Wishing you good healing and a return to the activities you love.

Contest | FreeFall Magazine Current FreeFall Magazine contest info including prizes, current judge, dates for submission and submission form and other information

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two or so weeks before this contest deadline closes! send me your most amazing poems :)

Covers of Prairie Fire's spring issue Manitoba Kitchen Party.

It's party time! Our spring issue "Manitoba Kitchen Party" is here! Copies available at prairiefire.ca/current-issue/ and (shortly) in stores and mailboxes across the country!

Many thanks Sheelagh. 🙏

Poetry and stillness are good for those kinds of deep wounds and losses. Wishing you peace on a difficult anniversary.

Every extra centimeter of hood height is another blind spot.
This isn’t an accident. It’s a design choice.

Stop manufacturing, selling, and buying these machines.

Image by @cleancitiescampaign.org & @transportenvironment.org

Side question: what’s H Mart like? I’ve never been there (as malls tend not to be regular destinations).

Comment: Courage, creativity needed to clean up streets Providing fewer shelter beds than needed will never produce magical change.

Such wise commentary about the crises of addictions, homelessness and mental health on our streets. It's not a 'sweepable' problem, it's systemic. This is so insightful > www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Check out the piece on Patrick Friesen in today's @winnipegfreepress.com!
Gratitude to
@nathandueck.bsky.social for editing Patrick's collection of poetry SIGHTINGS. Launch in Winnipeg Saturday at 7 pm at @mcnallyrobinson.com, hosted by the estimable @sarahens.bsky.social. Everyone welcome, #booksky

All this, history will likely show, because Putin owns Donald due to earlier financial or moral transgressions (or both).

Looking for an editor? Catherine is insightful and has a quick turnaround. Highly recommended.

Brilliant Women Inc

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My newish reviews site is all for Canadian women poets who have published more than one book ("firstbookers" often get more than enough attention in this country!). Ask at catherineowenwriter@gmail.com if I want you or your publisher to send me a copy :)

"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar.
Now it takes just half a day.

Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate.

Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"

Looking forward to biking that way today.

Book reviews are becoming too rare. I mean real reviews, by real reader/writer/critics, not smarmy 'Chat' generated promo stuff. Writers & readers depend on real reviews, so thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social & @cowenwriter.bsky.social for this review >> albertaviews.ca/what-is-brok...

Yes. As a former Albertan I am dismayed that right wing extremism has taken hold with a significant faction. As are many friends who still live there.

Wow! Congratulations Leslie. I look forward to reading the essay.

Thanks for this clear commentary, Catherine, and for all your thoughtful book reviews over the years. We need more of this.

It’s been that kind of year down your way, it seems.

If you can swim. If you can swim. You swimmers are so ‘swimist’ 🤣

Three Books — Transactions with Beauty I cannot tell you how taken I am by Theresa Kishkan ’s The Art of Looking Back . I have read an advanced galley, but you can pre-order online or at your favourite indie. Honest, vulnerable, in...

Yesterday, the most generous and intelligent consideration of my forthcoming book, The Art of Looking Back, and new books by Kerry Clare and Peter Darbyshire. In this difficult world, kindness and attention means everything.
transactionswithbeauty.com/home/threebo...

A Coffee Date with Lorne Daniel Author of WHAT IS BROKEN BINDS US

Books and coffee and what you learn from failed book projects. My Coffee Date with Selena Mercuri.
open.substack.com/pub/coffeeda...

Not a great environmental message: the two tour buses idling in the Blanchard St bike lane outside Royal Theatre today. #yyjbike

The great thing about solar energy is that nobody starts wars to control it.

#EnergyRevolution

Such exciting news. Thrilled for @lornedaniel.bsky.social !!

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

Bold policies can improve the air that we breathe. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #LungSky @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

Well. Purdy Prize Longlist. Amabile, bissett, Bowering, Dandurand, Daniel (?!), Lau, Solie, Sze, Vulpe, Wayman.
It's an amazing honour to be here. Huge thanks to judges Sid Marty, A.F. Moritz & Susan Musgrave 🙏 Congratulations to all the nominees & gratitude to all. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Thanks Sheelagh. A lot of fine writing in this anthology.

Totally. There’s walkability and then there’s pleasant walking routes. My walk to Cook St Village would not happen as often if I had to walk Cook St rather than Chester, with its gorgeous tree canopy.

I am pleased to host featured readers Amber Nuyens and Irina Moga at Planet Earth Poetry, this Friday March 20, starting at 7:30 pm (doors at 7, Zoom stream around 8 pm). Open Mic sign up at 7.

Join us in person at Russells Books (Fort St, Victoria), live on Zoom, or video (later) on YouTube.