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Kim Mannix (she/her)
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Listener. Watcher. Writer.
First full poetry collection, Confirm Humanity, out October 29!

https://wildskiespress.com/our-books/#confirmhumanity

We are in a climate crisis and an empathy deficit. Be a good human.
🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸❤️☮️🐈‍⬛️🌎 #Treaty6 #YEG #ShPk
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Kim Mannix (she/her) @kimmannix.bsky.social · 26d
My Edmonton book launch info!
Black and white photos of me, Kim Mannix (pale skin and brown curly hair with a streak of grey) and Laurie Lynn Mihead (shoulder length light hair with bangs and glasses). The text reads Edmonton Book Launch; Join us to celebrate Kim Mannix and her poetry collection Confirm Humanity; 16 November, 2025, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Audrey's Books, 10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton. With special guest Laurie Lynn Muirhead. Wild Skies Press.
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DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 6: & DAYLIGHT/intro to the project featuring 17 authors & 17 donated words

this resulted in 16 poems & 1 microfiction work! credits in thread!

i will be focusing on 1 poem at a time in the 17 posts ahead!

get the free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight
white square image. a page of a digital book appears at the center. the book page has a close-up of the cover art in the background. the attention is mostly on the yellow shading but there is orange shading in a small sliver to the right vertically (but not straight) down the page. “& daylight” heading text is at the top left of the page in bold white font black text reads discusses more about how the project (alt text won’t fit - msg me if you need help!) a white box with a black border and two columns contains the following black text: APRICITY - Marie Marchard DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez FREQUENCY - Julia Beach GOSSAMER - Linda Crate HARBINGER - Madeleine Corley HEARTSICK - K Weber KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher MIRACLE - Karen Steiger PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - m klein SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - Kris Lindbeck VERIFY - Kim Mannix WOMB - Kashiana Singh The following appears in black text outside of the box at the end of the page: I am really excited for all to read these poems... for the authors to see who contributed the words they were assigned... and for the word donors to see how their words inspired the authors! The page number six appears in black text at the bottom center white square image with black text reads: on page 6 we have the intro to a new series of donated words writing. i called this section & DAYLIGHT. the background is a simple zoom-in of the front cover but with more attention paid to the yellow-shaded area. this portion of the book contains 17 original pieces - 16 poems & 1 microfiction - by 17 authors. i received 17 donated words for this project. i got creative in how i assigned words randomly to each author from the pool of 17 words. revisiting the WELCOME section (pages 2 & 3) you can find more detail as to the methods and tools i used. i decided to give each author 3 words, from those provided to us, to infuse into our writing. no 2 authors share more than one of the same donated words with the exception of one writer - who i gave 4 words - as she participated as an author in the first donated words collection, THIS ASSEMBLY, in 2019. each author was given an optional, unique challenge wherein they chose a word to incorporate into their piece. pages 7-24 contain these new works and show which words and challenges were weaved into them. i am so excited to take a deeper look into all of the resulting writing and the donated words and tie it all together! this has been a beautiful collaboration! you can get the free PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight white square image with black text reads: here are the words & word donors who made this project so vibrant: APRICITY - Marie Marchand DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez FREQUENCY - Julia Beach GOSSAMER - Linda M. Crate HARBINGER - Madelinksi HEARTSICK - Kristi Weber KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher MIRACLE - Karen Steiger PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - m klein SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - Kris Lindbeck VERIFY - Kim Mannix WOMB - Kashiana Singh white square image with black text reads: our amazing authors who took on new challenges and created fantastic poems & microfiction: Julie Luepke K Weber Karen Steiger Kiley Lee Marie Marchand Melissa Flores Anderson Michael Metivier Millie H Misty D. Hudson Oswald Perez Preston Danvers Sara Matson Sarah O’Brien Scott Nickell Steph Patterson Tiffany Sciacca Will Davis
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Aurorascrolling > Doomscrolling
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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“Alwrong, alwrong, alwrong.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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This Remembrance Day, let us pause to remember all who perished in war and honour them by recommitting to peace.

Together, may we build a world where working people are never again treated as cannon fodder for power or profit.
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Dudes, I'm doing the only things I know how to do to combat the great evil and stupidity invading everything...trying to manifest Care Bear levels of kindness and seeking the joy in anything I possibly can.

Some days it helps a bit.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Happy #Caturday!
A graphic drawing of a sideview of a cat, and text that reads I Don't Trust People Who Don't Like Cats But I Trust The Cat When It Doesn't Like A Person
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Here is my two sentence review of #Frankenstein:

Everything is beautiful, except the CGI wolves. Too long, but also still not enough Mia Goth.
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Progressive voters need things to vote FOR, not just against. It's time for a wave of hope politics here too #AB
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I really am not complaining, because I'm so grateful to have jobs and income, but after months of not having any paid gigs, I'm now working on 4 big projects, plus cramming in two book launches, before the end of November.

Brewing afternoon coffee as I type this...
a penguin is sitting in front of a laptop with the word work written above it
Alt: a penguin is sitting in front of a laptop and dancing with the word 'work' written above him and music notes around him
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November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A note for current and future readers of our monthly newsletter, The Magpie!

If you're interested in festival news, events and feature content from Canadian poets, please email magpie@edmontonpoetryfestival.com! 💙🖤💙
Newsletter Update! Did you sign up for The Magpie newsletter since May? Do you intend to sign up? Our subscribe form on our website is not working and is being fixed. For the time being, please email magpie@edmontonpoetryfestival.com and we'll add you manually We'll let you know when the firm.us back in order!
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Random, meaningless complaint: I think it looks dumb when people put those big, colorful, elastic bow headband things on a baby's head.
November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Bluesky music-loving friends! I need to focus and work today. Music helps. Please give me a song to put on my 'Get at 'er, babe' playlist.
a couple of women standing next to each other with the words dj play the song
Alt: a couple of women standing next to each other with the words dj play the song
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November 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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A message for the few trick-or-treaters who came to my house last night: You need to come back today to receive triple the candy dole because I overbought and incorrectly predicted that I needed to conserve early
November 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I just started watching The Wicker Man for the first time (no offense baseball fans) and apparently it takes him the length of like 10 bonny Scottish folk songs to actually land on the island....

oh, finally some dialogue
November 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I haven't put my costume back on yet, but I need to show you the spooky fun earrings I've been wearing all day!

#Halloween
A pale skinned woman in glasses shows off black, sider web earrings
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Common mix-up in 🇨🇦

Or we're just informal with our horror icons, eh?
A Halloween Alley tshirt price tag says 'Mike Myers' $34.99
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Saying a big #HappyHalloween because it's my favourite day and the bastards of the world don't get to take my joy!

Pic is from a poetry reading I did on the 29th, but I'll recreate it tonight for trick-o-treaters. 🎃

Shows me your costume, or pets in costume, to be spared my scarecrow wrath! 🧡💀🖤
Me, dressed in a straw hat, plaid shirt, white tank top with blood drips on neck and shirt. I have a grey braided wig, black lipstick and jagged stitches through my lips, orange and black eye make up on one eye, and a brown meshy patch over the other eye.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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If rage were an energy source I could power my entire city, in the cold of winter, with the fury I feel over the fact that one psychopathic, narcissistic tyrant, his evil, heartless minions and his brainwashed, racist supporters are allowed to be such a threat to the entire world.
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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This is a freaking amazing book. You should buy yourself a little Halloween treat.
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As Halloween approaches, I am contractually obligated to Camio, the bird president of hell, to promote my first book BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING: HORROR ESSAYS. It's got chapters on everything terrible, from cannibalism and witches to chainsaws and UFOs to sleep paralysis and death.
Get it anywhere!
The book BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING: HORROR ESSAYS laying atop the author's family Ouija board.
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Cate wanted to let you all know that my debut poetry book, Confirm Humanity, has arrived in the world today!

She only gave it 2 stars, but honestly, she can't read, so you might want to check it out for yourselves! 💜💀💜

wildskiespress.com/our-books/#c...

#BookBirthday #Poetry
A torbie cat wth green eyes looks up at the camera. She has a copy of my book balanced against her. The book is a pale beige with the title Confirm Humanity written in fuscia lettering. There is an illustrative collage picture of peonies, a skull and a laptop computer. Underneath is my name: Kim Mannix
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES is here! this free PDF is packed with writing created by 17 authors that incorporates words contributed by many people!

lots of thanks to all involved! everyone who took part is tagged in this thread!

get the PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight
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DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES is here! It includes 17 poems and 1 work of microfiction by 17 authors. In total, this collection was created by 49 participants & their 55 contributed words. The…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"Don't address the problem, just get better with the band-aids. And don't worry, we SUPER RICH will be just fine."
- #BillGates, essentially

HEY BILL: STFU

#ClimateChange
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM