Poems by Dave Bonta.

This Poetry for the Day selection brings together 7 poems by Dave Bonta. Each poem page includes the complete text, source link, and available rights information.

About Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta is a contemporary poet and multimedia maker based in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. He founded Via Negativa in 2003 as a space for ongoing poetic conversation. The poems selected here include recent work and erasure poems made from entries in Samuel Pepys’s seventeenth-century diary.

These contemporary selections first appeared on Via Negativa. Follow each source link for the original post; each PotD poem page also carries its attribution and license information.

Sources and further reading: Via Negativa: about the project and its contributors

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Down to earthDave Bonta2026EmployeesDave Bonta2026FloodplainDave Bonta2026HaircutDave Bonta2026Long haulDave Bonta2026My Life as a TalkerDave Bonta2026VeteranDave Bonta2026

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