😊 Friends I’m happy to share #Dialogics (a #collaboration ) #3: The Magician’s Magic 🪄

My #poem “Light of Hand” & excerpt from Micheal Sullivan’s magical #blog (link to full pub on the fantastical themirroruptonature.blogspot.com/2024/04/dialog… 🙏💫

#magic #poetry #blog ging #magic al #paradox #illusion

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Happy Victoria Leigh Bennett-- PoetsonThursday Friends 😊

For this week’s optional theme (same as my title) here’s my poem:

“Wisdom”

I look forward to reading your poems ✍️💛🌻

#poem #poetry #wisdom #love

This was wonderful

💯💥💥💥

This is not morning. There is a nastiness
slowing your shoes, something you shouldn't step in. Patricia Smith

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“The Years of Blood” made the runner-up of the prestigious X.J. KENNEDY Poetry Prize TRP: The University Press of SHSU.

I'm super proud of this manuscript, and what it's doing in the world it hasn't even arrived at.

…That quiet
dawn, before I left for the airport, my mother
assembled three lucent songs across
my right shoulder. You are planted
she said. Flourish.

—From 'This' by O., second-prize winner in our poetry contest. Full poem: bit.ly/473cQ6Y
#poems #litmag

But me. I want to be a giraffe.
I’m already tall and long-necked.
In the real Sahara, a giraffe beats
A lion’s ass every day
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“Aerial View,” by Jericho Brown | The New Yorker - goo.gl/alerts/LGcnwW

For Dispatches today re-featuring 2 lyrical searching poems by award-winning Canadian poet Bola Opaleke whose 2nd chapbook is forthcoming later 2024 from IceFloe Press Bola Opaleke

Do you know
this is how some nights refuse to let you go

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BolaOpaleke! Dispatches! Bola Opaleke Adedayo Agarau moirajsaucerPoet M.S. Evans @psm_writes RobertFredeKenter Paul Brookes Barney Ashton-Bullock Amantine Brodeur Karen Pierce Gonzalez Jakky Bankong-Obi SeaGoatWhoScreamsPoetry (Ankh Spice) Winter Rose Vikki C. Julian Day Mike Ferguson Praise Osawaru Vincent Anioke

You heard what they said! If you mess with me, I’LL CHANCEL YOU! 😂❤️😂

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Got a poem in the new issue of Poetry Foundation, buoyed by one of my favourite paintings (Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck)

Read here:
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Happy 2024! I'm excited to start this new year with a flash in the lovely Ruby Literary Magazine & Press. Heartfelt thanks to April Bradley 🏳️‍🌈 and her talented team for accepting my piece.

Here's 'Love Makes Us' if you want to check it out, friends: rubyliterarypress.com/issue-four/iss…

I wrote about Jim Bakker, guns, Trump, & religious conviction for Poverty House. It's my 1st CNF piece in awhile.

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25th Dec. my grandmother's birthday (so she sd). A ferocious matriarch w/flair for drama, Bessie, born in San Antonio Texas, birth records went up in flames in 'great' 1905 fire. TY Bola Opaleke for curating

Grandmother – Listen. This is about hybridity.

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😊 Friends, I’m wishing you all the wonder of today, every day 💛

My latest #DanglingConversation :

“Boiling Water for Morning Coffee” ☕️💫

published here on the fantastical themirroruptonature.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-da… 🙏✨

#poem #poetry #coffee #miracle #awakening #blog #MerryChristmas #mystery