Tag Archives: Rattle

A Speaking Out, Again – Poems and Quotes in the Aftermath of the October 7th Attacks on Israel and the War in Gaza

March 3, 2024 – 6:08 pm

NO SUCH THING AS THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER Silence rides shotgun wherever hate goes. Andrea Gibson from You Better Be Lightning, Button Publishing Inc., 2021 I was grateful to find this […]

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Oh World, Leave Me Slowly – The New Poetry Collection from American Poet Francesca Bell

May 15, 2023 – 1:17 pm

Manifest Image The man keeps telling me I am beautiful. I still look young. He says it like I’ve asked for it, but I don’t care. For him or beauty. […]

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The Guest Poetry Blog Series #3 – Introducing the Third Contributor, Canadian Poet and Sommelier, Tonya Lailey – Part One of Two

October 1, 2022 – 8:57 am

The Cat Comes to Me —after Heather McHugh The future looks like death to me from here standing behind you, in the musty basement where the cat is cornered. You […]

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From May 2022, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems – Part Three

September 6, 2022 – 5:57 pm

What something in me listens —after Ilya Kaminsky I try to hear the people breathing in parkades and the sound of talking over Molotov cocktails over making them and later […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – F is for Fairchild

April 9, 2012 – 12:59 pm

F is for Fairchild To celebrate National Poetry Month I am featuring a new poet for each day of April. I will be at my abecedarian best and go through […]

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