Reminding all HRM residents about the Poet Laureate Mental Health Poem Project! As per the lovely poster created by @elliottgish.bsky.social, the submission deadline is February 28, 2026. Please spread the word! @hfxgov.bsky.social @lindsayanncory.bsky.social

I'll be at St. Georges Round Church community hall selling novels and poetry today. I'll also be missing the Atlantis Conference which sounds amazing. So if holiday craft markets are not your speed maybe a feminist publishing conference is? www.msvu.ca/research-at-...

November 23, 2025

Hey! I'll be selling my novels and poetry (including a new single poem folded zine of "Peace Dog") here Saturday alongside my friend Sheila who will have paintings and other crafts for sale! happeningnext.com/event/st-geo...

Sometimes I feel like I don't know anyone. I've met you 20 times but can't remember your name, people whose names I know well I can't recognize. I don't know if there's some protection in this. There's definitely embarrassment and feeling unmoored, and bewilderment.

I've got to go to bed Or I'm going to lose my head I've got to close my eyes So my thoughts will carmelize I've got to go to sleep To shear my countless sheep I've got to fall into a dream So life will turn to clotted cream I've got to play at being dead The best stage for it is my bed.

Yes, tomorrow! Opaat Press Second anniversary poetry bash, 2 to 4 pm! Central Library.

My headspace is not my own. Which is the same as saying my life is not my own. But at the moment this is my choice. So I guess that's something.

Come hang out with us at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social on December 22 for some seasonal scary stories!

What hurts my back, costs a lot of spare change, and makes me swear like an enraged sailor? Trying to photocopy a zine at the library. Sorry library lady.

Also today at the Brian Hennen Meoral Lecture... an inclusive choir sang this song by the White Stripes. A favorite. youtu.be/PKfD8d3XJok?...

Wonderful concert "Resonance" tonight by the Camerata Singers and guests Galileo Chamber Choir. Also, the launch of inhale/exhale, an album of choral music by Canadian composers. My poem Love is featured as the text of the last piece on the album, by composer Ben Sigerson. I can't wait to listen!

Concerts - Halifax Camerata Singers share.google/I2NQ0ltYw2Jk...

Tonight at Paul O Regan Hall, such a fascinating look back at the history of art spaces in Halifax... and a bleak view of the present and future. Art needs a home too.

the wind around my bedroom window today and for the past few days has sounded like the wind that howls around the NS Hospital. Not a healing feature of that place.

Join the municipality's Poet Laureate, Anna Quon & former Youth Poet Laureate, Asiah Sparks for a writing workshop for Black Nova Scotians aged 16+. Nov 20 | 7-9 p.m. This evening of writing, reflection & healing through poetry will be hosted virtually by the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute.

Walked on the waterfront with dad today. A glorious day for it. We didn't get there all summer for a number of reasons and today i forgot to take photos. So just imagine a tiny 93 year old sitting facing the sun with his sunglasses on soaking it all in...

Sometimes I think I must be done. My brain feels arid as a desert. Hoping this isn't an end, but if it is it's the whimper variety.

Heart full of sads. Sometimes a good thing is still a sad thing.

Dad's favourite tree in the Public Gardens. #WeepingEuropeanBeech

this should be a lot of fun! November 22, from 2-4 pm. Come here Opaat Press poets read their work! Halifax Central Library

Virtual mental health poetry workshop for Black Nova Scotians aged 16+! November 20, 2005 from 7 to 9 p.m. Free to register at forms.office.com/r/ZJWttLgsJj

What I have learned helping someone whose going into longterm care-- I have way too many things

Everything that used to mean something feels far away. Things that weren't an issue earlier this year suddenly are THE burning issue. It's stomach churning how quickly everything can change, personally and professionally and politically too though that's not what's eating me. It's the personal part.

ugh i reactivate my facebook account by mistake. thankfully i quickly figured out how to deactivate it... it gave me some creepy deja vu.

@harryagarrison.bsky.social welcome to this place!

Today didn't turn out the way I thought it would but either way I would have and did miss #booktoberfest. Hope all the writers, readers, publishers and booksellers had great time!

World Mental Health Day... because anyone who has a brain, needs a healthy mind too, to get through a day in this world.

If anyone who can pick it up would like this drawing in chalk pastel and oil pastel on brown paper, called Darkness Descending and made after the presidential election of 2016, let me know. it's pretty huge, bigger than 4 feet w x 3 1/2 feet high. I can't promise it but wondering who might like it.

Poems are taking their time. It's theirs to take. A poem is not a curling stone that you have to hurry hard. But when it hits the mark, after however long, you'll know it. #poetry #takeyourtime #isnotcurling

"They keened like witches and cut the stars in half." #TodaysPoem #poetry Seagulls at the University by @annaquon.bsky.social (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...

This will be fun! writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

#caregiving The Invisible Woman by Laura MacGregor | CBC Books www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

i often forget to use hashtags so here goes #hashtag #forgetful #habit #uptooearly #iusedahashtagandalligotwasthislousypost

Great opportunity for HRM Youth aged 14 to 18! #youthpoetlaureate #halifax #poetry The Halifax Regional Municipality is inviting residents to apply for the Youth Poet Laureate Program. For more information, visit the HRM website.

writers.ns.ca/events/opaat... #poetry #opaatpress

Just a reminder that I'm still collecting stories and poems for the Poet Laureate Mental Health Poem Project! For more information contact me at [email protected].

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Today, as the Israeli government “calls on tens of thousands of reservists to participate in the cruel re-occupation of Gaza City, I implore my fellow soldiers: Refuse to report,” Yotam Vilk writes in a guest essay.

What is this thing, displayed at the Museum of Modern Art? Can you guess? Read the notes in ALT to find out.

This promises to be an exceptional evening of poetry! The Songs We Make From Blood & Bone: An Evening of Words & Music About Family | Events | Halifax Public Libraries share.google/Hyf6esIaBkEX...

Mopped the floor on what promises to be the hottest day of the year. That might be about all I get done today. Besides mopping my sweat.

Good morning. Illustrating this piece's points, a thread: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hoping to get there, @thisisannick.bsky.social and @hollay.bsky.social! tridenthalifax.ca/event/book-l...

www.lunenburgdocfest.com/industry/the... check out this doc film pitch competition! winning it in 2022 gave me the support I needed to make my film Me and My Teeth. Wonderful opportunity for emerging filmmakers!

www.lunenburgdocfest.com/industry/doc... Deadline tomorrow for Emerging IBPOC filmmakers in Atlantic Canada!

When I have to explain what I'm trying to do with a poem, I know I haven't done it. So that means, try again.

Goodbye science goodbye arts Goodbye minds, good by hearts Goodbye museums, goodbye parks Goodbye schools, it's all gone dark. Goodbye water goodbye air Goodbye farmers goodbye heatlthcare Goodbye justice goodbye equality Goodbye peace goodbye democracy.

Pain, suck my teeth. Not even that bad a pain, but persistent and hobbling. Hoping it's nothing ice can't help.

Someone I know who ran into me on the bus asked me to help her write the story of her life. I know she doesn't realize how much time and energy goes into creating a book, because who does except someone who has written a book? I'm sure she has quite a story.. but needs to save my energy for living.

TQ made at #wonder'neath today. If only therapeutic quiet looked this fun.