Bextatic
@bextatic.bsky.social
My first chapbook “Multimorbid” will be coming out with kith books in 2025. My poetry and CNF playfully explores what it means to exist in a body with multiple chronic illnesses. She/her. My publications: https://linktr.ee/bextatic
Thank you to the medical admin person who, when I mentioned I wrote poetry about my experience navigating the medical system, not only asked me to write down where she could read it but today followed up to tell me specifically what she loved about it and asked if she could share it with others.💜
Rebecca Wood – Wordgathering
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November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thank you to the medical admin person who, when I mentioned I wrote poetry about my experience navigating the medical system, not only asked me to write down where she could read it but today followed up to tell me specifically what she loved about it and asked if she could share it with others.💜
I have two poems in the upcoming issue of Room Magazine on the theme REST/UNREST. Pre-orders available now! roommagazine.com/product/rest...
REST/UNREST | 48.3 - ROOM Magazine
ROOM 48.3: REST/UNREST Editor: Rachel Thompson Assistant Editor: Holly Lam Shadow: Hamdah Shabbir Cover Art: The End by Diana Nguyễn In this issue: Lilith Acadia, Calypso André, Lisa Baird, Chri...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I have two poems in the upcoming issue of Room Magazine on the theme REST/UNREST. Pre-orders available now! roommagazine.com/product/rest...
This week I got back into a virtual room with my writing group that hasn’t met since June and last night I went to a community bonfire celebrating a lovely writing community I am a part of. Wow does it feel nice to celebrate successes and create simultaneously with other writers!
September 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This week I got back into a virtual room with my writing group that hasn’t met since June and last night I went to a community bonfire celebrating a lovely writing community I am a part of. Wow does it feel nice to celebrate successes and create simultaneously with other writers!
I’m so proud to share my essay “Depressive Wayfaring” is out now in the Canadian Mental Health Association magazing TRANSITION. Available for subscribers here: sk.cmha.ca/documents/tr...
Two years ago I published my first poem and it has been a goal to appear in print in a Canadian publication!
Two years ago I published my first poem and it has been a goal to appear in print in a Canadian publication!
July 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m so proud to share my essay “Depressive Wayfaring” is out now in the Canadian Mental Health Association magazing TRANSITION. Available for subscribers here: sk.cmha.ca/documents/tr...
Two years ago I published my first poem and it has been a goal to appear in print in a Canadian publication!
Two years ago I published my first poem and it has been a goal to appear in print in a Canadian publication!
I wrote a pantoum about mindfulness and I am glad it found a home with Kneebrace Press! kneebracepress.com/2025/04/15/h...
The repetition and rearranging of this form felt like a reflection of the learning and relearning I experience while meditating.
The repetition and rearranging of this form felt like a reflection of the learning and relearning I experience while meditating.
Hospital Mindfulness Program Pantoum
Transient discomfort of uncertain origin Activating ancient internal reactions
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May 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I wrote a pantoum about mindfulness and I am glad it found a home with Kneebrace Press! kneebracepress.com/2025/04/15/h...
The repetition and rearranging of this form felt like a reflection of the learning and relearning I experience while meditating.
The repetition and rearranging of this form felt like a reflection of the learning and relearning I experience while meditating.
I highly recommend you read this story by one of my forever friends Lia Matthew Brown instead of scrolling on your phone!
my new short story, "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT," has been published in the Spring 2025 issue of the Genre Society! It's speculative fiction about the algorithm, and maybe cannibalism. www.thegenresociety.com/ourcollections
May 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I highly recommend you read this story by one of my forever friends Lia Matthew Brown instead of scrolling on your phone!
I am so pleased to share my poem “Illness Survival Skills” published this week by Kneebrace Press kneebracepress.com/2025/03/25/i... This poem will appear in my debut chapbook “Multimorbid” out this year with kith books.
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I am so pleased to share my poem “Illness Survival Skills” published this week by Kneebrace Press kneebracepress.com/2025/03/25/i... This poem will appear in my debut chapbook “Multimorbid” out this year with kith books.
Thank you @ms-trippingonair.bsky.social and @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social for the opportunity to read this excellent book! I was diagnosed with MS around the same time as Ardra and I loved learning more about her life through her funny and engaging writing style.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Thank you @ms-trippingonair.bsky.social and @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social for the opportunity to read this excellent book! I was diagnosed with MS around the same time as Ardra and I loved learning more about her life through her funny and engaging writing style.
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This is a heavy one. It is about wanting to be the best support possible to a sibling in crisis and the uncertainty of what that can mean moment to moment. This poem received an honourable mention from the League of Canadian Poets summer contest and I am proud of it. poets.ca/emergency-co...
“Emergency Contact” by Rebecca Wood - League of Canadian Poets
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read “Emergency Contact” by Rebecca Wood.
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February 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is a heavy one. It is about wanting to be the best support possible to a sibling in crisis and the uncertainty of what that can mean moment to moment. This poem received an honourable mention from the League of Canadian Poets summer contest and I am proud of it. poets.ca/emergency-co...
My piece “MS Clinic” is in this beautiful issue of Feels! The launch was so lovely and Hannah, Sarah and Therese did an amazing job editing this work. I am honoured to be included with such amazing writers and artists! feelszine.com/products/dis...
January 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
My piece “MS Clinic” is in this beautiful issue of Feels! The launch was so lovely and Hannah, Sarah and Therese did an amazing job editing this work. I am honoured to be included with such amazing writers and artists! feelszine.com/products/dis...
So excited to read my piece and celebrate the FEELS Disability issue launch this Sunday! In-person and virtual event! www.eventbrite.ca/e/feels-issu...
FEELS Issue 23: Disability Launch Party
Join the creators of FEELS (including this issue's Guest Editor, Therese Estacion) to celebrate our 23rd issue, in person or online!
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January 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
So excited to read my piece and celebrate the FEELS Disability issue launch this Sunday! In-person and virtual event! www.eventbrite.ca/e/feels-issu...
Excited to share this Creative Nonfiction piece out in Honeyguide Literary Magazine! Bee in My Skylight is about a bee who came to visit and how it is hard to ask for help sometimes. 🐝 www.honeyguidemag.com/issue-9/new-...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Excited to share this Creative Nonfiction piece out in Honeyguide Literary Magazine! Bee in My Skylight is about a bee who came to visit and how it is hard to ask for help sometimes. 🐝 www.honeyguidemag.com/issue-9/new-...
Come see me next week at the Disability Holiday Market! Sunday December 8, 11am-5pm at Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street. Visit my instagram @knots_and_clay to see the hats, earrings and ornaments I have been making!
November 30, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Come see me next week at the Disability Holiday Market! Sunday December 8, 11am-5pm at Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street. Visit my instagram @knots_and_clay to see the hats, earrings and ornaments I have been making!
It’s a writing from bed kind of week. Symptoms are flaring and I am resting, reading and writing into the question that popped into my head when I couldn’t sleep, “what does the universe smell like?”
October 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
It’s a writing from bed kind of week. Symptoms are flaring and I am resting, reading and writing into the question that popped into my head when I couldn’t sleep, “what does the universe smell like?”
Thrilled to receive an honourable mention in the League of Canadian Poets Summer Lovin’ Contest! Congratulations to the winners and all the honourable mentions! Read the winning poems here: poets.ca/summerlovin2...
September 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Thrilled to receive an honourable mention in the League of Canadian Poets Summer Lovin’ Contest! Congratulations to the winners and all the honourable mentions! Read the winning poems here: poets.ca/summerlovin2...
Curious about me, my writing and my poem recently published by Pinhole Poetry? Check my interview with them here: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview... Thank you @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for creating space to share and learn more about the poets in the July 2024 issue!
August 16, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Curious about me, my writing and my poem recently published by Pinhole Poetry? Check my interview with them here: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview... Thank you @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for creating space to share and learn more about the poets in the July 2024 issue!
Check out my two new poems in Corporeal, “Language of Alone” and “The Messes are Mine” www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-14/re... These pieces are part of my poetic explorations of being immunocompromised and isolated over the last few years. Take a look at the other great work in this lovely lit mag!
Rebecca Wood — Corporeal
Decoding the symbology of aloneness
Reading the reference texts of connection
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July 21, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Check out my two new poems in Corporeal, “Language of Alone” and “The Messes are Mine” www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-14/re... These pieces are part of my poetic explorations of being immunocompromised and isolated over the last few years. Take a look at the other great work in this lovely lit mag!
Reposted by Bextatic
"gnawing knowing
safe in a fantasy
serving this moment
not really
what I want"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Small Screen Safety by Rebecca Wood (@bextatic.bsky.social) (2024 @pinholepoetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2786ptxu
safe in a fantasy
serving this moment
not really
what I want"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Small Screen Safety by Rebecca Wood (@bextatic.bsky.social) (2024 @pinholepoetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2786ptxu
· P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y
REBECCA WOOD Small Screen Safety lips partedsensuous silent solitudestill framelight curvequiet captureleading lustful longingidea of meno illness in imagemy body in anglesstrategic skin on screensafe...
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July 9, 2024 at 12:54 PM
"gnawing knowing
safe in a fantasy
serving this moment
not really
what I want"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Small Screen Safety by Rebecca Wood (@bextatic.bsky.social) (2024 @pinholepoetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2786ptxu
safe in a fantasy
serving this moment
not really
what I want"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Small Screen Safety by Rebecca Wood (@bextatic.bsky.social) (2024 @pinholepoetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2786ptxu
Find my poem “Small Screen Safety” in this beautiful new issue of Pinhole Poetry. I am so grateful to be a part of it! What a lovely day to explore desire.
Issue 3.2, our first themed issue, features the work of 28 poets and 2 pinhole photographers who have all engaged with the idea of desire. We’re so excited to see it out in the world. Please check it out online! We hope you enjoy & share it widely!
pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...
pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...
July 5, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Find my poem “Small Screen Safety” in this beautiful new issue of Pinhole Poetry. I am so grateful to be a part of it! What a lovely day to explore desire.
Reposted by Bextatic
Issue 3.2, our first themed issue, features the work of 28 poets and 2 pinhole photographers who have all engaged with the idea of desire. We’re so excited to see it out in the world. Please check it out online! We hope you enjoy & share it widely!
pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...
pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...
July 5, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Issue 3.2, our first themed issue, features the work of 28 poets and 2 pinhole photographers who have all engaged with the idea of desire. We’re so excited to see it out in the world. Please check it out online! We hope you enjoy & share it widely!
pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...
pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...
I have been having a lot of disturbing dreams lately so I was very appreciative this morning that my brain gave me a dream where I was SO excited I was about to meet Kermit. I lost my mind when I found out his nephew Robin was coming too. (Never actually met them but the anticipation was amazing.)
May 9, 2024 at 3:10 PM
I have been having a lot of disturbing dreams lately so I was very appreciative this morning that my brain gave me a dream where I was SO excited I was about to meet Kermit. I lost my mind when I found out his nephew Robin was coming too. (Never actually met them but the anticipation was amazing.)
Need a little poetry in your Sunday? I have three poems out in the current issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Read them or hear me read them here: wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...
Rebecca Wood – Wordgathering
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March 3, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Need a little poetry in your Sunday? I have three poems out in the current issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Read them or hear me read them here: wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...
Excited to share that my essay “Vocal Fold Messages” has been published in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. This piece is about my experience with bamboo nodules on my vocal folds caused my creatively overactive immune system. wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...
Rebecca Wood – Wordgathering
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February 22, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Excited to share that my essay “Vocal Fold Messages” has been published in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. This piece is about my experience with bamboo nodules on my vocal folds caused my creatively overactive immune system. wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...
I just completed my last of 12 medical appointments in a two month period. Specialists, MRI, testing, follow ups. I do not recommend. I continue to be tired.
November 15, 2023 at 8:19 PM
I just completed my last of 12 medical appointments in a two month period. Specialists, MRI, testing, follow ups. I do not recommend. I continue to be tired.