Micheline Maylor
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Independent academic, poet, editor, reviewer, writing and mindfulness mentor.
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Oscar-winning actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of âMcCarthyismâ during the 1940s.
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Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative
Henry Fonda originally formed the Committee for the First Amendment was in 1947.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jane-fonda-relaunches-committee-for-the-first-amendment-rcna234934
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New review up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
of Wade Davisâ Beneath the Surface of Things
@greystonebooks.bsky.social
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Review of Wade Davis' "Beneath the Surface of Things" | FreeFall Magazine
By Michael Frey Beneath the Surface of Things by Wade Davis Greystone Books (2024) Wade Davis' latest essay collection "Beneath" offers a social
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new review up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
or @BlaineNewton's Rag Pickers by @VivianHansen and @UniversityofCalgaryPress:
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Review of Blaine Newton's "Rag Pickers" | FreeFall Magazine
By Vivian Hansen Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton University of Calgary Press (2025) Thomas Trofimukâs blurb offered me a guiding question on this review of
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New Review up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
of
@toluini.bsky.social
Unravel by @CatherineOwen and
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Review of Tolu Oloruntoba's "Unravel" | FreeFall Magazine
By Catherine Owen Unravel by Tolu Oloruntoba Penguin Random House (2025) Unravel is a poetry of serious sonority, worthy of engraving on stone: lyrical,
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-tolu-oloruntobas-unravel/
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Touch the Donkey supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold
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TtD supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold
Lisa Pasold grew up in Tio'tia:ke/MontrĂŠal. She is a storyteller and poet. She has published 6 books, mostly of poetry; a chapbook, Kindnes...
https://touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/08/ttd-supplement-283-seven-questions-for.html
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Wolsak & Wynn
4 months ago
This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:
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new review
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
by @CatherineOwen. @AishaSashaJohn's Total and @McClellandandStewart
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Review of Aisha Sasha John's "Total" | FreeFall Magazine
By Catherine Owen Total by Aisha Sasha John McClelland and Stewart (2025) Performative poetry, page-bound, retains its power, but also establishes a
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-aisha-sasha-johns-total/
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4 months ago
another morning if wee oneâs swim lesson, as I explore new poetry titles by Lorne Daniel and Susan Musgrave (ed. Micheline Maylor, //
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@wlupress.bsky.social
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New review up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
. Al Moritz, The Great Silent Ballad with
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
is revied by Beth Everest.
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Review of A.F. Moritz's "Great Silent Ballad" | FreeFall Magazine
By Beth Everest Great Silent Ballad by A.F. Moritz House of Anansi (2024) The 22nd book of poetry by A.F. Moritz is not a quick read. Nor should it be.
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-a-f-moritzs-great-silent-ballad/
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New review
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
of
@hollay.bsky.social
Rebellion Box by @kathrynMacDonald and
@radiantpress.bsky.social
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Review of Hollay Ghadery's "Rebellion Box" | FreeFall Magazine
By Kathryn MacDonald Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery Radiant Press (2023) Perhaps one shouldnât judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Rebellion Box
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-hollay-ghaderys-rebellion-box/
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The great unboxing of @SusanMusgrave's collected works.
@wlupress.bsky.social
Out now!
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@MeganNega thoughtfully reviews @BethEverest's Some of the Facts: stories about Jasper. All proceeds go to fire relief.
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Review of Beth Everest's "Some of the Facts" | FreeFall Magazine
By Megan Nega Some of the Facts: Jasper: When Tales Were Told by Beth Everest Frontenac House (2024) Beth Everestâs new collection of short fiction about
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-beth-everests-some-of-the-facts/
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Hey
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! Your film is coming to my town!
