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• Post #4065485

  "We’ll dance down the aisle at the grocery store, Buy oysters and caviar, champagne and more, You’ll laugh and turn backflips, winning my heart; You’ll swing us around on the grocery cart." #TodaysPoem #poetry North by Northeast by Midge Goldberg from Snowman's Code (2016 University of Evansville Press) https://lettersfromahillfarm.blogspot.com/2019/01/todays-poem-by-midge-goldberg.html

• Post #2570785

  "All night I see something lurch toward my looking, something humid, contrived of silence launching the sound of someone sobbing." #TodaysPoem #poetry [All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.] by Alejandra Pizarnik (@PizarnikFragmentada), trans by Forrest Gander & Patricio Ferrari from The Galloping Hour: French Poems (2018 New Directions) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147376/all-night-i-hear-the-noise-of-moaning-water

• Post #2570784

  RE: https://techhub.social/@NearerAndFarther/116525145077361389 "The world headquarters of Harlequin is in Toronto, by the way, which is relevant to this poem." !!!

• Post #2570783

  "Meanwhile the splinters of ice at the bottom of my wooden dinghy thaw and have nowhere to go. Meanwhile I hear a river beyond my door." #TodaysPoem #poetry Overland Water Insurance by Phoebe Wang (2026 West End Phoenix) https://www.westendphoenix.com/

• Post #2570782

  "I just want your petals casting shadows across my face. And to know if they are edible." #TodaysPoem #poetry Magnolia by Patrycja Humienik from We Contain Landscapes (2025 Tin House) https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/patrycja-humienik-on-magnolia

• Post #2570781

  Yes, I'm up to more Tunisian crochet afghan wackiness - here's the latest!

• Post #2570780

  "And in New Place a slack dishonoured body that once was comely, once as sweet, as fresh as cinnamon, now her leaves falling, all, bare, frighted of the narrow grave and unforgiven.” #TodaysPoem #poetry from Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/273647/ulysses-by-james-joyce/9780241405949

• Post #2570778

  "but you Are mother to the one I loved so dearly, And thus are dearer than the mother I knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life." #TodaysPoem #poetry To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe (1849) https://poets.org/poem/my-mother-1

• Post #2570777

  "I saw those cards in the books' back pockets as the library's way of tracking the dispersed collection, but now I think of them as books remembering their readers." #SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem) Circulation Desk by Richard Harrison from My Mother Joins the Resistance (2026 Wolsak and Wynn) https://alllitup.ca/poets-resist-richard-harrison-my-mother-joins-the-resistance/

• Post #2570776

  "I'm a crocus, always too early to the party, opening so wide before anyone else is up, too small, over budget, dismissed." #TodaysPoem #poetry New dating profile by Jennifer LoveGrove from The Tinder Sonnets (2026 Bookhug Press) https://the-wood-lot.ca/2026/04/02/what-we-can-do-without-jennifer-lovegroves-the-tinder-sonnets-bookhug-spring-2026/

• Post #2570775

  "Joy of being a child of the sovereign people of lending a hand to institutions and seeing one’s name inscribed on the slate of urinals in letters of coal tar" #TodaysPoem #poetry Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement by Pierre Martory, translated by John Ashbery in The Landscapist: Selected Poems (1961) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/41038/town-hall-fifteenth-arrondissement

• Post #2570774

  "even I couldn't help but look at the way this immense figure graces the dark medium, and shines so: heaviness which is no burden to itself." #TodaysPoem #poetry Visitation by Mark Doty (1996 The Paris Review) http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mark_doty/poems/14807

• Post #2570772

  "The robin makes a laughing sound. I stop. I always look around." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound by Sallie Wolf (2010) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91101/the-robin-makes-a-laughing-sound

• Post #2570771

  Mavis and I are very honoured to have our work showcased by the amazing folks at The Yarn Guy! https://www.instagram.com/p/DYUydISlhIc/

• Post #2570770

  "I’m only trying to help you, let me help you, he said, something like that, unbuckling; they sailed for hours; the water that day was as close to perfect as perfect gets here." #TodaysPoem #poetry This is the Light by Carl Phillips (@cphillipspoet.bsky.social) (2021 @postroadmag.bsky.social) https://www.postroadmag.com/2021/04/11/38-carl-phillips-this-is-the-light/

• Post #1870460

  #FridayReads #WeekendReads The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (2025 @fsgbooks) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/books/review/the-sisters-jonas-hassen-khemiri.html

• Post #1870459

  RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/116460554044839299 "So, the next time you see someone, quiet, still and with bent head, wielding needle and thread, consider how they might be using incisive and creative tools to make a sophisticated point." Knitting circles truly rock ... https://theconversation.com/needlecraft-this-hobby-has-a-long-history-as-a-subversive-form-of-protest-247969

• Post #1870458

  "He’s a long time dead but comfortable with the living, like a benign headmaster or a low church vicar welcoming the knitting circle." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry Welcoming Bone by Oz Hardwick (2022 Inverse Journal) https://www.inversejournal.com/poetry/youll-never-recognise-yourself-again-four-prose-poems-by-oz-hardwick

• Post #1870457

  "I spent some night or day watching a video over & over. It was not the one of a dog hugging another dog or the one of frogs gathering to watch a video of worms, or the one of a goat head-butting a mirror." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry The slight difference in frequency generates a beat by Tess Liem from OBITS. (2018 Coach House Books) https://chbooks.com/Books/O/Obits

• Post #1870455

  "They may be transient and vulnerable, but they are potent, adaptable, habituated to hostility, flirtatious, deceitful, cooperative, adventurous, exploitative and colonizing beings of tremendous and world-straddling success." #SundaySentence from Petal Power by Adam Nicolson in @newyorktimes Books https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/review/how-flowers-made-our-world-david-george-haskell.html

• Post #1870454

  No sir, nothing rains on our all-weather silent book club parade! Check out our latest report and mind-boggling reading list: https://bookgagabooks.ca/2026/04/26/nothing-rains-on-the-silent-book-club-parade-of-reading-and-readers/

• Post #1870453

  "who are you, whiff of calendula, which otherwise is such clear honey" #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry with plenteous shedding by Danielle Carter (2026 NewPoetry) https://newpoetry.ca/2026/04/27/with-plenteous-shedding/

• Post #1870450

  "Like a drive through hillside country. Up and down, like blood pressure, like the small leaves on the bird cherry out back at whose foot a treasure of beloved dog bones are buried." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth Up and Down by George Murray (@bookninja) (2026) https://substack.com/home/post/p-195746281

• Post #1870449

  "A mile or two away, on the frozen-cloud surface of the real arena, a winter sport is superimposed on spring. Third period of overtime, and young men battle back and forth, trying to collapse wave on wave of possibility to a point of dense rubber observed at last in one net or another." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth I never thought I’d write a hockey poem by Alice Major (2006) https://www.annapoetry.com/alice-majors-sports-poems/

• Post #1870446

  "a voice asks is it time for you to go but she doesn’t know and so she remains but she opts for iridescent shimmer, gossamer web watching from afar" #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth after the bloodwork and the shattering of glass by @AmandaEarl (aka @KikiFolle ) the-shattering

• Post #1870445

  "I feel that it's a poet's job to think of the existential, mark down that what confuses me into a notebook which I can burn before my death or not." #TodaysPoem #poetry Scythe and Fate by @AmandaEarl (aka @KikiFolle) and Matthew Walsh in Slutflowers (2026 Knife|Fork|Book) https://knifeforkbook.com/#jp-carousel-26339

• Post #1555580

  "There’s one spirit in countless bodies, one oil in countless almonds, one meaning in countless words uttered by countless tongues. Shatter the jugs. The water is one." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry Come out, come close. by Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated from the Farsi by Haleh Liza Gafori from Gold: Poems by Rumi (2022 New York Review Books) https://poets.org/poem/come-out-come-close

• Post #1555579

  "What is fire but just another need in a long list scrawled down, torn up, then rewritten." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry T- helps me stack the firewood by Jennifer LoveGrove from The Tinder Sonnets (2026 Bookhug Press) https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jennifer-lovegrove/the-tinder-sonnets-by-jennifer-lovegrove/

• Post #1555576

  "She tore down the last fence by the marsh. Jane d’Eau is a marvel of catastrophe, trophe by trophe, cat by cat; she doesn’t mind if you fish, but you better know when to swim for it." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry Jane d’Eau by Tanis MacDonald, forthcoming in Tall, Grass, Girl (2026 Bookhug Press) https://poets.ca/jane-deau-by-tanis-macdonald/

• Post #1555575

  "So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall." #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth @poetry Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 (1998 @fsgbooks) https://poets.org/poem/scaffolding