Vicki Ziegler (@bookgaga) — Bluesky Profile

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Daydreaming In The Anthropocene by Chris Banks | ONLY POEMS Read Daydreaming In The Anthropocene, a poem by Chris Banks. Explore poetry that moves, inspires, and connects. Part of ONLY POEMS' curated collection.

"The red bird
I have waited for my entire life never arrives, but my crow
friend comes, brings me a silver thimble, cries a banner of
words"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Daydreaming In The Anthropocene by @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social (2026 @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social) onlypoems.com/poems-catalo...

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23 hours ago

Handwritten transcription of the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley sits next to the poem displayed on a laptop screen, along with a picture of Shelley

"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818 The Examiner) poets.org/poem/ozymand...

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1 day ago

How knitting can help you kick harmful habits From preventing nail-biting and doomscrolling all the way up to helping people addicted to drugs, knitting can have a surprisingly powerful affect on your brain.

Love this! 👇

How knitting can help you kick harmful habits www.bbc.com/future/artic... by @eabrown18.bsky.social

One of my children (in medicine) doing research on using knitting as an affordable, accessible, scaleable and community building mental health intervention!

#TeamKnitting! 🧶

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1 day ago

The book has a red cloth spine. The cover shows a retrofuturist city with airships and cablecars. A single woman appears in a door high in the towers.Far below, male figures spill out of underground tunnels and climb stairs towards her

A retrofuturist city with airships and cablecars. A single woman appears in a door high in the towers. Far below, male figures spill out of underground tunnels and climb stairs towards her.

A page of ink drawings of stick figures and strange architecture.

I drew the cover for a new edition of lost sci-fi classic 'Woman Alive' by Susan Ertz. It is out now from @manderleypress.bsky.social
1. The book / 2. A close up of the artwork / 3. Some notebook doodles
www.manderleypress.com/shop/p/womanalive

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2 days ago

rice & rain i feel the saltwater rushing in my mouth as i hit the shore — sand becoming rice. rainwater peeling open car windows to fill the floor — make mobile your…

"you ask if we should stir the rice & the water
hisses & spits. we often forget about the ghosts
who kneel in pots of water."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
rice & rain by @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social (2018 @poetry.foundation)

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3 days ago

This “accent” that I can’t lose & they can’t place — Split Lip Magazine most times, people can hear the twang before I do, this southern relic on my tongue they

"and
an inkling fidgets inside me, so I
smile, lean into unspoken knowing’s incline
that people miss, overlook"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
This “accent” that I can’t lose & they can’t place by Tara Betts (2026 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social) splitlipthemag.com/poetry/0226/...

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3 days ago

It is so. good. :)

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3 days ago

"... , the houseplant venturing a new leaf, the leftover vegetable soup, the worn socks, the sliver of soap stuck upon the new bar of soap."

(2/2) #SundaySentence from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada)

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3 days ago

Kiran Desai’s Long-Awaited Return Is a Transcendent Triumph

"Because when someone betrays their spouse, they also betray their daughter and the small life of the house: the trustful dog, the cat with the attitude of a movie star ..."

(1/2) #SundaySentence
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

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4 days ago

A carpet of moss in the forest [Olympic National Park]

“A colony of moss does not experience emotions like fondness or intimacy, but if it did, it might say this - we held her.”

BOG QUEEN, by Anna North

#SundaySentence

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3 days ago

"like ash blown off a plate" ... wonderful, that!

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3 days ago

let the world — Montreal International Poetry Prize by Zoe Dickinson   Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife, Shut in upon itself and do no harm – Elizabeth Barret Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese , XXIV   cool evening ...

"how to caress the contours
of the earth without breaking its skin.
I watch but cannot learn how to bless
this dismembered breeze"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
let the world by Zoe Dickinson (@zoeidadickinson.bsky.social) (2025 @montrealprize.bsky.social) www.montrealpoetryprize.com/poems/let-th...

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4 days ago

Moving Day Nothing seems to fit through the door of my daughter’s room anymore.

"What we easily carried upstairs
twenty years ago gets stuck

going back through the doorway,
or wedged tight in the stairwell."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Moving Day by John Bargowski (2017 @poetrydaily.bsky.social) poems.com/poem/moving-...

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5 days ago

My pleasure!

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5 days ago

🥰

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5 days ago

“The Sadness is Upon Me”: A Review of The Pollination Field Turnstone Press, 2025) by Kim Fahner reviewed by Kate Rogers Kim Fahner’s The Pollination Field draws us into a sensory, sensual world of small creatures and sprawling landscapes. Its emotional range is just as broad, evoked by encoun…

Kate Rogers guides us thoughtfully through observations on the "poetic prose, free verse and form poetry express[ing] evolving emotions, and the process of transformation" in @kimfahner.bsky.social's The Pollination Field (Turnstone Press) the-wood-lot.ca/2026/03/06/t...

