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 “McCarthyism” during the 1940s. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative
Henry Fonda originally formed the Committee for the First Amendment was in 1947.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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...
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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September 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...
Review of Blaine Newton's "Rag Pickers" | FreeFall Magazine
By Vivian Hansen Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton University of Calgary Press (2025) Thomas Trofimuk’s blurb offered me a guiding question on this review of
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September 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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...
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,
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August 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @toluini.bsky.social Unravel by @CatherineOwen and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-to...
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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/Montréal. She is a storyteller and poet. She has published 6 books, mostly of poetry; a chapbook, Kindnes...
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August 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Touch the Donkey supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold
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This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:
NeWest Press is excited to announce the launch of Barbour Books, our new speculative fiction imprint. Edited by award-winning author and scholar Jenna Butler. Authors looking to submit manuscripts to the imprint can do so now at our manuscript site.
#NeWestPress #BarbourBooks #CanadianSciFi #CanLit
#NeWestPress #BarbourBooks #CanadianSciFi #CanLit
August 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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...
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
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August 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
new review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social by @CatherineOwen. @AishaSashaJohn's Total and @McClellandandStewart freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ai...
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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
July 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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-...
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.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...
Review of Hollay Ghadery's "Rebellion Box" | FreeFall Magazine
By Kathryn MacDonald Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery Radiant Press (2023) Perhaps one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Rebellion Box
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July 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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!
July 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
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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 Everest’s new collection of short fiction about
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June 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
@MeganNega thoughtfully reviews @BethEverest's Some of the Facts: stories about Jasper. All proceeds go to fire relief.
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Hey @mnystudio.bsky.social ! Your film is coming to my town! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqd...
Bullfrog Films presents...Meddle
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June 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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...
Review of Michael Blouin's "Hard Electric" | FreeFall Magazine
By Catherine Owen Hard Electric by Michael Blouin Anvil Press (2024) A reviewer’s main aim should be to offer intelligent critique within a context of the
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June 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
New Review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social ! @CatherineOwen Reviews @MikeBlouin's Hard Electric: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-mi...
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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. 🙏❤️
essay a good home. 🙏❤️
June 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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. 🙏❤️
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...
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 Haines’ fourth book of poetry asks one of many
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May 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @RayanneHaines' What Kind of Daughter by @tonyalailey.bsky.social and @FrontenacHousePress freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ra...
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“Your prayers, oh Passer by!”
A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!
—Emily Dickinson
—Emily Dickinson
May 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“Your prayers, oh Passer by!”
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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.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
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Rappelling Commonwealth Couloir with skis on our backs
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May 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Make my son and his friends go viral and find sponsorship @acteryx.bsky.social @patagonia.com @Petzl
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@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...
D.D. Jackson Quartet (feat. Yoon Choi): "SO, SAY I" [music by D.D.; lyrics by Micheline Maylor]
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May 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
@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...
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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April 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. @JonathanGreenbaum reviews @JanEverard’s Blue Runaways. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ja...
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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.
April 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
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Re: Wild Her - Quill and Quire
Shannon Webb-Campbell’s latest poetry collection, Re:Wild Her, is inhabited by an otherworldly narrator – part mystic, part pagan, part cool auntie, part It girl, all the way feminist goddess. The ded...
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April 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My review of @ShannonWebbCampbell’s Re:Wild Her @bookhugpress.bsky.social is up on @quillandquire.bsky.social. Check it out.
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review of David Martin's Limited Verse @universityofCalgaryPress is up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-da...
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
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April 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
review of David Martin's Limited Verse @universityofCalgaryPress is up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-da...
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April 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM