Cristalle Smith, MFA/PhD
@cristallesmith.bsky.social
Poet. Mother. Writer. PhD from University of Calgary. Poetry book: Invisible Lives.
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Amazing, I'm so honored to be included in this long list for my book!!
April 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Amazing, I'm so honored to be included in this long list for my book!!
I did it!! I am now Dr. Poetry! From being homeless in Florida, to a borough in New Jersey, to dropping out of high school, to surviving domestic violence and being a single mom in academia. I did it. Thank you to all the people who supported me and believed in me. I love you! I am Dr. Smith!
April 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I did it!! I am now Dr. Poetry! From being homeless in Florida, to a borough in New Jersey, to dropping out of high school, to surviving domestic violence and being a single mom in academia. I did it. Thank you to all the people who supported me and believed in me. I love you! I am Dr. Smith!
I'll be doing a reading in Calgary on April 25th for the Alberta Literary Awards!
April 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I'll be doing a reading in Calgary on April 25th for the Alberta Literary Awards!
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Congratulations @orphdc.bsky.social on a powerful collection! Love these #poems especially: "Dogs Myth-Make the Desert", “Basha Sparrows”, “We Stop to Imagine a Skyline Without the Fire Stack”, "Cloud Seeding the Empty Quarter", "Origin Myths or A Poem for Survivor’s Guilt—Cut Up" + more! Blurbs⬇️
April 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Congratulations @orphdc.bsky.social on a powerful collection! Love these #poems especially: "Dogs Myth-Make the Desert", “Basha Sparrows”, “We Stop to Imagine a Skyline Without the Fire Stack”, "Cloud Seeding the Empty Quarter", "Origin Myths or A Poem for Survivor’s Guilt—Cut Up" + more! Blurbs⬇️
Can I do another MFA to specialize in fiction? I'm tired of being a poet. There are too many line breaks to deal with. Every goddamn day.
April 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Can I do another MFA to specialize in fiction? I'm tired of being a poet. There are too many line breaks to deal with. Every goddamn day.
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Big congrats to my dear friend on this nomination! Invisble Lives is an incredible book and this recognition is so deserved :)
I am a finalist for The Writers' Guild of Alberta poetry book award! Wow. I'm just so floored anyone would read my book. I'm so honored and grateful. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout the years.
April 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Big congrats to my dear friend on this nomination! Invisble Lives is an incredible book and this recognition is so deserved :)
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are you a smart self motivated ambitious person who would like to completely destroy your sense of what is a reasonable workload? would you too like to no longer be able to tell the difference between what is a respectable or laudable set of accomplishments and actual failure?
✨become an academic✨
✨become an academic✨
April 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I am a finalist for The Writers' Guild of Alberta poetry book award! Wow. I'm just so floored anyone would read my book. I'm so honored and grateful. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout the years.
April 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I am a finalist for The Writers' Guild of Alberta poetry book award! Wow. I'm just so floored anyone would read my book. I'm so honored and grateful. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout the years.
That's my buddy's book! You should buy it and read it. Some poets teach us how to see the world again. And that's Omar Ramadan.
THIS SWEET RUPTURE has hit #1.
Congratulations, Omar Ramadan. And thank you, Edmonton!
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
@orphdc.bsky.social
Congratulations, Omar Ramadan. And thank you, Edmonton!
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
@orphdc.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
That's my buddy's book! You should buy it and read it. Some poets teach us how to see the world again. And that's Omar Ramadan.
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THIS SWEET RUPTURE has hit #1.
Congratulations, Omar Ramadan. And thank you, Edmonton!
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
@orphdc.bsky.social
Congratulations, Omar Ramadan. And thank you, Edmonton!
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
@orphdc.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
THIS SWEET RUPTURE has hit #1.
Congratulations, Omar Ramadan. And thank you, Edmonton!
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
@orphdc.bsky.social
Congratulations, Omar Ramadan. And thank you, Edmonton!
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
@orphdc.bsky.social
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Thank you all who’ve bought the book!! #1 on the best seller list :)
Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending March 23, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thank you all who’ve bought the book!! #1 on the best seller list :)
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Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @cristallesmith.bsky.social's Invisible Lives (pub. University of Calgary Press) in Issue 30!
Poems are tight, with an accumulation of striking images that convey wonder, grief, and a child’s attempts at joy ...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-smith-3...
Poems are tight, with an accumulation of striking images that convey wonder, grief, and a child’s attempts at joy ...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-smith-3...
March 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @cristallesmith.bsky.social's Invisible Lives (pub. University of Calgary Press) in Issue 30!
Poems are tight, with an accumulation of striking images that convey wonder, grief, and a child’s attempts at joy ...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-smith-3...
