Monthly Archives: October 2016

Gone So Quietly, Unexpectedly – But Listen! Her Poems Still Sing! Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1951-2016)

October 24, 2016 – 12:19 pm

The Leaving My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches. The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily. I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden. How many ladders to gather an orchard? I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and […]

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Intimate Poetry That Sells – And Sells – The Poetry of Toronto-based Rupi Kaur

October 2, 2016 – 12:25 pm

When my mother opens her mouth to have a conversation at dinner my father shoves the word hush between her lips and tells her to never speak with her mouth full this is how the women in my family learned to live with their mouths closed Rupi Kaur (1992 – ) from milk and honey, […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – #21 in a Series – Poem as Mirror and Solace

October 1, 2016 – 9:30 pm

ON THE TABLE IN THE ROOM IN THE DARK house lies the book you didn’t know you were looking for, opened to the page with the poem about solace you didn’t know you needed; at first the letters, then the words, little by little the lines disappear as you read them in the light of […]

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