Almost the end of National Caregiver Awareness Month (in Canada) with this poem by @brettwarren23.bsky.social , who writes exquisitely about loss of all kinds (species, family, friends). This is from her first book Map of Unseen Things (Pine Row Press).
Final push week for National Caregivers Awareness Month (here in Canada). Today I offer a poem that has so much tender care in it I want to keep walking with this daughter and her father. This is from Suzanne Nussey’s book, Slow Walk Home. www.saintjulianpress.org/slow-walk-home
Supporting and providing care for an adult who is also your child can be incredibly complex and confusing. There are some amazing writers who delve into this area with honesty and tenderness. @conniepostpoet.bsky.social is one of those writers.
So much art that has arisen out of caregiving, a kind of grappling with and attention to being present in care and community--loss, laughter, fracture, finding, connection. See Amanda Ross-Ho, visual artist (introduced to me through Courtney Martin) channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/1978/m...
National Caregiver Month in Canada and I have so many poems and words I still want to share with you! Lauren Camp's book, Is Is Enough is a tender, astute witnessing of what it is to accompany a parent with dementia, captured so brilliantly with Lauren’s incredible language, syntax, images.
National Caregivers Month in Canada, bonus weekend poem from @nickolebrown.bsky.social . A lesson in how to do it anyways and always to all the beings (trees, rocks, donkeys, goats, humans), how to dive into the muck of it. Because it is mucky. See the full poem at poets.org/poem/against...
Last day of National Caregivers Awareness Month here in Canada & I leave with Ellen Bass, one of my favourite poets & teachers. This: for you, for all of us.
Today a poem by @leilachatti.bsky.social from her collection Deluge, a powerful drowning and reckoning with body and faith (in all the ways they work and betray). In this poem, a partner's tenderness and care gently shift the landscape.
Timing is everything! Yesterday’s mail brought the latest issue of one of my dream lit mags— @arcpoetry.bsky.social and inside, a poem by me!!! Thank you Arc (for also supporting my writing with a recommender grant through @ontarioarts.bsky.social), thank you all carers. More exciting news to come.
@oliverdelapaz.bsky.social's stunning collection, The Boy in the Labyrinth, is a deep grappling with trying to know the people one loves without pinning them to a false wall. This brilliant poem uses a (oh too familiar to many of us!) screening questionnaire as its container.
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled…
