Vicki Ziegler Doubleday James is so brilliant and incorporates so many of Everett's concerns and techniques, but feels so fresh, smart, incisive, painful, angry, moving and of course, funny, too.

The nine year old had a ceramics project and how much do I love that while everyone else made a plate, she made an objet d’art

"I told her I was sorry. I guess I thought a bunion was a corn." #TodaysPoem #poetry Strident Opinion Based on Nothing by @EwenGlass (2024 JAKE) tinyurl.com/2fmy4msy

"The world keeps on doing an extraordinary job of being beautiful, she thinks, even without you in it." A #SundaySentence from The Midnight News by Jo Baker.

"For a moment I’m rain I’m the splashing that breaks the city’s monotonous tin—a drenched thought, a drifting body: catch me, read me like a face." #TodaysPoem #poetry Us Strangers by Aiden Heung 艾登🌈🌈 (2024 SUNHOUSE Literary | OPEN FOR SUBS) tinyurl.com/bdbef4fw

"Impossible to name the exact moment night falls, elusive as the moment sleep overtakes us." #SundaySentence from Held by @AnneMichaels_ (2023 McClelland & Stewart) tinyurl.com/4j3xhc45

"your house ghosts stay next door you hear their weeping perhaps it’s nothing perhaps they’re mourning Jeff Buckley" #TodaysPoem #poetry Allowing Your House Ghosts to Steal Your Loafers by Katie McMorris (2021 The Shore) tinyurl.com/24rpe6z7

"wherein we look up to see we are being looked down upon, looked down upon in laughter and mirth, it is the sadness of that." #TodaysPoem #poetry Yellow by Mary Ruefle from My Private Property (2016 Wave Books) tinyurl.com/37jtt9ew

"this domestic chemistry was so simple: a straight line, neat, an imagination, whole yet incomplete" #TodaysPoem #poetry Complexion by Annick MacAskill (Annick MacAskill) (2024 Riddle Fence) tinyurl.com/kxdtnerb

"I was hungry for bright objects those hoarding light I swallowed the full moon zing and soon it was gone" #TodaysPoem #poetry "the dark thud of his song ..." by Paul Jones (Paul Jones @[email protected]) (2023 Grand Little Things) grand-little-things.com/2023/09/27/two…

“We have traveled east all day long on acoustical roads and boats of old wood. Our ears registered the shadows. Our eyes harkened to the whirrings.” Aridjis Homero; translated from the Spanish by George McWhirter. Self-portrait in the zone of silence #todayspoem New Directions

Our #SilentBookClub is back at it this weekend, with zoom and in-person meetings - something for everyone!

"unaware one thing constantly enters another, becoming not one with it but taking its place, and on and on, a current" #TodaysPoem #poetry Our Second by @JanaPrikryl, collected in 2024 Best Canadian Poetry (Best Canadian Poetry) (2023 @Biblioasis) tinyurl.com/4swam62p

#FridayReads #WeekendReads The Donoghue Girl by Kim Fahner (Kim Fahner) (2024 Latitude46Publishing) tinyurl.com/yyd3y42n

Let the world have you Mikko Harvey House of Anansi Press Gnomic nuggets, both gentle & searing, best illustrated directly: "I don’t get to be a human being for very long, as if this were the punchline to a joke whose first half I missed." #todayspoem BookPings goodreads.com/review/show/68…