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Bullfrog Films presents...Meddle
YouTube video by Bullfrog Films
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New Review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social ! @CatherineOwen Reviews @MikeBlouin's Hard Electric:
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Review of Michael Blouin's "Hard Electric" | FreeFall Magazine
By Catherine Owen Hard Electric by Michael Blouin Anvil Press (2024) A reviewerâs main aim should be to offer intelligent critique within a context of the
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-michael-blouins-hard-electric/
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Kim Fahner
6 months ago
Last year, while I was writing at Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, in NS, w/ my friend & fellow writer, Sandra McIntyre, I began an essay that would speak to my ideas of what âhomeâ means to me. Thanks to
@michelinemaylor.bsky.social
& FreeFall Magazine for giving my essay a good home. đâ¤ď¸
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New review up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
of @RayanneHaines' What Kind of Daughter by
@tonyalailey.bsky.social
and @FrontenacHousePress
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Review of Rayanne Haines' "What Kind of Daughter?" | FreeFall Magazine
By Tonya Lailey What Kind of Daughter? by Rayanne Haines Frontenac House Poetry (2024) The title of Rayanne Hainesâ fourth book of poetry asks one of many
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-rayanne-haines-what-kind-of-daughter/
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Sarah Wolfson
7 months ago
âYour prayers, oh Passer by!â
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Saganism
7 months ago
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Saganâs eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
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@patagonia.com
@Petzl
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Rappelling Commonwealth Couloir with skis on our backs
YouTube video by Nate Yauck
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@D.D.Jackson @YoonSunChoi @GeorgeKoller and
@larnelllewismusic.bsky.social
made my poem sing!! This is awesome! Thanks, Music Friends!
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D.D. Jackson Quartet (feat. Yoon Choi): "SO, SAY I" [music by D.D.; lyrics by Micheline Maylor]
YouTube video by D.D. Jackson
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New Review up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
. @JonathanGreenbaum reviews @JanEverardâs Blue Runaways.
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Review of Jann Everard's "Blue Runaways" | FreeFall Magazine
By Jonathan Greenbaum Blue Runaways: Stories by Jann Everard Stonehewer Books (2024) Those of us who read the CanLit magazines know that emerging writers
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Kim Fahner
7 months ago
Day 21 is Susan Musgraveâs really beautiful book of poems, Exculpatory Lilies. Musgraveâs work is stunningâŚas always. Here are a few of my favourites from this collection.
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My review of @ShannonWebbCampbellâs Re:Wild Her
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
is up on
@quillandquire.bsky.social
. Check it out.
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Re: Wild Her - Quill and Quire
Shannon Webb-Campbellâs latest poetry collection, Re:Wild Her, is inhabited by an otherworldly narrator â part mystic, part pagan, part cool auntie, part It girl, all the way feminist goddess. The ded...
https://quillandquire.com/review/re-wild-her/
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review of David Martin's Limited Verse @universityofCalgaryPress is up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
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Review of David Martin's "Limited Verse" | FreeFall Magazine
By Vincent Potter Limited Verse by David Martin University of Calgary Press (2024) The best science fiction uses its theoretical framing to investigate
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-david-martins-limited-verse/
8 months ago
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author
8 months ago
How NOT to break Copyright Law
#writer
#writerslife
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Kim Fahner
8 months ago
Glad to have my review of Bret Crowleâs book of poems, Jesus is a Voyeur (Frontenac Press) published in
@periodicities.bsky.social
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new review of
@yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social
Death of Persephone by @maryvlooswyk up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
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Review of Yvonne Blomer's "Death of Persephone" | FreeFall Magazine
By Mary Vlooswyk Death Of Persephone: A Murder by Yvonne Blomer Caitlin Press (2024) From the title, one can deduce Death of Persephone: A Murder is about
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-yvonne-blomers-death-of-persephone/
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8 months ago
Looking to read incredible
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content? This week, weâre shining the spotlight on Albertaâs
#FreeFall
magazine and their Annual Prose & Poetry Contest!
#canadianmade
#canlit
#poetry
#fiction
@michelinemaylor.bsky.social
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Excited to announce that my poem about Richard Osler won the Cold Moon Broadsheet this year. This is exceptional as I know many of you also entered this contest and the competition is fierce and the poems are supreme. This is truly an honour and I thank
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Boxing in the Bone Orchard by @BrucemcRae is up for pre-order @FrontenacHousePress.
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Boxing in the Bone Orchard | Frontenac House Ltd.
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Pre-orders for In The Bearâs House is up at Frontenac House. This is a gorgeous story of a deaf boy named Trout observing historic Calgary and the Kootenay Plains. It contemplates disability, the environment, and socio-economic class. Great summer read.
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In the Bearâs House | Frontenac House Ltd.
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9 months ago
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Pre-orders are up for Anna Yinâs Breaking Into Blossom. A sublime observation of a woman in her environment focused on love and wonder.
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Breaking Into Blossom | Frontenac House Ltd.
