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Smoke Of Her Body - Stephanie Levin (Jacar Press)
Today's book of poetry:Smoke Of Her Body. Stephanie Levin. Jacar Press. Durham, North Carolina, 2011.Winner of the Jacar Press Poetry Book ContestDorianne Laux has it right. Ever actually been...
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Civil and Civic - Jonathan Bennett (Misfit/ECW Press)
Today's book of poetry:Civil and Civic. Jonathan Bennett. Misfit/ECW Press. Toronto, Ontario. 2011.Jonathan Bennett's Here is my street, this tree I planted (Misfit/ECW Press, 2004) starts with a...
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The Beauty of This World - Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva (Parallel Press)
Today's book of poetry:The Beauty of This World. Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva. Parallel Press. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Madison, Wisconsin. 2014."A lifetime isn't long enough for the...
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Time Out of Mind - Laurie Block (Oolichan Books)
Today's book of poetry:Time Out of Mind. Laurie Block. Oolichan Books. Lantzville, British Columbia. 2006.There are an infinite number of tragedies in this modern world. It is a smorgasbord of...
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Honey - Richard Carr (Gival Press)
Today's book of poetry:Honey. Richard Carr. Gival Press. Arlington, Virginia. 2008(Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award)Whimsy and delight would suggest the wrong thing, but whimsy and delight...
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Peeling Rambutan - Gillian Sze (Gaspereau Press)
Today's book of poetry:Peeling Rambutan. Gillian Sze. Gaspereau Press. Kentville, Nova Scotia. 2014.FOR SABERA"sorrow becomes a friend if it hangsaround long enough"...
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Revising The Storm - Geffrey Davis (BOA Editions)
Today's book of poetry:Revising The Storm. Geffrey Davis. BOA Editions, Ltd. Rochester, N.Y.2014.Winner of the A. POULIN JR. POETRY PRIZEGeffrey Davis writes with harsh beauty. His poems are an...
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Throw Yourself Into The Prairie - Francesca Chabrier (Sarabande Books)
Today's book of poetry:Throw Yourself Into The Prairie. Francesca Chabrier. Sarabande Books. Louisville, Kentucky. 2014.You want to know what the internet is, how to write a novel or to build a...
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A Thin Line Between - Wanda Praamsma (Book Thug)
Today's book of poetry:A Thin Line Between. Wanda Praamsma. Book Thug. Toronto. Ontario. 2014.Wanda Praamsma uses short narrative events from her life to encapsulate moments as though they were...
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Inheritance - Kerry-Lee Powell (Biblioasis)
Today's book of poetry:Inheritance. Kerry-Lee Powell. Biblioasis. Windsor, Ontario. 2014.Kerry-Lee Powell is Winner of the 2013 Boston Review Fiction Contest and the 2013 Malahat Review Far...
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Today's book of poetry: Publishers. (You should look up their books)
Today's book of poetry:These are the presses who have sent books to Today's book of poetry, bless their cotton socks.Above/Ground Press - http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/Airlie Press -...
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The Cave - Tom Holmes (The Bitter Oleander Press)
Today's book of poetry:The Cave. Tom Holmes. The Bitter Oleander Press. New York, N.Y., 2014.Winner of the Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013How do you make human those...
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Bird Facts - Dave Currie (Apt. 9 Press)
Today's book of poetry:Birds Facts. Dave Currie. Apt. 9 Books. Ottawa, Ontario. 2014.Dave Currie does the almost impossible, he makes, for a short period of time, birds the most interesting subject...
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Brood - Rob Thomas (A Bywords Publication)
Today's book of poetry:Brood. Rob Thomas. A Bywords Publication. Ottawa. Ontario. 2014.Winner of the 2013 John Newlove Poetry AwardBest best best cover since Christian McPherson's The Sun Has...
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Words for Elephant Man - Kenneth Sherman (The Porcupine's Quill)
Today's book of poetry:Words for Elephant Man. Kenneth Sherman. The. Porcupine's Quill. Erin, Ontario. 2012. (Second Edition)Words for Elephant Man was originally published by Mosaic Press,...
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Quebec Passages - Pearl Pirie (Noun Trivet Press)
Today's book of poetry:Quebec Passages. Pearl Pirie. Noun Trivet Press. Ottawa. Ontario. 2014."we followed the rules we set forourselves"This line from Pearl Pirie's poem "a rail bed of feldspar"...
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Designation Youth - David Bateman (Frontenac House Poetry)
Today's book of poetry:Designation Youth. David Bateman. Frontenac House Poetry. Calgary, Alberta. 2014.I wasn't sure if I was looking at David Bowie's cool Duke or Marlene Deitrich in repose when...
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Passing Stranger - Pam Galloway (Inanna Publications and Education, Inc)
Today's book of poetry:Passing Stranger. Pam Galloway. Inanna Publications and Education, Inc. Toronto, Ontario. 2014.Sometimes being a man is of no help what so ever. So I read some of these...
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Where the Back Roads Take You - Debra Franke (Baseline Press)
Today's book of poetry:Where the Back Roads Take You. Debra Franke. Baseline Press. London, Ontario. 2014.Debra Franke's Where the Back Roads Take You does an awful lot of very good things in short...
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Mr. Sapiens - Jesse Patrick Ferguson (A Buckrider Book/Wolsak & Wynn)
Today's book of poetry:Mr. Sapiens. Jesse Patrick Ferguson. A Buckrider Book/Wolsak & Wynn. Hamilton, Ontario. 2014.Mr. Sapiens by Jesse Patrick Ferguson is a mature entertainment of the first...
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