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Niagara Falls Poetry Project
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Poetry of & about Niagara Falls & Niagara River – the waterfalls, the city, the history, the stunters etc. Also poetry written by Niagara poets. Curated by retired librarian Andrew Porteus @acporteus.bsky.social . Website at niagarapoetry.ca
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T.W. Kriner has been writing 4-by-4 poems lately - 4 lines with 4 beats per line, with a pair of rhyming couplets. 3 are about Niagara Falls - "The Niagara Dead," "Niagara Gorge 1993," and "The Late Fisherman in the Niagara Gorge." niagarapoetry.ca/author-search/ and scroll down to his name.
Author Search A-Z - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
An author search page listing poets in alphabetical order on the Niagara Falls Poetry Project, with titles of the poems that they have written
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December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Last summer I got an unexpected call from the Niagara CAA magazine asking if they could feature me in their "What's Your Favourite" column, which features local people talking about the area. The digital copy arrived this morning.

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COLUMN What's Your Favourite? - CAA Magazine | NIA | Winter 2025
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December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The City of St. Catharines is inviting applications from local poets for a one-year appointment as Poet Laureate, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the City's incorporation.

Get the details here www.stcatharines.ca/en/news/city...

#poetslaureate #Poet_Laureate #poetry #poets #St.Catharines
City of St. Catharines seeks Poet Laureate in celebration of the city’s 150th anniversary
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December 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Upcoming Sijo poetry workshop. Contact Keri Switzer bryant.keri@gmail.com for details
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Earlier this year I indexed "Behind the Bricks", a history of the #MohawkInstitute. On Tuesday it was launched at the Woodland Cultural Centre, where the Institute building was reopened as a museum. A powerful book, and a powerful museum.

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October 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I've posted a "new" poem on the website - "Falls of Niagara: A Sketch" by Newton orig. publ. in 1825 in the American #Baptist Magazine.

Check out this #poem & hundreds of other #poems about #NiagaraFalls at niagarapoetry.ca/2025/10/01/s... #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
October 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I've recently published #poetry from over 2 centuries apart - Lines Written at #Niagara by Oldschool (1807) & Once Walking in Old Niagara by Kriner (2025) Check out these & hundreds of other #poems about #NiagaraFalls at niagarapoetry.ca
#poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
A historic picture of a man reading at Prospect Point in Niagara Falls
September 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Episode 4 of #Niagara #History & #Poetry #podcast now up. The story of Avery & the photo Babbitt took of him clinging to a tree before his #death. #Poems by A. Duringer, W.D. Howells & @jamespenha.bsky.social
Youtube youtu.be/tWfRKluO_bA audio niagara-history-and-poetry.castos.com/episodes/nia...
Episode 4 Death and the Photographer: Joseph Avery and Platt Babbitt
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June 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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I've just posted a poem about the Battle of Cook's Mills by J. P. Merritt, about one of the last skirmishes in the #Warof1812. I've been looking for a #poem about this skirmish for a while, many thanks to Arden Phair for digging this one up for me #poetry #warpoems

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The Battle of Cook’s Mills and the Evacuation of Canada, 19 Oct., 1814 by J. P. Merritt - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
A short poem by Jedediah Prendergast Merritt commemorating the Battle of Cook's Mills, near Welland, in the War of 1812
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May 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Recently in #CostaRica visiting a couple who wintered there. Here is a Panamanian white-faced capuchin #monkey (more pics on my fb page www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...)
A Panamanian white-faced capuchin monkey in a tree in Costa Rica
May 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Vivid images abound in Joanne De Simone Reynolds' #poem "Niagara"

#poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #NiagaraFalls #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

