Still a couple days left to read but I’m adding to best of list now, The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, illustrated by April White (Brick Books, 2025) which gave so many aha moments on chronic illness and concussion, and consumer culture, and pure amazement at her rendering poems from trash container text. and from […]
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Fav Reads 2025
The top 10 and the top 2 dozen of the year. Some of these were really tight calls. And a have a dozen still underway that I may finish this year. Could happen. 2025 Poetry: Toward an Origin Story by Laurie D Graham (Model Press, 2025)Seed Beetle by Mahaila Smith (Stelliform Press, 2025)Hawk & Moon […]
Year End Audit
I suppose I could do this Jan 1st and to a degree will. I had a few guiding goals going into the year: Abandon books instead of slog, read more BIPOC, more queer, more in translationmore by disabled, more in French. About 10% BIPOC. On French, I finished none. What/who counts as disabled? Bit hard […]
Elsewhere
A funny thing for you to come here for me to send you away again, but some tome ago blogger stopped working for me so I migrated those sites to my own dang server. And my old cat blog got deleted by WordPress as dormant on their server. I got the files restored. The only […]
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