A. A. Parr

Writer. Artist. Entrepreneur. Maker of things wild and wonderful.
Editor @TypeAMediaPress
#Chapbook out now: novel in progress

[A. A. Parr @ifitfeelswrite]

Hi Stranger! So here's how #IWroteYouThisPoem works: you tweet @ifitfeelswrite with an evocative phrase &I'll write a poem all about you. It's my way of getting to know you, of making a connection in this increasingly disconnected world, of being able to say #NowWereNotStrangers

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@PeachDelphine I'm thrilled for you and for us to have your book out into the world soon! 💐💗🎉

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"aren't we all/such libraries of old hurt"

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@SeaGoatScreams I have been off social media for some time now...but your words - as they often have - brought me back today, their "gathering stitch" so poignant, so full of gentle hope. I am so grateful you share yourself with us all.

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@mrmaxnorthman @SeanLemonhead. Thank you for writing this life-changing poem. After a 10 year writing hiatus...your poem brought me back. It pushed me to believe in the necessity of getting my first book published...now as an editor, I share your words to inspire others to use their voice too.

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@mrmaxnorthman My favourite poem about writing (“Why Bother?” by Sean Thomas Dougherty) addresses this nicely.

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@greatlakesqueer I'm the editor of Type A Media, a new indie publisher in Northern Ontario promoting fresh, diverse voices, and would be thrilled to discuss this project with you... DM me or contact through the site to discuss, if you'd like! https://t.co/xWppjZ5RP4

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Inspired by @ArthurLWood's nostalgia for Venice, I'll join in @blackboughpoems #TopTweetTuesday with a little piece from my own experience in that otherworldly place.

[todd dillard @toddedillard]

I appreciate the poems I have failed to finish writing and within that failure have taught me something anyway

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@hecasson In time, I'll happily write you a poem; it will be in gratitude for all of the little kindnesses you put out into the world on this platform!

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@SeaGoatScreams @ElizabethKuelbs My Lake waves gently to you, the Ocean her favourite place to let loose

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So grateful to @untetheredmag for including my little meander "Making Mountains" in this volume . . . it's an absolute honour to be published by you again!

[untethered magazine @untetheredmag]

Meet volume 6.1 contributor A.A. PARR! @ifitfeelswrite
https://t.co/kogaHCy7m1

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@Rhona_Greene @blackboughpoems @greengraffix Thank you for such a kindness!

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I'm so grateful to have found such a perfect home for this piece with you, @blackboughpoems ...thank you for the wondrous work you do!

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

In ’Freedom-Rapture’ Canadian writer @ifitfeelswrite takes us on an escapist journey - ’the bliss and the bloom’ with ’broken compass hearts whirling homeward’.
Just stunning. Art by @greengraffix
https://t.co/aHVnaNksbT

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@hecasson Apolgies...I have been off Twitter most of this summer! That is some essential magic you practice...I should try the same. Would you like me to write you a poem? The project is on pause but I am still writing here and there for it and thinking to start publishing again this fall.

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@SeaGoatScreams @ElizabethKuelbs Oh Ankh, please please please write this into a poem or bedtime story! I no longer live on the Pacific Coast myself, but am sure I sense your glorious glow as it sails along from the Atlantic through the St. Lawrence Seaway and onto my own Great Lake, Superior.

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Thank you Elizabeth for your kind words...I loved your piece as well...such a wondrous moment it takes us to, and that last stanza is *swoon*!

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It's always such an honour and delight to be published by @blackboughpoems alongside such immense talent! I can not wait for this book to ascend!! 🌌

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

⭐️ Our contributors to ‘Freedom-Rapture’ out this weekend ⭐️ 🥂
@bardmus @tomlagasse @ifitfeelswrite @MatthewMCSmith @Ranjabali @Alayanabeth @jackbedell @KariFlickinger @RegineEbner @eamoody1 @AnkitaSharma_26 @NaimaRashid_ @SeaGoatScreams @dizzylynn @RyanMGNorman @oormilaprahlad

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Sometimes we write our stories out on paper; others on our bodies or the spaces we inhabit.

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Where art intersects with craft:

[Katharine Coldiron 🌟 @ferrifrigida]

The paper I’m making today is from my old rejection slips.

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@PaulCrenstorm Driftwould