Vera Ignatowitsch
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poet, poetry editor, editor in chief @betterthanstar2
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2019
The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke painting by Picasso
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Our nominations for Pushcart 2022: Stephen Spencer, Ian Enters, Debasis Tripathy, Catherine Chandler, Ann Anderson Evans, and David Blumenfeld. https://t.co/J78VfMPKgc
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Our nominations for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets.
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“long black digits spread cerulean fingernails scratch icy windows” haiku by Sterling Warner Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/85u5SY7iPT Art: Composition by Terry Frost #haiku #SterlingWarner #poetry
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My bit of gallows humor serves to mask my grieving. #formalpoetry #BarbaraLydeckerCrane
“My mother’s great, but she doesn’t get out of bed much. That’s how I answer those who ask; I leave her death, a few years back, unsaid.” from “Out of Sight” by Barbara Lydecker Crane https://t.co/DAmZ72slod Art: Mother and Child by Christian Krohg #poetry #BarbaraLydeckerCrane
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It is a place where a sliver of God broke away to settle in a temporary home. #poetry #JaniceDSoderling
“This little house of flesh that encapsules us is no more than a leaf that falls, a wave that crests.” from “Brahman. Meditation.” by Janice D. Soderling https://t.co/eKzioLnHjR Photo: Falling Leaf in Guelph, Ontario, Canada by Ryan Hodnett #poetry #JaniceDSoderling
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Not Writing A wasp rises to its papery nest under the eaves where it daubs at the gray shape, but seems unable to enter its own house. Jane Kenyon Wasp by Vadim Kovalev
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But there’s a feeling of peace in knowing that I’m creating a home where I sing with wild birds in harmony. #prosepoetry #FrancisJohannVerdote
“As a young boy, I thought he was crazy. Four decades in, living in a house I don’t own, walking the strange lands of America, I find myself still lost . . .” from “A Man Who Feeds the Birds” by Francis Johann Verdote https://t.co/ubnYRhYSPm Man feeding pigeons by Laura Hadden
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The revelation ignited a quest for my ancestry, to celebrate rather than decry our diversity. #poetry #internationalpoetry #JenRoss
“Then that blue blotch on my firstborn’s back, that millennial native marker — the Mongolian patch.” from “The Mongolian Patch” by Jen Ross Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/B860ty8Hoo Art: Traquée by Romain Rossi #poetry #JenRoss
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“syntax of birdsong, making of the man’s wise words monotone nonsense” haiku by Max Gutmann Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/85u5SXQfNT Photo: Larus argentatus in Tallinn Passenger Port in early morning by Maasaak #haiku #MaxGutmann #poetry
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Loving god, who may or may not exist, Magnanimous deity, you who abhor vigilante Nonsense, #poetry #KennethNichols
“Hamstringing web sites whose owners Insult the audience by pasting in Jaculiferous Javascript that Kills your browser for forty-five seconds.” from “Abecedarian Prayer” by Kenneth Nichols https://t.co/WstZDMJrmn Art: Computer art by Kobako #poetry #KennethNichols
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“Now, were a genie to fulfill my wish that folks could see the globe that we inhabit like hawks that spy the mice, they’d see the spasm of extinction” from “Hawk Feather” by Martin Elster https://t.co/DAmZ72aKwF Art: A Golden Eagle by Archibald Thorburn #poetry #MartinElster
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And the sharp lights Against the river Screaming #poetry #JohnDrudge
“Haunting nights Along the boulevard With the silent armies Of a stoned melancholy By my side” from “No Mercy” by John Drudge Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/eKzioLn9uj Art: Boulevard in the evening by Isaac Levitan #poetry #JohnDrudge
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“we quit inhabiting a vase in the wilting hand of grief — a body bearing an ache too young to possess a name . . .” from “fireflies” by Damilola Omotoyinbo https://t.co/iFhoWGeVdX Art: Vase (self-portrait) by Leon Bakst #poetry #DamilolaOmotoyinbo
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stage-manage the unshorn mathematics of my trip into headless. #prosepoetry #BobbyParrott
“The further inland my feet and hands drag this dirt-ship, the more books & electronics build my ego. . . “ from “Oblivion’s Balloon as it Collapses Neuro-Linguistic Pathways . ..” by Bobby Parrott https://t.co/ubnYRhYSPm Art: Dynamic Universe I by Romul Nutiu #BobbyParrott
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“The pond is seized by icy rigor, dead to wind, and bereft of swans.” haiku by Teague McKamey Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/85u5SXQfNT Photo: Frozen pond by Alison Rawson #haiku #TeagueMcKamey #poetry
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And thus he stands, waiting, with a carrot for a banana. #poetry #EdmundConti
“There he stands, freezing his balls off. Or in this case, his carrot, trans- planted from his head by the brat next door.” from “Saint Frosty” by Edmund Conti Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/WstZDN1AAv Photo: Helmut Smits - Odapark Venray #poetry #EdmundConti
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Please join us in congratulating Kathryn Jacobs and Rachel Jacobs on the publication of their new book, A Life Lived Differently, a poignant portrait of autism. From the publisher: https://t.co/PWlHRjMacY Available at https://t.co/4BWTtDWnH4 and from IngramSpark. #poetry #autism
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I swear I could hear her protests, Even over the booming noise Of the demolition charge #poetry #RobertAckerman
“And my mother grumbled as we Trudged home from Downtown Brooklyn To Bay Ridge, groceries in hand,” from “The Fifth Ave ‘El’ Closed Today” by Robert Ackerman https://t.co/eKzioLEKlR Art: A girl doing the grocery bill by Gerolamo Induno #poetry #RobertAckerman
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“What is the time now? Is it high time to be a butcher? They think And start the operation.” from “The divided world and the river” by Partha Sarkar Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/B860ty8Hoo The Source of the Loue River by Gustave Courbet #poetry #ParthaSarkar
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“cupped hands . . . I sip the songs of night birds” haiku by Fruitful Ayobami Better Than Starbucks August 2022 https://t.co/85u5SXPHYl Art: Illustration from a 1909 Law Course volume from Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) #haiku #FruitfulAyobami #poetry
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