“When I talk about my work, I don’t say, ‘I wrote,’ I say, ‘I made,” or ‘I am making.’ I want my poems to be like three-dimensional objects instead of just words on the page." --May Swensen #poetry #AmericanPoet #AmericanPoetry

Maynard Dixon : Prairie Shower 1927

Troubling indeed Pancouver The Tyee

“the future falls out of place”

The wonder that can be found on an infant’s face: “twisting their faces / into vast expressions”

"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism – you learn this as you go on." - Will Self

Tonight!

As a morning writer, I love the distinction being made in the quoted line (in a gorgeous poem about acceptance and openness) and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought

J. M. W. Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise

Kumo in Japanese (which sounds like a roundish word to me.) Do you know cloud in any other languages?

“I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone’s decision against silence.” - Yiyun Li

According to health institutions in Gaza 40,000 Palestinian infants are at risk of death due to starvation and lack of milk in Gaza .

From off the side of a lorry

“A poetry of shine”

Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza bbc.in/4lIm7Zs

"Working with students, particularly graduate students and Indigenous students, and being involved in some movements around housing and urban rights, generates a future-oriented optimism that I feel a part of" Jeff Derksen bcbooklook.com/from-working-c… Simon Fraser University SFU English SFU English Grad Students

Such a thrill to be read closely and carefully. Thank you, Tom.

Happy Friendship Day Eve, good people at Talon!

Jim Harrison

Language as an “incessant chorus”