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Sarah Wolfson
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Poet. Teaching Artist. A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). UmichWriters MFA. Montreal & Vermont. wordplay. cuttlefish. writing pedagogy. ferns.
www.sarahwolfsonwriter.com
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Grateful for this little Notable Poem nod in the back of Best Canadian Poetry 2026. And thanks to @arcpoetry.bsky.social for publishing “On Breaking,” one of my several midlife climate grief poems.
list of poets and poem titles at the back of an anthology
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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November field and alley report.
close-up of mud and bubbles under ice close-up of tangled frosted brown leaves
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Favourite Quebec micro-season:
Chalkboard sign that reads “bar à racines.” a big black plastic container of turnips and daikon
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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a short poem by Fanny Howe from her collection O’Clock
October 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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This morning I opened a rare older edition of a book of Robert Frost poems for young people. Tucked inside it was a temporary tattoo of a kale leaf. It’s going to be a good day.
a temporary tattoo image of a large, hearty green kale leaf
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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So fun reading poems on International Observe the Moon Night at Morgan Arboretum. Thanks to The Royal Astronomical Society’s Montreal branch, the Quebec Writers’ Federation, & Dark Sky Preserve for this literary/musical/astronomical collab. An honour to read with Joël Pourbaix of La poésie partout.
A woman with long brown hair and glasses standing at a microphone reading from paper — and wearing a green-grey blazer with a black top and black jeans. A PowerPoint slide showing details of the International Observe the Moon Night Event.
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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A good day so far.
Spines of poetry-related books bearing titles. Robert Bly’s Leaping Poetry (red spine, yellow and blue letters) and Fanny Howe’s O’Clock (green spine, white letters).
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Excited to play a small role in this sound, poetry, & astronomy collaboration. I’ll represent The Quebec Writers’ Federation at this bilingual International Observe the Moon Night event hosted by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Montreal. La poésie partout présentera le poète Joël Pourbaix.
September 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Kim Addonizio’s best volume yet (and they all knock it out of the ballpark). Each book gets more intense, more purposeful, more effortless, and more capacious than the last.
Cover of Kim Addonizio’s book Exit Opera, which features a dead songbird (yellow, blue, green, and white) and a yellow border on the bottom edge.
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Everything will break your heart these days. But some things sharpen all that everything into one thing.
September 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Extreme weekender diagonal bed use alert! 🚨
black-brown Cairn terrier lying diagonally in a tan dog bed
September 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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There’s the book bereavement issue: not being able to move on from a book. Then there’s the counterweight joy: one book pointing you fiercely at another. Ash Steps (Lane) to Exit Opera (Addonizio) feels like a great reading journey. Somewhat overlapping concerns, radically different poetic voices.
Spines of two poetry books: Ash Steps (Lane) and Exit Opera (Addonizio)
September 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Some kind of necropastoral extension of a Wallace Stevens jar situation?
A white plastic garden label sign with the word “Wild” written on it, the i in that word dotted with a heart — and all of this lying on stone-and-rain-flecked sidewalk pavement.
August 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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When you are M. Travis Lane, you almost need not write poems because your section titles are this good. But of course you do write them, 82 pages of them, and nearly all of them are this exacting and transformative (from Ash Steps, Cormorant Books, 2012).
A poetry book section title page that reads “A Firefly’s Pentecost.”
August 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Perhaps another situation where folk wisdom and local knowledge keepers could have been deferred to? ;)
screenshot of Montreal Gazette with an image that shows a blue sedan on a deeply pot-holed street and a headline that reads “Montreal auditor general finds roads suffered from poor maintenance.”
August 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I love them. Are they home or not at home? Are they here & now or quite bygone? Are they Muppet factory seconds? New prototypes?
live cicada, brown with wings tidily folded, sitting on grey pavement and facing the camera head on
August 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Last interlibrary loans of the summer just dropped.
title page of Kim Addonizio’s poetry volume Exit Opera (Norton) Spines of three poetry books: Exit Opera (Kim Addonizio); Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah (Michael Trussler); and Ash Steps (M. Travis Lane).
August 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Humanity develops predictable but avoidable condition after casting aside nature and humanity.
Screenshot of a Guardian headline that reads: “Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt.” Photo shows a phone screen with ChatGPT logo and a Caucasian thumb in scrolling position.
August 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Cottage Core Cairn
a black-brown Cairn terrier lying, head upright and eyes bright, on a red-covered sofa next to a rustic-patterned, Adirondack-style pillow
August 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This book is transformative. (Karen Solie, Wellwater, Anansi 2025)
The cover of Karen Solie’s poetry collection Wellwater. Pale pink and spare with an image of a flowering plant and its roots in the centre. The title and the author’s name in a simple, all-caps black font. An excerpt from the middle of the poem “Holiday at the Wave Pool.”
August 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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In more important Montreal arts news, NDG Arts Week is coming up soon!
Image of a Montreal Gazette headline that says: “Dunlevey: Justin Trudeau was all smiles at Katy Perry’s Montreal concert.” Below it is an image of the crowd of concert goers at the Bell Centre.
July 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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me and my (poetry) book project
The faces of the two “yip-yip” martian puppets from Sesame Street, one pink, one blue, both open-mouthed, googly-eyed, and with curvy antennae. The puppets are set against a galactic-patterned background. They look surprised, as they always do.
July 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Today’s marsh report:
A carpet of delicate light green covering shallow, marshy water. The shadows on leaves extend over some of the algae and marsh grasses border one side.
July 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Morning marsh report, two views
Black and white photo of dense-growth cattails in a marsh with a bit of sky and tree showing in the distance. Vibrant green photo of tiny light green algae dotted with small darker green lily pads all covering shallow water in a marsh
July 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Morning field report, two views.
Meadow grasses, many with seed tassels on top, viewed from the bottom of a small hill, such that their tassels seem to extend into the blue sky and touch some gentle, whispy clouds. A robust white Queen Anne’s Lace flower centred and in focus against a blurry backdrop of green field grasses flickered occasionally with a dash of blurry purple clover.
July 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM