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Alastair Morrison
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Psychiatry resident, poet/poetry bore, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
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Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social · Mar 21
A poem of mine appears in the wonderful issue 25 of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social out today. Such a stellar journal to be involved with, such kind and incisive editing, so many great poets. Check out "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" here!

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Alastair Morrison "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" — THE SHORE
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Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.

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Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
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February 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Come work with us!

Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.

The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.

Deadline 28 Feb 2026

#histmed

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Gender Insight
Through co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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I wish you were here, dear,
in this hemisphere,
as I sit on the porch
sipping a beer.
It’s evening; the sun is setting,
boys shout and gulls are crying.
What’s the point of forgetting
if it’s followed by dying?

- Joseph Brodsky, "A Song"
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2026 edition: June 20, 2026 / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ;
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the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2026 edition: June 20, 2026
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:      the ottawa     small press     book fair spring 2026 : will be held on Satur...
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February 3, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Ottawa’s two current poets laureate have curated a very cool reading of eight Ottawa poets (in English and French) writing on visual art, all included in accompanying above/ground press handout chapbook! / @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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A producer in the London bureau is the *only* CBS person quoted in their story about Israel killing its longtime freelance cameramen in Gaza—someone who once filed dispatches for them from an ambulance, while wounded.

Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief.

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3 journalists killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza, including cameraman who worked with CBS News
An Israeli airstrike killed three journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, the territory's civil defense agency said. One of those killed, Abed Shaat, had worked for years as a cameraman for CBS News and oth...
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January 24, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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Hamilton friends, Sharp Words is coming up fast and the third panel of the day is this great discussion between Brad Smith and Jamie Tennant - we hope you can come down to Bridgeworks and join us! You can find the full details here: www.sharpwords.ca
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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In memory of Louis Zukofsky, born on 23 January, 1904, here are my Five Love Sonnets with Rhymes Stolen from Louis Zukofsky's "A"–9.
From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social

Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.
January 23, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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@cv2magazine.bsky.social makes such a lovely magazine, and I'm happy to have this poem win a spot there. As a huge fan of The Weakerthans, I feel the proximity to a gem from John K. Samson an added bit of luck.
Cover of CV2, showing a bulletin board crowded with mailed greetings and festooned with "happy birthday" crepe paper. Text of a poem named "The Interpretation of Dreams."
January 21, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the @tseliotprize.bsky.social with Wellwater (Picador)!

Watch Young Critic Caleb Simon's video review of the collection at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIJ...

#TSEliotPrize
Poet Karen Solie at the T.S.Eliot awards ceremony. She wears a red dress and stands at a lectern.
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Karen Solie won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for Wellwater, a collection exploring environmental destruction.
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January 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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New blurb: 'Tales of Health is one of the best recent examples of medical humanities approaches in literary studies...a rigorous formal exploration of the national tale and a complexly intersecting disability theoretical provocation...’ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home
Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Today, Peter Schireson’s ‘Report from the Afterlife’ is our featured poem from our most recent issue.
There are martinis and Chinese noodles, the afterlife at its most relaxed. As to your identity, pearls against a white dress. PETER SCHIRESON Report from the Afterlife At first, you won't speak the language, so things might feel a bit unstable, but don't worry, the announcer is always in a good mood. And there's no penitential regime, no hard facts, no prudish accounting. Every afternoon, a cocktail combo plays lavender music while people sit under lilacs and simply breathe. Sound drizzles down through the air, the melody modest but polished, and the furnishings glow, lustrous drape of brocade foliage and beasts woven into the folds. There are martinis and Chinese noodles, the afterlife at its most relaxed. As to your identity, pearls against a white dress.
January 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Our 16th issue is here! Head over to pinholepoetry.ca/current-issue-pinhole-poetry/ to read all the amazing poems and check out Wenda Salomon’s beautiful pinhole photographs.
Please share this issue far and wide. We’re very proud and grateful to be able to publish such good work.
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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“the courses of the droplets
on your skin,
so given, and gone.”

Beautiful. From Alastair Morrison.

Thanks for highlighting this one, Vicki. It was such a treat to read.
January 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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"Fixed
courses, immutable

pull; still
one could have been elsewhere."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus by Alastair Morrison (@alasmorrison.bsky.social) (2025 @theshorepoetry.bsky.social) www.theshorepoetry.org/alastair-mor...
Alastair Morrison "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" — THE SHORE
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January 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)
I am the sign, I am the letter. I am the language that cannot be come to terms with. I will go to my resting place and will not be born again. I am what is scattered and cannot be gathered up. I am small, I am silence, I am what is not found.
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Please share widely.
Hennepin County prosecutor asks the public to share Renee Good shooting evidence with her office
Mary Moriarty said that although her office has collaborated effectively with the FBI in past cases, she is concerned by the Trump administration's decision to bar state and local agencies from playin...
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January 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Jim and Michael. #KFB10 #Spring2026 #poetrywellserved

JIM JOHNSTONE Eye for an Eye
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MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees
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January 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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British reporters often ask the best, most direct questions
sarahburris.bsky.social Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · Jan 8
British reporter: "You REALLY believe after seeing this video she intentionally tried to hit this agent?"

JD Vance shorter "I don't know"
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review!
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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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What a year.
This arrived today, very lovely & very cold, from Orison Books.

If you want a copy of your own, you can pre-order here: Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/NR1Q8l2d3jcV...
Unboxed, Jane Zwart's Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, with a Joseph Cornell curio on the cover.
December 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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A reminder from Charles Olson, who was born on this day in 1910
These Days whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle And the dirt just to make clear where they came from
December 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Our first outing. [What fun!] #LIVE #SendMyLoveToAnyone

THE MOCKLER @themockler.bsky.social
& Me on #SelfPromotion #connectingwithreaders

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Kathryn Mockler (@sendmylovetoanyone)
More from mine and @KIRBY’s first live on self-promotion!
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December 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Prince Edward Island's finest poet? Maybe.

Mark Strand, from Darker (1970)
The One Song I prefer to sit all day like a sack in a chair and to lie all night like a stone in my bed. When food comes I open my mouth. When sleep comes I close my eyes. My body sings only one song; the wind turns gray in my arms. Flowers bloom. Flowers die. More is less. I long for more.
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM