A list of books to read curated by MER - Mom Egg Review, includes @tcgreenwood.bsky.social The Winged & The Horned! Many other interesting finds on here, but so delighted that Tammy has a book out in the world. One for your bookshelves people! merliterary.com/2026/06/18/m...

Last day of National Caregivers Awareness Month here in Canada & I leave with Ellen Bass, one of my favourite poets & teachers. This: for you, for all of us.

Almost the end of National Caregiver Awareness Month (in Canada) with this poem by @brettwarren23.bsky.social , who writes exquisitely about loss of all kinds (species, family, friends). This is from her first book Map of Unseen Things (Pine Row Press).

Today a poem by @leilachatti.bsky.social from her collection Deluge, a powerful drowning and reckoning with body and faith (in all the ways they work and betray). In this poem, a partner's tenderness and care gently shift the landscape.

Timing is everything! Yesterday’s mail brought the latest issue of one of my dream lit mags— @arcpoetry.bsky.social and inside, a poem by me!!! Thank you Arc (for also supporting my writing with a recommender grant through @ontarioarts.bsky.social), thank you all carers. More exciting news to come.

@oliverdelapaz.bsky.social's stunning collection, The Boy in the Labyrinth, is a deep grappling with trying to know the people one loves without pinning them to a false wall. This brilliant poem uses a (oh too familiar to many of us!) screening questionnaire as its container.

Final push week for National Caregivers Awareness Month (here in Canada). Today I offer a poem that has so much tender care in it I want to keep walking with this daughter and her father. This is from Suzanne Nussey’s book, Slow Walk Home. www.saintjulianpress.org/slow-walk-home

Supporting and providing care for an adult who is also your child can be incredibly complex and confusing. There are some amazing writers who delve into this area with honesty and tenderness. @conniepostpoet.bsky.social is one of those writers.

So much art that has arisen out of caregiving, a kind of grappling with and attention to being present in care and community--loss, laughter, fracture, finding, connection. See Amanda Ross-Ho, visual artist (introduced to me through Courtney Martin) channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/1978/m...

National Caregiver Month in Canada and I have so many poems and words I still want to share with you! Lauren Camp's book, Is Is Enough is a tender, astute witnessing of what it is to accompany a parent with dementia, captured so brilliantly with Lauren’s incredible language, syntax, images.

National Caregivers Month in Canada, bonus weekend poem from @nickolebrown.bsky.social . A lesson in how to do it anyways and always to all the beings (trees, rocks, donkeys, goats, humans), how to dive into the muck of it. Because it is mucky. See the full poem at poets.org/poem/against...

From The Widow’s Crayon Box by Molly Peacock, a sequence of poems that explores caring for a beloved through end of life and after with humour, honesty, and incredible craft (there is a heroic crown of sonnets based on an 1883 book called Notes From Sick Rooms!).

An ache of a piece (about caregiving, medication, you know!) by @writesloud.bsky.social , xraylitmag.com/swallow-by-h... an amazingly offbeat yet tender writer, teacher, advocate, and caregiver. She has a book of flash prose out called First Kicking, Then Not. hgrieco.com Also look for her classes!

Hold the date for caring for the planet. Wednesday May 13, 1pm est. Join the global edition of reading work from The Nature of Our Times. Link to reading and more information here www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/.../ecopoetr....

Today, to honour National Caregivers Month in Canada, a poem by @janezwart.bsky.social honouring all the ways we are cared for by people who become close for just a brief moment. This is from Jane's first book--Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best. www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

Bonus care poem, because we're inclusive and a little bit wild over here. This shift of a poem by @nancyland.bsky.social from her book Inconsolable Objects www.yesyesbooks.com/product.../i.... #NationalCaregiverMonth #caregiversupport #rewilding #caregiverlife

Sometimes there is a moment in caretaking where the shift in roles catches you off guard. This is just such a moment, captured so tenderly by the amazing James Crews, who has led so many of us into care & resilience through poetry. www.jamescrews.net/books

In 2025, @lauramacgregor.bsky.social won the CBC Nonfiction Prize with “The Invisible Woman,” drawing attention to the labour and love of all caregivers who sacrifice to ensure a family member thrives." www.cbc.books/literarypriz... #caregiversupport #caregivers #NationalCaregiverMonth

This poem ! by Marda Messick www.christiancentury.org/poetry/als-h... for National Caregivers Awareness Month. For all the caregivers caring for partners, for the dissociation that sometimes lets us continue. mardamessick.com

May is Caregiver Awareness Month in Canada. There are so many poets and ‘prosers’ who have written achingly and lovingly about caregiving, whose words have held me, yelled for me, and tended me. I want to share some of that work with you. First, @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social poets.org/poem/prepari...

Stunning (& smart!) book mail from the incredible @knifeforkbook. Jim Johnstone’s new work (An Eye for an Eye), which you need a wee key to unlock (google Theseus’s boat), Michael Prior, and the always thoughtful & beautiful words of Sadiqa de Meijer.

The Nature of Our Times poetry reading with some fantastic poets including moi & @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social May 13. Link to register www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/events-and-p...

“mostly it was dust neither of us wanted to take a broom to.” This poem! By @moritherapy.bsky.social

This! Just up thanks to an invite from @robmclennan.bsky.social . Photo for fun! Part of a manuscript I am working on thanks to support from an Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant & Palimpsest Books.

For Better or For Worse--a new poem of mine, from a prompt in a class with @joankwonglass.bsky.social , up with @pinholepoetry.bsky.social 's newest anniversary issue filled with stunning poems about place, and incredible pinhole camera images. pinholepoetry.ca/19333-2/

For Palm Sunday... just the BEST!

Just up with @stonecirclereview.bsky.social , an online lit mag I have long admired. Thanks to EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social and all the other poets who have led me here . . .

Interview with Michael from Guernica. This has been open a while. (Finally reading it.) www.hollayghadery.ca/blog/u58f2qx...

So psyched to have been awarded support through the @Ontario Arts Council recommender grant program (thank you @palimpsestpress.bsky.social !) to keep working with The Tamaracks! Thanks you Government of Ontario for supporting the arts & artists.

Amazing workshop opportunity with Rayya Liebich (amazing teacher, writer, mourner, human) www.alisonwearing.com/writing-thro...

Sage is an amazing teacher! If you're free March 23 for a wee three hours, this will be a sure-fire push!

Did I not share this? My friend Hilary Fair's most amazing writing, on the go. My dysfunctions require just a human body open.substack.com/pub/hilaryfa...

Stunning new work by the wild and wonderful @Dion O'Reilly: Ecology of Fear voxpopulisphere.com/2026/02/25/d...

Six Voltas

Unaware of this writer, and now (thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social ) MUST READ!

Two new poems up @oneart.bsky.social --a first (Lunar New Year) and a last (My First Last). Thanks @markdanowsky.bsky.social ! oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/17/t...

Wow! So needed!

Wish I could go... but all of you can go for me!!

Love this portrait of a woman. Write a poem, someone says. And then @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social writes this and, well, feeling seen!

Delighted to be in the re-launch of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social thanks to @jamesdiaz.bsky.social & all the other poets, like @lynntait.bsky.social , @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social , @amorak.bsky.social @meganmerchant.bsky.social and others! heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...

@sagetyrtle.bsky.social is one of my favourite writer/teacher/community builder people. Plus, Sage makes great clothes!

Go read! Then be prepared to buy!!

What @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social said. And also, for all of you blown away (like I was) by @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Appalachian poems, you can order Lightening is a Mother here: elj-editions.com/lighting-is-...

Tonight! Poetry reading, online: Motherhood, Faith & Caregiving with myself (Nancy Huggett), Bethany Jarmul, & Jessica Whipple. Sunday January 11, 7:00pm EST & FREE! Preregistration required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Would love to have you join us!

This Sunday! Motherhood, Faith & Caregiving poetry reading with moi, @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social & @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So delighted and honoured to be nominated for a Pushcart for this triptych! Here are links forgelitmag.com/2025/06/16/w... forgelitmag.com/2025/11/10/q... forgelitmag.com/2025/02/24/t... and of course there are the poems they nominated as well!

Otters, oh! otters! More beauty from @orionmagazine.bsky.social

Poetry reading, online: Motherhood, Faith & Caregiving with myself (Nancy Huggett), @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social , & @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social . Sunday January 11, 7:30pm EST & FREE! Preregistration required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Would love to have you join us!

Oh Alice!

Gobsmacked & oh so grateful to the village that made this! @fiddlehd.bsky.social (obviously), @lorri.bsky.social , @hollay.bsky.social , Rayya Liebich, Jen Robinson, Hilary Fair, Sarah Pittoello (my Kairos writers group), and of course, my daughter-the maker of all my days. Also, go read Marzipan!