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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,...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....