Sadiqa de Meijer

Thank you for reading 🧡!

Yes, I can understand this, and I am also pleased I got to read the phrase 'eyelash mites obviously' today.

This happened!?

Poster in dusty pink and teal for a literary reading: Stacey Easton and Sadiqa de Meijer at The Printed Word on Fri Sep 26th at 6 pm, hosted by Pasha Malla, 16 McMurray St #3 in Dundas Ontario.

Please join us. #hamont

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Thank you, Carolyn 🧡!

Thank you, Annick 🧡!

Thank you, Liz 🧡!

Three copies of my book 'In The Field' in a skewed stack among a Sarindar Dhaliwal print (a row of green pencil crayons), an Escher print (two hands drawing each other), a photograh of Etty Hillesum, another of the Kariokor cemetery, a Kenojuak Ashevak print (red bird plumage).

These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years.

Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.

Thanks so much, Theresa!

My thanks to On Creative Writing for the chance to talk about the writing process & software that writes for us & other matters.

That's really interesting.

And seeing the poem again showed me that I can lay it beside my current ms and find: similar themes, deeper engagement.

Also, my predecessor Jason Heroux is such a wonderful poet.

Hey, thank you for reading, Matthew! I hadn't thought of this poem in a long while.

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A sprawling 'chinese lantern' plant on a lawn along the sidewalk, its greenery studded with deep orange lantern-shaped husks.

Some years require a lot of lanterns.

Two strips of paper with torn edges on a wooden floor. They say: When I write I am always mid-field --on one leg -- the other poised over killdeer eggs

Found some old papers and there was a Phill Hall line I'd written out to hang over my writing table.

Hey, would you like to support Kirby's stellar small press, which nourishes writers and makes beautiful books, and also receive their chapbook in which I wrote about how literature is a miraculous and double-edged medium?

Next Free Veggie Market Aug 24 2pm at 52 Bayswater - Free organic veggies! - also seeking table contributions of homegrown, canned, baked, or pantry goods.

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Thank you, darling 🧡!

Thank you, Sarah 🧡!

Thank you, Sheetal 🧡!

I'm so grateful to Aimee Parent-Dunn, Jim Johnstone, and all at Palimpsest Press & their Anstruther Books imprint, and to Liz Johnston.

Half of my book sale earnings will be donated to The Sameer Project.

And if you're going to ask that dreaded question, what is it about - well, it explores looking at art, attending medical school to become a poet, being told to go back to where you come from, actually going back to where you come from. Of course, Etty Hillesum is in it. And a water scorpion.

A book cover with a landscape painting of a grewn foreground, yellow field, green treeline, the suggestion of a red-roofed house, blue sky. The text says: From the award-winning author of alfabet/alphabet Sadiqa de Meijer IN THE FIELD.

Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.

Poet Laureate, would love to be added.

Congratulations, Carolyn!

Etty Hillesum's thick book (dark red cloth cover with gold letters: ETTY HILLESUM HET WERK 1941-1943) lies on The New Quarterly, which is opened to my essay After Etty.

In this essay I follow the route of Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum from Amsterdam to Westerbork, and I'm grateful to TNQ for including it in their summer issue. One would like to be a balm on many wounds, are Hillesum's journal's near-last words. Please read her any chance you get.

Thank you! I love the theme of the issue, am honoured to have the essay included.