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[finishinglinepress]

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: please thank you but why by Lysbeth Em Benkert

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please thank you but why is a collection of #poems about how we navigate sacred spaces, how we discover what’s true, and how the gods might answer our prayers, even as they whisper their own.

Lysbeth Em Benkert‘s poetry can be found in The Briar Cliff Review, Rogue Agent, Pasque Petals, and One-Sentence Poems, among other places. Her first chapbook, #girl stuff, is available from Dancing Girl Press.

PRAISE FOR please thank you but why by Lysbeth Em Benkert

Lysbeth Benkert’s Please thank you but why sings of and from the liminal spaces of the in between. Traversing a circular gyre between mythology and reality, history and the present, archetype and individual subject, absence and fullness, silence, and song, these linguistically crisp poems call and echo between plea, gratitude, and questioning with heartbreak, wit, and panache. Maybe the stasis of limbo can be recast as the fluidity of the liminal, these poems suggest. Maybe the dystopian banalities of the present tense are always/already timeless.

–Lee Ann Roripaugh, Author of Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50

Cerebral, sharp, and surprising, Lysbeth Em Benkert’s Please thank you but why traces a mind’s equilibrium as it confronts change. With spare syntax and pared-back lines, the poet needles wisdom into her work. Benkert’s is a democratic intelligence. She hails a Sumerian goddess, the Greek pantheon, a Roman poet, The Bard, the Virgin Mary, physics, and The Wizard of Oz, and yet these poems are smart without making a reader feel stupid. At once, Benkert suggests her concerns are timeless and offers us a modern take: “like you have to be…. / fucked up in order to get your second chance because repenting after sliding / through on gray mediocrity isn’t enough for redemption.” With its remixes in form deepening insight at every level, Please thank you but why will compel a pondering pleasure.

–Christine Stewart-Nuñez, South Dakota Poet Laureate 2019-2021

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[b1rokuyucu]

Istemediyimiz hayatın, istenemeyen parçalarıyız..

[krockyoriginal]

I've been into little Free libraries lately and some of them have little pantries. So I got the dry goods from the pantries and made non perishable meals and gave them back.

The steward really loves this idea since she is intimidated by dry good. If you had a lot of rice and beans and couldn't think if something fun, yeah, maybe it would be intimidating too.

I love the thought of Little Free Libraries/Pantries. It makes me want to make my own and donate to the community. It just cost money (like everything) but I'll be slowly saving so I can make my own! And maybe even put some dog treats in it, for the dog walkers.

[sofarsofastmp3]

my offline best friend would do numbers on here (she saw a rat at work and is sending me photos of it next to photos of mtkachuk trying to find ones where their “vibes match”)

[vinchenzgomusic]

Saving the Whales Type Beat

[gizligolgem]

Biz hep çok değer vermekten kaybettik.

[hockeygossip101]

COREWCT ME IF IM WRONG BUT MATTHEW TKACHUK’S GF IS FROM CALGARY RIGHT? AND SHES A TEACHER THERE? AND NOW HES GOING TO FLORIDA HOLY SHIT THE ADJUSTMENT?????

She's a teacher??

She used to go to school in Texas so I'm sure they'll manage to make it work!!

[thewhitclaw]

Sen dünyanın en güzel kızımısın falan yhaaa yicemmm

#güzellik #dünyanınengüzelkızı #keşfet

[andridongsblog]

Semesta sepertinya sedang tidak bercanda dengan kisahku. Aku begitu takjub dengan pertemuan ini. Pertemuan yang membuatku semakin melangkah maju ke depan. Merajut mimpi bersama dalam lingkaran yang mencoba mekar.

Hari ini satu langkah mimpi berhasil terlaksanakan. Mimpi-mimpi itu semakin jelas. Bersama kita lalui. Menjadi hebat, menjadi sumbangsih untuk negeri ini.

[03031998]

(chiefrockajay) remix by me 

[finishinglinepress]

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Sisters of the Protectress—A Creation Story by Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk

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darlene st. georges is a creation-centred artist|scholar. She is associate professor of art education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Her theoretical and practice-based research is rooted in emergent and generative knowledge and knowing that honours the inward and creative ways being and knowing––living literacies expressed through aesthetic translations of voice, breath, body, and spirit.

alexandra fidyk, award winning transdisciplinary scholar and teacher, serves as professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada. Through somatic, relational, poetic and creative-centred processes, her research engages with teachers and youth on issues of place, suffering, wellbeing, and love. Her writing continues to be influenced by the long sky of Saskatchewan.

#poetry #creationstory #poems #readinglist

PRAISE FOR Sisters of the Protectress—A Creation Story by Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk

Lavish here. Let wash. We wee humans need images adequate to hold us open into this earth body of ours, and here they are, written out. Spaced. Placed. Hoarse cawed. This very same body as the Crows crow, the plants plant, the air offers. Sun-drenched jaws. Bears themselves dreaming us over ambles downhill. This book brooks words. Images. Dreams. darlene’s. alex’s. mine. yours, readers. Watch out, though. These possessive cases can easily betray us. These words and their readings are co-inhabitants with the full scatters and splays of breaths, of wonders. These seeds up yesterday morning, little heralds. Listen. This book will help you smell the sun in them. Let the spaces last exactly as long as you need. Slow over them. Let them be exacting. Me. My grandson in arms. Me in his, too. Look! Crow. Bear. Seed-springings. Thank you for this gathering up. I gather up, go plant.

–David Jardine, Professor Emeritus in Retiracy, currently undergoing an Early Childhood Education

Let yourself be suspended and traverse the land and sky through this creation story, Sisters of the Proctress, marinated in the poetic and primordial. St. Georges and Fidyk invite us into dwelling in worlds between the interior, imaginal, primal, and sacred where the reader inhabits the terrain where spirit and body thrive. Here, one can dream themselves alive as they say, and ruminate in layers of wisdom and insight where the ancestors’ live and hope resides. This poetic book is a journey in and of itself where an aesthetic sensibility touches the heart and reminds one that place is imbedded within mystery and keeps calling us home to awe. Beautifully and sensitively written and designed, they call forth what the bodysoul yearns for.

–Celeste Snowber, PhD. Professor/Poet/Performer, author of Embodied inquiry: Writing, living and being through the body. Simon Fraser University

In Sisters of the Protectress: A Creation Story, Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk weave together stories of Bear Woman and Crow Mother to, as they say, “cross the celestial veil to ignite the imaginative and mythological realms.” In Crow’s return and Bear’s reawakening, imaginaries appear and disappear as exquisite voices. Evocative drawings alongside the spare poetic text create mirrored, shadowed lives—giving testimony and bearing witness. “Not everything that goes / leaves a trail” St. Georges and Fidyk write, concluding “we need more Storytellers.” In this gorgeous hybrid format, these lyrical sister-voices give shape to that process.

–Laura Apol, author of A Fine Yellow Dust, winner of the Midwest Book award for poetry

In this visual|poetic creation story, Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk pay homage to Bear Woman and Crow Mother. This “hybridity of fur and feather” aligns with the “imperceptible rhythms / that ignite imaginaries.” Narrative and lyricism combine gracefully. This evocation deepens our connection with earth and sky, waking and dreaming, inner and outer worlds. And we emerge humbled and humane. “Calling the Ancestors—” and at once the “Ancestors are calling—” Images of Crow and Bear spaciously move with words and phrases to create a powerful sense of renewal. “Unearthing tongues between worlds,” Sisters of Protectress draws on creation-centred and Jungian insights.

Open this book to be pulled into a story from the natural and archetypal worlds which will ignite your spirit.

–Sheila Stewart, author of The Shape of a Throat, University of Toronto Mississauga

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[elbachir-sn]

Je consomme de l'aloé vera purement naturel pour régénérer mes cellules et gérer ma santé elbachir.flp.com

[sofarsofastmp3]

the way i’ve only watched like 3 total panthers games at home this year because every one of their national casts has either been while i was working or while i was physically at the game being nationally cast. maybe the team that plays in my home state would be my favorite if broadcasting rights weren’t so fucking stupid