Pro-Palestinian protesters in court after arrest for Montreal Scotiabank sit-in Hearings for a Charter challenge led by pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested at a sit-in downtown Montreal began this week in what a lawyer says will be a pivotal case for freedom to protest i...

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hey bsky! this is a really important legal fundraiser for 44 peaceful pro-palestinian protestors wrongfully detained at a scotiabank in montreal last year. please share widely and donate if you can 🩷 gofund.me/09cb0b812

Love this one Tom!

Such a gorgeous essay by @teresempierre.bsky.social !

New episode, which is really just the audio-version of the latest substack! I love repetition 🩷 happy spring poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...

I started a Substack! I guess it was only a matter of time. Read "Starlings in Winter" and subscribe if you feel like it: sannawani.substack.com/p/starlings-...

The Hungering Years by Summer Farah Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...

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Village After This One I love you, world, despite my incommensurate lack of confidence in your keeping on: the street blowing with spits of snow turns like a page I might doom to darkness after reading it, forever, or until I reopen the book. Then: there it is, sun filtering through the air like faerie dust raining down as I turn out of the dark isthmus laid down by a basswood. Okay. How to proceed from here: I open the book and see a thousand black shapes like birds slowly coming into focus over a marsh on a windy fall day. I close the book, or look away. Happiness, you are only memory sometimes. But you will die full of the light that troubles your precious sadness. Be glad for once.

Okay. How to proceed

David Dodd Lee

love! good ole Mr. R!

forgot this account existed...happy new year! i'd love to be more connected w/ folks on here. if u see this, maybe drop me a reply about what you're reading // feeling about the "new" "year" (greg's time is fake...)

The same screenshot of Dean and Castiel sitting in a car from 5.14 of Supernatural repeated. The top text says "where is your hunger, dean?" The bottom text reads "Where is your copy of The Hungering Years, Dean?" with the new words and letters crudely added in pink.

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A poster for the Toronto book launch for As The Earth Dreams: Thursday November 13 Doors at 6, Event at 7 745 Queen St West Featuring: Zalika Reid-Benta, Chinelo Onwualu, Trynne Delaney, Terese Mason Pierre and DJ Myles

Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!

"THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" Read Summer Farah's poems "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" in The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by @sannawani.bsky.social at @ex-puritan.bsky.social 🐦 ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-ar...

A cover image for The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, featuring brown, antique-looking text over vintage scientific drawings of animals.

"Poets love birds." So says @sannawani.bsky.social's editor's note ("Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note") for our 2025 special issue, Animalia. Did the poets (and the fiction writers and essayists) prove her right? Find out now— the issue is live: ex-puritan.ca/animalia

Today’s poem is selected by Sanna Wani (@sannawani.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“This Isn't The Life” appeared in The Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful, published by McClelland & Stewart, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

The Ex-Puritan is proud to introduce our new Poetry Editor, Sanna Wani (@sannawani.bsky.social)!

Sanna Wani is a Kashmiri writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022), winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry.

That’s so sweet, thank you!

a yellow background with an orange tree; and then TREES and a few other phrases in dark green and black

Poet Talk about Trees featuring @farahghafoor.bsky.social!

Tune in for talk about trees, snails, time and more. Available where you listen to podcasts: poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...

Star power My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...

"Did she strive toward success, the way any artist does, only to accidentally strive too far, primed by her personal privilege and positionality?" asks @sannawani.bsky.social in this thought-provoking piece about Chappell Roan, fame, race, and gender.

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Can’t wait!

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The Apple You gave me your heart like a polished apple and being young I bit into it letting my teeth pierce the tight skin deep into the flesh while the juices ran down between my fingers. But now I’m not sure what fruit it is that I’ve eaten or from what tree or why suddenly neither one of us is quite as young.

You gave me your heart

Laura Gilpin

Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts Read Sanna Wani's review “Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

"The protagonists shift but maintain an integrity of voice: elegant, incisive, dry, witty." – @sannawani.bsky.social reviews @shashibhat.bsky.social's Death by a Thousand Cuts: ex-puritan.ca/futility-and...

Call for Submissions: Animalia We are so pleased to announce this year's Special Issue: Animalia, guest-edited by Sanna Wani!

The Ex-Puritan SPECIAL ISSUE Submission Call: Animalia, guest edited by Sanna Wani (@sannawani.bsky.social)! ex-puritan.ca/news/call-fo...

fourteen birds on power lines

sonnet

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Star power My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...

This is the first Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 we're celebrating on Bluesky, so we *have* to share this excellent story from our Winter 2024 issue here. @sannawani.bsky.social discusses white privilege, the pressure of fame, and Chappell Roan—and we're still so obsessed with this article!

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this is what they (the normans) took from you

I am loving Remedios Varo paintings lately (as always) — on the left, Born Again / on the right, Star Maker