@mediapoet.bsky.social
Poet • Songbird • Media Artist
My latest entry! I’m slowly becoming oriented on Substack, and it’s helping me build a more disciplined writing practice.
17.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SALVAGE THIS WORLD
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03.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy hump day my pretties! The bird is on the wing...Hold fast, stay strong, stay safe. 💕
Photo: Frank Gargani
ART SAVES US
One of two poems of mine in the latest issue of subTerrain! I’m a page baby, so it’s always a thrill to see my words in print.
Gratitude to subTerrain and Anvil Press and to every hand that shapes beauty—thank you.
#makeartnotwar #artsavesus #poetryrocks
Two wordsmiths, one long, enduring friendship, and a much-needed night of good food, music, and even better company. So grateful for this woman.
12.12.2025 07:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Autumn stroll in my hood. Have an excellent day my pretties! 🥰
25.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Birthday to my thoughtful, beautiful, extraordinary son!
23.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hold fast my pretties as we enter another week of utter and unrelenting madness! 💕
#FightFascism #nomaplemaga #IAMWOKE #peoplehavethepower
Holy fuck! I was on the warpath about this. I abhor censorship! His ass should be fired.
27.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just completed Firebrand, a screenplay from my novel The Town Slut’s Daughter.
Runaway from rural Canada → punk icon in ’80s L.A. → everything she builds threatened by music, sex & violence.
Looking for agents/producers to help bring it to life. Leads/advice welcome.
Artwork: Victor Bonderoff
I can’t contain the news any longer! Amidst all the madness in this world, I’m thrilled to announce that my fourth poetry collection, 'Cariboo Ashes,' has found a home with the brilliant team at Anvil Press.
#MakeArtNotWar #Poetry #CaribooAshes #AnvilPress #comingsoon
PHOTO: Frank Gargani
Needed a haircut and a break from reality! Thanks Tina. tinabeauty.ca
10.09.2025 23:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vancouver women kick ass! Thanks for this Ruby Music/Geist story Connie Kuhns.
#womenrock #slaythepatriarchy #ThrowbackThursday
Prescient or what. Zealots have always creeped me out. The pendulum will swing the other way again, hopefully sooner than later. In the meantime, hold fast my pretties!
#ThrowbackThursday #makemusicnotwar #womeninrock #slaythepartriarchy
'Phainting' by Tina Schliessler. Also served as the cover for an AURAL Heather album.
02.08.2025 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brawny and burning with longing, Sideways hits the blacktop with women in control—riot grrrls, mall gangstas, heartbreak and heat on the horizon. The past haunts. The future beckons. Haley’s world swerves, crashes, and won’t let go.
#poetryrocks #makeartnotwar
Visible Verse Festival at The Cinémathèque, an annual showcase of videopoetry and poetry film that I used to curate and host, a celebration of this hybrid creative form, which integrates verse with media-art visuals produced by a camera or a computer. #ThrowbackThursday #makeartnotwar #poetrycommunity
03.07.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Art Saves Us.
#ThrowbackThursday
#makemusicnotwar
Wow, time flies and the bird is on the wing! But some things never change: Billeh is still brilliant and poetry still saves me. Happy Throwback Thursday my pretties! 💕
#makeartnotwar
#poetrycommunity
#ThrowbackThursday
#ProgressNotHate
#FightFascism
#nomaplemaga
Still buzzing! After years of connecting virtually, I finally met the fabulous, fascinating Bibbe Hansen in person—and we even shared the stage! At Great Weather for Media in NYC.
#ThrowbackThursday
#poetrycommunity
My mother, in the middle. What am I holding; a candle? A wand? Taken in Charleswood, MB, back when coffee tables were laden with ashtrays and doilies. I loved my mother though she wasn't easy to love. Childhood had warped her but we survived the generational abuse, just as she had. #MothersDay
12.05.2025 07:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Among the spines and stories that shaped me—still here, still writing, still daring to hope after the storm, and relieved after the election. Wishing love and light to my fellow Canucks. Have a wonderful weekend.
#ViveLeCanada
Photo: Frank Gargani
Word. We are truth tellers.
#makeartnotwar
VOTE AGAINST HATE. The neanderthals. This is a fight for our identity!
Vote against the rise of far right populism, disinformation, the erosion of democratic norms. A Poilievre-led, maple MAGA Canada aligned with an authoritarian U.S.regime is terrifying!
🇨🇦
#nomaplemaga
#ViveLeCanada
BRING YOUR KITE AND FLY IT.
I wonder if it works with drones. Denise Levertov—a poet whose language marched, mourned, and moved people to action. People are still refusing silence, submission. The sky’s wide, the wind’s still blowing. Keep The Movement rising.
#PeopleHaveThePower
#ResistFascism
Uncle Trump kicked out by the civilized world, on ground crying
We call for the global boycott of the United States.
Boycott the USA wherever you can, see a US product? Put it back. Need to vacation? Go anywhere else. Have a subscription? Unsubscribe. #BoycottUSA
