Paul D. Deane

Just released: Protests, Political Prophecies, and Poetic Battles in the Summer issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse. #protest #poem #NoKings #dissent #poetrytwitter #poetrycommunity #medieval #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse

THIS is how you open a story: "Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures."

“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” — 1 John 4:20

In Tolkien’s Letters to Father Christmas, the people of the North Pole speak Arktik, which is actually Quenya. Also, Father Christmas’s secretary is Ilbereth, which sounds a lot like Elbereth, aka Varda. All signs point to Father Christmas being a great Elf-lord, or perhaps even…

All’s fair in love and war—and poetry…. Here’s a new warlike love sonnet in @newversereview with thanks as ever to the keen-eyed @StevenEKnepper

Here is a plain style elegy for my brother in the new issue of New Verse Review.

Here is a great stanza by the late Jane Greer (@NorthDakotaJane) in her honor: No one will say it, but we know today’s fresh-flamed hibiscus flower reveals in one brief, glorious show our birth, our life, our final hour.

I think alliterative verse can challenge blank verse for versatility, especially when the poet is willing to work with, rather than against, the English language's strong predilection for rising rhythms.

“Mithril is the first Elvish word to have entered the Oxford English Dictionary.” - The Ring of Words

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Going to read some poetry at 5 today at my favorite urban garden, the Elizabeth Street Garden: elizabethstreetgarden.com

True Thomas, by Oz Hardwick, in the Summer Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/true-th…

Healthy Shame, by Lancelot Schaubert, in the Summer Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/healthy…

Come Home, by Pernille Bruhn, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/come-ho…

The Fleece, by Audrey Hampton, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/the-fle…

The City is Recruited from the Country, by Lancelot Schaubert, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/the-cit…

Indivisible, by L. Erickson, in the Summer 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/indivis…

Rafflesiastes, by Michael Helsem, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/raffles…

Grace, by Sarah Monnier, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/grace/

Great-hearted Odysseus, by Ruth Aylett, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/great-h…

Stripped to the Bonemeal, by Lancelot Schaubert, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/strippe…