Day 12 is Annick MacAskill’s No Meeting Without Body. It’s brilliant…and so hard to choose just a few poems. Read the whole collection! Here are three of my favourites of Annick’s poems. #TodaysPoem
Day 10 is Eavan Boland’s “The Singers.” When she died, I wept. One of my favourite poets…for so many reasons. ❤️
#TodaysPoem
'because there are no horses here
only bones and a harness
imagined echo of a four-beat gait
the cave of a heart racing'
#TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
There are no horses here by Erin Bedford (2023 League of Canadian Poets) tinyurl.com/3udxskf8
Day 7 is Randy Lundy’s book of poems, Blackbird Song. These are beautiful poetic meditations on memory, on ancestry, and on relationships with people and land. It’s part of the Oskana Poetry and Poetics series from the University of Regina Press. #TodaysPoem #NationalPoetryMonth
Day 11 is Ada Limon’s The Carrying. She’s the current Poet Laureate of the United States. I’ve loved her work for a long time. Here are three of my favourite poems.✨ #TodaysPoem
My mother is my favorite immigrant.
After her? The sonnet.
#TodaysPoem is 'To a Blossoming Saguaro' by Eduardo C. Corral
'he talks
blocks
of space
and
books of
time'
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No Account Syllables by Norma Cole from Rainy Day (2024 knifeforkbook) tinyurl.com/ymruhvfv
Day 12 @GaryBarwin
The most charming creatures: poems
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but
while we watch”
Poems after poets he’s reading, in the style of: marvellous! #npm 24 #todayspoem #NationalPoetryMonth #todayspoem #npm 24 #npm #NpmMania #poetry month #poetry
'Not a paperclip, not
Teflon, cling-wrap, pantyhose,
or gum. Not a band-aid,
but the kiss.'
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Security by Courtney Bambrick (2024 Pinhole Poetry | Submissions Open) tinyurl.com/4feu5e7a
Day 11 Victoria Chang, The trees witness everything
A brilliant concentrate that lights the page:
“The Sound of the Light”
'like grief, which has
ringlets of light streaked through it.'
goodreads.com/review/show/62… #NationalPoetryMonth #todayspoem #npm #NpmMania #poetry month #poetry
Erin Bedford League of Canadian Poets 12+ years ago, some thoughtful #poetry lovers kicked off the shared #TodaysPoem effort - here's the story: todayspoem.ca. Over the year, poets, publishers and readers have shared amazing and revelatory work with the hashtag. It's been uplifting to be part of it.
Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
Our heroine throughout the book is modernist poet Marianne Moore: “A whole life in luster.” Day 9 #NationalPoetryMonth #todayspoem #npm 24 #npm #NpmMania #poetry month #poetry
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'I am
not my
old dog'
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I Want to Love Everything, But by Nasser Hussain from Love Language (2023 @CoachHouseBooks) tinyurl.com/mr3u6w2y
Day 5 is Gary Barwin’s poetry collection, The Most Charming Creatures. It’s hard to just pick one favourite poem…so I chose three for today! ❤️🤷♀️✨ (((Moribund Facekvetch))) (he/him) #NPM #TodaysPoem
Day 6 of National Poetry Month is Teva Harrison’s Not One of These Poems is About You. I love her work, and I just hope more people read it and remember how brilliant she was.
#TodaysPoem
'if his story is a country,
i settled there. i was bitten
by mosquitoes and brought
back this poem.'
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my brother, aging in reverse by Brandi Bird (Brandi Bird) (2022 @ArcPoetry) tinyurl.com/ybkb4dtm
Day 8 dg nanouk okpik, Blood snow
'I don’t let them bleed….
My eyes flow, eyes of tears to the angels & archangels,
as I make wet, dry, warm, cold & fire flame. I’m off kilter.”
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'Or what separates beauty spot
from blemish is what separates
a happy accident from whatever
I am.'
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Skincare RoutineTM by Qurat Dar (2024 League of Canadian Poets) tinyurl.com/yc24hfrf