Review of What I Carry with Me from The Ontario Poetry Society
Review of What I Carry with Me from The Ontario Poetry Society
Review by Elana Wolff. Thank you so much, Elana, for a lovely review of my book!
What I Carry With Me Review by Elana Wolff
by Carol A. Stephen
Friesen Press, 2022, 82 pages ISBN: 978-1-03-915025-6
Carol A. Stephen’s What I Carry With Me, is a spacious collection of…
Some of The Avengers sporting a black version of their iconic suits. Before you ask “Where is Bucky?”, “Where is Nat?”, etc...their suits are already black or dark blue so I didn’t see the point of including them in this series BUT I’m currently working on a new one and they’ll definitely be there. ♥
So we know Kamala’s forming the Young Avengers and so far, it’s Kate Bishop, Cassie, Kamala, I hope they get Peter and America too cause the chaos would be comedy gold.
The mentors: Carol, Clint, Stephen, Happy and Scott would have weekly drinking night outs to rant about the kids. And Carol who is basically immortal, started having gray in her temples because Kamala decided it was a good idea to see if she could fly.
She could not.
Imagine the possible convo:
Carol: I still can’t believe she hurled herself from the Avengers Tower.
Clint: My kid shot down a historical bell tower, a christmas tree and nearly got us killed by the tracksuit mafia. And that’s not adding Yelena to the mess. She blames me for not keeping an eye on Kate
Carol: She hates me, threatened to kill me just because I let Kate onto the team. Kamala’s mom already dislikes me for that same reason.
Scott: Oh the black widow lady? She’s really nice. She lent Cassie her widow bites and now Cass modified it into her suit.
Sam: Your kid is the reason why people now fear Ant Man. She used the widow bites to tase people she thought had a high chance of committing a crime.
Clint: And Kate did not help
Happy: At least your kid didn’t invite all the other spider-man villains and the other spider-men into this universe so that he could clear his name and get himself and his friends into college.
Stephen: Don’t remind me. I’ve have enough headaches dealing with America traveling to other universes because she wants to try their food.
Suddenly, their communicators start going off.
Carol: Oh come on!
Stephen sighs heavily, Scott slams his head on the table, Happy downs his drink in one shot and Clint looks like he’s about to die.
Clint: All in favor of grounding them once we get them back from whatever universe they’re in now?
They all nod.
Carol: I say we have an hour at most before Yelena shows up and makes do with her threat
Stephen: You’re a walking infinity stone, why are you so afraid of her?
Finding out that Stephen King is openly defending The Marvels movie on Twitter is the best thing I've seen on the internet. Even though he doesn't care about MCU movies, he agrees that the hate the movie got is from misogynistic and racist adolescent (and definitely grow ass adult men) fan boys who are appalled by anything that doesn't center around white, cishet, Christian men. These pathetic ass men who are shitting on the movie and Brie Larson need to get off the internet and need to go scrub their armpits, wash their asscracks, and put on deodorant.
Bernadette Peters and Kristin Chenoweth sing "Old Friends" in honor of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett’s 60-year friendship at Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love (April 2023)
LOL I love that Carol and Stephen slept together and she finds him annoying now while she's happily greeting Clea. I like that it's not awkward between Clea and Carol.