Category: One-Liner Wednesday

One-Liner Wednesday: 100 views

Today’s notification from WordPress: “Congratulations! Your site, Joanne Corey, passed 100 all-time views.” This is my author site and domain name that I finally set up in honor of the release of my first chapbook and the tenth anniversary of Top of JC’s Mind. I suppose it shouldn’t have taken almost two months to get 100 views, but, hey, not bad for a poet. 😉

This super-sized One-Liner Wednesday post is part of a series spearheaded by Linda Hill, author and blogger at Life in Progress. Click the link for a lovely autumnal photo and for instructions on how to join in the #1linerWeds fun!

One-Liner Wednesday: wholeness

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Parker Palmer

Join us for Linda’a One-Liner Wednesdays! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/11/01/one-liner-wednesday-that-feeling-when-2/

One-Liner Wednesday: a sobering reminder

So, bottom line: when you burn fossil fuel you produce particulates which lodge in lungs and kill you (one death in five on the planet comes from breathing the byproducts of fossil fuel combustion), and when you burn fossil fuel you produce carbon, which lodges in the atmosphere, driving heatwaves and floods that kill you.

Bill McKibben

Feature photo by Thijs Stoop on Unsplash

Join us for Linda’s One-Liner Wednesdays! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/10/25/one-liner-wednesday-pumpkinferno/

One-Liner Wednesday: MCOB concert invitation

If you are in the Binghamton, NY area, please join the Madrigal Choir of Binghamton on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 4 PM at Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church for a concert of American music, including works by William Billings, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, and Randall Thompson, with special guest Christina Taylor.

Join us for Linda’s One-Liner Wednesdays! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/10/18/one-liner-wednesday-heading-out/. Also, check out Linda’s photo she posted today.

One-Liner Wednesday: Third Act Upstate NY Launch!

Calling all Upstate NY elders (age 60+ or so) to register now to join us on Zoom tomorrow to celebrate the official launch of Third Act Upstate NY where “ordinary people do extraordinary things…together” for the good of our climate and our democracy!

This promotion (there are three separate links above for more information) brought to you as part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesdays. Join us! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/10/04/one-liner-wednesday-better-the-second-time/

One-Liner Wednesday: BHPC reading on Saturday!

Please join members of the ’23 Boiler House Poets Collective for a reading 11 AM Saturday, September 30 at The Bear & Bee Bookshop, Holden Street, North Adams MA (in person only).

This invitation is brought to you through Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday. Join us! Learn more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/09/27/one-liner-wednesday-on-top-of-everything-else/

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One-Liner Wednesday: booster

Today, I’m getting my sixth dose of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, this one targeting Omicron variant XBB.1.5 and shown to be effective against other currently circulating Omicron sub-variants. Please consider joining me if your health professional or public health agency recommends it for you.
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This public health message is brought to you as part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesdays. Join us! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/09/20/one-liner-wednesday-the-ultimate-404-error/

One-Liner Wednesday: Ten!

To celebrate today’s tenth anniversary of Top of JC’s Mind, I’ve finally upgraded to having my own domain, joannecorey.com, so you can read Top of JC’s Mind selected from the menu there or, as always, at topofjcsmind.wordpress.com.

This shameless bit of self-promotion brought to you as part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesdays. Join us! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/09/13/one-liner-wednesday-nostalgia/

One-Liner Wednesday: sensitivity


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One-Liner Wednesday: Ross Gay on language

Rather than acknowledge the fact of male-centered or male-dominant or nonmale erasing thinking which the universal “he” enacts — magically, in his book, converting all imagined readers and writers into men — it’s magic, rally, how language stokes the imagination, and the imagination language; actually, it’s not magic at all — rather than pushing into language, pushing against it, dancing with it, so that it not only expresses the multiplicity of possible pronouns and genders and worlds but engages the language such that the difficulty, the richness, the loveliness of an author’s thinking might be contained and expressed.

Ross Gay, The Book of Delights, #32 Nota Bene

This very long sentence, showing off what a poet can do when writing prose, is shared with you through Linda’s One-Liner Wednesdays. Join us! Learn more here: https://lindaghill.com/2023/08/30/one-liner-wednesday-tough-week-so-far/