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Poetry Friday: "Planting" by Yvonne Trainer

Poetry Friday: "Planting" by Yvonne Trainer

Have you been outside lately? It's Spring! We're pretty sure it's here to stay this time! And with spring comes renewal, and growth, and, yes,...

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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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Poetry Friday: "Random Moments" by Sheree Fitch

Poetry Friday: "Random Moments" by Sheree Fitch

For Poetry Friday, we're going random! In her collection In This House Are Many Women, Sheree Fitch's refreshingly direct lyrics explore the harsh realities of women's lives...

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Poetry Friday: "Tell Me How" by Daniel Scott Tysdal

Poetry Friday: "Tell Me How" by Daniel Scott Tysdal

For Poetry Friday, instead of an Easter-themed poem (as you might expect), we're going with a different occasion. A fauxccasion, actually. In his collection Fauxccasional Poems, Daniel...

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Poetry Friday: "The Bad News" by S.P. Zitner

Poetry Friday: "The Bad News" by S.P. Zitner

We don't like to dwell on it, but let's be honest; some days it seems like the world is made up of nothing but bad news....

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