Vicki Ziegler (@bookgaga.bsky.social)

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:54 PM

Absolutely! 😘

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:33 PM

#smallpoemsunday #TodaysPoem
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels."

Le Bonheur d'être bien aimée by Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)

Short poem Le Bonheur d'être bien aimée by Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992) "Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels."

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:32 PM

I like it!

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:08 PM

Yes, but still a nice way to show the reader with what they're reading!

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:02 PM

"There's a wisecrack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

#SundaySentence by @garybarwin.bsky.social on Here and Now Toronto (2026 @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social interview) www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

@occasionallyzen.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:39 PMReposted by @bookgaga.bsky.social

I am made of electricity and regret.

Audrey Niffenegger, Life Out of Order

#SundaySentence #booksky

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:39 PM

... and maybe one of these Sundays, we should take your lead and pose with our #SundaySentence sources!

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:47 PM

"Churchbells rang out, it was noon.
No-one was outside on the road.

Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere:
the same temperature."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Living Proof by Erin Moure from O Resplandor (2010 @houseofanansi.bsky.social) www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:03 PM

"Learning is the same colour as life. He says things like that."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Short Talk on Hopes by #NobelPrize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books) www.brickbooks.ca/shop/short-t...

Poetry collection Short Talks by Anne Carson (Brick Books) sits with a cup of coffee, a black pen and a greeting card

Handwritten transcription in a greeting card of the poem Short Talk on Hopes from the poetry collection Short Talks by Anne Carson

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:51 PM

"And if a ten-tonne truck kills the both of us
To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
There is a Light That Never Goes Out by Morrissey and Johnny Marr (1986) www.youtube.com/watch?v=siO6... & genius.com/The-smiths-t...

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:50 PM

I so agree! Hers is an absolutely singular body of work, filled with challenges and delights.

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:07 PM

Let's all listen to the wind today ...

#AnneCarson #NobelPrize
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:56 PM

Short Talks by Anne Carson:
www.brickbooks.ca/shop/short-t...

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:05 PM

"The actions of life are not so many. To go in, to go, to go in secret, to cross the bridge of sighs"

A jubilant #todayspoem!
Short Talk on Defloration by #nobelprize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)

The Anne Carson books on one of my poetry shelves

@nobelprize.org Oct 8, 2026, 11:37 AMReposted by @bookgaga.bsky.social

‘Nox’ is an unforgettable work by this year’s literature laureate Anne Carson. Published in 2010, it was written in memory of her brother Michael, who was mysteriously absent prior to his death in Denmark in 2000. Palpable here is a deep sense of loss that works its way up from below.

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:34 AM

"A pure matter, faith. As the wind blows. I believe in you not at all."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
First weather, by @robmclennan.bsky.social (2026) robmclennan.substack.com/p/seven-furt...

@ezhang77.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 4:38 PMReposted by @bookgaga.bsky.social

Cannot stop drawing apples

Six apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons

Four apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons

@pearlpoet.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:45 PMReposted by @bookgaga.bsky.social

It’s #NationalPoetryDay somewhere. I’m in. #TodaysPoem is from Rubies, the 20th anniversary chapbook. This one by Claudia Coutu Radmore was a sternum jab in the best sense. too early for #SmallPoemSunday?

by CLAUDIA COUTU RADMORE

the squirrel an egg and turning over

an older squirrel perches on the railing
gnawing on a peanut in the blizzard

I turn from the window to check
my egg poaching in its simmering

water and when I nudge it, it turns over
and suddenly you're here at only two

weeks old and your uncle Carl is
visiting surprised that you so seldom

cry, amazed that at only two
weeks old
you've rolled from your tummy onto

your back and now Uncle Carl is gone and you are gone
How can you not be

here asking about the squirrel with no
ears? soon the old squirrel will be gone

and how in your last sweet years you
looked so much like your uncle Carl

Rubies, with image of pomegranate by Dion Prints

@celticstoic.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 5:18 PMReposted by @bookgaga.bsky.social

#TodaysPoem

"Tell brave deeds of war."
Then they recounted tales, —
"There were stern stands
And bitter runs for glory."
Ah, I think there were braver deeds.

- Stephen Crane, c. 1895

• American author Stephen Crane in 1899 [age ~27].
Source: Britannica Online Encyclopedia (Bettmann / Corbis). Public domain.
• Stephen Crane
Born: November 1, 1871, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: June 5, 1900 (aged 28), Baden, Germany (died of tuberculosis).

Cover of 1st edition of "The Black Riders and Other Lines" by Stephen Crane.
Publisher: Copeland and Day, 1895, Boston.
Source: Wordpress.com Principles of Literary Study (and Wikipedia).

@bookgaga.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 5:41 PM

So enjoyed the wonderful @bookhugpress.bsky.social book launch, featuring new works and moving readings by Tanis MacDonald and Carolyn Smart, at the Burdock Brewery event space in Toronto. After, I ventured home with head and heart full, bearing fine reading.