Poetry on Tape 5.9.25

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Poetry on Tape 5.9.25

Live from New York, it's Friday Afternoon!

Josh Datko

Sep 05, 2025

The Bloody Sonnets is TONIGHT everyone! I am going. I am writing this up, then I’m headed to shop for cassettes and find 35mm film, so it will be a quick writeup.

Tommy Green had a great poem about online life:

Tommy Green

An Elegy to Online Friendships

Fleeting connections in the digital sphere— all of my once closest friends have since disappeared. Bonded by eccentricities and a solitary adolescence— for a time my sorrows were eased by your presence. Almost a decade since you were last online. Do you remember me? Are you still alive…

a year ago · 17 likes · 5 comments · Tommy Green

Wil Price was inspired by a classic American song and wrote this:

Remnant and Shadow

Thought for Food

Way back when, we’d sing…

a year ago · 10 likes · 6 comments · Wil Price

Rasmus Rosenkrantz and James Hart joined together, both in sonnet and in the chat with this great collaboration:

Arthouse Poetry

Cinema Sonnets #6 - Time Bandits, featuring James Hart

This is the sixth installment of Cinema Sonnets: a series where I ask fellow substack poets to pick a film, which we will both subsequently watch, meditate on, and use as inspiration for poetry…

a year ago · 17 likes · 6 comments · Rasmus Rosenkrantz and James Hart

And I’m sure you’ve heard it by now, but Benno posted a really nice song/poem:

Stranger Strands

The Mountain

a year ago · 40 likes · 11 comments · Benno

Have a good weekend!

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