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Author of The Other Life and The Long Defeat:
https://mosaicpress.ca/products/the-long-defeat
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"Patrick Connors brings another kind of range. His poems create a wider political field shaped by democracy, exclusion, violence, and endurance."
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Poetic Witness and the Ethics of Speech in “Where Words Defeat Bullets”
Katayoun Salmasi (Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) reviews Where Words Defeat Bullets: Poems for the Iranian People and Their 2026 Uprising (Asemana Books)
https://asemanamagazine.substack.com/p/poetic-witness-and-the-ethics-of?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1den1nmv5qr2b&fbclid=IwY2xjawRGTfFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF1UHZwZzk1NkNuTHBrY1Vkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsXAglnLzQMTPJwKfvIO0LABXlSorC_Ue8C1ubs0eBLBAIdalUohLNGJty_f_aem_4PhVMqFWqcabsBXEItKEyw
about 1 month ago
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riffsandripplesfromzenrivergardens.blogspot.com
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Riffs & Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens
https://riffsandripplesfromzenrivergardens.blogspot.com/
about 2 months ago
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Where Words Defeat Bullets
Published by Asemana Books (March 19, 2026) WHERE WORDS DEFEAT BULLETS An Anthology Poems for Iranian People and Their 2026 Uprising Compiled by Mansour Noorbakhsh Albert Moritz, Bruce Meyer, Susan…
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about 2 months ago
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The new WNBA CBA very much reflects the pay gap based on gender. The average salary jumps to 570K which is about what a two-way player in the NBA G-League makes. The best players will make $1.4M/yr, which is 127K more than the minimum salary in the NBA.
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about 2 months ago
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exclamationmarklit.com/issues/
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Boy, do I have issues!
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Issues - Exclamation Mark Literary Journal
Issues by Patrick Connors March 15, 2026 | Essay | Warned I open the blinds and let in a sky so smoggy I keep my reading lamp on even though it is well over an
https://exclamationmarklit.com/issues/
2 months ago
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"The Professor" by Patrick Connors - League of Canadian Poets
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "The Professor" by Patrick Connors, which first appeared in Poetry Pause in November 2020.
https://poets.ca/the-professor-by-patrick-connors/
2 months ago
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youtu.be/GSVHmeqPHnQ?si=x0RyFe9YqACW67F3
#WhereWordsDefeatBullets
Every ------ time!
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#Solidarity
#peace
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Where Words Defeat Bullets: A Poetry Reading in Solidarity with the Iranian Movement
YouTube video by Asemana Books
https://youtu.be/GSVHmeqPHnQ?si=x0RyFe9YqACW67F3
3 months ago
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#Sunday
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#WhereWordsMeetBullets
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3 months ago
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Three Poems by Patrick Connors
Patrick Connors is a widely published Canadian poet, author of Scarborough Songs and The Long Defeat, with recent work featured in Spadina Literary Review and performances at major literary events.
https://asemanamagazine.substack.com/p/three-poems-by-patrick-connors
3 months ago
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For those of you who like poetry and Zoom readings, here is the Zoom Link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/83374854308
For the rest of you, I got nuthin'.
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4 months ago
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New addition to this link:
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Patrick Connors’ Poetry
Patrick Connors’ Bio Patrick Connors first chapbook, Scarborough Songs, was released by Lyricalmyrical Press in 2013, and charted on the Toronto Poetry Map. Other publication credits inc…
https://christianlifetoday.co.uk/patrick-connors-poetry/
4 months ago
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agapereview.com/2025/12/25/b...
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Bethlehem
In his poem, “The Day of My Dad’s Memorial,” Patrick Connors remembers his late father.
https://agapereview.com/2025/12/25/bethlehem/
5 months ago
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www.americanpoet.org/2025/12/pat-...
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Pat Connors Poetry |Popular poet of modern Canada
Pat Connors Poetry |Popular poet of modern Canada
https://www.americanpoet.org/2025/12/pat-connors-poetry-popular-poet-of.html
5 months ago
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riffsandripplesfromzenrivergardens.blogspot.com/2025/12/prep...
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Preparation: new Pat Connors poem
https://riffsandripplesfromzenrivergardens.blogspot.com/2025/12/preparation-new-pat-connors-poem.html
5 months ago
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7 months ago
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Patrick Connors
Broken Kinstugi is a pottery technique using lacquer from an urushi tree mixed with gold powder to fix ceramic cups and bowls. With patient mastery, beloved objects are restored. We have all…
https://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/patrick-connors/
7 months ago
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Irving Layton, in a poetry writing workshop he taught at York University in 1973. This is from an email from one of his students, Janes Dewar. Layton said, “The poet only has to do three things in this world: Admit to being a poet. (and NEVER apologize for it) Write poetry. Deliver it to the world."
7 months ago
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Going Home on a Friday Night
On the subway platform feeling full and slightly woozy after supper with a longtime friend I hadn’t seen since before the pandemic a large man held a very petite woman, her spine bound and trapped pe...
https://dromline.ca/going-home-on-a-friday-night/?ref=dromline-newsletter
8 months ago
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(A) 100,000 Poets for Change Toronto Event Sunday, September 28th, 4-7 PM Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street,
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8 months ago
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available from Amazon for $6.70 plus shipping, or from the author for $10 including free autograph!
