"Gripping the bank, an elevator offers a way out, the machinery of its muscles slick on silent motor's heartbeat" #TodaysPoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth by @jaimeforsythe.bsky.social from Yield (2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/yield

thanks to @philmoscovitch.bsky.social and @halifaxexaminer.ca for bringing attention to this travesty www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

How lucky am I? In this NBN episode, award-winning and celebrated novelist Farzana Doctor interviews me about my novel, The Unravelling of Ou, which was released by Palimpsest Press on February 15, 2026. Listen to the conversation: newbooksnetwork.com/the-unravell... #litfic

My six-word memoir: work is open, school is closed

Our spring books are coming together beautifully. One of the first books up is this sublime long poem from Jaime Forsythe. Yield is a gorgeous collection filled with sea imagery and reflections on new motherhood. You can learn more here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/yield

#HRM #HalifaxRegionalMunicipality #poetry #poetlaureate #Mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalhealthcare #Madness Me again! with the Poet Laureate Mental Health Poem Project! If you live or work in HRM, contact [email protected] for more information and for the consent form. Deadline: Feb 28

Somehow I have yet to have a job that doesn't involve me lugging cakes all over town

In these strange and uncertain times, this is our guiding account philosophy ✨🪼✨ 🧵 Click on this thread for regularly updating ocean posts 🧵

Check out this auction fundraiser, with all funds going towards eSims to help Palestinians in Gaza stay connected with each other and the rest of the world. My most recent book (+extras) is there along with lots of amazing fiction, poetry, memoir, etc: tinyurl.com/authors4esims

Check out this auction fundraiser, with all funds going towards eSims to help Palestinians in Gaza stay connected with each other and the rest of the world. My most recent book (+extras) is there along with lots of amazing fiction, poetry, memoir, etc: tinyurl.com/authors4esims

My poem "Ice Storm" is today's Poetry Pause, via the League of Canadian Poets: poets.ca/ice-storm-by...

"Give the spare change that rattles in your glovebox to Save the Earth, Save the Whales, Save the goddamn Birches and our off- white husks. Give to save yourself." #TodaysPoem #poetry Cut Piece by Sadie McCarney (2024 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/ykazask2

The crows get Easter dinner, too.

So I've started the process of collecting mental health and illness and mental health care related poems from people who live and working HRM, with the aim of creating a new work of art or collection them as my legacy project during my 2024-27 term. Come out April 29 to the Central Library for more!

This is good @poetsorg.bsky.social poets.org/poem/irrever...?

Happening this Thursday! Note the lineup change- the effervescent Margo Wheaton is no longer able to read with us, so we will be hosting the fabulous Christine Wu instead!

I'm giving a talk on Friday March 14 about the history of fog in Atlantic Canada @smuarts.bsky.social The stories people tell today about fog echo centuries of evocative sensory descriptions and emotional narratives, showing us how fog has always shaped daily life and culture along these coasts ☁️

Stone Hearth Bakery, Common Roots Urban Farm, and the Ampersand Café in the Halifax Central Library have all abruptly closed. Employment agency MetroWorks files for bankruptcy, closes operations www.halifaxexaminer.ca/labour/emplo... by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Never not disgusted by the way educational institutions use the language of disability and accessibility to justify their increased use of predatory AI. Apparently, instructors have no right to guard their IP against companies like Amazon, our lectures used to train the tech that will replace us.

Today,February 17 is Heritage Day in Nova Scotia. This year, we honour Mi’kmaq activist Nora Bernard, a member of the Millbrook First Nation, was a tireless advocate for Residential School Survivors. She founded a survivor organization in 1995, that led to the start of a class action lawsuit.

The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument. Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed. 3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened. Erasure.

I give you care The rhythm of my daysdoes not exist except in synch,but more often, cacophony,with yours. I give up trying to followthe drum of either heartand instead, hunker downin chaotic noise and do the dishes, cook supperlistening for the clear notesbetween the insistent beats of need(not…