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SWWIM Every Day publishes a poem a day by women writers (she/they).
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Sep 2, 2026
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A ball python keeps showing up in my dreams (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI am watching a little boy in a red-striped shirt. The boy’s father feeds a mouse to his sister’s snake. The girl is maybe four years old. The boy not far behind. * The father makes the children watch while the snake pulls back, wobbles just to still, and snaps at the mouse. The father laughs, the girl laughs, but the boy cries so hard that there is no noise wailing from his open mouth. * The snake’s name is Iono because the
One Week Until “Poems That Speak to Other Poems” (opens the original)
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Our virtual SWWIM Lessons: Fall Workshop Series begins October 6th!! See below for more information about the first session, “Poems That Speak to Other Poems,” and the esteemed poet leading it. Share<div class="captioned-image-
All the Ways to Want Things (opens the original)
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It’s #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day‘s archives!Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published “…this voice was never mine, nor even yours.” —Lawrence Raab Our world slowly spinning unbuttons itself— this is a difficult home. And you, the reason for this tel
Ancient Balm (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOn the train through Mystic there’s a pair of spotlit smokestacks beaming up from a plot of industrial night water so obsidian then white along the shore: two turbid columns of ice. I consider you making the call but it’s the quiet car. In the absence of context there are some things I can always trust you with—your answer to everything else is just time. Ask what kind of time, and like always you say there
Water (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI’m in the birth pool in your room, my cheek resting against the blue inflatable wall, my body swollen with water. You are swimming in my amniotic fluid. Outside, the sky spits rain while I rage in the water. It is the end of the second day. Rea touches my face. She holds a straw up to my lips to take a sip of water. She places a cool wet cloth on my forehead as I grind my teeth, my face speckled with beads of water. I can’t
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