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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 9d

Oscar-winning actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative

Henry Fonda originally formed the Committee for the First Amendment was in 1947.

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · 26d

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of Wade Davis’ Beneath the Surface of Things @greystonebooks.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-wa...

Review of Wade Davis' "Beneath the Surface of Things" | FreeFall Magazine

By Michael Frey Beneath the Surface of Things by Wade Davis Greystone Books (2024) Wade Davis' latest essay collection "Beneath" offers a social

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Sep 7

new review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social or @BlaineNewton's Rag Pickers by @VivianHansen and @UniversityofCalgaryPress: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-bl...

Review of Blaine Newton's "Rag Pickers" | FreeFall Magazine

By Vivian Hansen Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton University of Calgary Press (2025) Thomas Trofimuk’s blurb offered me a guiding question on this review of

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Aug 19

New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @toluini.bsky.social Unravel by @CatherineOwen and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-to...

Review of Tolu Oloruntoba's "Unravel" | FreeFall Magazine

By Catherine Owen Unravel by Tolu Oloruntoba Penguin Random House (2025) Unravel is a poetry of serious sonority, worthy of engraving on stone: lyrical,

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Touch the Donkey supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold
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TtD supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold

Lisa Pasold grew up in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal. She is a storyteller and poet. She has published 6 books, mostly of poetry; a chapbook, Kindnes...

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:

NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · Aug 5

NeWest Press is excited to announce the launch of Barbour Books, our new speculative fiction imprint. Edited by award-winning author and scholar Jenna Butler. Authors looking to submit manuscripts to the imprint can do so now at our manuscript site.

#NeWestPress #BarbourBooks #CanadianSciFi #CanLit

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Aug 4

new review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social by @CatherineOwen. @AishaSashaJohn's Total and @McClellandandStewart freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ai...

Review of Aisha Sasha John's "Total" | FreeFall Magazine

By Catherine Owen Total by Aisha Sasha John McClelland and Stewart (2025) Performative poetry, page-bound, retains its power, but also establishes a

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jul 22

another morning if wee one’s swim lesson, as I explore new poetry titles by Lorne Daniel and Susan Musgrave (ed. Micheline Maylor, // @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social @michelinemaylor.bsky.social

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jul 18

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. Al Moritz, The Great Silent Ballad with @houseofanansi.bsky.social is revied by Beth Everest. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-a-...

Review of A.F. Moritz's "Great Silent Ballad" | FreeFall Magazine

By Beth Everest Great Silent Ballad by A.F. Moritz House of Anansi (2024) The 22nd book of poetry by A.F. Moritz is not a quick read. Nor should it be.

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jul 7

New review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @hollay.bsky.social Rebellion Box by @kathrynMacDonald and @radiantpress.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ho...

Review of Hollay Ghadery's "Rebellion Box" | FreeFall Magazine

By Kathryn MacDonald Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery Radiant Press (2023) Perhaps one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Rebellion Box

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jul 6

The great unboxing of @SusanMusgrave's collected works. @wlupress.bsky.social Out now!

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jun 23

@MeganNega thoughtfully reviews @BethEverest's Some of the Facts: stories about Jasper. All proceeds go to fire relief.

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Review of Beth Everest's "Some of the Facts" | FreeFall Magazine

By Megan Nega Some of the Facts: Jasper: When Tales Were Told by Beth Everest Frontenac House (2024) Beth Everest’s new collection of short fiction about

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jun 20

Gah! Her work is awesome!

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jun 11

@CanmoreArtsPlace in Canmore Alberta on June 21st. artsplacecanmore.com/whats-on/scr...

artsPlace - National Indgenous People's Day Movie Night

Exploring Indigenous stories and conservation initiatives.

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jun 11

Hey @mnystudio.bsky.social ! Your film is coming to my town! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqd...

Bullfrog Films presents...Meddle

YouTube video by Bullfrog Films

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Jun 9

New Review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social ! @CatherineOwen Reviews @MikeBlouin's Hard Electric: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-mi...

Review of Michael Blouin's "Hard Electric" | FreeFall Magazine

By Catherine Owen Hard Electric by Michael Blouin Anvil Press (2024) A reviewer’s main aim should be to offer intelligent critique within a context of the

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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · Jun 7

Last year, while I was writing at Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, in NS, w/ my friend & fellow writer, Sandra McIntyre, I began an essay that would speak to my ideas of what “home” means to me. Thanks to @michelinemaylor.bsky.social & FreeFall Magazine for giving my
essay a good home. 🙏❤️

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · May 13

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @RayanneHaines' What Kind of Daughter by @tonyalailey.bsky.social and @FrontenacHousePress freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ra...

Review of Rayanne Haines' "What Kind of Daughter?" | FreeFall Magazine

By Tonya Lailey What Kind of Daughter? by Rayanne Haines Frontenac House Poetry (2024) The title of Rayanne Haines’ fourth book of poetry asks one of many

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · May 9

“Your prayers, oh Passer by!”

Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · May 9

A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!

—Emily Dickinson

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · May 8

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · May 8

Make my son and his friends go viral and find sponsorship @acteryx.bsky.social @patagonia.com @Petzl

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Rappelling Commonwealth Couloir with skis on our backs

YouTube video by Nate Yauck

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · May 4

@D.D.Jackson @YoonSunChoi @GeorgeKoller and @larnelllewismusic.bsky.social made my poem sing!! This is awesome! Thanks, Music Friends! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJZi...

D.D. Jackson Quartet (feat. Yoon Choi): "SO, SAY I" [music by D.D.; lyrics by Micheline Maylor]

YouTube video by D.D. Jackson

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Apr 30

New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. @JonathanGreenbaum reviews @JanEverard’s Blue Runaways. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ja...

Review of Jann Everard's "Blue Runaways" | FreeFall Magazine

By Jonathan Greenbaum Blue Runaways: Stories by Jann Everard Stonehewer Books (2024) Those of us who read the CanLit magazines know that emerging writers

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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · Apr 22

Day 21 is Susan Musgrave’s really beautiful book of poems, Exculpatory Lilies. Musgrave’s work is stunning…as always. Here are a few of my favourites from this collection.

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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social · Apr 22

Love, love!!!