5 Threaded Spouts
"Through my
little window, I
see one day
the entire bird,
the next just
a leeward wing"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Injury Room by Katie Ford (2023 Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day) https://tinyurl.com/bdexezf2
little window, I
see one day
the entire bird,
the next just
a leeward wing"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Injury Room by Katie Ford (2023 Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day) https://tinyurl.com/bdexezf2
10:24 AM - Nov 01, 2023
(Edited)
2 Threaded Spouts
One of our #SilentBookClub members contends that our meetings are degree calibre masterclasses in silent reading. He states his case in our latest meeting update: https://bookgagabooks.ca/2023/10/30/a-masterclass-in-silent-reading/ #Reading #Booklovers
04:38 PM - Oct 30, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
"If the track were missing a tie
there would be danger,
but the tie (once called a "sleeper")
has been put back-"
#TodaysPoem
A Halting Probability, on a Train by Brenda Hillman from Seasonal Works with Letters On Fire (2013 Wesleyan University Press) https://tinyurl.com/2fa3dvza
there would be danger,
but the tie (once called a "sleeper")
has been put back-"
#TodaysPoem
A Halting Probability, on a Train by Brenda Hillman from Seasonal Works with Letters On Fire (2013 Wesleyan University Press) https://tinyurl.com/2fa3dvza
09:34 AM - Oct 30, 2023
(Edited)
"They
planted milkweed and dill, red clover, and it
worked: the bees came back."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Nightfall by Carl Phillips (2023 London Review of Books) https://tinyurl.com/y2b2dpy7
planted milkweed and dill, red clover, and it
worked: the bees came back."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Nightfall by Carl Phillips (2023 London Review of Books) https://tinyurl.com/y2b2dpy7
09:08 AM - Oct 06, 2023
#FridayReads #weekendreads
Entranced by the singular voice of Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery (2023 Bloomsbury) https://tinyurl.com/yeyvuh55
Entranced by the singular voice of Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery (2023 Bloomsbury) https://tinyurl.com/yeyvuh55
11:26 AM - Sep 29, 2023
"It's the belief that all of it
is out there, waiting to love us. If this were true,
nobody would be wish-averse."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Bestsellers in Poetry by Nyla Matuk from Stranger (2016 Vehicule Press) https://bit.ly/3kXhrA1
is out there, waiting to love us. If this were true,
nobody would be wish-averse."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Bestsellers in Poetry by Nyla Matuk from Stranger (2016 Vehicule Press) https://bit.ly/3kXhrA1
11:19 AM - Sep 27, 2023
I don't see much interest here in sharing the #poetry one is reading, but I do post my daily reading using the #TodaysPoem tag here: https://tinyurl.com/msxuee6u and here: https://tinyurl.com/y6p57csp
04:37 PM - Sep 18, 2023
"Sometimes a wide abyss separates Tuesday from Wednesday, but twenty-six years may pass in a moment."
#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
Reply to a Letter by Tomas Transtromer
trans Robert Bly from The Winged Energy of Delight (2004 HarperCollins) http://tinyurl.com/pt45ekje & http://tinyurl.com/4sexubs2
#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
Reply to a Letter by Tomas Transtromer
trans Robert Bly from The Winged Energy of Delight (2004 HarperCollins) http://tinyurl.com/pt45ekje & http://tinyurl.com/4sexubs2
tinyurl.com
English Translations | Tomas Tranströmer
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09:47 AM - Sep 17, 2023
The flood of #poetry that was my #TheSealeyChallenge 2023 ... https://bookgagabooks.ca/2023/09/05/the-flood-of-poetry-that-was-the-sealey-challenge-2023/
07:01 PM - Sep 05, 2023
9/31: THERE'S MORE by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (2023 Univ of Alberta Press) https://tinyurl.com/2u7s23sx
"but there you sit, under the vast beige awning, not browsing a daily or your cellphone, but gazing off into the sky, your posture slow, languorous"
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem #Poetry
"but there you sit, under the vast beige awning, not browsing a daily or your cellphone, but gazing off into the sky, your posture slow, languorous"
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem #Poetry
09:44 AM - Aug 09, 2023
8/31: AN AMERICAN SUNRISE by Joy Harjo (2019 WW Norton) https://tinyurl.com/3tbs45by & https://tinyurl.com/wzeva79y
"I ran and I ran through the 2 a.m. streets.
It was my way of breaking free. I was anything but history.
I was the wind."
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem #Poetry #crochet
"I ran and I ran through the 2 a.m. streets.
