This format has kinda ruined my draft playoff pool. It's better when there are clear favourites. Now it's just throwing darts.

No, no, with respect, the Leafiest outcome is to get a surprise bump to no 3 and then take that mojo into a retool that craters next year to gift Boston an unprotected pick at 2 or yes why not 1st overall.

Why Read Poetry?: The Woodlot’s Second Birthday and National Poetry Month 2026 By Chris Banks I started The Woodlot: Canadian Poetry Reviews, Interviews and Essays two years ago, and so far we have published over sixty poetry reviews and over forty essays so although it is a …

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"Will you prioritize building a team that's tough or good?"

Anyone who answers "both" gets shown the door. Tipping their hand.

Say What?: On the Culture of Book Reviewing in Canada — River Street Writing According to Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine, a periodical currently soliciting online reviews of Canadian books: “it's not really worth your time to write a negative review. What’s the point? It’l...

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Solie is one of the trustees. Ineligible, I imagine.

DELMORE SCHWARTZ Stuart Ross   Ever heard of Delmore Schwartz? I used to read him but I’ve never actually typed his name before. Has anyone else in life ever been named Delmore? Sometimes I confuse him with We…

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Beckett

Ace poem.

“There are things that trying solves but this / is not one of them.” —Robert Wood Lynn

spoken like a true real estate novelist

Right off the hop the "listen, Chief is a good coach" line was the Fredo kiss

Not sure it's something but it's not nothing.

Try Threepenny Review. A few years ago I got rejected within 48 hours. It's like a gumball machine! Er, one that spits out no gum...So, a no-gumball machine.

poltergeist, but the house is a condo bought in Toronto during the pandemic highs

Some days you get your socks and underwear on then just say, fuck it, enough.

The Rangers got Jesus?! ... Breadman for Breadman, I like it

The sequence of these NYT answers from AI experts is hilarious.

AI is more transformative than AGRICULTURE! Than SPECIATION! No, no, there's NO comparable!

I'm on team steam engine. 🚂

A Transtromer night if there ever was one.

“roof silence” is a good descriptor for the quiet out there.

You had me at “fundamental epistemological question”

“Nice going, genius”—

Brutal year. Leafs have to be up there in man games lost. We’re a different team with Tanev….suddenly magically playing in the other team’s zone—

The smartest man in the whole org is Stolarz. He talked the talk and then walked the walk.

I support Craig fully = waving the white flag on the season

Poet Josie Balka on going from TikTok to the page Loves of Our Lives, Balka’s second book after her New York Times bestseller explores the types of love people experience throughout their lives

"Then, in 2023, she decided on a whim to write a poem instead.

'I wrote about how I had a month left until my twenties were over and I put it up online,' said Balka."

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Is it Berube's system to not worry about the neutral zone? Hard forecheck on o-zone, tight 5-man unit in the d-zone, but the neutral zone, like last night for Tampa, is like the Red Sea...maybe you can only have 2 out of 3? (which ain't bad)

My book also in the bucket of poetry for the “tetchy” people who think &tc. 😠

Isn’t 34-24 the kind of pace that you’d expect from a random playoff team anyway? It’s not so daunting when you think of it that way.

Quinn Hughes for Knies and Reilly. Who says no?

microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs

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Award winners in a row, holding books

Well, well.

Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉
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