Grain of Salt
George MurrayJust me reading and thinking about poetry, so take it or leave it.
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Black Ice
Black Ice
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The sidewalk is a white ice-
box cake made like a bruise....
Blue Monday Poem
I was thinking this weekend about how the third Monday of January is statistically the worst day of the year for suicide. The joy season has ended, the weather is shit, and the credit card bills have come in. Plus, have you looked around?...
It's Your Move
It’s Your Move
Now I can’t believe—
- Renee Nicole Macklin Good
What a way to discover a new poet
What a way to meet a mother
What a way to realize hatred
Already holds so many taken pieces
Above the board like a hesitant
Wood...
NewPoetry 2025 review
I rebooted NewPoetry.ca in 2025, a site I tried to start about 15 years ago and which failed spectacularly in its original form: a multi-editor incubator for cross-aesthetic poetics, with poets who had for years considered themselves rivals...
The End is Coming
What a terrible year. Glad to see the end of it. The world is burning and society is burning with it. I weep for our children who will reap the poisoned fruit of this time in a way we’re only predicting now. I’m sorry for my part in it, my...
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Author of ten books | Latest: Problematica New and Selected Poems 1995 - 2020 | Founder of Walk the Line Poetry Schools, Bookninja.com, and NewPoetry.ca | https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
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