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Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10

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Ten Years in the Making. Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10

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KIRBY

@itsakirby.bsky.social

London's calling. #sunday @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social #studiogarzon #LondonON #launch #steviemanning #angiequick #jordanking #queer #bliss

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November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM

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Vicki Ziegler

@bookgaga.bsky.social

Sometimes it helps to just make yourself a little crown ...

Me, smiling, wearing a burgundy turtleneck and a crocheted gold crown, thank you very much!

November 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM

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phillip crymble

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social

Terrance Hayes, born on this day in 1971

WIND IN A BOX

This ink. This name. This blood. This blunder.
This blood. This loss. This lonesome. Wind. This canyon.
This / twin /swiftly / paddling /shadow blooming
an inch above the carpet―. This cry. This mud.
This shudder. This is where I stood: by the bed,
by the door, by the window, in the night / in the night.
How deep, how often / must a woman be touched?
How deep, how often have I been touched?
On the bone, on the shoulder, on the brow, on the knuckle:
Touch like a last name, touch like a wet match.
Touch like an empty shoe and an empty shoe, sweet
and incomprehensible. This ink. This name. This blood
and wonder. This box. This body in a box. This blood
in the body. This wind in the blood.

November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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KIRBY

@itsakirby.bsky.social

The Mockler @themockler.bsky.social at #SendMyLoveToAnyone 🙌 🙏 💐
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Incy Wincy Spider

One of these days we'll both be fine

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November 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM

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Jacob Wren

@jacobwren.bsky.social

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
- Audre Lorde

November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Toronto @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #launch @anotherstoryto.bsky.social hosted by the hardest working man in poetryland #JimJohnstone. (Not pictured, @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social). #earliertonight

November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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KIRBY

@itsakirby.bsky.social

Poetry collections I adore with the word "Men" in the title:

Men in the Off Hours #Carson

The Book of Men #Laux

Men of the Same Name #Jones

#shortlist #offthetopofmyhead

November 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM

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eileen chengyin chow

@chowleen.bsky.social

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Kay Ryan

The room is

almost all

elephant.

Almost none

of it isn't.

Pretty much

solid elephant.

So there's no

room to talk

about it.

November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social

"That's just it. The plates clatter in the sink,
one is chipped, there isn't enough dish soap:
honestly, how do we hold anything together?"
- @evanpjones.bsky.social

Jones questions. Then delivers. Every page here, poetry.

New
EVAN JONES
Men of the Same Name
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November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM

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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social

2025 #highlight

The sweetness of these two, Brian Dedora and Donald Irving, donating their extensive bpNichol collection to the TMU Library. #remarkable #gift #legacy #bpNichol #briandedora #donaldirving

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November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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Anna Veprinska

@annaveprinska.bsky.social

Here I go again, writing about tenderness.

November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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"his one exclamation mark" #shebows #benladoceur
🙏 🙌 💐

George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social · 10d

There's NewPoetry today from Ben Ladouceur.

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The Young Poet

Ben Ladouceur A young poet once told me, you get one exclamation mark your whole career. Twenty years passed and still his name is not very known. Each morning, all summer, I write the first…

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November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM

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@knifeforkbook.bsky.social

"That's what I was hoping for,
for adoration to become tenderness,
for lovingkindness to sound less sinister."

Klara du Plessis
"Ek't Act"

New #klaraduplessis
from @karavanpress.bsky.social

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