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Wendy McGrath (she/her)
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Métis writer/artist in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton). Winner of the 1st Prairie Grindstone Prize. My book The Beauty of Vultures (poetry) w photography by Danny Miles out now. Board member NeWest Press. #prairiegothic #writerwholovesbirds
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I've been putting together the 2025 Skateboarding Stories of the Year for the 'sletter. If you read a piece you loved or wrote something you're stoked on this year that is about or even tangentially related to skateboarding, lemme know.

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SSOTY - Simple Magic
The Skateboarding Stories of The Year is an annual effort to catalogue and celebrate the best skateboarding-related writing published per annum.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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We’re live!
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Tomorrow
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Edmonton and Saskatoon--Eamon McGrath is headed your way!

December 18-Edmonton-Bent Stick Brewing
December 19-Somewhere Else Pub

See you there!

#yegmusic #yxemusic #edmontonmusic #saskatoonmusic @beefyrecords.bsky.social @sperounes.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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✨ Check out this brand new review✨ of THE BEAUTY OF VULTURES poems by @wendymcgrath.bsky.social , photos by Danny Miles

Do you have your copy yet? Order from our online store or find at a bookstore near you!

#NeWestPress #BookReview #TheBeautyofVultures

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New Review, The Beauty of Vultures, poems by Wendy McGrath with photos by Danny Miles: "Both invitation and celebration: The Beauty of Vultures embodies the transformational power of creativity and attention." — Buried in Print
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Grateful to Edmonton readers and our local indie bookstores! Thrilled THE BEAUTY OF VULTURES is number 2 on the city's poetry bestseller list!
Thanks to @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social #paperbirchbooks @abbookpub.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social #dannymiles
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"Sometimes the books that affect us most profoundly are the most difficult to write about; this has been the case for me, with Wendy McGrath’s poems in The Beauty of Vultures..." Great "Buried in Print" blog review!

www.buriedinprint.com/the-beauty-of-vultures-by-wendy-mcgrath-and-danny-miles-2025/
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Oh also! (I did not know this was announced, haha.) :D

See you online next year for WisCon!
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Introducing our next Guest of Honor: Nebula Award Winning Author Premee Mohamed!
#WisCon2026 #Wiscon #premeemohamed #WisCONline2026
Purple ground with Wiscon logo and picture of dark-haired woman wearing blue and black. Text: Introducing our next guest of honor PREMEE MOHAMED, a Nebula, World Fatasy, Ignyte, Locus and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author. Hugo, British Fantasy, & Ursula K. Le Guin Finalist. Author of "The Butcher of the Forest." 2024 Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence. Crawford Award finalist. Wiscon.net Purple ground with four books by Premee Mohamed, the wiscon logo, and her bio. Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence. She is the author of the ‘Beneath the Rising’ series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com. Purple ground with the Wiscon logo and text: A Feminist and Inclusive SpecFic Community. WISCON ONLINE 2026.
October 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Writers/Podcasters: DM if you’re interested in me talking about our fancy new record in our 45th year as a band!!
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Spring book haul 😍📚
The World So Wide by Zilla Jones, All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rain by Sarain Frank Soonias, The Beauty of Vultures by Wendy McGrath and Danny Miles, and This Sweet Rupture by Omar Ramadan.
April 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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How do any of us know this?

Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-23 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking line comes to us from Fred Wah

#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
September 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Oh Fred, I love your sense of humour!

Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah

#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
September 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The Human Condition, briefly.

Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah.

#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
September 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Through art.

Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-26 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking lines come to us from Fred Wah.

#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
September 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Have I mentioned how much I love a good title? A really good one like this will rattle around my brain for days. Say it out loud a few times. Be with it.

Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-07 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking title comes to us from Samantha Jones.

#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Four, “Poetry” Magazine November, 2023

This got me thinking about who sang to me and sent me down a rabbit hole of re-reading Patrick Lane's and Pat Lowther's poetry, doing almost a complete re-read of Sheila Watson's "The Double Hook" one evening, and…
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Four, “Poetry” Magazine November, 2023
This got me thinking about who sang to me and sent me down a rabbit hole of re-reading Patrick Lane's and Pat Lowther's poetry, doing almost a complete re-read of Sheila Watson's "The Double Hook" one evening, and even committing to tracking down a replacement copy of Ted Hughes's "Crow" and Kenneth Koch's "The Art of Love" to replace volumes I lent out that were never returned. That's what is driving my creativity this week. Who sang to you?
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October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Thousands rallied in Edmonton for public education — calling out overcrowded classes, underfunding & privatization.

CBC was there covering what others ignore.
Public schools & public broadcasting serve us all.

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#SaveTheCBC #abpoli #PublicEducation
October 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Thrilled that THE BEAUTY OF VULTURES is Number 5 on the
Read Alberta Top Ten Most Borrowed ebooks for August 2025! Support your local library! Read Alberta!

@newestpress.bsky.social @abbookpub.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social #dannymiles #albertapubliclibaries #edmontonpubliclibrary
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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In the grand tradition of introductions, we inaugurate Li Isprii with an interview with the interviewer, Li Isprii Creative Director Jeremy Allard. A deep and wide ranging conversation touching on editorial intent, beadwork, fashion, photojournalism, and mixology.

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White text on a dark blue-green background decorated with small, white, dot-painted flowers reads, “[Stylized Li Isprii Logo], Conversations, Gleeful Mischief and the Metis Aesthetic: A Conversation with Li Isprii Creative Director Jeremy Allard” White text on a dark blue-green background decorated with small, white, dot-painted flowers reads, “Jeremy Allard is the head editorial decision maker, majority owner, and Creative Director of Li Isprii. He is a beadwork artist, works as a bar manager in Banff, Alberta, and designs cocktails for menus and competitions.” Above the text is a photo of Jeremy Allard looking over a colourful art gallery atrium exhibit in Saskatoon. He is wearing a dark jean jacket; the back panel is decorated with traditional Metis flower beadwork. A quote in white text on a dark blue-green background decorated with small, white, dot-painted flowers reads, “There's been a lot of really exciting stuff happening in the Metis arts scene. The thing we're lacking is not great art or great artists, it's the space to have a conversation about it that is informed by our own specific culture and geography - Jeremy Allard” White text on a dark blue-green background decorated with small, white, dot-painted flowers reads, “Read the full interview at liisprii.ca”
September 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Feed: "Alberta Views"
By: Alex Rettie on Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Beyond Touch Sites
McGrath complicates that narrative with poems, stories, essays and other short pieces by Canadian writers from a variety of backgrounds
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July 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Toronto! Join me & Danny Miles at West End Phoenix
Thurs. Sept. 11 at 7 pm! I'll read from THE BEAUTY OF VULTURES. BONUS: Danny's photographs (inspired the poems & included in the book) will be on display.

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August 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Toronto! Join me & Danny Miles at West End Phoenix
Thurs. Sept. 11 at 7 pm! I'll read from THE BEAUTY OF VULTURES. BONUS: Danny's photographs (inspired the poems & included in the book) will be on display.

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August 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Truly grateful! THE BEAUTY OF VULTURES is back on the @abbookpub.bsky.social Edmonton bestseller list! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy, our local booksellers & @newestpress.bsky.social

#dannymiles #ekphrasticpoetry #birdphotography #birding #poetry #buylocal #readlocal #iloveindiebookshops
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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See you in Toronto at @westendphoenix.bsky.social September 11 @ 7 pm!
I'll read from THE BEAUTY OF VULTURES with Danny Miles on hand to talk about the photos which inspired the poems in this collection.
August 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM