Ariel Gordon

So apply if you want to start building a writing practice. Apply if you want to play with words. Apply if you want to make some writer-friends.

So I will be offering a Writing Circle through the @wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social that meets monthly from December through April. And the deadline is THIS FRIDAY, November 21.

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Frozen walking-to-the-bus-stop crabapples. So, tell me, what are you going to make this week?

Happy Halloween, dollface! (This is an oldie, circa 2023, but a goodie…)

@palimpsestpress.bsky.social Poems from Stoaways, surfacing!

I’m grateful for this re-anthologizing, even if the poem Joanne selected for me is ANCIENT.

Thanks for this re-anthologizing!

You don’t get to be on McNally’s bestseller table very often, so I try to enjoy it… @greatplainspress.bsky.social @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social @mcnallyrobinson.com

So it was an honour to host the launch of Duncan Mercredi’s 7th poetry collection this afternoon at McNally’s. Poetry forever! @mcnallyrobinson.com @atbaypress.bsky.social

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So I spent the morning at Winnipeg Comic Con with @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social, chatting with people and looking at things. And, of course, I bought poetry at a comic con. Next: Duncan Mercredi’s launch (@atbaypress.bsky.social)
at McNally’s at 2 pm, which I’m hosting at @mcnallyrobinson.com.

The fence is long gone and whoever removed it, snipped the metal as close to the tree as they could. But, somehow, the tree looks happy. So I asked yesterday’s participants to respond to this tree, with the following in mind: why are trees so great for cities / why are cities so bad for trees?

…as we walked around, looking at everything: the trees, the stream that flowed through both properties, the stands of bur oak, the footbridge that connects them, the big old willow closest to the pool. But this tree caught me, snagging me on the chain link it had once grown through.

So yesterday I facilitated my first WPL WiR workshop, a nature-focused workshop in the trees surrounding the Windsor Park Library. We wound up ranging from the Windsor Park precinct over to the Bonivital Pool next door, which was closed for renovation. And it was a gorgeous day…

Robot mixtape!!

Thanks for this!

Yay! Thanks everyone! (And would you looooook at all the Manitoban & CDN writers on this list…) @mcnallyrobinson.com @greatplainspress.bsky.social

I’ll be at Winnipeg Comic Con on Sunday morning, sitting at @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social’s booth, signing copies of Blood Letters! Come visit! @greatplainspress.bsky.social @winnipegcomiccon.bsky.social

Looking forward!

There are a few spots left in this Saturday’s FREE urban nature creative writing workshop! Sign up/help me get the word out! @greatplainspress.bsky.social @wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social @atbaypress.bsky.social

So today I was heckled by the RRC Polytech Heritage Group in the middle of my presentation about mushrooms and foraging. They were not fun guys…

The launch should be great fun!

Spotted at @mcnallyrobinson.com! I’m looking forward to launching this book with @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social and @greatplainspress.bsky.social!

So last night I hosted the launch of Melanie Dennis Unrau’s visual poetry text Goose, which culminated with me asking the audience to HONK at her instead of applauding. @mcnallyrobinson.com

So my first FREE workshop at WPL has been announced: October 25 at the Windsor Park Library! Share/Sign up, friends!
@wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social

The launch for Blood Letters is TEN DAYS away, friends. It would be great to see you October 17 at @mcnallyrobinson.com! @greatplainspress.bsky.social

I’d always meant to read this book…and as I write on/about/through my mother’s hoarding disorder, it feels like this book has come to me at the right time. My plan is to buy a book from the sale every week and work with it somehow, by reading or maybe even using it for collage/palimpsest purposes.

Look what I found on the book sale shelf at the Millennium Library for seventy-five cents - Priscilla Uppal’s memoir Projection: encounters with my runaway mother.

Oh I’m looking forward to this!