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This week’s One Minute Poem! Diane Tucker reads “My Name”

2021-09-10 NEWS, Uncategorized

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Diane Tucker reads “My Name” from Nostalgia for Moving Parts (Turnstone Press, 2021).

You can find Diane’s poem on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.

By kind permission of the poet and Turnstone Press

.Diane Tucker is a poet, editor, fiction writer, and playwright from Vancouver, BC. Her work has been widely anthologized and published in more than seventy journals in Canada and abroad. Her first poetry collection, God on His Haunches (Nightwood Editions, 1996), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Nostalgia for Moving Parts is her fourth book of poems.

Website:  Nostalgia for Moving Parts | Poetry (turnstonepress.com)

This week’s One Minute Poem! P.W. Bridgman reads “Lydia Outside the Vanguard: 2010”

2021-09-02 NEWS , ,

 

In this week’s One Minute Poem, P.W. Bridgman reads “Lydia Outside the Vanguard: 2010” from Idiolect (Ekstasis Editions, 2021).

You can find P.W.’s poem on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.

By kind permission of the poet and Ekstasis Editions.

P.W. Bridgman’s latest book of poetry—entitled Idiolect—was published by Ekstasis Editions in August 2021. It was preceded in 2018 by A Lamb, also an Ekstasis title.

Bridgman’s poems and stories have appeared in, among others, The Maynard, Antigonish Review, Grain, The Moth Magazine, Glasgow Review of Books, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Galway Review, LitroUK, LitroNY and The High Window. In 2018, he attended the intensive writing summer school offered by the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast—an experience he says was a defining one in his writing life. Learn more at www.pwbridgman.ca.

 

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