There is!
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@joannastreetly
Lover of words, art, wild things Best Canadian Essays, Best Canadian Poetry, 4 books incl Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast “All of Us Hidden” poetry, Caitlin Press, Oct 2025. Tla-o-qui-aht territory www.joannastreetly.com
Book Mail Friday really made up for 8 days of ER work, the last two being 14-hour shifts.
I’d been anxiously awaiting my contributor’s copy and am already in love with the way the subject matter inspired so many fabulous Canadian poets!
@caitlinpress.bsky.social @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social
“The obsession with food in Butter slickly subverts society’s obsession with slimness.”
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To atone for AI energy consumption?
Barbara Pelman will be reading from her latest poetry collection, A Brief and Endless Sea, this week on March 5 at 7 pm at the Salt Spring Library! #poetryreading #saltspring
Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon” newrepublic.com/post/207270/... via @newrepublic.com
It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État newrepublic.com/post/207138/... via @newrepublic.com
Ugh
A chat with Andrew about curiosity & searching; poetic forms; salvaging abandoned poems, & how not to write a nature poem.
(NB, we chatted prior to the sad loss of Sandy Shreve, whose work I mention.)
#poem @caitlinpress.bsky.social @pagefright.bsky.social
#poem
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I’m not in Puerta Vallarta. But I have to get there by boat & taxi. And there have been no boats & no taxis.
WestJet cancelled my flight home & have not contacted me since. The only available new date is, er, March 5th??!
This would be awful but people have been so helpful & kind. Wow 🙏❤️
I'm reading online Tuesday night at the launch of the Winter 2026 issue of CV2, / @cv2magazine.bsky.social ;
, just a quick note, in case such interests,
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Ugh, even the fact that he chose X to put out this statement says so much…
cyclic diagram of impacts of AI from an Indigenous perspective
miigwech @honortheearth.bsky.social
Get out! That is a masterpiece, sliced or whole
Ignorance is bliss?
Book on table.
An early copy of my new book from Thornapple Press! It's so beautiful
I’ve been fearing for my early plants too…
God damn. Of course it’s Shakespeare making sunsetting medium stunningly relevant again.
Nope!
Today's blog post is about anxiety, and how to change it into confidence. watershednotes.ca/2026/02/04/c...
Great review of Meltdown in BC Studies, by Michele Koppes bcstudies.com/book_film_re... @ualbertapress.bsky.social
A navy??? Navy beans and navy blue maybe
It's important that everyone be aware of the creative accounting in this government run corporation. As the article notes, this magic profit is suddenly on display as they try to get support for more pipelines.
Does anyone really *consider* the namesake of Groundhog Day? Well, it's about time someone appreciated these "humdrum 'whistle-pigs,'" says writer Nick Neely.
For the love of woodchucks 💚
Excerpt of Cori Howard's latest essay "My Paris Ghosts" published in Issue 177 of The New Quarterly.
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Cori Howard's "My Paris Ghosts", from Issue 177! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/my-par...
#readersofbluesky #booksky #amreading
It’s wonderful how things coalesce, isn’t it? Looking forward to seeing it!
Open to all Afro-Canadian poets or Black poets in contiguous locations, such as the United States, invested in winter imaginaries of Canadian life/Black diaspora.
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