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This week’s One Minute Poem! Linda K. Thompson reads “Gloria”

2021-06-25 NEWS ,

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Linda K. Thompson reads “Gloria” from Black Bears in the Carrot Field (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2021).

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

By kind permission of the poet and Mother Tongue Publishing.

 

Linda K. Thompson writes from her treehouse in the shadow of the Beaufort Range on Vancouver Island. Her latest publications have been in Prairie Fire and Applebeard Edition’s Canadian Short Fiction and Prose Poetry “Release All the Words Stuck Inside of You”. Linda has a chapbook Four Small People in Sturdy Shoes and her full-length poetry manuscript, Black Bears in the Carrot Field, will be published by Mother Tongue Publishing in July 2021.

This week’s One Minute Poem! Diana Hayes reads “Ghazal Twenty-Two”

2021-06-18 NEWS , , ,

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Diana Hayes reads “Ghazal Twenty-Two” from Gold in the Shadow: Twenty-Two Ghazals and a Cento for Phyllis Webb (Rainbow Publishers, 2021).

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

By kind permission of the poet and Rainbow Publishers.

Diana Hayes was born in Toronto and has lived on both coasts of Canada.  She has six published books, most recently Gold in the Shadow: Twenty-Two Ghazals and a Cento for Phyllis Webb.  Deeper Into the Forest, a spoken word/music CD, was produced at Allowed Sound Studio in 2020.   Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies, most recently, “Love of the Salish Sea Islands”, “Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds”, and “YCC-POP – Poetic Portraits of People”.  Her practice of year-round ocean swimming inspired the formation of the Salt Spring Seals.  She has lived on Salt Spring since 1981.        www.dianahayes.ca

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