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Ordinary Monsters — Justin Bond (Mongrel Empire Press)
Today's book of poetry:Ordinary Monsters. Justin Bond. Mongrel Empire Press. Norman, Oklahoma. 2017."And as you lie in bedlike an effigy of yourselfit is the ordinary that comes to save you."...
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Prison Industrial Complex Explodes — Mercedes Eng (Talonbooks)
Today's book of poetry:Prison Industrial Complex Explodes. Mercedes Eng. Talonbooks. Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017.from Section 3In 2003, at the age of 14, Ashley Smith was confined toa youth...
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Particles - New & Selected Poems — Dan Gerber (Copper Canyon Press)
Today's book of poetry:Particles - New & Selected Poems. Dan Gerber. Copper Canyon Press. Port Townsend, Washington. 2017.Dan Gerber's Particles - New & Selected Poems covers the years 1971...
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The Price of Scarlet — Brianna Noll (University Press of Kentucky)
Today's book of poetry:The Price of Scarlet. Brianna Noll. University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. 2017.Sometimes, and today is one of those times, Today's book of poetry can tell if...
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Sick and I — Katie Fewster-Yan (Desert Pet Press)
Today's book of poetry:Sick and I. Katie Fewster-Yan. Desert Pets Press. Toronto, Ontario. 2017.Katie Fewster-Yan's Sick and I is some slick stuff. Fewster-Yan has more happening in one poem than...
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Burning the Evidence — Todd Cirillo (Epic Rites Press)
Today's book of poetry:Burning the Evidence. Todd Cirillo. Epic Rites Press. Woodbridge, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. 2017.Todd Cirillo, like Heath Ledger's Joker, is quite prepared to watch it...
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Sinners Dance — Darrell Epp (Mosaic Press)
Today's book of poetry:Sinners Dance. Darrell Epp. Mosaic Press. Oakville, Ontario. 2017.Today's book of poetry is willing to go down any road Darrell Epp chooses to take us. Sinners Dance...
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Bociany (Storks) — Jonathan Garfinkel (knife|fork|book)
Today's book of poetry:Bociany (Storks). Jonathan Garfinkel. knife|fork|book. Toronto, Ontario. 2017.(Two things about this photo - our apologies to Jonathan Garfinkel,this was the best we could do...
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Pressed Against All That Nothing — Cody Deitz (Yak Press)
Today's book of poetry:Pressed Against All That Nothing. Cody Deitz.Number One - Native Blossom Chapbook Series Two. Yak Press. Littlerock, California. 2015.Take note, if Today's book of poetry...
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The Art of Dying — Sarah Tolmie (McGill-Queens University Press)
Today's book of poetry:The Art of Dying. Sarah Tolmie. McGill-Queens University Press. Montreal & Kingston·London·Chicago. 2018.Before you read a word of Sarah Tolmie's transcendent The Art of...
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Headline News — John Deming (Indolent Books)
Today's book of poetry:Headline News. John Deming. Indolent Books. Brooklyn, New York. 2018.what is my relationship with your godwhat is my relationship with your godwhat is my relationship with...
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Salsa Night at Hilo Town Tavern — Kristofer Collins (Hyacinth Girl Press)
Today's book of poetry:Salsa Night at Hilo Town Tavern. Kristofer Collins. Hyacinth Girl Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2017.Today's book of poetry can flatter himself by thinking that perhaps it...
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Blackbird Song — Randy Lundy (University of Regina Press)
Today's book of poetry:Blackbird Song. Randy Lundy. University of Regina Press. Oskana Poetry & Poetics. Regina, Saskatchewan. 2018.What Today's book of poetry sees most, when we rumble...
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Stereoblind — Emma Healey (House of Anansi Press)
Today's book of poetry:Stereoblind. Emma Healey. House of Anansi Press. Toronto, Ontario. 2018."these are the kinds of things you own when you cannot control your own future.""everywhere in this...
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Becoming Trans-Parent - One Family's Journey of Gender Transition — Annette...
Today's book of poetry:Becoming Trans-Parent - One Family's Journey of Gender Transition. Annette Langlois Grunseth. Finishing Line Press. Georgetown, Kentucky. 2017.Here's the thing; these poems...
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Bone Light — Yasmin Belkhyr (Akashic Books)
Today's book of poetry:Bone Light. Yasmin Belkhyr. New-Generation African Poets. Akashic Books. Brooklyn, New York. 2017.Yasmin Belkhyr's first poems hit you like a sequence of surrealist dreams —...
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Tiny, Frantic, Stronger - Jeff Latosik (Insomniac Press)
Today's book of poetry:Tiny, Frantic, Stronger. Jeff Latosik. Insomniac Press. London, Ontario. 2010.Winner: 2007 P.K. Page Founders' AwardWinner: 2008 Great Canadian Literary HuntWinner: 2011...
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Thin Air of the Knowable — Wendy Donawa (Brick Books)
Today's book of poetry:Thin Air of the Knowable. Wendy Donawa. Brick Books. London, Ontario. 2017.Oh Thank You, thank you, thank you, Wendy Donawa. The spirit of St. Earle of Birney is alive and...
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Cairn - New and Selected — Peggy Shumaker (Red Hen Press)
Today's book of poetry:Cairn - New and Selected. Peggy Shumaker. Red Hen Press. Pasadena, California. 2018.Perhaps there is no better time than now to look at the very considered poetry of Peggy...
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Bec & Call - Jenna Lyn Albert (Nightwood Editions)
Today's book of poetry:Bec & Call. Jenna Lyn Albert. Nightwood Editions. Gibsons, British Columbia. 2018.Jenna Lyn Albert is going to blow the lid off of it all. Today's book of poetry is...
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