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Chantel Renee Daniels
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Read an article about congenital blindness as a protective factor against schizophrenia, which made me think about all of the terrible news we see every day and its impact on our brains, so I wrote a poem about it.

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For Good, and Kind by Chantel Daniels according to science that I’m definitely dumbing down people born without sight are never found to develop schizophrenia scientists don't know for sure but suggest brain changes alter sensory processing potentially strengthening executive function and prediction mechanisms as a poet with a social science degree my predictions agree - the executive functions are indeed contributory and by executive functions I’m speaking partly, of course about the orange despot and his icy hench-force perhaps those without sight are spared some of the damage that chips at our souls when we witness the ravage that those of his ilk reap onto others - would the calls for their mothers hit nearly as hard if you couldn’t see the breathless black man, Renee’s SUV or the tiny remains of a toddler refugee? nah, friend, I’m just taking creative liberty trying to find something poetic when in reality the ones who can’t see aren’t protected it’s the ones who won’t see humanity we’ve elected but I didn’t vote for him! you protest I didn’t fan the flames of unrest… - save it - as a Canadian and a woman to boot I can tell you for sure that your ballot is moot we all know it didn’t start with Ross’s decision to shoot it started when you laughed at the world’s meanest joke it started when you called it bad to be woke it started on the elementary school bus you were all awake that day but made zero fuss when a bully eighth grader made a little kid cry this started with not defending the defenseless little guy when you don’t believe women when you won’t call him, he when you won’t legislate their love just where they can pee fuck your votes fuck your violence fuck your aggressive passivity fuck your refusal to understand that it’s not the blind who don’t see it’s you and it’s him those supporting the hate so smug they’ll avoid a similar fate but it’s not just all us woke fucks who’ll suffer the freedom you revere’s a temporary buffer because eventually they’ll come for the rest of you, too do you want us to help or just admire the view? in closing I’ll repeat - I’m no scientist but I think that I’ve got the congenital gist the damage is caused not by what we see or don’t see the executive dysfunction’s a failure to be kind (why can’t you just be kind)
January 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Happy New Year 🎊❤️☺️

A Poem for 2024 That I Didn’t Finish Until New Year’s Eve 2025 by Chantel Daniels

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A Poem for 2024 That I Didn’t Finish Until New Year’s Eve 2025 by Chantel Daniels I start out on a ladder and on roller skates I go from grey to white to black tear down then start to build back up and go to Ikea with my siblings in February I start dancing visiting little free libraries think about making my own, never do it because I get caught up in poetry, picture frames, on poles then pause in April for a solar eclipse pause again in June to wait for the darkness to pass so we can finally take off our sunglasses then the soft autumn light becomes the perfect backdrop for hearing an idol's voice as the leaves fall and the wind chills my hands, making them let go of what makes me stronger but might kill me making me turn back to the ladder and think about building, again which I do daily, weekly and monthly until another whole year has passed and I’m another year older now four years sober new worries, more poetry same skates saying goodbye to 2025 and getting back on the ladder because I know what happens if I build it in 2026
January 4, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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THIS THURSDAY, AUGUST 14: POETRY Open Mic @Dreams of Beans in Peterborough, ON

A chance to read old work, new work, or in progress stuff! Prep for slamming, or just read for the joy/catharsis of it!!

$5 or PWYC ❤️

7:00 PM sign up
7:30 PM event starts

Artwork by Sean Daniels ❤️

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August 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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@scribeworth.bsky.social published two poems from my WIP collection (funded by an @ontarioarts.bsky.social Recommender Grant, recommended by @latitude46pub.bsky.social)

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August 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I received an Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for 2025!! Huge thank you to @latitude46pub.bsky.social for the vote of confidence in my current project!! 🖤⭐

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April 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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This month's "Remember Why You Wrote It!" Poetry Open Mic is next week, Thursday April 10th - sign up at 7, event starts at 7:30!

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Poster for "Remember Why You Wrote It!" Monthly Poetry Open Mic series in Peterborough, ON, Canada - upcoming event is April 10th at 7:30 PM (sign up at 7)
April 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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While I didn't make the @pulpliterature.bsky.social Kingfisher Poetry Prize shortlist, I'm still thrilled to have had my own work listed alongside the talented writers who progressed to the next stage. My longlisted poem below is part of my second collection (unpublished and looking for a home).
Metaphor by Chantel Daniels if you think about it long enough everything’s a metaphor for anxiety consider a Magic Eye picture (circa 1993) assume the stance, squint theatrically find the hidden image eventually anyone can do it everyone but me and if that isn't an analogy for a lack of perspective then I don't know what else it could be because what is anxiety if not being able to see something objectively so regardless of how often I’m told it’s an elephant, an Xmas tree all I see is a graphic mess spelling D-O-O-M for me
December 9, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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So excited that I made the @pulpliterature.bsky.social Kingfisher Poetry Prize longlist!!

Official announcement here: pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...

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December 3, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Super jazzed to be published today by the The League of Canadian Poets 😁😁😁

Thanks very much for the opportunity ❤️

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Super jazzed to be published today by the The League of Canadian Poets 😁😁😁 Thanks very much for the opportunity ❤️ #poem #poetry #author #writer #poetrycommunity "Zuckerberg's Eulogy" by Chantel Daniels I won’t know it when my father dies there will be no tearful plea to come wait by his bedside for a final breath or deathbed contrition no legacy passed on to his oldest there will be secondhand information an aunt will reach out or a cousin will post something on social media it will be comprised of possibly sincere but entirely undeserved platitudes everyone’s better in death but I think the bar is very low there’ll be a handful of relatives I don’t know posting condolences about “gods' hands” and “angels” trite one liners RIP Randy I know that’s how it will happen because the algorithm keeps telling me he’s "Someone You May Know"
November 22, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Fuck it 😎❤️
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This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 17, 2024 at 2:39 AM