I bet you could write a book on all the different ways sunlight has been described. How it moves. How it doesn’t. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-12-20 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Ben Okri’s #poem ‘Arequipa.’ #poetrysky 💙📚 #dailycreativity

Ah, so THAT’s why Reason and Art are flowing like wine these days…. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-12-19 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Keith Leonard’s poem ‘Boléro.’ #poetrysky 💙📚 #dailycreativity

Nor that we are all here at the same time. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-12-18 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from @rickiep00h.bsky.social #poem from ’The Failure Experiment. #poetrysky 💙📚 #dailycreativity

The sane reaction to recent events. Lean on Herbert’s litany against fear or go see some paintings, they are all music. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-12-17 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Matt Hart’s #poem ‘Shepherd’s Pie.’ #poetrysky 💙📚 #dailycreativity

Tuesday. We don’t talk about the futility of Tuesday enough. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-12-16 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Robert Bernard Hass’s #poem ‘The Metaphysics of Your Presence.’ #poetrysky 💙📚 #dailycreativity

Poetry is much like December this way. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-12-15 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Tilsa Otto’s #poem ‘Poetry is the supreme killjoy’ translated from the Spanish by Farid Matuk. #poetrysky 💙📚 #dailycreativity

A shot from last Wednesday’s #olivereadingseries. M.L. Martin captivates. #poetry #yeg

A shot from this past Wednesday’s #OliveReadingSeries. Unkl Stiv mesmerizing.

And, “a silence is also something you can read.” Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-11-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Mag Gabbert’s #poem ‘Pentimento.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Though I do want to know where she got all that pollen… Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-11-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Jane Hirshfield’s #poem ‘I Was Not, Among My Kind, Distinctive.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Good morning weekend.

One lonely little duck buddy on the open water before the ice sets in. #sturgeonriver #winterimpending

Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Eight, “Brother Fire” by W.S. Piero What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily...

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.” Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-31 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘The Kiss.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Daily affirmation. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-29 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Dancing on New Year’s Eve at Dave and Sheila’s.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Just another Tuesday on planet Earth. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-28 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘All In One Day.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Me too! Though the branch was less vague and more like a black crack in the overcast sky. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-27 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Brother Francis To Brother Leone.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-SEVEN, “Poetry” Magazine March, 2024 When was the last time you ran across a concrete poem? Poems whose words and line arrangements look like a physical object. You know, like George Herbert's 'Easter Wings' which used to be on every high school…

Interesting distinction. Can you really separate yourself from your shadow? Or are you the shadow? Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Alison C. Rollins’s #poem ‘A Bell Is A Bearer Of Time.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Apt, this morning, the last geese are breaking off and taking the sun with them. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from C.L. O’Dell’s #poem ‘Sweethearts’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Such confusion indeed. Good thing we know how to mask our ways through it, right my homies? Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-23 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Nome Emeka Patrick’s #poem ‘Smile’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Who are you going to share this with? Who’s your good day? Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-22 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Thomás Q. Morín’s #poem ‘Stunt Double.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Well, it could be worse I suppose. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-21 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Isabel Galleymore’s #poem ‘Forever, It Appears.’ #poetrysky 💙📚

Living as far north as we do, the darkness is about to take over what feels like most of the clock. Death and rebirth. Winter. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-20 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from @daniellevogel.bsky.social ‘s #poem “Drifts.” #poetrysky 💙📚

I will admit that this anthology had a little more Allen Ginsberg in it that I was expecting. It also has only a couple of women poets, though one of those is the amazing Diane di Prima. Still, this little volume was a joy to read every morning. The perfect way to start the day.

Why did no one warn me about Jordan Abel’s “Empty Spaces”?!? I started in on it earlier this evening and I’m not certain my soul is ever going to be able to return to my body. Seriously, wtf is even going on?

Ambition. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-18 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Cristina Peri Rossi’s #poem “Midnight, Barcelona Metro.” #poetrysky 💙📚

Proof of life. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-17 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s #poem “L I S T E N !” #poetrysky 💙📚

It seems the madness has always been gathering. For whom do you thunder? Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-16 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Diane di Prima’s #poem “April Fool Birthday Poem For Grandpa” #poetrysky 💙📚

Now that is how you end a poem, emptying your readers’ lungs in one existential rush. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-15 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking line comes to us from Allen Ginsberg’s #poem “from Kaddish” #poetrysky 💙📚

Manifesto. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-14 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s #poem “While The Sun Still Spends His Fabulous Money” #poetrysky 💙📚

I have never felt more seen. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-13 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s “ #poem “The Origin Of Baseball.” #poetrysky 💙📚

This week on the blog: Samantha Jones and the Worry Maps of Doom.

As we asphyxiate under turbocapitalism, small acts of noncompliance can keep us alive. Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-11 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/ Today’s striking lines comes to us from Samantha Jones. #poem #poetrysky 💙📚

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 💙📚