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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 1h

"this is one way to learn/the poverty of acceptance around us"

from Francine Diodati's poem, "Fragile X Syndrome," in our Sept/Oct issue:

Fragile X Syndrome

They call it delayed, fragile chromo- somes that string you together perfectly—they make my freckles shift on the shirt of my being: genetic ...

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Ariel Gordon @ariel-gordon.bsky.social · 17h

So my first FREE workshop at WPL has been announced: October 25 at the Windsor Park Library! Share/Sign up, friends!
@wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 17h

The Devoted Friend
Jeff Dillon
2021

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 22h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=24JO...

The Bros. Landreth • Nothing (Acoustic)

YouTube video by The Bros. Landreth

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 2d

#TodaysPoem (s)

One day the earth will shudder.
Savour what does not fall.

www.lornedaniel.ca/poems

Poems | Lorne Daniel

Selected poems by Lorne Daniel. New collection of poetry coming in 2025.

www.lornedaniel.ca

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On Creative Writing @oncreativewriting.bsky.social · 2d

On today's CBC's The Next Chapter, host Antonio Michael Downing talks with author and creative writing professor Robert J. Wiersema, who recommends three books to make you a better writer.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-67-the-next-chapter/clip/16173454-want-better-writer-read-books

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 3d

"The only thing growing taller, growing greener,
than your memory of being a forest is the awareness you will be a forest again."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Forest by @paulvermeersch.bsky.social in NMLCT (2025 @ecwpress.bsky.social) ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

The poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press) is perched on a tree branch, with morning light showing through the leaves.

Handwritten transcription of part of the poem "The Forest" from the poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 3d

I just learned that a distant ancestor previously unknown to me was the inspiration for the character Ma Kettle in Betty MacDonald's semi-fictional memoir, the Egg and I. Ma and Pa Kettle, the film series, followed. And this gives me a reason to smile.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Along the Coastal Shores of the Salish Seas Traditional Native Territories
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ~ Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish, Syilx
2023

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 4d

#TodaysPoem
#SundaySentence

It must be beautiful to be a temporary thing,
as beautiful as it is to last and never fade.

~Luke Sawczak
contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry/the-m...

The moon – Contemporary Verse 2

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

UK photographer Shirley Baker, Hulme, Manchester, 1965 #WomensArt #Monday

Photograph of a 1960s British street in which two small white girls in dresses play, one swings from a lampost on a homemade swing using rope while the other watches

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 5d

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#TodaysPoem

night drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend

~Manny Loley

star poem

night drapes stars emit light around the north star-fire stars journey in their wake stories extend Translated from the Diné by the author

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 5d

I can't help smiling when I play You are my Sunshine on guitar on an October day that feels like summer and I hear tiny song birds sing through the open screen door.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 5d

#TodaysPoem

his own mad beauty  
as it met her smile 
that look that bright  
that eye she gave.

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Poet Heid E. Erdrich Responds to a Portrait by Amedeo Modigliani | National Gallery of Art

The educator, curator, interdisciplinary artist, and guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani's "Roma Woman with Baby"

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 6d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay

Early morning robin in the rain hangs out beside the grapevines trellised by the chain-link fence and then bobs away out of sight. Winter is coming. Will she stay?

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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 7d

Ten years ago today, the leaves and needles in an old birdbath after a rain. #October The same thing is going on today. Leaves, rain, birdbath. #time

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 7d

Heartbroken to hear that Jane Goodall has returned her borrowed stardust to the universe. Her moving letter about how reading shaped her life: www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/31/j...

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 7d

A Lascaux horse, a quilted line
#sashiko #paleolithicart #lascaux #indigo

Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 8d

On the last day of September, I wrote about lines -- where they take us.
theresakishkan.com/2025/09/30/i...

Ochre red and yellow horse on cave wall with dotted line below it.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 7d

#TodaysPoem

"the promise of a stillness, which is more like hovering,
the way a hummingbird hovers"

~Seni Seneviratne
poetryarchive.org/poem/the-hab...

The Habit of Hope - Poetry Archive

Though it’s sometimes nurtured by the naming of birds, mine’s not “a thing with feather’s”, but more like measured footfall on a slow walk to the hide, the moon a crescent in morning sky, putting on...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 8d

We are Still Here
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2021

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paulseesequasis @paulseesequasis.bsky.social · 9d

Girls of St. Michael’s Residential School in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan in 1931 (as researched by my late auntie Ruth Seesequasis): ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow (My Kokum), 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy…

The 1931 girls of St. Michaels Residential School in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, in a group photo and named.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 8d

Prayers for Our Lost Children
Loretta Gould ~ Mi'kmaq
2021

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Ef Eh @effeh.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to receive & review @davidarobertson.bsky.social ‘s new book #LittleShoes Another tool to help primary #children understand the #Truth about #ResidentialSchools Thanks to @librarything.com #EarlyReviewers #Indigenous #earlychidhoodeducation #Reconciliation

Blue book with star cover featuring cartoon gran / Kōkum, child and mother in front of residential school memorial of small shoes and candles

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 9d

The Runaways
Jim Logan ~ Métis
n.d.

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Carol Brisebois @carolbrisebois.bsky.social · 9d

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
#poetry #teaandbannockstories

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