Tierra Mi Cuerpo / Namah Shivaya
by Brenda McMorrow
omg best track ever: whiteswanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/tierra-m…

#fridayreads Jenny Erpenbeck translated by Susan Bernofsky
Go, went, gone
Clearing his office after retiring, a professor of Classics begins to “incorporate their contents into his private realm. Bone to bone, blood to blood, as if bonded' goodreads.com/review/show/64… Literary Retweet #WritingCommunity

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

I highly recommend Ellen Lewinberg 's Healing Transformation Workshop. If you'd like more info, please contact Ellen 416 203 2744. She is a marvellous healer! healingtransformation.ca/courses-worksh…

Virginia Konchan
Hallelujah time
Day 10 'death sipping a daiquiri/underneath a beach/umbrella, a scowl affixed, while the rest/of the world frolics'
Sharp & smart, smarting beyond the lyric. A luscious production @SignalEditions Vehicule Press goodreads.com/review/show/62… #npm 24 #npm

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
goodreads.com/review/show/62…

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.”
goodreads.com/review/show/63… #NationalPoetryMonth #todayspoem #npm 24 #npm #NpmMania #poetry month #poetry

#sundaysentence
The best story is one that reveals a truth like something you see & understand in a dream but forget as soon as you wake.
Mary Gaitskill,This is pleasure

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Day 7 Michael Ondaatje, A Year of Last Things
'Reading the lines he loves
he slips them into a pocket,
wishes to die with his clothes
full of torn free stanzas
& the telephone numbers
of his children in far cities
#NPM 24 #todayspoem #NPM #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryMonth #poetry

This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there-the unspoken, the spirit, the soul
Octavio Paz
#SundaySentence Famous Quotes

Up today, my article on Jim Kemp! 'A Painter in Search of His Original Face'
centred.ca/a-painter-in-s…
Museum London ᴸᴼᴺᴰᴼᴺ ᴼᴺᵀᴬᴿᴵᴼ Barbara Taylor The Londoner WeGotLondonOnDaTrack Sam Trosow Ldn Heritage Council Words Fest Literary Report #WritingCommunity londonontario londononevents4u Arts and Aging Canada #art

Day 6 My poem “Lethologica” is on seaofpo.vispo.com/?p=pk
Jim Andrews created a marvellous slideshow of 44 variations on vispo.com/seaofpo/public…

Every variation has its own texture, text sure! #NPM 24
Eric Schmaltz Amanda Earl (she/her) @LauraKerrart #NPM #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryMonth

#fridayreads Sherry Shenoda; foreword by Kwame Dawes, Mummy eaters
“What becomes of the soul / whose body is unearthed / whose body is eaten?”

A marvellous, harrowing dialogue between a daughter of Akhenaten and her Coptic descendent, the poet goodreads.com/review/show/63… #todayspoem

My poem 'Lethologica' in Sea of Po by Jim Andrews #NPM 24 #NpmMania #NPM #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryMonth #poetry twitter #poetry #poetry community #poetry challenge #poetsoftwitter #WritingCommunity

Day 5 #NationalPoetryMonth Alycia Pirmohamed, Another way to split water
“I’ll split into myth
& pass through the mouths of a hundred generations.
I am woman after woman after spooling Woman
ensorcelled by water' goodreads.com/review/show/64…
#todayspoem #npm 24 #npm #NpmMania #poetry

#nationalpoetrymonth Sun April 28 3pm
Timbuktu Alpaca Farm
Poetry, Cello, Alpacas-!
Enjoy interactive poetry readings in the covered barn, among alpacas including one named Poet with @katiejeresky @lucjulian & me! Register:
timbuktufarm.com/even.../poetry…
#NPM24 ! #poetry #poetry community

Day 4 #nationalpoetrymonth #npm
#SherryShenoda ; foreword Kwame Dawes
Mummy eaters
We're transported back to Akhenaten's time through his daughter's journey of mummification
“What becomes of the soul/whose body is unearthed/whose body is eaten” #todayspoem
goodreads.com/review/show/63…

Day 3 Evie Shockly, suddenly we
Brilliant, complex inquiry. To be read along with Harrow, by @CecilyNicholson!
“I cast my dreams into a future the shape of my body” goodreads.com/review/show/61… #npm 24 #npm #NpmMania #NationalPoetryMonth #todayspoem Literary Retweet #WritingCommunity #poetsoftwitter