Sunday’s micro-review might just be told through the lens of this one poem. So relatable. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

OCD lessons for all of us. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

No, my dear Hamlets, THIS is the question. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Have I mentioned how much I love a good title? A really good one like this will rattle around my brain for days. Say it out loud a few times. Be with it. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-07 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking title comes to us from Samantha Jones. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Four, “Poetry” Magazine November, 2023 This got me thinking about who sang to me and sent me down a rabbit hole of re-reading Patrick Lane's and Pat Lowther's poetry, doing almost a complete re-read of Sheila Watson's "The Double Hook" one evening, and…

We really, really, really need to know. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-06 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

We know, we all know this pain. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-04 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from June Jordan. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

It’s dark out here too now, and Spring is far away. Keep burning. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-03 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from @kathyfagan.bsky.social #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

It will be alright, it will be alright. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-01 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Chad Bennett. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Though it is a privilege denied to too many, aging is not for the faint of hip. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-01 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Jameson Fitzpatrick. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

‘Tis the season. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-30 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from David Trinidad. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Here’s a thought for a Monday morning. What if, indeed. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-29 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Jarrett Moseley. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

This pisses me off. The poetry in the book is good, great even in places. It could stand on its own. "Pictographs" was published in 1975, long before the concept of cultural appropriation entered mainstream dialogue...So, what would this book have looked like if Fred had partnered with indigenous...

I see you, my fellow 70s child. I know you read that last line the same way I did. Our brains are broken. Involuntary resonance. The force is strong with this one. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-27 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Through art. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-26 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

The Human Condition, briefly. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Oh Fred, I love your sense of humour! Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

How do any of us know this? Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-23 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Fred Wah #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Two, “Poetry” Magazine April 2024 These images are haunting and the poetry really packs a punch. Poetry and painting really are two sides of the same coin. Every single poet I know is as equally moved by visual art as they are by words. There are…

Starting the first day of the best season with a book I’ve been longing to read. It is going to be a good week. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-22 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

My old nemesis entropy puts in another appearance. Goddamn entropy. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-20 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Krista Franklin. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Welcome to Frisky Friday where knowing the title of the poem (‘Getting Your Rocks Off’) these lines come from changes everything ;). Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-19 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Melvin Dixon. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

This entire stanza is cool but that last line, c’mon man! Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-17 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line come to us from Kacper Bartczak, translated from the Polish by Mark Tardi. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Yes! I’ve been asking the same thing since I was 9. C’mon man! Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-16 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines comes to us from Ariel Francisco. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Backyard chicken coop as metaphor for so much. So personal. So universal. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-15 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines comes to us from Rosalie Moffett. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

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This book has wrecked me. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-13 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Claudia Rankine. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Posting here to remind myself to stock up on this when it goes on sale. Delicious!!!

… Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-12 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Claudia Rankine. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

… Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-11 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Claudia Rankine. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

… Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Claudia Rankine. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

This week’s book is resistant to short excerpts, to sound-biting, but is ultimately perfect for a slow, deliberate reading. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Claudia Rankine. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

I had to turn a light on to read this morning. Turns out this book too is a light. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Claudia Rankine. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

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This explains much. A sound one feels, as much as hears, in the night. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-06 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Angie Macri. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Have you noticed the quality of light in the morning changing? These days are almost upon us. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-05 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Nirmal Verma, translated from the Hindi by Viplav Saini. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

And so entropy makes cowards of us all. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-04 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Tomasz Różycki, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Of course only an AI would describe starlings as wandering. Stupid chatbot doesn’t even know how birds move ;). Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-03 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from J. Estanislao Lopez. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

As we suffer through the most unseasonably hot start to September in decades…. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-02 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Zakaria Mohammed, translated by Lena Tuffaha. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Delight in this image of tadpoles, so fitting for this first day of September, this symbolic first day of the new (school) year. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-01 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from @cathyparkhong.bsky.social #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

As seen on Amazing Race Canada. Actually worth the price of admission. #goldenskybridge

…but Sue and I did get a nice little jaunt in this afternoon, trail still damp from a morning of rain. No fish today, though no bears either. Just the bush and this: paulpearson.ca/2025/08/16/h...

For this, my final post before I take a 2 week summer vacation, I'm going to rave about a sequence of three poems by Sarah M. Sala that appear in the January/February 2024 issue of Poetry. "Migraine as Whale" A Triptych" is an extremely clever and equally moving set of erasure poems. Or rather...

Not if you’re only looking on Sundays. What you seek is an everyday thing. Every minute. Every breath. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-08-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Hari Alluri. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Such a capricious, treacherous machine. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-08-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Eileen G’Sell #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

From “Migraine as Whale: A Triptych.” I’m going to dive into this one deeper in Sunday’s blog but for now, marvel at this perfect definition of migraine. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-08-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Sarah M. Sala. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

But it’s not impossible. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-08-07 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Regan Huff. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Sometimes nothing hits like the spot like a good, old fashioned ekphrastic. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-08-06 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Mary Jo Bang. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

This is the work. This is understanding the assignment. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-08-05 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from @victoriachang.bsky.social #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Twenty-Eight, “Astatine” by Michael Kenyon This book swings from Virgil to Tao and on the surface the poems here are mostly unconnected? The thread of these poems as a collection is hard to follow? I spent a bit of time pondering, meditating on, the book and…