Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

Anne Carson on handwriting, on the inside and outside of things, on claiming home.

I have a new poem up on NewPoetry today. I wrote "The Aside" for a dear friend.

Thanks, George! (@bookninja.bsky.social)

Thanks, George!

Please join us for the launch of issue 10 of Paragon!

Monday, April 28th at 7pm at Peter Easton Pub.

Get ready for a fabulous night of readings from contributors to the new issue. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for updates!

This event is FREE to attend!

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COVER REVEAL!

We’re so excited to feature visual art by Violet Drake in our latest issue.

Don’t miss our Paragon issue 10 launch party at 7pm on April 28th at Peter Easton Pub (the day after Sparks)!

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Have a listen to myself, @jessnolastname.bsky.social, Chris Peters, Marjory Doyle, and Joan Sullivan havin’ a gab with Adam Walsh on CBC’s The Signal — about our NF essays that came out in the spring issue of The Newfoundland Quarterly TODAY 🫶 ➡️ www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thrilled to have my creative essay, “The Third Line of my Haiku” find a home in The Newfoundland Quarterly. It’s an essay that’s near and dear to my heart. Thanks to The NQ and @writersnl.bsky.social for the opportunity! And congrats to the other winners, Chris and Jess!

So pleased to be shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s poetry contest!

We carry on.

“God knows, we feel that anyway. We feel there is no point in our efforts. There is always someone, somewhere who is better, more famous, more lauded, more prolific, who rhymes more sweetly and catches the zeitgeist better. Soon, it might be a machine. But we carry on.”

Encounters with AI Kathleen Jamie reflects on a recent poetry performance

substack.com/@northseapoe... I wrote about a little brush with generative AI. NorthSeaPoets Substack.

Yes! Let’s try for the fall maybe? When’s your next possible show? Let’s chat on the phone soon ❤️❤️❤️

Helloooo! ❤️❤️❤️

Where are you off to!? ❤️

Truth.

Listen Eco-Arts Retreat In Newfoundland, 2025: Application Form “Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done.” -Ani Alber Join art therapist Katrina Grabner and poet Christina Wells for 3 days of slowing...

Interested in a writing and art retreat in Ochre Pit Cove, Newfoundland? Art therapist Katrina Grabner and I are facilitating one there from May 23rd to 26th! Check out the form for details ✨

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Let’s tear it down!

Global Gallery - Poets for Science

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Jane Hirshfield on Substack A Second Post   Once again, history repeats itself.   January 24th 2017, the newly arrived Trump administration ordered scientists working for the government to be silent, instructing them not to ...

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Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson · Jan 22 Bishop Budde hijacked the National Prayer Service to promote her radical ideology. This was an opportunity to unify the country in prayer, but she used it to sow division. Even worse, she’s continued her political crusade in media interviews. Shamefu

Ben Garrett @tompawnbadil Do not commit the sin of empathy. This snake is God’s enemy and yours too. She hates God and His people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity. [with picture of the Episcopal Bishop of the National Cathedral--the one who spoke to Trump and Co. about kindness, thereby upsetting Maga very much]

When they show you who they are, believe them. Christians against Christ.

So good.

It was the way he bit his bottom lip that is DOING ME IN! I can't watch.

Tuesday poem #615 : Maria Hardin : Devotion IV be your own pony your own mother birth a world without fathers lose yourself in the holy ghost the cosmos is withdrawing but we just...

Tuesday poem #615 : Maria Hardin : Devotion IV
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Proud to have my poem, "Four-Chambered Heart" published in issue 172 of @thenewquarterly.bsky.social. The poem, written after a friend's first ultrasound, received honorary mention in the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse contest. Thanks, TNQ!

Paperboats Zine is open for submissions.
Deadline for Issue 5 is 11.59pm GMT, 31 January 2025.

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An illustration from An Old Man's Winter Night. A mostly black-and white wood cut of an old woman in a rocking chair, with her feet up on the open door of her old-fashioned woodstove. She has a shawl over head head that she is holding tighter around her shoulders. The eerie shape of a hand appears on the window behind her

What better way to pass a long, cold evening than to curl up by the wood stove and listen to a ghost story?

You can find Tom Dawe’s audiobook of AN OLD MAN’S WINTER NIGHT on our website.

Hello good people! ☀️