Grateful to the ever-generous rob mclennan for reading my chapbook 😊

small one has ukulele lesson today, so starting to go through yesterday’s haul from the small press book fair, including new chapbooks by Stuart Ross, Hugh Thomas, Tamsyn Farr + emily shafer, // @tamsynfarr.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social

Making a chapbook. The process:
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Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

New Study Finds Human Beings Were Never Meant To Wake Up From Sleep
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During bad times the trees have to work extra hard. The ecumenical scene in the Metro Central YMCA men’s change room is the hardest working in the city. Joy & light into the darkness. The things this display has seen. 🎄 13/10

#EveryCorporateChristmasTreeInToronto

the great and generous @robmclennan.bsky.social asked me questions and well, i answered them

Six Questions interview (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) #218 : Tamsyn Farr / @tamsynfarr.bsky.social ;
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This is the most insightful and useful piece of political writing that I've read since the November election.
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“We have poetry / so we do not die of history."

- Meena Alexander