Anna Quon
@annaquon.bsky.social
Mad, mixed race, mobility impaired poet, novelist and Halifax Poet Laureate 2024 - 2027
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Anna Quon
@annaquon.bsky.social
· Nov 15
hello world, feeling slightly new born!
hope this place is safer and sunnier than the one i just left.
hope this place is safer and sunnier than the one i just left.
Hey! I'll be selling my novels and poetry (including a new single poem folded zine of "Peace Dog") here Saturday alongside my friend Sheila who will have paintings and other crafts for sale!
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St. Georges Community Advent Sale at 5429 Nora Bernard St, Halifax, NS B3K 1A8, Canada on 29th November, 2025
St. George's Community Advent Sale happening at 5429 Nora Bernard St, Halifax, NS B3K 1A8, Canada on Sat Nov 29 2025 at 10:00 am to 02:00 pm
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November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hey! I'll be selling my novels and poetry (including a new single poem folded zine of "Peace Dog") here Saturday alongside my friend Sheila who will have paintings and other crafts for sale!
happeningnext.com/event/st-geo...
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Sometimes I feel like I don't know anyone. I've met you 20 times but can't remember your name, people whose names I know well I can't recognize. I don't know if there's some protection in this. There's definitely embarrassment and feeling unmoored, and bewilderment.
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Sometimes I feel like I don't know anyone. I've met you 20 times but can't remember your name, people whose names I know well I can't recognize. I don't know if there's some protection in this. There's definitely embarrassment and feeling unmoored, and bewilderment.
I've got to go to bed
Or I'm going to lose my head
I've got to close my eyes
So my thoughts will carmelize
I've got to go to sleep
To shear my countless sheep
I've got to fall into a dream
So life will turn to clotted cream
I've got to play at being dead
The best stage for it is my bed.
Or I'm going to lose my head
I've got to close my eyes
So my thoughts will carmelize
I've got to go to sleep
To shear my countless sheep
I've got to fall into a dream
So life will turn to clotted cream
I've got to play at being dead
The best stage for it is my bed.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I've got to go to bed
Or I'm going to lose my head
I've got to close my eyes
So my thoughts will carmelize
I've got to go to sleep
To shear my countless sheep
I've got to fall into a dream
So life will turn to clotted cream
I've got to play at being dead
The best stage for it is my bed.
Or I'm going to lose my head
I've got to close my eyes
So my thoughts will carmelize
I've got to go to sleep
To shear my countless sheep
I've got to fall into a dream
So life will turn to clotted cream
I've got to play at being dead
The best stage for it is my bed.
Yes, tomorrow! Opaat Press Second anniversary poetry bash, 2 to 4 pm!
Central Library.
Central Library.
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Yes, tomorrow! Opaat Press Second anniversary poetry bash, 2 to 4 pm!
Central Library.
Central Library.
My headspace is not my own. Which is the same as saying my life is not my own. But at the moment this is my choice. So I guess that's something.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My headspace is not my own. Which is the same as saying my life is not my own. But at the moment this is my choice. So I guess that's something.
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Come hang out with us at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social on December 22 for some seasonal scary stories!
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Come hang out with us at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social on December 22 for some seasonal scary stories!
What hurts my back, costs a lot of spare change, and makes me swear like an enraged sailor? Trying to photocopy a zine at the library. Sorry library lady.
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What hurts my back, costs a lot of spare change, and makes me swear like an enraged sailor? Trying to photocopy a zine at the library. Sorry library lady.
Also today at the Brian Hennen Meoral Lecture... an inclusive choir sang this song by the White Stripes. A favorite. youtu.be/PKfD8d3XJok?...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Also today at the Brian Hennen Meoral Lecture... an inclusive choir sang this song by the White Stripes. A favorite. youtu.be/PKfD8d3XJok?...
Wonderful concert "Resonance" tonight by the Camerata Singers and guests Galileo Chamber Choir. Also, the launch of inhale/exhale, an album of choral music by Canadian composers. My poem Love is featured as the text of the last piece on the album, by composer Ben Sigerson. I can't wait to listen!
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Wonderful concert "Resonance" tonight by the Camerata Singers and guests Galileo Chamber Choir. Also, the launch of inhale/exhale, an album of choral music by Canadian composers. My poem Love is featured as the text of the last piece on the album, by composer Ben Sigerson. I can't wait to listen!
Concerts - Halifax Camerata Singers share.google/I2NQ0ltYw2Jk...