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@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
has a new review of @RobertColeman's Ghostwork by @CatherineOwen and
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social
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Review of Robert Colman's "Ghost Work" | FreeFall Magazine
By Catherine Owen Ghost Work by Robert Colman Palimpsest Press (2024) The elegy, for me, is poetryâs core. You have no choice but to take risks, delve
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-robert-colmans-ghost-work/
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Lorne Daniel
9 months ago
Indigenous storytellers living in Canada, check this call for subs from
@malahatreview.bsky.social
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New Review of
@rodmoo.bsky.social
Hides by @VivianHansen and
@breakwaterbooks.bsky.social
Up
@freefallmagazine.bsky.social
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Review of Rod Moody-Corbett's "Hides" | FreeFall Magazine
By Vivian Hansen Hides by Rod Moody-Corbett Breakwater Books (2024) He is unnamed. But he is well known to us. We have sat in his classroom, shared his
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-rod-moody-corbetts-hides/
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9 months ago
New Review of @RobinWallKimmerer's The ServiceBerry by @VivianHansen and
@simonandschuster.bsky.social
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Review of Robin Wall Kimmerer's "The Serviceberry" | FreeFall Magazine
By Vivian Hansen The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer Simon & Schuster (2024) I pluck the
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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
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Lorne Daniel
10 months ago
Book watch: In the Bear's House, a new edition of the great novel by Bruce Hunter. Set in 1960s Calgary and Albertaâs backcountry, In the Bearâs House tells of a creative young mother, Clare Dunlop, raising a deaf son against the insurmountable odds of poverty, mental illness and hardship.
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The mystical, vibrant force of nature, called Sheri-D Wilson is the next contest judge at Freefall. Send her your poems, your prose, your experimental writing!
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Review of Richard Osler's "What Holiness Will I Bring?" | FreeFall Magazine
By Mary Vlooswyk What Holiness Will I Bring? by Richard Osler Frontenac House (2024) On July 5, 2024 Richard Osler shared news of his esophageal cancer
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-richard-oslers-what-holiness-will-i-bring/
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Julie Sedivy
10 months ago
I've long admired Alan Alda's podcast and SciComm activitiesâwhat an honor to appear on his Clear + Vivid podcast!
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Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us | Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Her new book, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love is an ode to the power of language to both shape us and be shaped by us. Itâs informed by her own experience with languages: she spoke five before le...
https://clear-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/julie-sedivy-how-language-shapes-us
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Check out this new review at Freefall Magazine!
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Review of Molly Peacock's "The Widowâs Crayon Box" | FreeFall Magazine
By Kathryn MacDonald The Widowâs Crayon Box by Molly Peacock W.W. Norton & Company (2025) The Widowâs Crayon Box is Molly Peacockâs eighth poetry
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-molly-peacocks-the-widows-crayon-box/
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check out this new review of @LeanneShirtliffe's The Genius Hour Project by
@kendallbist.bsky.social
and
@thistledownpress.bsky.social
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Review of Leanne Shirtliffe's "The Genius Hour Project" | FreeFall Magazine
By Kendall Bistretzan The Genius Hour Project by Leanne Shirtliffe Thistledown Press (2024) The Genius Hour Project is a middle-grade novel that follows
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-leanne-shirtliffes-the-genius-hour-project/
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Tal B. Lavin
11 months ago
i feel like you should be allowed to talk about & promote your book for at least as long as it took you to write it
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New Review up at Freefall Magazine of @JuliePaul's Whiny Baby by @KimFahner published by
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
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Review of Julie Paul's "Whiny Baby" | FreeFall Magazine
By Kim Fahner Whiny Baby by Julie Paul McGill-Queenâs University Press (2024) With a title that evokes childhood spats and quarrels, Julie Paulâs second
https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-julie-pauls-whiny-baby/
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Jade Wallace (they/them)
11 months ago
There's a reason I've reviewed all 3 of @hollay.bsky.socialhollay.bsky.social's books! Her latest, the short fiction collection Widow Fantasies from Gordon Hill Press, was a treat to read & write about, as I knew it would be. Review out now in The Miramichi Reader:
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Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery
Hollay Ghadery is a writer who will not waste your time. By which I mean both that she says what she has to say succinctly, and that her observations are inevitably worthwhile.
https://miramichireader.ca/2025/01/widow-fantasies-by-hollay-ghadery/
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Artists! Two calls from the Town of Canmore for Public art. Check it out.
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Celeste Ng
11 months ago
Oh noooooo, this is such sad news. This store is amazing. That's where I got my typewriter.
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