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Susan Robertson

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · Jan 7

Gobsmacked, honoured and thrilled to have a Baseline chapbook coming in the spring.

Author photos of five people announcing the 2025 Baseline Press lineup. The authors are Susan Robertson, Dagne Forrest, Jasmine Gui, Salma Husain, and Steve McOrmond.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 6h

I'll be there!

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 8h

What an ordeal. I hope your pain is managed well until the problem can be resolved and you can catch up on your rest.

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 1d

BYWORDS.CA CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We publish a monthly online magazine of poetry.
Call for unpublished poetry by current and former Ottawa students, residents & workers. Max 250 words and 45 lines, 5 poems.
Deadline: 15th of each month for next issue.
Payment is $40.
E-mail poems as one doc, docx or rtf file to submissions@bywords.ca
NO PDFS PLEASE or Google Docs please.
More info: amanda@bywords.ca or visit Bywords.ca and click on guidelines.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing piece, Nancy. Hugs.

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 2d

Read this astonishing work!

Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social · 2d

A new flash up at @American Literary Review and the timing couldnt be better/weirder, as it is the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death from melanoma. I miss her. americanliteraryreview.com/2025/10/02/c...

"Contrafabula" by Nancy Huggett

My mother didn’t end up in the hospital with an unknown diagnosis that quickly turned to cancer. The doctor didn’t draw black blood. The moon was not full, never full, never traced an amber arc in the...

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 3d

It's wonderful!

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 3d

For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's #smallpoemsunday one from @roblucastaylor.bsky.social 's Weather.

A three line poem that reads

screen door--
one hundred sunrises
in the baby's palm

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 6d

Join Poetry@Tech for a Virtual Poetry Craft Talk with Rick Barot: Lavish Syntax. Oct. 25, 2pm ET/11am PT. Register here: gatech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Poetry@Tech Rick Barot Virtual Craft Talk on Syntax. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for Poetry@Tech's poetry craft talk with Rick Barot Lavish Syntax The problem at the heart of writing a poem is the problem of dramatization. That is, how do we dramatize in language—a very limited means—the dynamics of thought, sensation,

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 14d

A brilliant reading!

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 16d

Thrilled to have the opportunity to hear you read!

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 17d

Yay!!

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 17d

That's recommendation enough for me. I just put in a hold request at the library.

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 18d

I love all the colours in this week's quotes!

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations!!! 🥳🎉🥳

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 20d

Yay!!

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 21d

Best unboxing video ever. And damn, Margo, Ajar is incredible! Six poems in and I'm in awe.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 22d

It's not fall without the Small Press Book Fair!

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 22d

coming up November 22nd: the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @razovsky.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social ;
smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fair autumn 2025 : will be held on Satur...

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 22d

Fingers crossed it continues.

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 23d

Wonderful, Nancy,!

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 24d

You're welcome. I love it when someone loves a poem as much as I do.

Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 24d

One of my favourites by Jean Valentine #smallpoemsunday

The image of a poem by Jean Valentine that reads

Mare and Newborn Foal

When you die
there will be bales of hay
heaped high in space
mean while
with my tongue
I draw the black straw
out of you
mean while
with your tongue
you draw the black straw out of me

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 24d

I can't wait to read this book.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · Aug 27

Come help Dagne Forrest and me celebrate our Baseline Press chapbooks along with special guest @nancyhuggett.bsky.social. Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa.

A poster announcing a Baseline Press chapbook launch on Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa. The top third of the poster contains the location and time information in white letters against a teal field. The bottom third contains headshots of the authors arranged in horizontal row: Dagne Forrest first, then guest reader Nancy Huggett, and Susan Robertson. The authors’ names are printed above their photos.

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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · 29d

In Ottawa November 14!

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 29d

i made a new record & in november we're going on a tour to play it. grateful to boyhood & zoon for support & @youvechanged.bsky.social

list of tour dates over a figure with a rest fist and "no god mo boss no husband no state" on their back.