Vicki Ziegler
@bookgaga.bsky.social
Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
"Books did not judge you, Marigold thought, perhaps because they were full of animals. She knew from the dog, animals did not judge you." #SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 5/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry Marigold & Rose Louise Glück (2022 @fsgbooks.bsky.social) carcanetblog.blogspot.com/2022/09/mari...
Book 3/31 Isabel Galleymore – Significant Other (Carcanet) "we stride across; the rails / already bushy with brassy / locks that love the bridge that links / this part of the earth with the next" ('Are We There Yet?') #SealeyChallenge #poetry
Day 4 of the #SealeyChallenge: A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder by Icelandic poet Brynja Hjalmsdottir, translated by Rachel Britton. Spare, harrowing poems.
Are you doing the #SealeyChallenge? Not sure if I’ll manage a book per day, but I’ll certainly engage with poetry each day. Started yesterday (Day 1) with Black Girl in the Ring by Delores V. Mullings, published by @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social. #CanLit #Poetry breakwaterbooks.com/products/bla...
Black Girl in the Ring
Juxtaposing experiences of discrimination with love and resilience, this debut poetry collection is a critique of intimate and institutional violence and hostility, entwined with a celebration of beau...
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"You could try to hide. But not from your skin. It jailed you." #SealeyChallenge 4/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry On Asking Why Japanese-Canadian Internees Never Tried to Escape by Kevin Irie from Evacuations (2026 @UAlbertaPress.bsky.social) robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/kevi...
"3b. voice doubled, repeat alongside me or, after me. I understand if you can't feel connection." #SealeyChallenge 3/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry The Things I Found at the End of the World by @arielletwist.bsky.social (2026 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2026/06/25/t...
"the light arriving from the stars was younger, too, the birds dreaming in the tree cavities were the birds of the past, growth rings had vanished from the trees in which they slept" #SundaySentence from Transcription by Ben Lerner openlettersreview.com/posts/transc...
Transcription by Ben Lerner — Open Letters Review
A review of the new novel by “The Topeka School” author Ben Lerner
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Day 2 of the #sealeychallenge - ‘Eating Air’ by Suyin Du Bois. Simmering and steaming, these poems about food, identity, and (be)longing are gorgeously delectable. Be warned, though; they will almost certainly leave you wanting to eat a massive bowl of noodles. @theemmapress.bsky.social
"We all want to ding the dinger, but can't afford to annoy The conductor." #SealeyChallenge 2/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry from Choral Coral Carol by @james-lindsay.bsky.social (2026 @knifeforkbook.bsky.social) www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p203/J...
"I have sacrificed clemency for a bag of clementines." #SealeyChallenge 1/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry Communiqué from Atlantis by @lisarichter.bsky.social from Sublunary (2026 @ualbertapress.bsky.social) ualbertapress.ca/978177212854...
"And when my father bends to whisper in her ear, when they rise to leave and the swallows dart and the moon and stars have drifted off together, it shines." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Garden by Mark Strand from Selected Poems (1979 @aaknopf.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49164/...
The Garden
It shines in the garden, in the white foliage of the chestnut tree, in the brim of my father’s hat as he walks on the gravel. In the garden suspended…
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"The act of writing a letter or painting a picture, packaging in an envelope, placing a stamp on it & then putting that faith into the postal system that it will arrive, it's something that technology cannot & has not been able to replace yet ... And hopefully it doesn't." www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/s...
You've got snail mail — subscription-based clubs are delivering on the desire for physical letters | CBC Radio
Creative entrepreneurs are finding their way into people's hearts — and mailboxes — by offering snail-mail subscriptions. Creators, subscribers and academic experts alike say they're tapping into a de...
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It's a departure from my usual wacky stuff, but this Tunisian crochet afghan is going pretty well, I think ...
"He sang none of his own songs. He raised each song to high heaven, the beard and hair ginger, the face red with sheer passion. He simply didn't stop. No one wanted him to stop." #TodaysPoem #poetry Colm Toibin on @glenhansard.bsky.social www.facebook.com/colm.toibin/...
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"the average person is arguably consuming more written words each day than ever before in history. But higher-level reading, which is associated with a slew of essential critical thinking skills, is declining ..." via @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Ideas: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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"the sky took us and so we went and you were everywhere we looked" #TodaysPoem #poetry Michigan, July 2026 by Rebecca S (@grongar.bsky.social) (2026) www.instagram.com/p/DbWmobDR4X...
"And later on, I will think of you As the planes light up in the northside sky And I remember the tremor As fresh as the morning it woke me" #TodaysPoem #poetry Worlds Apart by Cactus World News (1986) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfI... & genius.com/Cactus-world...
WORLDS APART
YouTube video by Cactus World News - Topic
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The bookish enthusiasm always overflows with our @silentbookclub.bsky.social group - and heck, we just goooo with the floooow! Check out what we're reading and talking about here, including another also overflowing combined book list: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/07/26/w...
"These last few days are among the happiest I've ever ignored." #SundaySentence by Douglas Kenney (1980), highlighted in A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) www.imdb.com/title/tt5566...
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"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing." #SundaySentence, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami.
"Instead of leader we had louder, instead of lover, never. And over this river broke the winter’s black weather." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Darker Sooner by Catherine Wing from The Best American Poetry (2010 @scribnerbooks.bsky.social) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55154/...
The Darker Sooner
Then came the darker sooner, came the later lower. Our gods were fallen faster, and fallen larger.
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"When it comes to outlook & point of view, a figure stands on a rocky ledge peering out toward an archipelago of glass on the mainland" #TodaysPoem #poetry Islands by Yusef Komunyakaa (2012 @poetry.foundation Magazine) www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Islands
But when a mind climbs down from its high craggy lookout we know it is truly a stubborn thing, & has to leaf through pages of dust & light, through…
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"it seems we’re out of New Testaments at the moment. What does it mean, at the moment, how long will this moment last." #TodaysPoem #poetry In the Bookstore by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh (2021 Times Literary Supplement) www.the-tls.com/literature/o...
Three Poems
Translated by Clare Cavanagh The Calling of St. Matthew that priest looks just like Belmondo Wisława Szymborska, “Funeral (II)” —Look at his hand, his palm. Like a pianist’s —But that old guy can’t se...
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"Nobody wants to be around a sad person. Actually, I can sit with your sadness. It's I who couldn't tolerate my own. Unless I was alone." #TodaysPoem #poetry from @PoetryisQueer by Kirby (@itsakirby.bsky.social) (2021 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) palimpsestpress.ca/books/poetry...
"Topsy-turvy posts tombstoned the unhayed hay." #TodaysPoem #poetry Chemin Cross Loop by Linda Besner (2026 NewPoetry @bookninja.bsky.social)
CHEMIN CROSS LOOP
Linda Besner I spent my time when it was normal days drawing smoke across the hole. To blend a softer blackness in the abandoned paddock they’ve rammed the highway through. I skipped a circl…
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"Blaze away Into the dark, bugler. Be sure the night Reflects your song with every point of light." #TodaysPoem #poetry A Heritage of Trumpets by Clive James (2017 The @NewYorker.com)
“A Heritage of Trumpets”
“Though there was subtlety in how Miles muttered, / One always ached to hear a song line uttered / With definition, lyrical and real.”
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"When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid." #TodaysPoem #poetry There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850) wist.info/longfellow-h...
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - "There Was a Little Girl," st. 1 (c. 1850) | WIST Quotations
There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid. Often printed with "She was very,...
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"The way her spices, the cinnamon and turmeric, and cumin and honey mixed with the beef and chickpeas, was sublime." #SundaySentence from Vidal by @danilabotha.bsky.social (@AtBayPress.bsky.social) atbaypress.com/books/detail...
“It is easy to charm a person who talks too much: all you have to do is listen.” ~Patrick Radden Keefe, ‘London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth’ #SundaySentence
