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Poetry Friday: "Summer In With Goodness and Mercy" by Robert Gibbs

Poetry Friday: "Summer In With Goodness and Mercy" by Robert Gibbs

Are you planning a Canada Day celebration? Can we come? No? Well, we'll provide you with some poetic summer imagery anyway, just because we're good...

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Poetry Friday: "On Sundays in Summer" by Kay Smith

Poetry Friday: "On Sundays in Summer" by Kay Smith

It's SUMMER! OFFICIALLY! Goodbye, shoes! Hello, sandals! Not in the office, you say? Very well. But we'll celebrate anyway! To kick off summer, this Poetry...

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Poetry Friday: "The Rubber Bathtub Duck and the Rubber Bathtub Bear" by William Bauer

Poetry Friday: "The Rubber Bathtub Duck and the Rubber Bathtub Bear" by William Bauer

Poems! They aren't always about camouflaged intentions and word-dappled landscapes and unspoken emotions! Granted, most of them are, but still... Anyway, this Poetry Friday we'd like to celebrate the poems...

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Poetry Friday: "This is a Post Card" by Claire Harris

Poetry Friday: "This is a Post Card" by Claire Harris

Summer is literally around the corner! It's a time of rest and vacations and fun in the sun! And post cards! (Kids: ask your parents what post cards...

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Poetry Friday: "Out in left field for the Canadian poets' baseball league" by Michael Estok

Poetry Friday: "Out in left field for the Canadian poets' baseball league" by Michael Estok

The baseball season is in full swing! But for some, poetry holds an allure that organized sports cannot compete with. This Poetry Friday, we turn our...

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Poetry Friday: "Puffs of Smoke" by Renato Trujillo

Poetry Friday: "Puffs of Smoke" by Renato Trujillo

For the first Poetry Friday of May, Renato Trujillo pushes us to face our demons with "Puffs of Smoke" (from his 1987 collection Behind the Orchestra)....

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Poetry Friday: "In One Extreme Cell" by Leigh Faulkner

Poetry Friday: "In One Extreme Cell" by Leigh Faulkner

At the risk of angering the many easily-provoked deities of Canadian weather, we think it might finally be Spring. *waits an appropriate amount of time for...

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Poetry Friday: "'The Love Poem as Caribou" by Richard Kelly Kemick

Poetry Friday: "'The Love Poem as Caribou" by Richard Kelly Kemick

Last week, we were all about the big cats! This week, we're all about what the big cats yearn to eat: Big deer! For Poetry Friday, let's...

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Poetry Friday: "Lynx" by Alan R. Wilson

Poetry Friday: "Lynx" by Alan R. Wilson

Today, for Poetry Friday, we're all about the big cats! The lynx is not the only point of Alan R. Wilson's "Lynx" (as published in the anthology Coastlines: The...

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