeice
✅@doctorofphysick = 01/31/2026 The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass
✅ Moderator's choice = 02/08/2026 Poem by Frank O'Hara
✅@saskia17 = 02/14/2026 Superbly Situated by Robert Hershon
✅@SplendorofDelight = 02/21/2026 Don't Ask Me by R.S. Thomas
✅ Moderator's choice = 02/28/2026 Clancy of the Overflow by A.B. (Banjo) Paterson
===ROUND 2===
✅@amanda4242 = 03/07/2026 Untitled poem by Siegfried Sassoon
✅@AnishaInkspill = 03/14/2026 Hope & #314 ("Hope" is the thing with feathers) by Emily Brontë & Emily Dickinson
✅@PaulCranswick = 03/21/2026 The Soul's Expression by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
✅@SandraArdnas = 03/28/2026 The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
✅@doctorofphysick = 04/04/2026 On Seeing Larry Rivers’ 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' at the Museum of Modern Art by Frank O'Hara
✅@elenchus = 04/11/2026 Envoy from D'Aubigné by W.S. Merwin
✅@hamlet61 = 04/18/2026 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
✅@xkyzero = 04/25/2026 From The Chinese by John Burnside
✅@DAGray08 = 05/02/2026 The Curator by Miller Williams
✅Moderator's choice = 05/09/2026 Things To Do (Heart) by Jordie Albiston
✅Moderator's Choice = 05/16/2026 A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll
✅Moderator's Choice = 05/23/2026 Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
✅@saskia17 = 05/30/2026 The Survey & The Well Rising by William Stafford
✅@charl08 = 06/06/2026 As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manly Hopkins
✅@sirens_and_warnings = 06/13/2026 Love Letter No.71 by Nizar Qabbani
✅@hamlet61 = 06/20/2026 My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
✅@hamlet61 = 06/27/2026 In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
✅@amanda4242 = 07/04/2026 Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen
@louisisaloafofbreb = 07/11/2026

Hello Everyone,

Sadly for us, and lucky for Debi's family, Debi has had to step away from the group for a while to care for her brother; a huge challenge to be a full-time carer and as you can imagine very time consuming.
I will do my best to honour her efforts with this group. To start with I have created this new roster thread for the only reason that I am unable to update posts made by Debi.

I look forward to continuing the creation of this poetry anthology and discussion with you all.
It is Saturday, (Sunday for me) once again and I believe we should be hearing from @GregM3 with this week's poem.

The week after - 05/16/2026 is still available if anyone would like to put their hand up for that? If not, it will be a moderator's choice :)

Best wishes for Debi and thank you @TonjaE for taking over Debi's amazing work.

I'm happy to post on the 05/16/2026.

>3 Interstellar_Octopus: Fantastic, I will add you to the roster.

Next Saturday; May 30th is free if anyone would like to post a poem.

>5 TonjaE: I can take it.

>6 saskia17: Thank you Saskia, adding you to the roster now and look forward to your poem.

Hello everyone, sad how little anyone is interacting with the weekly poems lately. They have been worth some attention.

Next week, June 27th is available if anyone would like to post.

I can do it again If no one wants to take it.

--MATT

>9 hamlet61: Sounds good to me. Please do. :)

Ok.

I will post on 6/27.

Also looking for some of my own writing to post on my thread. Much of my writing is not yet digitized, so I type into Word as I go :-)

--M

>11 hamlet61: Hi Matt. I look forward to seeing what you select for today. 💛 I'm ready to ease back into my passion for poetry and the blessing it is to spend time with others that share that passion.

I am later than usual. Post coming soon.

Apologies to the group. Some things came up for me today