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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · 13d

Happy Birthday to my thoughtful, beautiful, extraordinary son!

Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · 16d

Hold fast my pretties as we enter another week of utter and unrelenting madness! 💕

#FightFascism #nomaplemaga #IAMWOKE #peoplehavethepower

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Sep 27

Holy fuck! I was on the warpath about this. I abhor censorship! His ass should be fired.

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Sep 22

Just completed Firebrand, a screenplay from my novel The Town Slut’s Daughter.

Runaway from rural Canada → punk icon in ’80s L.A. → everything she builds threatened by music, sex & violence.

Looking for agents/producers to help bring it to life. Leads/advice welcome.

Artwork: Victor Bonderoff

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Sep 16

I can’t contain the news any longer! Amidst all the madness in this world, I’m thrilled to announce that my fourth poetry collection, 'Cariboo Ashes,' has found a home with the brilliant team at Anvil Press.

#MakeArtNotWar #Poetry #CaribooAshes #AnvilPress #comingsoon
PHOTO: Frank Gargani

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Sep 10

Needed a haircut and a break from reality! Thanks Tina. tinabeauty.ca

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Vancouver women kick ass! Thanks for this Ruby Music/Geist story Connie Kuhns.

#womenrock #slaythepatriarchy #ThrowbackThursday

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Aug 21

Prescient or what. Zealots have always creeped me out. The pendulum will swing the other way again, hopefully sooner than later. In the meantime, hold fast my pretties!

#ThrowbackThursday #makemusicnotwar #womeninrock #slaythepartriarchy

Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Aug 2

'Phainting' by Tina Schliessler. Also served as the cover for an AURAL Heather album.

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Jul 4

Brawny and burning with longing, Sideways hits the blacktop with women in control—riot grrrls, mall gangstas, heartbreak and heat on the horizon. The past haunts. The future beckons. Haley’s world swerves, crashes, and won’t let go.

#poetryrocks #makeartnotwar

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Jul 3

Visible Verse Festival at The Cinémathèque, an annual showcase of videopoetry and poetry film that I used to curate and host, a celebration of this hybrid creative form, which integrates verse with media-art visuals produced by a camera or a computer. #ThrowbackThursday #makeartnotwar #poetrycommunity

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Jun 19

Art Saves Us.

#ThrowbackThursday
#makemusicnotwar

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Jun 12

Wow, time flies and the bird is on the wing! But some things never change: Billeh is still brilliant and poetry still saves me. Happy Throwback Thursday my pretties! 💕

#makeartnotwar
#poetrycommunity
#ThrowbackThursday

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Jun 8

#ProgressNotHate
#FightFascism
#nomaplemaga

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Jun 5

Still buzzing! After years of connecting virtually, I finally met the fabulous, fascinating Bibbe Hansen in person—and we even shared the stage! At Great Weather for Media in NYC.

#ThrowbackThursday
#poetrycommunity

Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · May 12

My mother, in the middle. What am I holding; a candle? A wand? Taken in Charleswood, MB, back when coffee tables were laden with ashtrays and doilies. I loved my mother though she wasn't easy to love. Childhood had warped her but we survived the generational abuse, just as she had. #MothersDay

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · May 10

Among the spines and stories that shaped me—still here, still writing, still daring to hope after the storm, and relieved after the election. Wishing love and light to my fellow Canucks. Have a wonderful weekend.

#ViveLeCanada

Photo: Frank Gargani

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · May 9

Word. We are truth tellers.

#makeartnotwar

Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Apr 21

VOTE AGAINST HATE. The neanderthals. This is a fight for our identity!
Vote against the rise of far right populism, disinformation, the erosion of democratic norms. A Poilievre-led, maple MAGA Canada aligned with an authoritarian U.S.regime is terrifying!
🇨🇦

#nomaplemaga
#ViveLeCanada

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Apr 8

BRING YOUR KITE AND FLY IT.
I wonder if it works with drones. Denise Levertov—a poet whose language marched, mourned, and moved people to action. People are still refusing silence, submission. The sky’s wide, the wind’s still blowing. Keep The Movement rising.

#PeopleHaveThePower
#ResistFascism

Reposted by Heather Haley

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Apr 3

We call for the global boycott of the United States.

Boycott the USA wherever you can, see a US product? Put it back. Need to vacation? Go anywhere else. Have a subscription? Unsubscribe. #BoycottUSA

Uncle Trump kicked out by the civilized world, on ground crying

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you Prime Minister!

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Mar 31

Woo hoo! Exciting milestone: I’ve completed the first draft of the screenplay adaptation of my novel, The Town Slut’s Daughter. There’s interest from a film producer—via a friend-of-a-friend—who’s requested to read it. I’m not holding my breath, but I am hopeful and excited for whatever comes next.

Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Mar 25

#stopmuskratmayhem

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Heather Haley @mediapoet.bsky.social · Mar 17

“I bind myself against hostile men and their fierce hostility and their false words." If only St. Patrick could drive the snakes out of Washington. ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY, EVERYONE'S IRISH - EXCEPT DONALD TRUMP open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY, EVERYONE'S IRISH - EXCEPT DONALD TRUMP

“I bind myself against hostile men and their fierce hostility and their false words.

open.substack.com

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