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 “McCarthyism” during the 1940s. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of Wade Davis’ Beneath the Surface of Things @greystonebooks.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-wa...

new review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social or @BlaineNewton's Rag Pickers by @VivianHansen and @UniversityofCalgaryPress: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-bl...

New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @toluini.bsky.social Unravel by @CatherineOwen and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-to...

Touch the Donkey supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/08/ttd-...

This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:

new review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social by @CatherineOwen. @AishaSashaJohn's Total and @McClellandandStewart freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ai...

another morning if wee one’s swim lesson, as I explore new poetry titles by Lorne Daniel and Susan Musgrave (ed. Micheline Maylor, // @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social @michelinemaylor.bsky.social

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. Al Moritz, The Great Silent Ballad with @houseofanansi.bsky.social is revied by Beth Everest. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-a-...

New review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @hollay.bsky.social Rebellion Box by @kathrynMacDonald and @radiantpress.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ho...

The great unboxing of @SusanMusgrave's collected works. @wlupress.bsky.social Out now!

@MeganNega thoughtfully reviews @BethEverest's Some of the Facts: stories about Jasper. All proceeds go to fire relief. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-be...

Hey @mnystudio.bsky.social ! Your film is coming to my town! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqd...

New Review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social ! @CatherineOwen Reviews @MikeBlouin's Hard Electric: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-mi...

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 “home” means to me. Thanks to @michelinemaylor.bsky.social & FreeFall Magazine for giving my essay a good home. 🙏❤️

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @RayanneHaines' What Kind of Daughter by @tonyalailey.bsky.social and @FrontenacHousePress freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ra...

“Your prayers, oh Passer by!”

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

Make my son and his friends go viral and find sponsorship @acteryx.bsky.social @patagonia.com @Petzl www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZXp...

@D.D.Jackson @YoonSunChoi @GeorgeKoller and @larnelllewismusic.bsky.social made my poem sing!! This is awesome! Thanks, Music Friends! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJZi...

New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. @JonathanGreenbaum reviews @JanEverard’s Blue Runaways. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ja...

Day 21 is Susan Musgrave’s really beautiful book of poems, Exculpatory Lilies. Musgrave’s work is stunning…as always. Here are a few of my favourites from this collection.

My review of @ShannonWebbCampbell’s Re:Wild Her @bookhugpress.bsky.social is up on @quillandquire.bsky.social. Check it out. quillandquire.com/review/re-wi...

review of David Martin's Limited Verse @universityofCalgaryPress is up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-da...

How NOT to break Copyright Law #writer #writerslife #authorsky #amwriting #writingcommunity

Glad to have my review of Bret Crowle’s book of poems, Jesus is a Voyeur (Frontenac Press) published in @periodicities.bsky.social.🌿

new review of @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social Death of Persephone by @maryvlooswyk up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-yv...

Looking to read incredible #Canadian content? This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Alberta’s #FreeFall magazine and their Annual Prose & Poetry Contest! #canadianmade #canlit #poetry #fiction @michelinemaylor.bsky.social buff.ly/zIZ6JdN

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 @canadianpoets.bsky.social

Boxing in the Bone Orchard by @BrucemcRae is up for pre-order @FrontenacHousePress. www.frontenachouse.com/product/boxi...

Pre-orders for In The Bear’s 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. www.frontenachouse.com/product/in-t...

Pre-orders are up for Anna Yin’s Breaking Into Blossom. A sublime observation of a woman in her environment focused on love and wonder. www.frontenachouse.com/product/brea...

@freefallmagazine.bsky.social has a new review of @RobertColeman's Ghostwork by @CatherineOwen and @palimpsestpress.bsky.social freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ro...

Indigenous storytellers living in Canada, check this call for subs from @malahatreview.bsky.social

New Review of @rodmoo.bsky.social Hides by @VivianHansen and @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social Up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ro...

New Review of @RobinWallKimmerer's The ServiceBerry by @VivianHansen and @simonandschuster.bsky.social freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ro...

Book watch: In the Bear's House, a new edition of the great novel by Bruce Hunter. Set in 1960s Calgary and Alberta‘s backcountry, In the Bear’s House tells of a creative young mother, Clare Dunlop, raising a deaf son against the insurmountable odds of poverty, mental illness and hardship.

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!

freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ri... New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social

I've long admired Alan Alda's podcast and SciComm activities—what an honor to appear on his Clear + Vivid podcast! clear-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/jul...

Check out this new review at Freefall Magazine! freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-mo...

check out this new review of @LeanneShirtliffe's The Genius Hour Project by @kendallbist.bsky.social and @thistledownpress.bsky.social freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-le...

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

New Review up at Freefall Magazine of @JuliePaul's Whiny Baby by @KimFahner published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ju...

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: miramichireader.ca/2025/01/wido...

Artists! Two calls from the Town of Canmore for Public art. Check it out. www.canmore.ca/public/downl...

Oh noooooo, this is such sad news. This store is amazing. That's where I got my typewriter.