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Niagara by Joanne De Simone Reynolds - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
Joanne De Simone Reynolds wrote this poem of Niagara Falls describing the impressions that a visitor to Niagara has.
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April 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Romance at #NiagaraFalls is alive and well, as Nolan Natasha describes in their #poem "Niagara Falls." Nolan also performs their poem on a video that is linked to on the page - it's well worth a view.
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity
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A photograph of author Nolan Natasha and the cover of their book "I can heard you, can you hear me?"
March 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Got a message from my #podcast aggregator congratulating me for being # 97 in the category #History (Indonesia). Thanks for that. I guess @jamespenha.bsky.social may have something to do with that! (BTW - Avery/Platt is the next episode) #Niagara #poetrycommunity #poetry
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Niagara Falls History and Poetry Podcast - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
The Niagara Falls History and Poetry podcast showcases historical events at Niagara Falls through the lens of the poetry written about them
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March 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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March 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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I’ve finally started a #podcast - #Niagara History and Poetry, in which I discuss the #history of Niagara Falls through the #poetry that has been written about it.
Youtube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Audio only niagara-history-and-poetry.castos.com
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#Poetrycommunity #PoetsofBluesky #poems
A picture of Niagara Falls with the text Niagara Falls History and Poetry
March 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Just added an 1857 romantic #poem, "Lines to Harriet," about a man reminiscing about his first love at the abandoned schoolhouse on Clifton Hill, #NiagaraFalls. Includes a #history of the schoolhouse.
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#poetry #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
Lines to Harriet by Traveller - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
Lines to Harriet is a poem written by an anonymous traveller about an infatuation he had as a schoolboy in Niagara Falls
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February 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Brock Univ. #UNESCO #Sustainability #Poetry #Contest is open to #Niagara Residents until February 14, 2025. 2 themes - Int'l Year of Peace & Trust & Int'l Year of Glaciers' Preservation.
Prizes!
Click link to see past winners
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#PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Poems
Poster for the Brock University UNESCO Chair's sustainability poetry contest
January 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Salon of the Refused - St. Catharines

Join us at the Salon of the Refused at the Niagara Artists Centre in S. Catharines on March 20, 2025. Hosted as part of the Phylum Press reading series. phylumpress.ca
#poetrycommunity #poetry #readings
Poster for the Salon of the Refused event held at the Niagara Artists Centre in St. Catharines, March 20, 7-9 pm
January 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Preparing an episode of my upcoming #podcast on the #history of #NiagaraFalls through #poetry, the sad tale of Joseph Avery, using #poems by William Dean Howells, James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social as main poetic sources, & then found a poem by Alexander Duringer @alexanderduringer.bsky.social
Daguerrotype by Platt Babbitt of Joseph Avery clinging to a tree branch shortly before being swept over Niagara Falls
January 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Unfortunately, my website is down for some reason. I have contacted customer support but it hasn't reappeared yet. As I'm Canadian, I can still access my TikTok account, which I did for the first time in ages. Probably also the last time in ages also.
Screenshot reading "Error in establishing a database connection"
January 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Nikola Tesla had a huge influence in the development of #NiagaraFalls, inventing the AC electrical system. There are #statues of him on both sides of the Falls. E.R. Baxter III wrote this #poem featuring the American statue
#Blueskypoetry #poetry #electricity niagarapoetry.ca/2025/01/17/n...
Nicola Tesla Dreaming on Goat Island by E. R. Baxter III - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
A poem written to commemorate the achievments of Nicola (Nikola) Tesla, inventor of the AC current generating systems.
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January 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Join us for the Poetry Exchange, at the Niagara Falls Exchange, 5943 Sylvia Place, Niagara Falls, Ont., January 16, 5-9 pm.
Bring along your #poetry, or your favourite #poem by someone else, to read, and listen to other local poets reading their poems.
Light refreshments are provided.
Poster advertising the Poetry Exchange at the Niagara Falls Exchange, 5943 Sylvia Place, Niagara Falls, Ont., January 16, 5-9 pm.
January 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Just spent a challenging 2 days adding a long Spanish-language #poem to the website - El Poema del Niágara by Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde, written in 1880. Now looking for an English-language translation to add also.
niagarapoetry.ca/2025/01/12/b...

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#Blueskypoetry
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El Poema del Niágara by Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde wrote this poem about Niagara Falls in July 1880 during a visit to the falls
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January 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM