@harperjean.bsky.social Could you please DM me?

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Trans Library Telethon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOj...

eTransfer to: donate@translibrary.ca

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Can't wait to get my copy!

Whoa!

Wonderful poem, Lana.

Wonderful issue!

Stunning poem! Congratulations!

Congratulations!!!

Sentimental in the best possible way. Thank you.

And the Fish in the Tide BY PHILLIP CRYMBLE Come find me on the bench behind the lighthouse-- on the back slope of the south pier wall. The place we came to share a codfish supper--where the packet to the island lists and knocks against the rollers and our shadows played on rock the builders blasted from the harbour floor. Come find me on the Schlossweg in Tirolo--where the alpine valley meadows sway in parables of sunlight and the breezes from the basin are as cool as air from mountain caves. We'll linger over haselnüsse gelato. Buy speck and German menthols. Make love until our bodies ache. Come find me at the Seaport Farmers' Market. I'll be waiting by the water at our table in the shade. Remind me of the hilltop. Of the maple where we carved our names. Come find me. I'll be waiting. Come find me. Help me on my way.

Many thanks to Carmine Starnino and the folks @thewalrus.ca for taking a chance on this sentimental carte de tendre.

I loved that book.

W.S. MERWIN

I love these, Amanda! Can't wait to see more!

Thank you

Congratulations, Nicola, and all long-listed poets!

An instant bedtime classic!

Bobby Sands for Robert Weaver I did not cry for Bobby Sands, but I almost did, thinking of my grandmother whom I loved, and who loved me, and of how her voice would break when she told me again how her grandmother died in a field in County Wexford with green stains on her lips, her hands filled with grass, and of how in that same year the English wagonso escorted by English troops carried Irish grain down to English vessels for shipment to England. Yes, yes, that was a long, long time ago; but somebody should remember Mary Foley, somebody should weep for her, even if it is only a drunken listener to lying ballads. Being human, we each of us can bear no more than a particle of pain that is not our own; the rest is rhetoric. Better to shed a tear for Mary Foley than to rant or babble about suffering that is beyond our capacity to comprehend. And what of Bobby Sands? We talk too much, all of us. In common decency, don't speak of him unless you have gone at least a day without food, and be sure you understand that he loved being alive, the same as you. Then say what you like. Call him a fool. Call him a criminal. You'll get no argument from me. I'll agree with everything you say in dispraise of gunmen. Oh, but Mary Foley's ghost was left in my keeping. I know in my heart that if he had come to me for a place to hide I could never have shut him out.

Alden Nowlan

I love this chapbook so much!

Happy birthday! 🎈🎈🎈🎈

An incredible issue full of incredible poems including five by @cphillipspoet.bsky.social !

His poems in the issue are astonishing!

Yay!!!

Thank you!

The Trans Debate Do trans people exist Yes Do people who exist deserve human rights Do you believe there are exceptions to the humans for which human rights apply If no - end of discussion If yes - you have identified the problem And it's not trans people @lucassjoness

Sadly still revlevant

An honour and delight to be a Tuesday poet. Thank you, @robmclennan.bsky.social

Thank you, rob!

Happy birthday week!

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️