It was my way of breaking free. I was anything but history.
I was the wind."
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem #Poetry #crochet
10:17 AM - Aug 08, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
7/31: Cincinnati Review (Spring 2023)
"I am trying to stretch out into the nothingness that is this life,
trying to untie the rope and drift,
unmoored, into what I have lost"
This Is No Time for Poetry
Dean Rader
https://tinyurl.com/3fjv4bmm
#TheSealeyChallenge
"I am trying to stretch out into the nothingness that is this life,
trying to untie the rope and drift,
unmoored, into what I have lost"
This Is No Time for Poetry
Dean Rader
https://tinyurl.com/3fjv4bmm
#TheSealeyChallenge
09:34 AM - Aug 07, 2023
"I have not found a single example of a design in which the husband is turned towards a front-facing wife."
#SundaySentence (+ bonus #TodaysPoem ) from Notes: A Monumental Brass by Emily Hasler in The Built Environment (2018 Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press) https://tinyurl.com/2zafhaw2
#SundaySentence (+ bonus #TodaysPoem ) from Notes: A Monumental Brass by Emily Hasler in The Built Environment (2018 Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press) https://tinyurl.com/2zafhaw2
02:15 PM - Aug 06, 2023
6/31: BOAT by Lisa Robertson (2022 Coach House Books) https://tinyurl.com/456bdvmy
"I am confusing art and decay.
Elsewhere, fiction is an activity like walking.
Any girl who reads is already a lost girl."
#TheSealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #TodaysPoem #Poetry
"I am confusing art and decay.
Elsewhere, fiction is an activity like walking.
Any girl who reads is already a lost girl."
#TheSealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #TodaysPoem #Poetry
10:15 AM - Aug 06, 2023
5/31: XANAX COWBOY by Hannah Green (2023 House of Anansi Press) https://tinyurl.com/2te2v78m
"I used to describe my life as borderless but am realizing I don't have boundaries.
I have dead-bird energy. Flying into the glass window of myself. Borderless. Ha."
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem #Poetry
"I used to describe my life as borderless but am realizing I don't have boundaries.
I have dead-bird energy. Flying into the glass window of myself. Borderless. Ha."
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem #Poetry
10:34 AM - Aug 05, 2023
4/31: COSMIC HORROR by James Knight (2022 Hem Press) https://tinyurl.com/2wfckef7
"the correct word for space is monster
the correct word for monster is friend
the correct word for friend is dog"
#TheSealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #TodaysPoem
"the correct word for space is monster
the correct word for monster is friend
the correct word for friend is dog"
#TheSealeyChallenge #31Books31Days #31BooksInAugust #TodaysPoem
10:13 AM - Aug 04, 2023
3/31: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT by Emily Hasler (2018 Pavilion Poetry) https://tinyurl.com/2zafhaw2
"make
no apology for being one way and then another, that try and fail.
But try not to fail. Sing too loudly. Be exact then not so"
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem
"make
no apology for being one way and then another, that try and fail.
But try not to fail. Sing too loudly. Be exact then not so"
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem
12:52 PM - Aug 03, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
2/31: LOCAL INTEREST by Emily Hasler (2023 Pavilion Poetry) https://tinyurl.com/ycx8ytcz
"A simpler life: to re-mulch the mud,
to graze the grasses which best
suit, to stop of your own pleasing:
this podzol, that stubble"
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem
"A simpler life: to re-mulch the mud,
to graze the grasses which best
suit, to stop of your own pleasing:
this podzol, that stubble"
#TheSealeyChallenge #TodaysPoem
02:59 PM - Aug 02, 2023
I'm glad I've planted #TodaysPoem seeds on other social media platforms (even though few here are interested). Still, I was strangely sad I wasn't tweeting a poetry selection today after doing it daily, uninterrupted, for almost 12 years ... https://twitter.com/bookgaga/status/1686157281887399936
07:33 PM - Aug 01, 2023
Happy start of #TheSealeyChallenge !
1/31: TROUBLE by Amanda Earl (2022 Hem Press) https://tinyurl.com/34tn2v4p
"Bereaved: the bird
in its nest robbed of its eggs.
Bereaved: the mother, her cradle
unfilled. Bereaved: the lovers,
bereft. Bereaved
the poet of words."
#31Books31Days #TodaysPoem
1/31: TROUBLE by Amanda Earl (2022 Hem Press) https://tinyurl.com/34tn2v4p
"Bereaved: the bird
in its nest robbed of its eggs.
