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Robin Riley

robin@books.riley.pub

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Technicolor geek. Slow reader. Main social presence: @robin@riley.pub / social.riley.pub/@robin

Mostly I post poems.

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Nikki Giovanni: Chasing Utopia (Paperback, William Morrow Paperbacks) No rating

Overview: Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. …

Werewolf Avoidance by Nikki Giovanni

I've never "blogged" before so this is new territory for me I do poet though and that is always somewhere in the netherland I think poetry is employed by truth I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing

Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words that might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love Poet is garlic Not for everyone but for those who take it never get caught by werewolves

Chasing Utopia by  (Page 80)

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Tonguebreaker (Paperback, 2019, Arsenal Pulp Press) No rating

Bed days by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

What were my mom's pain days like? Were they all of them? She didn't have weed, friends, a therapist, yoga, baths, Vicodin, T-3s, community acupuncture, fragrance-free or turmeric. She had wine, silence and a garden. She had hidden.

Sometimes I lie in bed on a pain day with my sick and disabled friends a finger swipe away, my twin canes, my partner who loves me my good bed, my nettles and my deep breaths, and still the pain in my knees and legs lives and shouts fire, and I wonder

if my disability is me feeling all the pain my mom never had a chance to feel finally safe enough to come home and talk to me.

Tonguebreaker by  (Page 41)

Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (Paperback, Harper Perennial Modern Classics) No rating

This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF …

Jason Irwin: A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost Press) No rating

Reborn by Jason Irwin

A man in a green mask asks me to count backwards from one hundred. At ninety-eight the table begins to spin, and I am swallowed by the light that hangs above me like giant insect eyes.

I can mark time by the surgeries; the way my grandmother marked my growth with pencil slashes on her kitchen door frame.

Each time I awoke from that abyss – my mouth a desert; my eyes two stones sunk in my skull – some small part of me had died; some small part was reborn.

A Blister of Stars by  (Page 25)

Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (Paperback, Harper Perennial Modern Classics) No rating

This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF …