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@hush6 Not that laundromat can't be contemplative...but when you're elsewhere & can check out that reading, would love to hear yr reaction. about 1 hour ago via web in reply to hush6
@hush6 I was that reading, and I swear I was literally dizzy by the end, from the powerful spiralling effect she creates in the poem. about 2 hours ago via web in reply to hush6
@hush6 Michele, I think you'll like this: bit.ly/snPQue Schnackenberg reading another selection from the same collection. about 2 hours ago via web in reply to hush6
@hush6 By sharing her own pain, Schnackenberg seems to help us understand our own, don't you think? about 2 hours ago via web in reply to hush6
@hush6 Michele, you're so right - it lends itself to reading aloud, and through that, forges such an intimate connection, doesn't it? about 2 hours ago via web in reply to hush6
hush6 Read this aloud - the loveliness and sadness will overwhelm you. Venus Velvet No. 2 bit.ly/KCstFs via @bookgaga attn. @Kcecelia about 2 hours ago via bitly Retweeted by bookgaga
Poem of the Week - from Venus Velvet No. 2 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg griffinpoetryprize.com/from-venus-vel… via @griffinpoetry ~Dizzyingly beautiful ... about 2 hours ago via Tweet Button
#todayspoem from Sobbing Superpower, Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rosewicz, trans Joanna Trzeciak (2011 @WWNorton) about 5 hours ago via web
My #todayspoem choice is from the professor's knife, Joanna Trzeciak translating Tadeusz Rosewicz, from Sobbing Superpower about 5 hours ago via web
"I've always tapped the shell with a spoon / but you in one decisive / move use a knife / to cut off the top" Tadeusz Rozewicz #todayspoem about 5 hours ago via web
PoetTanis #todayspoem Marilyn Gear Pilling, "That Father": Give me back my father, running the sidewalks/of Waterloo Ontario back in the fifties 1/2 about 5 hours ago via web Retweeted by bookgaga and 1 other
maykilmer #todayspoem Sigh, E. Zetlin, "our sighs litter the earth,/ sprout from cracks in the sidewalk/ like dandelions, syringes, maple keys." about 13 hours ago via web Retweeted by bookgaga and 2 others
Loud thunder, whoosh of rain, sky a strange, bright gray in east end #Toronto. #dlws about 17 hours ago via web
RT @Soulclaphands In Praise of Pain by Heather McHugh bit.ly/Ljm3bU #todayspoem about 19 hours ago via web in reply to Soulclaphands
@BlueShoes55 @angie_abdou Oh, I'm so glad you met up again! about 23 hours ago via web in reply to BlueShoes55
@BlueShoes55 Did you just miss seeing @angie_abdou in Ottawa? about 23 hours ago via web in reply to BlueShoes55
Will do, @corybeatty. It sounds like a very conversation-worthy book. 10:31 AM Jun 2nd via web in reply to corybeatty
RT @PoetTanis I like #poetry that pinches, as well! @BraydonBeaulieu @seenreading ~Love it! 9:37 AM Jun 2nd via web in reply to PoetTanis
@MsRebeccs I will, for sure. And yes, @griffinpoetry festivities - they're going to be a lot of fun again this year. See you soon! 9:36 AM Jun 2nd via web in reply to MsRebeccs
@MsRebeccs Your fair and measured review on @CBCDay6 still has me interested in the book, but duly warned of its pitfalls. 8:10 AM Jun 2nd via web in reply to MsRebeccs

Name Vicki Ziegler
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Web http://www.bookga...
Bio Modest book reviews and literary news commentary and chat (background photo by Heather Hanrahan)