Bereaved: the mother, her cradle
unfilled. Bereaved: the lovers,
bereft. Bereaved
the poet of words."
#31Books31Days #TodaysPoem
11:51 AM - Aug 01, 2023
"This is Rohwetter's first assignment through Loose Ends, a program that matches volunteer knitters, quilters and other crafters with projects left unfinished when a person dies or becomes disabled. It's the brainchild Masey Kaplan and Jen Simonic."
✂🪡👗 #LooseEnds #Volunteering #health #Crafting
✂🪡👗 #LooseEnds #Volunteering #health #Crafting
07:18 AM - Jul 26, 2023
"I'm a popstar and this is how I feel."
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
from Face by Lisa Robertson from Boat (2022 Coach House Books) https://tinyurl.com/456bdvmy
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
from Face by Lisa Robertson from Boat (2022 Coach House Books) https://tinyurl.com/456bdvmy
10:45 AM - Jul 22, 2023
"What stood
Erect in you has withered. A
Little “palm-tree of turned wood”
Informs your once spontaneous core in its
Immutable production."
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
Pedantic Literalist by Marianne Moore (1924 The Dial Press) https://tinyurl.com/2p8csvth
Erect in you has withered. A
Little “palm-tree of turned wood”
Informs your once spontaneous core in its
Immutable production."
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
Pedantic Literalist by Marianne Moore (1924 The Dial Press) https://tinyurl.com/2p8csvth
11:34 AM - Jul 21, 2023
My Hot Take: A little bit will go a long way. Movement is essential. If you can do it outside, that's even better.
#sme #health #depression #exercise #medicalnewstoday
#sme #health #depression #exercise #medicalnewstoday
10:06 AM - Jul 19, 2023
"a toast to woman and to food, to the silt éclectique
and to the kókkalo of the hammer in our ears.
it’s all the leisure and no weeding when you grow anger
that overgrows all."
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
readying crudities by Pearl Pirie (2020 Canthius) https://tinyurl.com/45embnzh
and to the kókkalo of the hammer in our ears.
it’s all the leisure and no weeding when you grow anger
that overgrows all."
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
readying crudities by Pearl Pirie (2020 Canthius) https://tinyurl.com/45embnzh
05:51 PM - Jul 18, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
I've posted #TodaysPoem selections for 11.5 years on Twitter, so far not missing a day, tra la la. Here is today's selection: https://twitter.com/bookgaga/status/1680927714767773697
09:15 AM - Jul 17, 2023
The best sentence I read this week:
"I think of laughter as the sound of comprehension."
Tom Stoppard in The New Yorker, 3/7/11
#SundaySentence
"I think of laughter as the sound of comprehension."
Tom Stoppard in The New Yorker, 3/7/11
#SundaySentence
10:40 AM - Jul 16, 2023
"There had always been a massive delicate infrastructure of people, all of them working unnoticed around us, and when people stop going to work, the entire operation grinds to a halt."
#SundaySentence from Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (2014 Harper Collins) https://tinyurl.com/2p8s8c7v
#SundaySentence from Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (2014 Harper Collins) https://tinyurl.com/2p8s8c7v
12:26 PM - Jul 16, 2023
"we begin to ride
an inflatable boat across the rippling lake.
Once, riding across, a beaver bumps
against the bottom of the boat—sleek, satin."
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
Bridge by Robin Kinzer (2023 Fifth Wheel Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdzx2jwx
an inflatable boat across the rippling lake.
Once, riding across, a beaver bumps
against the bottom of the boat—sleek, satin."
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
Bridge by Robin Kinzer (2023 Fifth Wheel Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdzx2jwx
11:05 AM - Jul 16, 2023
"I believe you to be, like me, tied
to the tide until for some reason, the approach
of wider wings or human beings or purely because
you can, you become brightness"
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
Sandpiper by Melissa Nunez (2023 Fifth Wheel Press) https://tinyurl.com/55asdvdj
to the tide until for some reason, the approach
of wider wings or human beings or purely because
you can, you become brightness"
#TodaysPoem #Poetry
Sandpiper by Melissa Nunez (2023 Fifth Wheel Press) https://tinyurl.com/55asdvdj
tinyurl.com
Sandpiper - Melissa Nunez — fifth wheel press
Melissa Nunez (she/her) lives and creates in the caffeinated spaces between awake and dreaming. She makes her home in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas, where she enjoys observing, exploring, and photographing the local wild with her family. She is a column contributor at The Daily D..
10:01 AM - Jul 15, 2023
