A black-and-white photo of Adam Haiun and an inset image of his book I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid. Adam is a light-skin-toned man with dark hair and a moustache.
"Could it ever have
been the two of us going
someplace."
Adam Haiun shares a passage of his long from I AM LOOKING FOR YOU IN THE NO-PLACE GRID (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social) for this final day of #ALUtributaries.
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A photo of poet Thomas Leduc, headlined with the text "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." He is a light-skin toned man with a groomed, grey moustache and goatee, wearing a white fedora and light plaid shirt. He is standing in a forest, the sun sparkling through the trees.
"Your hair kept blowing in your mouth.
Beads of sweat salted the nape of your neck.
I wanted to say so much, but didn’t,
couldn’t, the time was never right."
Thomas Leduc shares a poem from his new book PALPITATIONS (@latitude46pub.bsky.social) for #alutributaries.
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A photo of Kim Fahner and an inset image of her book The Pollination Field. Kim is a light-skin-toned woman with short curly red hair. She is wearing a black long-sleeve shirt with a green beaded necklace and smiling into the camera. The photo is taken by Gerry Kingsley.
"Hold it in the palm of your hand,
let it roll from side to side. It might
tell your fortune if you’re lucky."
Read "A Bee in the House" from @kimfahner.bsky.social's newest THE POLLINATION FIELD (Turnstone Press) & our interview with the poet for #ALUtributaries
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A photo of poet Norah Bowman with the headlining text "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." Norah is a light skin-toned woman with dark hair cut into blunt bangs, standing in front of a green hedge. There is an inset photo of her collection My Eyes Are Fuses in the lower right corner.
"from the night ocean a whale / warm / flipped pewter bowl / glowing like water in a child's eye"
@norahbowman.bsky.social answers our #ALUtributaries questionnaire and shares a poem from her collection MY EYES ARE FUSES (@caitlinpress.bsky.social).
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A photo of Lloyd Ratzlaff and an inset image of his book Walking Upstream. Lloyd is a light-skin-toned man with short sandy-blonde hair. He is standing in front of a tree and smiling into the camera.
"In your dying you have become a new mother
and I a new child,
which only makes it harder to let you go."
Read "Rain" from Lloyd Ratzlaff's debut WALKING UPSTREAM (@thistledownpress.bsky.social) & our interview with the poet for #ALUtributaries
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A photo of poet Natasha Ramoutar, headlined by the text "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." Natasha is a medium-skin-toned woman with long, wavy dark hair and bright red lipstick, wearing an off-shoulder top with thin stripes and standing in front of a coniferous tree. An inset photo of her collection Baby Cerberus is at the bottom left.
"I don’t think you’ll be able to get this through customs
with the forest you gathered screeching so loud"
Read from @spondeee.bsky.social's BABY CERBERUS (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), and our interview with the poet, in today's #ALUtributaries feature.
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A photo of Paul Moorehead and an inset image of his book Green. Paul is a light-skin-toned man with grey hair and short facial hair. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt under a grey suit jacket and smiles into the camera.
"It’s a tamed green here, less grand
than the evergreen titans I know."
Today's #ALUtributaries poet is Paul Moorehead whose debut collection GREEN (@breakwaterbooks.bsky.social) asks, how does wonder transform us?
Read a poem from the book & our Q&A with Paul: alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
A black-and-white author photo of stephanie roberts with an inset photo of her book UNMET. She is a Black woman with dreadlocks and large black-rimmed glasses.
"A woman frees her home of white dust.
Now light ambers polished mahogany."
We read a poem from Stephanie Roberts's UNMET (@biblioasis.bsky.social) for #ALUtributaries
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A photo of poet Scott Nolan, headlined with the text "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries". Scott is a light-skin toned man with blonde hair peeking out from under a straw fedora, wearing a dark grey tshirt. There is an inset photo of the cover of his poetry collection, Man on a Wheel.
"Here where the water breaks
The sky into diamonds
I open myself
I surrender
for isn’t this what it all was in preparation for
love or dying"
Songwriter and poet Scott Nolan shares MAN ON A WHEEL: A TRIBUTE TO PATRICK O'CONNELL (Signature Editions) for #ALUtributaries.
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A black-and-white photo of patti sinclair and an inset image of her book The Late Season. patti is a light-skin-toned woman with blonde hair. She is wearing a large-brimmed hat with sunglasses and is standing in front of a large body of water.
"the sun sits low
phone rings early
she is called to sort low-bush
blueberries"
Today's #ALUtributaries poet is patti sinclair who talks to us about THE LATE SEASON (@atbaypress.bsky.social), a narrative long poem about how grief unsettles and reshapes us.
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A photo of author Matthew Gwathmey with an inset photo of his book Family Band. He is a light-skin-toned man with dark brown hair and trimmed beard. He is wearing a black sweatshirt and standing in front of a wall with a painting of a horse. He is reading from a book.
"Riding the elevator / to the top and then descending the nautilus spiral, / each cycle corkscrew a pavilion of galleries."
Today's #ALUtributaries poet Matthew Gwathmey talks to us about his collection FAMILY BAND (The Porcupine's Quill) & shares a poem from his book.
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A photo of poet Jessica Bebenek, with the text "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." Jessica is a light-skin toned woman with a close-cropped green pixie cut, and nose ring, wearing a ruffly knit scarf wrapped several times around her neck. An inset photo of the cover of her collection No One Knows Us There is in the bottom left corner.
"On that oh / so symbolically bitter October night, my father and I drank / like mourning and drinking is what we’d been born to do."
Today's #ALUtributaries poet Jessica Bebenek shares thoughts on grief and her book NO ONE KNOWS US THERE (@bookhugpress.bsky.social).
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A photo of author Ben Robinson with an inset photo of his book, As Is. The photo shows the author's profile against a brick wall with a single window.
"The man the landlords
pay to cut our lawn insists
on mulching Allison’s dahlias
with the mower."
We read "Establish a Perimeter" from Ben Robinson's AS IS (@arpbooks.bsky.social), which considers what it means to be connected to a place as a settler.
#ALUtributaries
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A photo of poet Holly Flauto. Text above the image reads "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." Holly is a light skin toned woman with medium length brown hair, wearing a black t-shirt and cardigan, and standing before a white stucco building with black, tudor-style wooden beams. There is an inset photo of her collection Permission to Settle.
"I would like to acknowledge that
I am asking to be Canadian
to settle here and
I would like to acknowledge that
I am asking the wrong people"
In PERMISSION TO SETTLE (@anvilpress.bsky.social), Holly Flauto examines immigration in a colonial context. #ALUtributaries
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A photo of Christine Wu and an inset image of her book Familial Hungers. She is a woman of Chinese descent with chin-length black hair and bangs. She is wearing large glasses and a black dress over a flowery top. She is standing in a forested area with her arms crossed looking off in the distance.
"I’m from Saturday morning congee and after school pizza pockets. I’m from gently warmed milk before bed."
We read the poem "Before You Ask" from Christine Wu's FAMILIAL HUNGERS (Brick Books) for #ALUtributaries
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A photo of poet D.A. Lockhart. Text at the top of the image reads "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." D.A. is a light skin-toned Indigenous man with long, grey-brown hair and a grey-brown beard, wearing a floral paisley printed blue button down shirt. He looks serious and contemplative. He stands in front of a water reservoir tower at dusk, the sky darkening behind him. There is an inset photo of the cover of his book, Commonwealth.
"The clatter and wallop / of the land beneath us, reads / like the finality of a folk tune"
@dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
A photo of author Farzana Doctor and an inset image of her book You Still Look the Same. She is a woman with curly shoulder-length dark hair and dark eyes. She is wearing a navy blue dress with buttons down one side and has a tattoo on the inside of her left arm. She is smiling into the camera with a hand on her hip.
"I grow bored with cottage cheese.
One day, naked under hot shower
I expand, rebound,
flop onto double bed,
starfish,
take all the space."
We read a poem from Farzana Doctor's YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME (Freehand Books) #alutributaries
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A photo of Carol Krause. She is a light skin-toned woman with long red hair, lying in the open mouth of a tiny cave, wearing thick gloves and a red-orange helmet with a light on the front of it. There is an inset photo of the cover of her poetry collection A Bouquet of Glass.
"I practice separating inside, outside by sitting beside a stranger on the streetcar. Teach me your ways, I say."
Today's #ALUtributaries featured poet Carol Krause shares "Inside, Outside" from her debut collection A BOUQUET OF GLASS (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social).
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A photo of author Stan Rogal with an inset photo of his book More Songs the Radio Won't Play. He is a bald light skin-toned man wearing a black vest over a white-collared shirt and black dress pants. He is holding a dance pose with a martini in his hand, and wearing headphones. He is in front of a wall with a mural of white horse.
"I won’t wear makeup on Thursdays anymore / I’m tired of covering up / But, hey, it’s Friday, I’m in love"
Stan Rogal shares a poem from his new book MORE SONGS THE RADIO WON'T PLAY (@ecwpress.bsky.social) for #alutributaries.
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A photo of poet Smokii Sumac, with an inset photo of his poetry collection Born Sacred. They are a Two-Spirit Indigenous person with short, dark hair dyed blue at the tips, wearing a watermelon slice t-shirt, a keffiyeh over one shoulder, and a bright floral scarf over the other shoulder, with a beaded floral bracelet on.
“how i pray / each word / turned into a / bird singing / in a clear blue sky / in Gaza”
Two-Spirit Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac shares a poem from their collection BORN SACRED: POEMS FOR PALESTINE (@fernpub.bsky.social) for #ALUtributaries.
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A photo of Kyo Lee and an inset image of her book i cut my tongue on a broken country. There is text on the photo reading "Tributaries, National Poetry Month on All Lit Up." Kyo Lee is a woman of Korean descent and has shoulder-length brown hair with blue highlights at the bottom. She wears a black shirt and stands facing the camera.
"Think about the strangers / bustling around you, guess / their favourite fruits & phobias."
For #alutributaries Kyo Lee shares a poem from her debut I CUT MY TONGUE ON A BROKEN COUNTRY (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social)
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A graphic labelled "Tributaries, National Poetry Month on All Lit Up" that features waves of greens and blues.
Tomorrow our #NationalPoetryMonth celebration kicks off with
#alutributaries — a celebration featuring 23 acclaimed & debut poets. Over the month, each will share their work & another poet's work they admire. All the poetry!
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