Poems are tight, with an accumulation of striking images that convey wonder, grief, and a child’s attempts at joy ...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-smith-3...
Can verify. It's true.
“Writers are on the whole the most repulsive people, I told Gambetti.” 😂
(Thomas Bernhard, Extinction)
(Thomas Bernhard, Extinction)
March 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Can verify. It's true.
Lol at the Griffin Poetry Prize. 10/10. No notes. Love being a Canadian poet. Let's go!
March 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Lol at the Griffin Poetry Prize. 10/10. No notes. Love being a Canadian poet. Let's go!
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Amanda Earl : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Jessica Hiemstra / @amandaearl.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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Amanda Earl : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Jessica Hiemstra
Jessica Hiemstra [photo credit: Cory Lavender] is an award-winning artist, writer, and designer. Her writing has appeared in chap...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Amanda Earl : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Jessica Hiemstra / @amandaearl.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/03/aman...
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Please check out this amazing review by Amanda Earl. I'm so humbled and honored that my work received such care and attention.
It was an honour and a pleasure to review @cristallesmith.bsky.social 's amazing book, Invisible Lives, This is an important book of childhood trauma,, violence, poverty & motherhood. I highly recommend it. Thanks to the Temz Review for publishing the review! www.thetemzreview.com/earl-smith-3...
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Reviewed by Amanda Earl
www.thetemzreview.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Please check out this amazing review by Amanda Earl. I'm so humbled and honored that my work received such care and attention.
Reposted by Cristalle Smith, MFA/PhD
It was an honour and a pleasure to review @cristallesmith.bsky.social 's amazing book, Invisible Lives, This is an important book of childhood trauma,, violence, poverty & motherhood. I highly recommend it. Thanks to the Temz Review for publishing the review! www.thetemzreview.com/earl-smith-3...
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Reviewed by Amanda Earl
www.thetemzreview.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It was an honour and a pleasure to review @cristallesmith.bsky.social 's amazing book, Invisible Lives, This is an important book of childhood trauma,, violence, poverty & motherhood. I highly recommend it. Thanks to the Temz Review for publishing the review! www.thetemzreview.com/earl-smith-3...
Every time I rewatch Mad Men I just get so bummed about Chauncey. Is he just out there roaming the streets of NYC forever? Poor Chauncey...
March 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Every time I rewatch Mad Men I just get so bummed about Chauncey. Is he just out there roaming the streets of NYC forever? Poor Chauncey...
I like how the elite class is stealing education from everyone else. Like. Are we gonna do anything about the MBA dudebros who now control most everything on planet earth? Hasn't anyone ever watched Shark Rank? We are utterly fucked.
February 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I like how the elite class is stealing education from everyone else. Like. Are we gonna do anything about the MBA dudebros who now control most everything on planet earth? Hasn't anyone ever watched Shark Rank? We are utterly fucked.
Read this poetry! One of the best collections I've ever read.
Omar's THIS SWEET RUPTURE is brilliant, inside and out. Be sure to check out the wonderful advance praise for the book on our website. You can pre-order the book at your local indie bookstore (pub date is March 4).
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
ualbertapress.ca/978177212797...
February 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Read this poetry! One of the best collections I've ever read.
Check out this amazing book by an amazing poet!
My debut poetry book, This Sweet Rupture explores themes of family secrets, diaspora, food culture, and the impact of war on personal stories, will be out very soon with @ualbertapress.bsky.social
Preorder from your favourite local bookstore!
#poetry #canlit #debut #nextread
Preorder from your favourite local bookstore!
#poetry #canlit #debut #nextread
February 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Check out this amazing book by an amazing poet!
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We're now up to 103 writers, lit mags and publishers in my Hybrid Writing start pack who leap over genre boundaries & out of boxes, ignoring traditional labels & definitions. Would you like to be added or do you know someone else who fits into this unboxed box?! #HybridWriting go.bsky.app/MswLLwc
February 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We're now up to 103 writers, lit mags and publishers in my Hybrid Writing start pack who leap over genre boundaries & out of boxes, ignoring traditional labels & definitions. Would you like to be added or do you know someone else who fits into this unboxed box?! #HybridWriting go.bsky.app/MswLLwc
The life of an adjunct! I'm tired of the invisibility of labour in academia. www.reddeeradvocate.com/local-news/r...
Red Deer Polytechnic projects $10 million deficit
Layoffs, program suspensions to come
www.reddeeradvocate.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The life of an adjunct! I'm tired of the invisibility of labour in academia. www.reddeeradvocate.com/local-news/r...
I am weary. I get why the ents sleep forever. Honestly. Wake me up when it's over.
February 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I am weary. I get why the ents sleep forever. Honestly. Wake me up when it's over.