Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Yesterday Today” by Gordon Taylor.

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Yesterday Today

By Gordon Taylor

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Copyright © Gordon Taylor

Gordon Taylor is a queer, emerging poet who walks an ever-swaying, braided wire of technology and poetry. A 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in Narrative, Cincinnati Review, Rattle Poet’s Respond, and more. Gordon was the winner of the 2026 Ellis Prize in Poetry from New Ohio Review. He writes to invite people into a world they may not have seen.

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