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@jessisays.bsky.social
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Poet, teacher, scholar in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Cut Side Down (2025) and A Number of Stunning Attacks (2021) available from the small, scrappy, Canadian press Invisible Publishing. https://linktr.ee/jessisays
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Updating my CV. Does “working for years as an underpaid adjunct with no benefits” go under “service to the profession”?
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Extraordinary news! If I am not directly teaching Simpson’s writing (which I presently am), I’m recommending it to everyone I know.
writerstrust.bsky.social Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social · 11d
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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nsborwein.bsky.social
ACCUTE 2026 Call for Papers!

I am co-organizing a panel on "Indigenous Horror: Generic Disruptions" with Krista Collier-Jarvis.

The submission DEADLINE is 21 November 2025. See full guidelines:
accute.ca/2026-call-fo...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
A reunion. In Montreal. 05Nov 7pm @argobookshop.bsky.social

Cory. @gaspereaupress.bsky.social
Jessica. @gooselane.bsky.social
Kirby. @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

Free. Come hither. Feast. Enjoy. #reading #poetry
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October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
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November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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pittella.bsky.social
“I’ve heard it said the only safe terrain is to write about oneself because you’re not encroaching on anyone else’s material experience of trauma. But... I don’t feel like I know where I end and someone else begins. There’s no pure self that is not touched by other people.” ❤️‍🔥

~Stephanie Bolster
Long Exposure • Montreal Review of Books
Temporally and geographically expansive, Long Exposure’s apparent digressions sediment into uncanny layers.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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emilyyoshida.bsky.social
Jane Schoenbrun @sapphicspielbrg Babe wake up new lifelong dream project just dropped. Quote DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm Jane Schoenbrun is set to write & direct a series adaptation of ‘BLACK HOLE’ for Netflix. Howie Ratner from UNCUT GEMS saying “Holy shit I’m gonna cum”
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
jessisays.bsky.social
She stood apart from her own stardom, even as she desired recognition, and so successful was Keaton’s deflection of her “I” that we hardly noticed that her career lasted as long as those of her most successful male contemporaries—Pacino, De Niro, and so on—something very rare for a female star.
October 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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In a writing phase wherein, every two months, I sit down and write 30-100 lines that are ultimately very satisfying. I stand, exhausted, and I immediately want to return to the feeling but I know it will only return, with any result, in another 60+ days. I could force the matter, but it never works.
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I look for you like a mushroom peering
through soil & new earthly shades / I

find you at the riverside & I give you
a golden melon that I grew just last
spring / I

tuck your book into the bottom of my
bookcase & walk by softly each day

Reading @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social’s I CONFESS.
October 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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history flips
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks

Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
JUST IN. #MONTREAL

Jessica HIEMSTRA @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social
KIRBY @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Cory LAVENDER @gaspereaupress.bsky.social

05 NOV 7PM
ARGO BOOKSHOP
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October 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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jlalibs.com
What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Montreal vigil & march for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Trans & Two-Spirit people happening Oct. 4
Montreal vigil & march for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Trans & Two-Spirit people happening Oct. 4
An annual vigil and march are taking place in Montreal to memorialize and mobilize for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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akkabah.bsky.social
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it. @tyolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...
The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame | The Tyee
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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beepthief.bsky.social
This is one of the most euphonious headlines I’ve ever read.
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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jacobwren.bsky.social
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems / to the absurdity of not writing poems”
- Wislawa Szymborska
September 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Tempted by the desperate depths of “revenge procrastination” mid-day as I work from home in preparation for fall classes and various tasks, I am rewarding 25-minute periods of “productivity” (whatever that may be) with a Beyoncé dance break. “Love On Top” has brought my mood to its peak.
August 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Misha Solomon's "Yesterday Down at the Canal", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/yester...
Excerpt from Misha Solomon's poem "Yesterday Down at the Canal", published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.
August 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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rilaws.bsky.social
Always read Bob
Two Showgirls In Love: Travis Kelce And Taylor Swift Have A Chat | Defector
A few minutes into her Aug. 13 appearance on New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift said, “This is my first podcast.” I thought she was making a little joke—surely she’d talked to Marc Ma...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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akkabah.bsky.social
Every single sexual assault court case I see in the news makes me feel relieved I never reported mine.
August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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sarahwolfson.bsky.social
Happy to have a new poem in the summer reading issue of @thewalrus.ca . Thanks to @cstarnino.bsky.social for the editorial stewardship. thewalrus.ca/and-then-cam...
And Then Came the Day | The Walrus
Afterward, let’s go home and lay failure, longing, / and some lost cicada husks all belly up on the table
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August 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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choire.bsky.social
Why am I rooting for her though. www.thecut.com/article/food...
Around the same time, the finance department asked some staffers to comb through Muldoon’s previous expenses and note anything they couldn’t account for. At that point, they realized there were hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspicious spending. Right before Muldoon was scheduled to come back from her medical leave, she told a colleague that she had requested more time off, which the company denied. When she came back, she was terminated. Colleagues were told that she had been fired for misuse of company funds. Three months later, she was on a flight to Mexico that she had paid for on the company card when she was still at Food52. To her old colleagues, it seemed like Muldoon had gotten away with it. “She basically walked away with all of the clothes. And the memories,” said a former staffer. While she had blocked most of her former colleagues on social media, some still had access, watching in awe as she ran the New York City Marathon despite her alleged medical issues and relocated to Los Angeles. In February 2024, she was hired at Substack as its podcast and video acquisition-and-development lead. She was employed for fewer than 90 days.
August 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM