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Nancy Huggett
@nancyhuggett.bsky.social
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Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
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This Sunday! Motherhood, Faith & Caregiving poetry reading with moi, @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social & @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 7, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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So delighted and honoured to be nominated for a Pushcart for this triptych! Here are links
forgelitmag.com/2025/06/16/w...
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forgelitmag.com/2025/02/24/t...
and of course there are the poems they nominated as well!
January 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Otters, oh! otters! More beauty from @orionmagazine.bsky.social
orionmagazine.bsky.social Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 9d
Have you ever seen an otter in winter? Join us on this miraculous sighting in Wales...

Read: orionmagazine.org/article/otte...

Art: 'The River Ballet' by Meg T. Justice. Linocut, 2022
December 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Poetry reading, online: Motherhood, Faith & Caregiving with myself (Nancy Huggett), @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social , & @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social . Sunday January 11, 7:30pm EST & FREE! Preregistration required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Would love to have you join us!
December 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Oh Alice!
soleilho.com soleil ho @soleilho.com · 23d
it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong
On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Gobsmacked & oh so grateful to the village that made this! @fiddlehd.bsky.social (obviously), @lorri.bsky.social , @hollay.bsky.social , Rayya Liebich, Jen Robinson, Hilary Fair, Sarah Pittoello (my Kairos writers group), and of course, my daughter-the maker of all my days. Also, go read Marzipan!
fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · Dec 9
We're thrilled to share that two essays from The Fiddlehead’s Autumn 2024 issue were named among the Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024 in The Best American Essays 2025!

A big congratulations to @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social &
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December 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Inspired by @electrarhodes.bsky.social (last year? Year before?) just pulled out our new woodlands advent sculpture. Let the badgers frolic!
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Working my way through the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social and taking my time because SO MANY GOOD WORDS! New-to-me poet Megan Barnet is living in my brain/heart right now. “..the clock / on the pallid wall continues to hack at time / with its arrhythmic arm, all of us lurching forward …”
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Great review... "my writing became a constellation of attentions." Giving me a lot to think about (and more to read... ALWAYS! thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social )
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Three new poems from my (in progress) collection up at @oneart.bsky.social yesterday. With thanks to EIC @markdanowsky.bsky.social & Louisa & all my poetry mateys (not the rodeo poets, trailheads) & @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social for prompts. oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/17/t...
Three Poems by Nancy Huggett
Wake Me in a Silly Stupid Way (our daughter’s request, post-stroke, most mornings) My husband is a pirate, a patch, a breach of laughter in the morning. Stealing our daughter’s memory of what she’s…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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So much praise for this debut collection (FINALLY! I get to have a whole volume of Jane's work in my hands!) by @janezwart.bsky.social www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / 74 pp. / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: February 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOO...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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See you at the small press book fair!
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Oh, the wasps, the wasps. Another amazing poem by Jane, who has a book coming out soon!
janezwart.bsky.social Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · Oct 15
It broke my heart to write this poem, and I would give it back if I could reverse my brother's death or my mom's diagnosis. But it doesn't work like that. So I'm trying to open my hands to the joy of having a poem in @thenation.com. Thank you, Kaveh Akbar, et al.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Cancer
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October 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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This heartbreak dare of an essay addressing genocide in Palestine by my writer friend Rayya Liebich www.geist.com/fact/rightha...
Righthand Justified - Geist.com
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October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Tremolo by Alison Hurwitz! oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/11/t... That hourglass at the end, the "geometry of separation" & the subdivisions "of certainty." Stunning.
Tremolo by Alison Hurwitz
Tremolo         After the painting by Agnes Martin Three thousand miles away, I can’t go with my mother to the heart doctor, so I wish myself beside her, dis…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Whoever needs to hear/see this….
spicyethicsprof.bsky.social Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · Oct 9
I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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A new flash up at @American Literary Review and the timing couldnt be better/weirder, as it is the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death from melanoma. I miss her. americanliteraryreview.com/2025/10/02/c...
"Contrafabula" by Nancy Huggett
My mother didn’t end up in the hospital with an unknown diagnosis that quickly turned to cancer. The doctor didn’t draw black blood. The moon was not full, never full, never traced an amber arc in the...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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So many great poems (&poets) in here! @hollay.bsky.social & Laurie Koensgen!
talking-time.bsky.social talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · Oct 4
The fourth day of our fifteenth issue includes new poetry by Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social , Isabella Mori @moritherapy.bsky.social and Andrew Shields, and The art of writing #119: an interview with Terri Witek
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October 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Some wonderful poems out in the world today. First, this harbinger of winter in @pinholepoetry.bsky.social newest edition by @brettwarren23.bsky.social Brett Warren (and other stunning work... go visit!) pinholepoetry.ca/13960-2/
· P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y
BRETT WARREN Feeding the Bees Yellow flags pop up like daffodils along our street, with stick-figure icons of children and dogs to warn of poisons in chemical-drenched lawns. We’re outnumberedbut we k...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Have a wee one up at Canary Lit Magazine (canarylitmag.org in this autumn Equinox issue. Dive in and read some other remarkable poems like D.R. Goodman's On Returning to Asilomar "but the trees must seed their own / resistance on the bones of what remains" canarylitmag.org/contents.php...
Canary - A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis
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September 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I've been remiss in sharing this most brilliant Canadian poet. His exploration of masculinity and recovery and just being human is so tender and fraught. "My poetry is an exorcism of sorts. And my holy water is tenderness." Thank you @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for making his Poet of the Year!
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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See you there/here!
arcpoetry.bsky.social Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 16
NEXT WEEK! Don't miss this gathering of the 2025 Lampman Award finalists at Perfect Books on Tuesday, September 23rd. Readings start at 7pm, and books will be available for purchase. If you're in Ottawa, come on out!
arcpoetry.bsky.social Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 5
Join us at Perfect Books on Tuesday, Sept 23, for a special reading with the 2025 Lampman Award Finalists: Emily Austin, Manahil Bandukwala, and AJ Dolman. Don’t miss the chance to hear these incredible poets share their work before the Lampman Award winner is revealed later this fall!
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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New poem from my collection (out on submission) about caregiving and brain injury up at the lovely @thirdwednesday.bsky.social with thanks to @joankwonglass.bsky.social & the Ontario Arts Council & poetry mentors ntr & trailheads. thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2025/09/12/w...
Wood Duck / Nancy Huggett
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September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Thanks Ottawa Public Library for this stash of delight! And weather that invites sitting outside & reading poetry!
September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Red leaves, mostly some gold & the turn that I was expecting but also made me laugh & cry.
toddedillard.bsky.social Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
Present Tense by Todd Dillard My father’s telling me about his dog, how it fell into a well when they were walking down a wooded path. His dog ran across some rotted planks, the planks splintered, “And whoosh!” my father says. “No more dog.” I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M. “I’m not finished,” he says. He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket, how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down, and yelled for the dog to get in. “But all I pulled up was more barking.” “Dad,” I say. “This never happened.” He says he can’t remember how long he tried to get the dog to shimmy into the bucket. Just that at some point when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“ as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“ he decided to give up. “Dad,” I say. “It’s late. I’m tired. And you’re dead.” “Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!” My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt and pouring the dirt into the well. And I know what he’s getting at, I know he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket he filled the well and the dog jumped out. He’s going to say something about how the dog led him home through the dark. I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence. “Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?” I keep lowering the bucket but all I ever pull up are leaves. Red leaves. Lately, some gold.
September 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM