Monthly Archives: November 2022

A Stunning Debut – Linda K. Thompson’s 2021 Poetry Collection – BLACK BEARS IN THE CARROT FIELD

November 26, 2022 – 8:22 pm

Pete Sillanpaa Never Loved the Moon Aino died first and Pete lost heart. Spent his last years at the Finnish rest home in South Vancouver. The farm by Punch Creek: […]

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Poems by Frank O’Hara and Roger Reeves and Another Poem by Ocean Vuong, Plus a Generative Writing Adventure for Anyone Who Wants To Try It

November 20, 2022 – 6:06 pm

Katy They say I mope too much but really I’m loudly dancing. I eat paper. It’s good for my bones. I play the piano pedal. I dance, I am never […]

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His Body is his Last Address – A Poem by Ocean Vuong from His Latest Book: TIME IS A MOTHER

November 16, 2022 – 5:40 pm

from Reasons for Staying The October leaves coming down, as if called. Morning fog through the wildrye beyond the train tracks. A cigarette. A good sweater. On the sagging porch. While the […]

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The Guest Poetry Blog Series # 4 – Canadian Poet Juleta Severson-Baker Features Dene/Métis Poet, Photographer and Writer, Tenille K. Campbell – Part Two of Two

November 2, 2022 – 9:43 pm

#807 the snow fell light white flakes melting on contact fading away like old stories after dawn the country twang of heartache and loss white noise background as I listened […]

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The Guest Poetry Blog Series #4 – Introducing the Fourth Contributor, Canadian Poet and Teacher, Juleta Severon-Baker – Part One of Two

November 2, 2022 – 9:41 pm

My Wild Body happiness of the world came to me again. My body effervesces, I think with my body which effervesces. -Anna Swir, trans. Czeslaw Milosz &  Leonard Nathan At […]

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