Poetry, spoken word, books and gigs from Toronto poet David Stones.https://www.davidstonespoet.com/https://www.davidstonespoet.com/2018/11/27/forgiveness-between-the-lines/https://www.davidstonespoet.com/2018/11/27/forgiveness-between-the-lines/While many of my poems are based on completely fictitious circumstances or scenarios, albeit often with a “projected I” in the balance, FORGIVENESS…Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.davidstonespoet.com/2017/10/27/welcome-poetry-lovers/https://www.davidstonespoet.com/2017/10/27/welcome-poetry-lovers/Welcome to my new website. I hope you visit often! I want to use this blog space to talk about poetry and to dialogue about all things artistic, but…Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.davidstonespoet.com/2017/07/04/poem-in-your-pocket-day/https://www.davidstonespoet.com/2017/07/04/poem-in-your-pocket-day/National Poetry Month comes to something of a crescendo today with Poem In Your Pocket Day. Originally invented by the Academy of American Poets, the Day…Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.davidstonespoet.com/2017/03/21/on-world-poetry-day-2017/https://www.davidstonespoet.com/2017/03/21/on-world-poetry-day-2017/Well, on this World Poetry Day 2017 we seem to find ourselves in quite a spot, don't we? I won't ramble on about it. Instead, I give you the new poem…Tue, 21 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.davidstonespoet.com/2016/12/29/2016-of-death-and-of-life/https://www.davidstonespoet.com/2016/12/29/2016-of-death-and-of-life/Well, that was quite a year, n'est-ce pas?....We lost some great ones in 2016: Cohen, Bowie, Prince, Ali, Michael, Fisher, Gabor, Shandling, Haggard,…Thu, 29 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.davidstonespoet.com/2016/11/11/leonard-cohen-r-i-p-2/https://www.davidstonespoet.com/2016/11/11/leonard-cohen-r-i-p-2/There's not a lot else I can or want to add here to my Tweets and Facebook accounts. As many of you know, I was a huge and devoted Leonard Cohen fan,…Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT