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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

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Water Response(ability) in Victoria | Open Space (510 Fort St.) March 21–22. Water Response(ability): Poets and Artists Respond to the Beauty and Decline of Water and Ice, Across the weekend of World Poetry Day and World ...

There is!

www.lamppostsocial.com/events/water...

08.03.2026 07:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Trump’s not enough. And he knows he’s not enough’: California governor Gavin Newsom on populism, ‘purity tests’ and whether he’ll run for the presidency He’s the Democratic politician with movie-star looks and a picture-perfect family, dogged by accusations of being a smooth‑talking elitist. Can he really unite the American left and win the most power...

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07.03.2026 18:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

07.03.2026 17:06 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Butter author Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’ Butter, her novel about a female serial killer, was a global hit. As Asako Yuzuki’s second book is published in English, she talks about criticism at home – and why she’ll be writing darker stories in...

“The obsession with food in Butter slickly subverts society’s obsession with slimness.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

07.03.2026 15:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To atone for AI energy consumption?

06.03.2026 05:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Review of Chris Hutchinson's "Lost Signal" | FreeFall Magazine By Catherine Owen Lost Signal by Chris Hutchinson Palimpsest Press (2025) If you don’t have an ear for the music of language, why do you write poems?

freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ch...

a recent review!

03.03.2026 18:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

03.03.2026 19:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon” Troops have logged more than 110 complaints about such comments with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon” newrepublic.com/post/207270/... via @newrepublic.com

03.03.2026 17:39 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État newrepublic.com/post/207138/... via @newrepublic.com

03.03.2026 22:55 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Oil price expected to surge after Iran strikes and strait of Hormuz closure Markets around the world could tumble on Monday and motorists are likely to pay more at the pump

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

01.03.2026 23:08 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Ugh

28.02.2026 20:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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115. Salvaging Abandoned Poems w/ Joanna Streetly Podcast Episode · Page Fright: A Poetry Podcast · February 26 · 57m

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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28.02.2026 20:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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 🙏❤️

24.02.2026 04:57 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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,
robmclennan.substack.com/p/im-reading...

21.02.2026 19:28 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Ugh, even the fact that he chose X to put out this statement says so much…

16.02.2026 03:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
cyclic diagram of impacts of AI from an Indigenous perspective

cyclic diagram of impacts of AI from an Indigenous perspective

miigwech @honortheearth.bsky.social

15.02.2026 19:56 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Get out! That is a masterpiece, sliced or whole

16.02.2026 02:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ignorance is bliss?

15.02.2026 01:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book on table.

Book on table.

An early copy of my new book from Thornapple Press! It's so beautiful

10.02.2026 23:24 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve been fearing for my early plants too…

06.02.2026 04:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

God damn. Of course it’s Shakespeare making sunsetting medium stunningly relevant again.

05.02.2026 13:40 👍 50 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0

Nope!

05.02.2026 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Confidence and Anxiety Confidence is believing that you can rely on your circumstance and act in a “right, proper, or effective way.” It’s critical to living a full life, as you

Today's blog post is about anxiety, and how to change it into confidence. watershednotes.ca/2026/02/04/c...

04.02.2026 20:51 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist | BC Studies In Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist, Sarah Boon shares her fraught journey through academia, fieldwork, science, womanhood and struggles with mental and physical wellness. Blendi...

Great review of Meltdown in BC Studies, by Michele Koppes bcstudies.com/book_film_re... @ualbertapress.bsky.social

04.02.2026 21:20 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

A navy??? Navy beans and navy blue maybe

05.02.2026 01:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

04.02.2026 03:42 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Living Like Woodchucks - Orion Magazine Thoughts on Dillard, Thoreau, and animal admiration

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 💚

02.02.2026 13:20 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excerpt of Cori Howard's latest essay "My Paris Ghosts" published in Issue 177 of The New Quarterly.

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

02.02.2026 15:19 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

It’s wonderful how things coalesce, isn’t it? Looking forward to seeing it!

02.02.2026 00:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution - Olongo Africa Download as PDFSeasonality dictates the character of Canadian life, its tone, texture, and the pulses of its resilience. It tells its history ruthlessly and informs us of the roots of traditions that ...

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.

olongoafrica.com/call-for-poe...

31.01.2026 17:48 👍 5 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0