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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 1h

"It helps, I find, to dress for God who, if present
is what everyone wears underneath."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Clothes by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) asterismbooks.com/product/in-a...

Poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom (Brick Books) sits with a notebook with an ornate gold cover atop a wicker laundry basket

Handwritten transcription of the poem "Clothes" from the poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 19h

You're very welcome, Frances! Thank you for the wonderful poetry ...

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 22h

I love that we're always waving to each other ! 🥰

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 22h

"I'll know you when you get here - but if you don't arrive
I'm waving anyway, because you might need it
on your long road through, the one everyone is taking."

#SundaySentence #TodaysPoem
Envoy by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/in-a-ripti...

In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom

Reviewed by Michael Greenstein

www.theseaboardreview.ca

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 1d

My #sundaysentence this week is Ani DiFranco contemplating the immediate outcome of writing: “I wake up to the fact that I have transformed my pain into something more beautiful and useful than it was in its original state.”

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Lynne Perednia @perednia.bsky.social · 1d

"And I can only hope that you will take away a sound belief that--if you're searching for where you belong--you always have a home within yourself."

-- Tim Curry
VAGABOND
#SundaySentence

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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 23h

Rather than feel like a powerless baby bird, I chose to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that I was invulnerable and capable of anything.

#SundaySentence from We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin.
#BookSky💙📚

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 22h

It's pretty amazing, isn't it?

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 23h

"Our two heads bent in conversation,
touches on shoulder, on the small
of backs. That daylight dance

we recognize from long years of practice."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
affinity/ease by @francesboyle19.bsky.social (2025 @talking-time.bsky.social) talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/fran...

Frances Boyle

affinity/ease Our two heads bent in conversation, touches on shoulder, on the small of backs. That daylight dance we recognize from...

talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 2d

Cillian Murphy reading Yeats’s “When You Are Old”

❤️ 🇮🇪 📖 #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #WBYeats #CillianMurphy #PoetrySky

YouTube: youtu.be/qRBgbUhc9TE?...

"When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats (read by Cillian Murphy)

YouTube video by Zsuzsanna Uhlik

youtu.be

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

"Star-craving mad: so mad as to want
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...

Poetry pamphlet Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (Opaat Press) sits on a purple desktop, surrounded by bright red and green peppers

Handwritten transcription of the poem Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan, with coffee and the Saturday Globe and Mail nearby

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 2d

#TodaysPoem

Who is that creature
and who does he want?

~Kathryn Starbuck

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

A Gift

That we all want to be alone, I reply, except when we do not; that the world was open to my sorrow and ate most of it; that today is a gift and I am ready to receive you.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my, did @silentbookclub.bsky.social dazzle on the Read with Jenna segment of the Today Show this week! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYY...

How Silent Book Clubs Are Flipping the Script on Traditional Ones

YouTube video by TODAY

www.youtube.com

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 2d

Look what arrived AT MY DOOR in time for Thanksgiving Weekend. #goodness #SQUEE!!! #flipflopdance

SADIQA DE MEIJER @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
IN THE FIELD @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #anstrutherpress

palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the...

Lovingly displayed on @bookgaga.bsky.social #blankie

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

"Tell it to send its small things past us,
past us like smoke empties from a jar, tell the tiny lightning bodies to

glint mica, spread borealis."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Long Exposure Fireflies by Amie Irwin (2017 @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social) aboutplacejournal.org/issues/south...

Amie Irwin – SOUTH – About Place Journal

“Long Exposure Fireflies” and “Sardis Song”

aboutplacejournal.org

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

"These kids who slip into my library and try to fade into the furnishings are hiding their true selves from their parents out of fear of rejection or punishment." Review by Lily Moayeri of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social, which we saw last night at an enthusiastic full house @hotdocs.bsky.social

bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social @bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social · 4d

As a real-life school librarian, watching 'The Librarians' hits differently.
For #BannedBooksWeek we talk about fights over books, censorship, and access that define modern libraries.
#TheLibrarians #LibraryLife #BookBans bookandfilmglobe.com/books/watchi...

Watching 'The Librarians' as a School Librarian - Book and Film Globe

The Librarians is ostensibly about the troubles I face as a school librarian under attack from politically motivated parents who want to ban whole sets of

bookandfilmglobe.com

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood! ;)

Mavis the Airedale, freshly groomed, poses in front of a tree in which a spaceship is uploading a cow

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 4d

"In this time of
indeterminacy when cracks thirst for light the thin
reedy line that peters in and out has the least chance
of detection."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
wolf dream moon by Gaia Thomas (@gaiajane.bsky.social) (2021 The Scores)

wolf dream moon

In this time of indeterminacy when cracks thirst for light the thin reedy line that peters in and out has the least chance of detection. And you were a balloon I kept tethered to me through lack of…

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d

My pleasure! Such great poems ...

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d

"A city grows in my left palm.
The people teeter on curved lines.
The subway wraps around my finger like a promise."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Amplification by Elena Zhang (@ezhang77.bsky.social) (2025 @havehashad.com)

Amplification by Elena Zhang

Amplification A city grows in my left palm. The people teeter on curved lines. The subway wraps around my finger like a promise. I like to send endings to myself and forget who wrote them. When the…

www.havehashad.com

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 7d

#TodaysPoem: Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful #poem about his sisters, published for the first time:

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @IrishTimes

#SeamusHeaney #poetrycommunity #poetry

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 6d

#TodaysPoem (s)

One day the earth will shudder.
Savour what does not fall.

www.lornedaniel.ca/poems

Poems | Lorne Daniel

Selected poems by Lorne Daniel. New collection of poetry coming in 2025.

www.lornedaniel.ca

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 6d

My pleasure, Blair!

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 6d

"Across the city someone wraps
a lit apartment around their shoulders,
reads a book until
the last word is sleep."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Time Lapse of a City by Blair Trewartha (@btrewart.bsky.social) in Easy Fix (2014 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) michaeldennispoet.blogspot.com/2014/11/easy...

Easy Fix - Blair Trewartha (Palimpsest Press)

Michael Dennis Poet from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

michaeldennispoet.blogspot.com

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 7d

"The only thing growing taller, growing greener,
than your memory of being a forest is the awareness you will be a forest again."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Forest by @paulvermeersch.bsky.social in NMLCT (2025 @ecwpress.bsky.social) ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

The poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press) is perched on a tree branch, with morning light showing through the leaves.

Handwritten transcription of part of the poem "The Forest" from the poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch

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