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8 months ago
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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9 months ago
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"Compassion is the intention and capacity to relieve and transform suffering -- in ourselves, in the other person, and in the world." - Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Listen, page 45
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9 months ago
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If you dig a little, you will find my poem "Dig". Dig?
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Poetry Pause: 2025 Member Spotlight - League of Canadian Poets
Grab a drink and settle in to browsing over 60 poems, published in dozens of journals and websites from all across Canada - and all by members of the League.
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9 months ago
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New addition to my page on
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10 months ago
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riffsandripplesfromzenrivergardens.blogspot.com/2025/07/list...
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#Listen
published in the latest Tower Poetry magazine posted on
#ChrisFaiers
blog
#riffsandripplesfromzenrivergardens
with commentary
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Listen: new poem from Patrick Connors
https://riffsandripplesfromzenrivergardens.blogspot.com/2025/07/listen-new-poem-from-patrick-connors.html
10 months ago
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Multitudes | Dissident Voice
I am a cradle Catholic ecumenical Christian communist sympathizing far-left socialist with a capitalist day job that makes me very unhappy even though I am quite good at it. Do I contain multitudes? I...
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/multitudes/
11 months ago
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www.spadinaliteraryreview.com/works/1977?f...
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1977
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11 months ago
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11 months ago
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www.spiritfirereview.com/post/today-t...
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Today: two poems by Patrick Connors
scribbles, image by H G, on Pixabay, slightly modifiedPreparation "Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the powerand the glory and the victory and the majesty,for all that is in the heavens and the ear...
https://www.spiritfirereview.com/post/today-two-poems-by-patrick-connors
11 months ago
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The power of art is to convey powerful personal experiences in distilled language and memorialize them in a cogent manner. Such communication will resonate in the context of larger culture." -
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Refractions, page 25-26
11 months ago
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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12 months ago
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about 1 year ago
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The long defeat
"After the remarkable success of Patrick Connors’ first book of poetry, The Other Life: Poems, and the impact Covid had on our lives, the poet’s new collection, The Long Defeat, is now available. As t...
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM4634125&R=4634125
about 1 year ago
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Reading
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at a May Day celebration with
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Giovanna Riccio Honey Novick with
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speaking!
about 1 year ago
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Poetry By Patrick Connors: Canadian poet
Poetry By Patrick Connors: Canadian poet
https://www.europeanpoetry.com/2025/04/poetry-by-patrick-connors-canadian-poet.html
about 1 year ago
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#Connors
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Hoping to add to this dedicated page on Spirit Fire Review:
www.spiritfirereview.com/blog/search/...
#Connors
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Spirit Fire Review | A Magazine of Celebration!
Spirit Fire Review is a Magazine of Celebration-Changing the world through love! Honoring the Holy Spirit through Poetry, Visual Art, Testimony, and Song.
https://www.spiritfirereview.com/blog/search/patrick%20connors%20
about 1 year ago
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Poetry Crosses Borders. Saturday, May 9th, 7:00-10:00, doors open at 6:30.
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#featuring
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about 1 year ago
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@blueskypoetry.bsky.social
just followed me back - thanks! Here's a link to some of my
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reposted by
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on Word City Lit:
wordcitylit.ca/2024/10/11/5...
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5 poems by Patrick Connors
TeenagerLook out the wind-blown windowThrough the evergreen tree gone bareSun unseen lights the grey skyOf air so cold even time is slowedUntil a bitter, vengeful gustThreatens to take down the tre…
https://wordcitylit.ca/2024/10/11/5-poems-by-patrick-connors/
about 1 year ago
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The Powers that Be | Dissident Voice
The powers that be don't come into work every day. Only on alternate Tuesday's or if they feel like it or if there is a REALLY BIG MEETING. When they are here, we realize they are talking about us, an...
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/03/the-powers-that-be/
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Patrick Connors
Lisa C Reynolds
over 1 year ago
Plans for The Ontario Poetry Society’s Durham Region Poetry Night at Station Gallery are underway. This celebration of poetry will pay tribute to six feature poets invited to attend. Links to free in-person and Zoom tickets will be available on Eventbrite closer to the date. Please join us.
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over 1 year ago
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Alex Nedeljkovic with a goal and assist last night. We already know he's the Penguins best penalty killer. Perhaps the
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should check on his availability. He could be our answer at 3rd line C!
over 1 year ago
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#HOWLRadioProgram
I'm on in the second half!
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Howl - Tuesday January 7, 2025
Host Hollay Ghadery interviews Jo Deluzio on the book “Just Gone: True Stories For Love And Life” (Re:Books Publishing), and poet Pat Connors on his latest collection “The Long Defeat” (Mosaic Press)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-feyzc-17a013a
over 1 year ago
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TONIGHT! - HOWL CIUT 89.5FM - 10pm - 11pm Host Hollay Ghadery interviews poet Pat Connors on his latest collection “The Long Defeat” (Mosaic Press) You can listen online at
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over 1 year ago
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First
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published in 2025:
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over 1 year ago
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My last post of 2024. May 2025 be a whole lot better, and this medium become a worthwhile alternative to the one it resembles more than faintly.
over 1 year ago
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God Bless us, everyone!
over 1 year ago
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