Ben Crowder — #poetry posts https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/poetry/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #poetry. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:48:21 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Some updates https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-updates/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-updates/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT
  • I released two short new poems, “Manifestation” and “Accretion.” Probably more to come soon. Hopefully more stories soon, too.
  • Slowly, slowly, I’ve been working toward completing at least one piece of art for each passage in the New Testament Doctrinal Mastery list, and now we’re down to only two left. Since January, by the way, I’ve silently released new art here and there — twenty-three new pieces — without murmuring a word about it on this blog. I don’t remember my reason for being furtive. I think it was just an experiment to see what it was like.
  • After writing that post on homegrown apps, I’ve grown mildly obsessed with simplifying my apps, both technically (simpler architecture and code) and as a system (by having fewer apps). I made plans to rewrite Liszt in Go, using plain text files as the backing store instead of SQLite, but then had an epiphany and realized I could manage my to-do list in Codex instead. (This is Codex my notes app, now in dire need of a name change to avoid confusion with OpenAI’s thing.) I unofficially retired Liszt yesterday and have been trying the new method, and I think that while it’s different from what I had before, overall it’s simpler (each day gets its own note, and the list is just Markdown with some annotations) and is going well. This moves me another (admittedly fairly large) step toward just using paper for my to-do lists, which I suspect is where I’ll end up.
  • For my current daily reading goals, I try to read fifty pages each from the three books I’ve been reading the longest, and ten pages each from the rest. It continues to amaze me how even a long book like War & Peace melts away in the face of fifty pages per day.

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    ]]>         Some Square Poems https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-square-poems/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-square-poems/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Another new digital chapbook: Some Square Poems, with 140 very short square poems. (“Square,” by the way, here means that the number of syllables per line matches the number of lines in the poem. It’s an arbitrary constraint I made up for myself on this project, though it turns out I’m not the only one who has thought of it and given it the same name. Or perhaps I once read about the form and then promptly forgot that I had.) It’s available for free in PDF.

    I’ve been working on these for about a month, writing them down in my Field Notes notebook, and have had a lot of fun with the form. The typesetting was also fun; I initially set it in Freight Text but then, after designing the cover, switched to Futura to match.

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    ]]>         Bag Field & Other Stories https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/bag-field-and-other-stories/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/bag-field-and-other-stories/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT I’ve collected the fiction and poems I’ve published (well, self-published) into a new book, Bag Field & Other Stories, available for free in EPUB and PDF. No new work in this volume, though I’m publishing this in the hope that it will motivate me to write more.

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    ]]>         A new poem: “Rusted Crowns.” I started this one almost a year ago with just the first stanza written... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/1049/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/1049/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:00:00 GMT A new poem: “Rusted Crowns.”

    I started this one almost a year ago with just the first stanza written, then picked it up again this week and completed it.

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    ]]>         New poem (a sonnet): The sight of you. https://bencrowder.net/blog/2019/735/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2019/735/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:00:00 GMT New poem (a sonnet): The sight of you.

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    ]]>         New poem: Bernadette. https://bencrowder.net/blog/2019/727/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2019/727/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:00:00 GMT New poem: Bernadette.

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    ]]>         The Accidental Jaywalker https://bencrowder.net/blog/2013/the-accidental-jaywalker/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2013/the-accidental-jaywalker/ Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT My poem “The Accidental Jaywalker” is now up on the Mormon Lit Blitz site. There’s also a discussion page. Have fun. (I’ll give liner notes after the voting is over. I’ll also post the poem here.)

    I originally planned to blog about each finalist each day, but entropy won out and now I’m thinking more just a single recap post at the end. If you want to see the entries as they come out, watch the Lit Blitz blog.

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    ]]>         Seventeen Steps https://bencrowder.net/blog/2011/seventeen-steps/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2011/seventeen-steps/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT A new-ish poem: Seventeen Steps, a short narrative poem I wrote four years ago but didn’t get around to polishing and finishing till today. I think you could classify it as fantasy.

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