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poetry, pottery, publishing
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Terese Mason Pierre
14 days ago
Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
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summer farah
about 1 month ago
I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by
@sannawani.bsky.social
at
@ex-puritan.bsky.social
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"THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING"
Read Summer Farah's poems "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" in The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
https://ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-are-calling
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The Ex-Puritan
about 1 month ago
"Poets love birds." So says
@sannawani.bsky.social
's editor's note ("Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note") for our 2025 special issue, Animalia. Did the poets (and the fiction writers and essayists) prove her right? Find out now— the issue is live:
ex-puritan.ca/animalia
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Read A Little Poetry
about 2 months ago
Today’s poem is selected by Sanna Wani (
@sannawani.bsky.social
) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “This Isn't The Life” appeared in The Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful, published by McClelland & Stewart, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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The Ex-Puritan
about 2 months ago
The Ex-Puritan is proud to introduce our new Poetry Editor, Sanna Wani (
@sannawani.bsky.social
)! Sanna Wani is a Kashmiri writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022), winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry.
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David Naimon
about 2 months ago
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Poet Talk about Trees featuring
@farahghafoor.bsky.social
! Tune in for talk about trees, snails, time and more. Available where you listen to podcasts:
poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...
2 months ago
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This Magazine
2 months ago
"Did she strive toward success, the way any artist does, only to accidentally strive too far, primed by her personal privilege and positionality?" asks
@sannawani.bsky.social
in this thought-provoking piece about Chappell Roan, fame, race, and gender.
this.org/2024/12/10/s...
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Star power
My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...
https://this.org/2024/12/10/star-power/
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summer farah
3 months ago
DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES FOR THE HUNGERING YEARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ INTERVIEWERS/REVIEWERS/BOOKFLUENCERS/BOOKSELLERS/ETC. PLEASE READ MY POETRY BOOK
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Tom Snarsky
4 months ago
You gave me your heart Laura Gilpin
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The Ex-Puritan
4 months ago
"The protagonists shift but maintain an integrity of voice: elegant, incisive, dry, witty." –
@sannawani.bsky.social
reviews
@shashibhat.bsky.social
's Death by a Thousand Cuts:
ex-puritan.ca/futility-and...
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Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
Read Sanna Wani's review “Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
https://ex-puritan.ca/futility-and-betrayal-in-shashi-bhats-death-by-a-thousand-cuts
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The Ex-Puritan
4 months ago
The Ex-Puritan SPECIAL ISSUE Submission Call: Animalia, guest edited by Sanna Wani (
@sannawani.bsky.social
)!
ex-puritan.ca/news/call-fo...
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Call for Submissions: Animalia
We are so pleased to announce this year's Special Issue: Animalia, guest-edited by Sanna Wani!
https://ex-puritan.ca/news/call-for-submissions-animalia
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Tom Snarsky
4 months ago
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This Magazine
6 months ago
This is the first Pride Month 🏳️🌈 we're celebrating on Bluesky, so we *have* to share this excellent story from our Winter 2024 issue here.
@sannawani.bsky.social
discusses white privilege, the pressure of fame, and Chappell Roan—and we're still so obsessed with this article!
this.org/2024/12/10/s...
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Star power
My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...
https://this.org/2024/12/10/star-power/
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stuart
6 months ago
this is what they (the normans) took from you
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I am loving Remedios Varo paintings lately (as always) — on the left, Born Again / on the right, Star Maker
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Tom Snarsky
6 months ago
my cats. my mom. rachel tanner atchley (
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PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
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Domenica Martinello
7 months ago
People who talk during movies named #1 worst audience members by people who record concerts on their phones
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Latest Poet Talk episode out now! Featuring the one and only, Diana Khoi Nguyen. We talk about swimming, speaking, silence, sinking...and lots more. Listen now:
poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...
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Vicki Ziegler
7 months ago
"There are so many ways we can give ourselves to time. There is only so much of us passing through."
