"oh, how i love / the suggestion that the earth
can extend / that there will always be room for more time."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Family Affair by @faitharkorful.bsky.social from The Seventh Town of Ghosts (2024 McClelland & Stewart) tinyurl.com/2v25979y
My partner screenshotted from the original video lol
My book, The Seventh Town of Ghosts was recently shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Thank you to everyone who read the book and continues to engage with it. And congrats to @emdubbleu.bsky.social and Jake Byrne for shortlisting as well!
Trillium Book Award for Poetry
The Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful (McClelland & Stewart / Penguin Random House Canada)
DADDY by Jake Byrne (Brick Books)
Terrarium by Matthew Walsh (icehouse poetry / Goose Lane Editions)
Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.
This spring, on April 1st, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth!
It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾♀️👽🌙
Preorders are open! Please share if you can!
houseofanansi.com/products/myt...
something so special about being a black girl with a black cat
calling a basement apartment "lower level" is such a terrible perversion of language
The poem, "Some Call It Love" by Nikki Giovanni. The lines read: "I am a flower you can put me in your window. I don't need seed soil only a bit of water some sunshine every now and then a kiss I may not grow but I'll stick around and wave to you each morning"
Nikki Giovanni
i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
I interviewed Dionne Brand for @thenation.com. Read for a discussion of the English novel, an alternative tradition, and more www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Excerpt from a poem by the writer Diana Manole. The line reads: "Understanding doesn't make it/easier."
Diana Manole
NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
A line from the poet Nathanael Jones. The line reads: "We suffer shipwreck. Wanted: a fit of gravity."
Nathanael Jones
A poem by the writer Domenica Martinello. The lines read: "I got every good thing in life by asking for it, and every bad thing too - or so they'd have me believe. Poetry often feels to me like clicking the beads of a rosary. It's not hurting anybody, I guess, but that doesn't make it virtuous."
Domenica Martinello
A quote from a poem by T. Liem. The lines read: "lexicon of what I has been called coincides with lexicon of what I calls self"
T. Liem
A quote from a poem by T. Liem. The lines read: "lexicon of what I has been called coincides with lexicon of what I calls self"
T. Liem
your humanity is worth much more than 100k
Hi! Yes you can - thank you: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717999...
constantly reminding myself that there are no rules to poetry. there are no rules, other than the ones you create for yourself. this is hard to remember on the internet, but it's always rang true for me
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
CBC’s Front Burner interviewed author David Bergen on his decision to boycott the #GillerPrize.
I encourage all of us in the #book industry to listen.
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
I haven't posted here since before my book was released. Hello new followers! I wrote a debut collection of poetry titled The Seventh Town of Ghosts this past spring. If you'd like to read it you can buy a copy here: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/717999...
thank you for reading! i hope you enjoyed it ❤️
In gratitude for those who review poetry, Continent had these engagements I continue to appreciate:
www.canculturemag.com/literary-1/2...
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
thank you A.G!!!
thank you so much hannah!
thank you so much aaron!
It's the first day of 2024, which means The Seventh Town of Ghosts, my debut book, will be out in EIGHTY-FIVE days. If you can, please consider supporting a young Black poet in Canada by RT'ing this and/or pre-ordering a copy below - thank you: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/717999...
