Monthly Archives: October 2016

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

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, […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]