Concerts - Halifax Camerata Singers
CONCERTS RESONANCE November 15, 2025 at 7 p.m. All Saints Cathedral, Halifax A concert of conversations - between Camerata and Galileo, between Renaissance and contemporary repertoire, and between the...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Concerts - Halifax Camerata Singers share.google/I2NQ0ltYw2Jk...
Tonight at Paul O Regan Hall, such a fascinating look back at the history of art spaces in Halifax... and a bleak view of the present and future. Art needs a home too.
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Tonight at Paul O Regan Hall, such a fascinating look back at the history of art spaces in Halifax... and a bleak view of the present and future. Art needs a home too.
the wind around my bedroom window today and for the past few days has sounded like the wind that howls around the NS Hospital. Not a healing feature of that place.
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
the wind around my bedroom window today and for the past few days has sounded like the wind that howls around the NS Hospital. Not a healing feature of that place.
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Join the municipality's Poet Laureate, Anna Quon & former Youth Poet Laureate, Asiah Sparks for a writing workshop for Black Nova Scotians aged 16+. Nov 20 | 7-9 p.m. This evening of writing, reflection & healing through poetry will be hosted virtually by the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute.
Virtual mental health poetry workshop for Black Nova Scotians aged 16+! November 20, 2005 from 7 to 9 p.m. Free to register at forms.office.com/r/ZJWttLgsJj
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Join the municipality's Poet Laureate, Anna Quon & former Youth Poet Laureate, Asiah Sparks for a writing workshop for Black Nova Scotians aged 16+. Nov 20 | 7-9 p.m. This evening of writing, reflection & healing through poetry will be hosted virtually by the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute.
Walked on the waterfront with dad today. A glorious day for it. We didn't get there all summer for a number of reasons and today i forgot to take photos. So just imagine a tiny 93 year old sitting facing the sun with his sunglasses on soaking it all in...
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Walked on the waterfront with dad today. A glorious day for it. We didn't get there all summer for a number of reasons and today i forgot to take photos. So just imagine a tiny 93 year old sitting facing the sun with his sunglasses on soaking it all in...
Sometimes I think I must be done. My brain feels arid as a desert. Hoping this isn't an end, but if it is it's the whimper variety.
October 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Sometimes I think I must be done. My brain feels arid as a desert. Hoping this isn't an end, but if it is it's the whimper variety.
Heart full of sads. Sometimes a good thing is still a sad thing.
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Heart full of sads. Sometimes a good thing is still a sad thing.
Dad's favourite tree in the Public Gardens. #WeepingEuropeanBeech
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Dad's favourite tree in the Public Gardens. #WeepingEuropeanBeech
this should be a lot of fun! November 22, from 2-4 pm. Come here Opaat Press poets read their work! Halifax Central Library
October 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
this should be a lot of fun! November 22, from 2-4 pm. Come here Opaat Press poets read their work! Halifax Central Library
Virtual mental health poetry workshop for Black Nova Scotians aged 16+! November 20, 2005 from 7 to 9 p.m. Free to register at forms.office.com/r/ZJWttLgsJj
October 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Virtual mental health poetry workshop for Black Nova Scotians aged 16+! November 20, 2005 from 7 to 9 p.m. Free to register at forms.office.com/r/ZJWttLgsJj
What I have learned helping someone whose going into longterm care-- I have way too many things
October 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
What I have learned helping someone whose going into longterm care-- I have way too many things
Everything that used to mean something feels far away. Things that weren't an issue earlier this year suddenly are THE burning issue. It's stomach churning how quickly everything can change, personally and professionally and politically too though that's not what's eating me. It's the personal part.
October 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Everything that used to mean something feels far away. Things that weren't an issue earlier this year suddenly are THE burning issue. It's stomach churning how quickly everything can change, personally and professionally and politically too though that's not what's eating me. It's the personal part.
ugh i reactivate my facebook account by mistake. thankfully i quickly figured out how to deactivate it... it gave me some creepy deja vu.
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
ugh i reactivate my facebook account by mistake. thankfully i quickly figured out how to deactivate it... it gave me some creepy deja vu.
@harryagarrison.bsky.social welcome to this place!
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
@harryagarrison.bsky.social welcome to this place!
Today didn't turn out the way I thought it would but either way I would have and did miss #booktoberfest. Hope all the writers, readers, publishers and booksellers had great time!
October 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Today didn't turn out the way I thought it would but either way I would have and did miss #booktoberfest. Hope all the writers, readers, publishers and booksellers had great time!
World Mental Health Day... because anyone who has a brain, needs a healthy mind too, to get through a day in this world.
October 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
World Mental Health Day... because anyone who has a brain, needs a healthy mind too, to get through a day in this world.