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5 days ago

Poetry collection Real Grownup by Elizabeth Bachinsky (Nightwood Editions) sits atop a notebook with an ornate gold cover, along with a black fine tip pen

Handwritten transcription of the poem Isn't Everyone Thinking About the Fermi Paradox? by Elizabeth Bachinsky from the poetry collection Real Grownup - an uncapped pen rests on the notebook page, a corner of a blue book holds open the poetry collection, and blue-framed glasses and a blue coffee cup sit nearby

Close-up of handwritten transcription of the poem Isn't Everyone Thinking About the Fermi Paradox? by Elizabeth Bachinsky from the poetry collection Real Grownup, with blue-framed glasses sitting nearby

"Maybe everyone's already here,
we just can't see them. God, maybe they were here, but
didn't make it."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Isn't Everyone Thinking About the Fermi Paradox? by Elizabeth Bachinsky in Real Grownup (2026 @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) nightwoodeditions.com/collections/...

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6 days ago

Warming She/I sew/s a badger hair rough around the top of her/my kamiks to make the steps windward, toward the limits of woman.

"She/I construct/s a hole on the surface of a glacier formed by melting particles
of roe and pan reservoir dust from a shelter for the ice worms."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Warming by dg nanouk okpik from Corpse Whale (2012 University of Arizona Press) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147087...

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1 week ago

Dog Days By Qurat Dar Poems in Passage on TTC - Dog Days by Qurat Dar.

"Mist in its slow procession. The forest in
its hover. Made a sketch by distance.
Believing this beauty would be too much."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Dog Days by @quratdar.bsky.social (2025 Toronto Subway Ads) www.torontosubwayads.ca/2025/02/dog-...

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1 week ago

... and it's much appreciated, along with everything else you offer.

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1 week ago

Group book pile at East Toronto Coffee Co, including titles by Katherine May, Stanislaw Lem, Kiran Desai + more (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

Readers reading at East Toronto Coffee Co, accompanied by coffee and pastries (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

Silent book club member Jen's recent reading includes Wintering by Katherine May (Photo by Jennifer D. Foster)

Silent book club member Vicki (oui, c'est moi) on screen, preparing for the sbc zoom meeting, with recent reading next to the computer, including the 6 volumes of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, translated by Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, Green by Zachari Logan and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Photo by Vicki Ziegler)

When necessary, do you POMS a book? ... Find out by reading the latest report (including another fantabulous reading list!) from our east end Toronto #SilentBookClub group: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/03/03/w...

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1 week ago

f the poem. The text reads:

The Clothes Shrine

It was a whole new sweetness
In the early days to find
Light white muslin blouses
On a see-through nylon line
Drip-drying in the bathroom
Or a nylon slip in the shine
Of its own electricity -
As if St Brigid once more
Had rigged up a ray of sun
Like the one she’d strung on air
To dry her own cloak on
(Hard-pressed Brigid, so
Unstoppably on the go) -
The damp and slump and unfair
Drag of the workaday
Made light of and got through
As usual, brilliantly.

From Electric Light (2001)

“The Clothes Shrine” by Seamus Heaney.

Source: Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Facebook.

#TodaysPoem #PoetrySky #readingirelandmonth26 #begorrathon26 #SeamusHeaney #poem #poetry

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1 week ago

The poem "Game Animal" by Liz Howard appears in print in Toronto's West End Phoenix.

"I fell outside of time as a voice
from the open mouth of the hare
as it collided with the canopy"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Game Animal by Liz Howard (2026 @westendphoenix.bsky.social) www.westendphoenix.com

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1 week ago

So, You Think This Might Be a Fairy Tale: A Checklist by Laila Amado Your journey begins with… ☐ a stranger ☐ a damsel in distress ☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself ☐ all of the above Your transport of choice is… ☐ a tin on wheels ☐ ...

"Your transport of choice is…

☐ a tin on wheels

☐ a joke

☐ a van that has seen better days, just like your wallet"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
So, You Think This Might Be a Fairy Tale: A Checklist by Laila Amado (@amadolaila.bsky.social) (2026 hex literary) hexliterary.com?p=3125

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai review – a dazzling epic Longlisted for the Booker, this capacious story of love, work and family set between India and the US is both dizzyingly vast and insistently miniature

"Audrey's original name was Jung-hee, but when her family emigrated from Seoul, her father had renamed her in honor of Audrey Hepburn; her sisters were Greta and Marilyn."

#SundaySentence from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

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'"Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."'

—Janie Crawford, from Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

💙📚 #BookSky #SundaySentence

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1 week ago

Oh, that is splendid!

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Oh, that "despairing hope" clutches at the heart ...

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1 week ago

The Intimate, Luminous Poems Found in Iris Murdoch’s Attic

"It was the music that destroyed my peace -
And then that you, and you, were present too"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Musical Evening for Three by Iris Murdoch from Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936-1995 (2026 Chatto & Windus) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...

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A sonnet by David Hadbawnik - Just Buffalo Literary Center | Buffalo, NY Read "A sonnet" by David Hadbawnik - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

"only to fall with
out thinking caught there in suspended bliss
as the solid world wavers and seeing
inside or behind it through everyone’s eyes"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
A sonnet by David Hadbawnik (@vestigiaflammae.bsky.social) (2025 @justbuffalolit.bsky.social)

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