#TodaysPoem
#poetry
from spring by
@sannawani.bsky.social
from My Grief, the Sun (2022
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
)
tinyurl.com/4ajjhuu2
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Farah 🌿
7 months ago
we're almost at capacity! rvsp soon via
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#torontolitup
ft
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Furqan Mohamed at Queen Books 🌞 grateful to @festofauthors @torontoartscouncil
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g
7 months ago
Happy
#NationalPoetryMonth
day 13 c/o
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Terese Mason Pierre
7 months ago
I did a makeup
#booklook
for my debut poetry collection, "Myth"! Part of the reason I chose this cover was because of all the colours! 🥰
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Farah 🌿
9 months ago
thank you @sannawani for this splendid blurb! Her beautiful collection My Grief, the Sun won the 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
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rereading my untouched poetry manuscript after 11 months like damn...this is kind of good...
9 months ago
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Burgi Zenhaeusern
9 months ago
The very slow steps toward you are not what my feet do. A poem for today by
@sannawani.bsky.social
from her collection My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi Press, 2022). 🥰🥰🥰 To love. Be well, you all!
#poetry
#valentine
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Grobian Syboe
10 months ago
Seeing an ipad baby - no, this is not good Seeing a cat watching the television - incredible, you are like a little man
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Three poems up in Seventh Wave’s Community Anthology today~ Here’s 1/3.
theseventhwave.org/publication/...
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"personal" "essay" "collection" more like stop I need protection! (from myself ❤️)
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What is it about a second poetry collection that makes one want to take 10 years to write and/or publish it…asking for a friend
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colour and texture!
#pottery
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Normalize giving your own book a 3.5 star rating
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Tom Snarsky
10 months ago
Molly Brodak
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Going to Brooklyn for a weekend IS a new personality trait
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Laura Kerr
10 months ago
a poem effortlessly suspended mid-air BILLOWING
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Tom Snarsky
11 months ago
it’s good to be so clear for once Eileen Myles
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Can someone explain why my dog is sleeping like she pays the bills
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Terese Mason Pierre
11 months ago
This spring, on April 1st,
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth! It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾♀️👽🌙 Preorders are open! Please share if you can!
houseofanansi.com/products/myt...
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Myth
Myth, the much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre, weaves between worlds (‘real’ and ‘imaginary’) unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to...
https://houseofanansi.com/products/myth?srsltid=AfmBOorXU--af6DZBOkt1OZQmWcLZbDds1v3eHgh8hFivdSCO5gGSfJL
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Arc Poetry Magazine
11 months ago
Check out the great podcast "Poet Talk"! Their latest episode includes an ad for Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, which has an Early Bird Deadline (submit three poems for the price of two) that ends tomorrow. More details on the contest here:
arcpoetry.ca/contest/poem...
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In the last episode of 2024, Jody and I do a close reading of “God is an American” by Terrance Hayes. Also featuring the wisdom of Audre Lorde,
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and many others. Tune in:
linktr.ee/poettalk
@arcpoetry.bsky.social
11 months ago
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thank u everyone for playing my game. unfortuantely as soon as I posted it i logged off and forgot this app existed for 10 days
11 months ago
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Let’s play a game! What are you reading right now and why? I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by
@rickriordan.bsky.social
because I want to re-experience a childhood fav. I tag
@victoriambabazi.bsky.social
@manahil.bsky.social
and
@patrycjasara.bsky.social
. ❤️
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Domenica Martinello
11 months ago
Honestly I recommend the spiritual cleanse of not submitting any writing for an entire year. Forget your Submittable password. Grow out your hair. Make a cake from scratch. Escape naked into the forest. Be free.
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Sorry I’m not interested in “building” “an audience” I have to go outside and look at the sky
11 months ago
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The thing about not using Tw*tter for months/years is now I have nothing to say. I walk my dog and mind my business
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Hello BlueSky. This is my dog
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