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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, The Poetry Marathon Anthology is Now Available 2 weeks, 6 days ago
I used Google translate to translate your comment so I apologize for any errors on my part. Poets can participate in the marathon in any language. We host it every summer and will announce the 2021 Marathon date in February.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Safety Check 6 months, 2 weeks ago
So much of this is wonderful, but my favourite part has to be this moment:
When I was a child, how did I move
so lightly from the transom to the dinghy,
from dinghy to the rocky shore
without getting wet at all? The Summer
I lived in Vancouver with an ear virus
and couldn’t stand up at all. What?
Resilience is t…[Read more]
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Linguist 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Nancy Pagh is Wonderful!
Oh, this is brilliant and surprising and also so much fun!
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Skagit Flats 6 months, 2 weeks ago
This is just perfection!
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Fourteen Things I Ordered from Amazon During the Pandemic: A Sonnet 6 months, 2 weeks ago
This is wonderful, the way you start with food and practical items and transition to books is so wonderfully done.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, prompt # 1 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh this is wonderful. Such a city baby poem, I love the way the causes of fuss are eliminated and questioned. But that ending is what really inspires.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, prompt # 7: Season of the plague 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I love the way this poems moves and shifts in surprising and wonderful ways.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, prompt # 8: emoji 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I love so much of this. Particularly “grammar nazis must not like this new writing style.
Harder to decipher.
a puzzle
that can be interpreted in many different ways
Will writing academic papers go out of style?”
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, prompt # 9 6 months, 2 weeks ago
This is so good. I love when I’m surprised by how the prompt plays out. The opening is very strong.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Mary Oliver's Woods 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Such a great tribute to her.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Spectator Sport 6 months, 2 weeks ago
This is wonderful. I love that opening cottage of angst, and the marching tree, the way that we all turn into fireflies. Chilling, but also somehow not.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Reading Samuel Pepys in Time of Plague 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I love how you use his spelling here, and his language. The end is so well executed.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Upper Basin 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I love this poem. The way it builds is surprising. I love how there’s humour here in parts. I particularly love
“We four receded from being a group and
stretched along the trail after descending
from the high altitude passPerhaps, it was calorie depletion
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, LAKES, RIVERS, SEA 6 months, 2 weeks ago
There’s so many brilliant lines here, but it’s the poem as a whole that shines in the way it transitions, shifts, and grows.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, NO, NO: SEATTLE TO LONDON 6 months, 2 weeks ago
There’s so many parts of this poem that are great and really capture the experience of flying but my favourite part has to be this one
“Call me cranky, call me crazy privilege girlbut we’ve never met, and I’m sure I don’t
want to sleep crushed close to you.”
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, THE JONESES 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I love this! Such a good use of the form. Playful in all the right ways.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, SYLVIA 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Powerful, upsetting but in the right, stick with your bones way.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Reading Daniel Defoe in Time of Plague 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Such a good and surprising Bop. I love this whole series of reading in a time of Plague.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Cassandra 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The way this builds is so effective. At first it seems simple, but it’s deceptively so, the further I read, the more I am captured by the repetition and ideas.
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Caitlin Thomson commented on the post, Recipe for End-Stage Capitalism 6 months, 2 weeks ago
That ending! A brilliant gut punch.
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