Vicki Ziegler

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/...

It is so. good. :)

"... , 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)

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...

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

Moss-covered rocky landscape [Iceland]

“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

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

"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...

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-...

My pleasure!

🥰

“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...

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/...

"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...

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-...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

The cover of Zora Neale Hurston's coming-of-age novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as designed by Stephen Brayda, with art by Patrick Dougher and photography by OSTILL is Franck Camhi on Shutterstock: an illustration of mixed media and vibrant colors and textures, a black woman stands in profile with upturned face against a gold sun on a jewel-blue background of overlapping, faded newsprint and worn canvas; paint splashes add color to the woman's monochromatic bust, while a frenetic celebration of patterns and hues overlay her blouse and the crown upon her head.

'"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

Oh, that is splendid!

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

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...

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)

Glad to hear it! 😍

Excellent! I found it drew me in instantly. Hope you're having a good experience so far, too!

The novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Knopf Canada) sits on a colourful crocheted afghan

#FridayReads #WeekendReads
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Knopf Canada) www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

"I'm Sure We're Taller in Another Dimension" by Justin Timbol - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "I'm Sure We're Taller in Another Dimension" by Justin Timbol.

"The silver monkey claps at everyone’s misfortunes"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
I’m Sure We’re Taller in Another Dimension by Justin Timbol (2025 League of @canadianpoets.bsky.social) poets.ca/im-sure-were...

This was such a splendid event. I'm still smiling from all the great poetry beautifully and charmingly presented that evening.