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Thank you to the medical admin person who, when I mentioned I wrote poetry about my experience navigating the medical system, not only asked me to write down where she could read it but today followed up to tell me specifically what she loved about it and asked if she could share it with others.💜

REST/UNREST | 48.3 - ROOM Magazine ROOM 48.3: REST/UNREST Editor: Rachel Thompson Assistant Editor: Holly Lam Shadow: Hamdah Shabbir Cover Art: The End by Diana Nguyễn In this issue: Lilith Acadia, Calypso André, Lisa Baird, Chri...

I have two poems in the upcoming issue of Room Magazine on the theme REST/UNREST. Pre-orders available now! roommagazine.com/product/rest...

This week I got back into a virtual room with my writing group that hasn’t met since June and last night I went to a community bonfire celebrating a lovely writing community I am a part of. Wow does it feel nice to celebrate successes and create simultaneously with other writers!

Cover of TRANSITION magazine visible under an open copy that shows the title “Depressive Wayfaring” by Rebecca Wood. There is an image of a compass and the first part of the text of the essay is visible “Trauma is cumulative. Life experiences later on top of one another to create a palimpsest map that leads the body towards safety, marking pathways, rerouting nervous system responses for self protection…”

I’m so proud to share my essay “Depressive Wayfaring” is out now in the Canadian Mental Health Association magazing TRANSITION. Available for subscribers here: sk.cmha.ca/documents/tr...

Two years ago I published my first poem and it has been a goal to appear in print in a Canadian publication!

Hospital Mindfulness Program Pantoum Transient discomfort of uncertain origin Activating ancient internal reactions

I wrote a pantoum about mindfulness and I am glad it found a home with Kneebrace Press! kneebracepress.com/2025/04/15/h...
The repetition and rearranging of this form felt like a reflection of the learning and relearning I experience while meditating.

That picture!

I highly recommend you read this story by one of my forever friends Lia Matthew Brown instead of scrolling on your phone!

Text reads kneebracepress.com Illness Survival Skills By Rebecca Wood Finding the edges of functionality When sick is not contagious Body heaving with thought distortions Incapable mind bile Bitter

I am so pleased to share my poem “Illness Survival Skills” published this week by Kneebrace Press kneebracepress.com/2025/03/25/i... This poem will appear in my debut chapbook “Multimorbid” out this year with kith books.

Cover of Fall-osophy: My Trip through Life with MS, a memoir by Ardra Sheppard. Below the title there is a drawing of a woman in a black dress. She is shown from shoulders down as though she has fallen with her feet in the air. One foot is wearing heels. The other foot is bare and the shoe has fallen off. Above the title is a drawing of a cane. Background of cover is pink, orange and green. Quote in the top corner “Bright, and spilling over with insight” -Rebecca Taussig author of Sitting Pretty

Thank you @ms-trippingonair.bsky.social and @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social for the opportunity to read this excellent book! I was diagnosed with MS around the same time as Ardra and I loved learning more about her life through her funny and engaging writing style.

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“Emergency Contact” by Rebecca Wood - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read “Emergency Contact” by Rebecca Wood.

This is a heavy one. It is about wanting to be the best support possible to a sibling in crisis and the uncertainty of what that can mean moment to moment. This poem received an honourable mention from the League of Canadian Poets summer contest and I am proud of it. poets.ca/emergency-co...

Image of the title page of my essay. Title MS Clinic at the top of the page. Graphic of a chapel stained glass window. Text at the bottom of the page by Rebecca Wood and page number 23. Below is the picture of the cover of Feels. Text Feels in pink at the top, painted art in the centre and text Disability issue at the bottom. Image border is purple.

My piece “MS Clinic” is in this beautiful issue of Feels! The launch was so lovely and Hannah, Sarah and Therese did an amazing job editing this work. I am honoured to be included with such amazing writers and artists! feelszine.com/products/dis...

FEELS Issue 23: Disability Launch Party Join the creators of FEELS (including this issue's Guest Editor, Therese Estacion) to celebrate our 23rd issue, in person or online!

So excited to read my piece and celebrate the FEELS Disability issue launch this Sunday! In-person and virtual event! www.eventbrite.ca/e/feels-issu...

Excited to share this Creative Nonfiction piece out in Honeyguide Literary Magazine! Bee in My Skylight is about a bee who came to visit and how it is hard to ask for help sometimes. 🐝 www.honeyguidemag.com/issue-9/new-...

Image Description: The Disability Holiday Market graphic, featuring a light blue background with snowflakes. At the top are the words "The Disability Collective & Wagner-Green Centre for Access and Inclusion present" in capital letters. Below are the words "The Disability Holiday Market" in a cursive font. Below are the words "Sunday, December 8, 2024 | 11 AM - 5 PM”, "Wychwood Barns", "Crafts | Food & Drinks | Gifts", and "Free Admission", all in capital letters. All text is in blue. At the top left and right corners are bunches of flowers in red, cream, and grey colours. At the bottom left and right corners are green evergreen trees. At the bottom is a layer of snow. In the centre of the snow is a blue booth with snow and a sprig of holly on top. The roof of the booth has dark blue vertical lines on it. In the centre of the booth is a kinara, mittens, a snow globe, a cake on a cake stand, a plate of jelly donuts, a menorah, and a dreidel. Underneath is a string of lights. Below are The Disability Collective and the Miles Nadal JCC logos. Below the booth are the words "thedisabilitycollective.com" and “mnjcc.org/access” in blue capital letters. To the left and right of the booths are stacks of wrapped presents in blue, white, and yellow hues. Beside the presents on either side are groups of people smiling and enjoying the Market

Come see me next week at the Disability Holiday Market! Sunday December 8, 11am-5pm at Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street. Visit my instagram @knots_and_clay to see the hats, earrings and ornaments I have been making!

It’s a writing from bed kind of week. Symptoms are flaring and I am resting, reading and writing into the question that popped into my head when I couldn’t sleep, “what does the universe smell like?”

Screen shot of honourable mentions for the Summer Lovin’ Contest. Full list of names and poem titles can be read with screen reader at https://poets.ca/summerlovin2024/

Thrilled to receive an honourable mention in the League of Canadian Poets Summer Lovin’ Contest! Congratulations to the winners and all the honourable mentions! Read the winning poems here: poets.ca/summerlovin2...

Curious about me, my writing and my poem recently published by Pinhole Poetry? Check my interview with them here: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview... Thank you @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for creating space to share and learn more about the poets in the July 2024 issue!

Rebecca Wood — Corporeal Decoding the symbology of aloneness Reading the reference texts of connection

Check out my two new poems in Corporeal, “Language of Alone” and “The Messes are Mine” www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-14/re... These pieces are part of my poetic explorations of being immunocompromised and isolated over the last few years. Take a look at the other great work in this lovely lit mag!

· P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y REBECCA WOOD Small Screen Safety lips partedsensuous silent solitudestill framelight curvequiet captureleading lustful longingidea of meno illness in imagemy body in anglesstrategic skin on screensafe...

"gnawing knowing
safe in a fantasy
serving this moment
not really
what I want"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Small Screen Safety by Rebecca Wood (@bextatic.bsky.social) (2024 @pinholepoetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2786ptxu

Find my poem “Small Screen Safety” in this beautiful new issue of Pinhole Poetry. I am so grateful to be a part of it! What a lovely day to explore desire.

Issue 3.2, our first themed issue, features the work of 28 poets and 2 pinhole photographers who have all engaged with the idea of desire. We’re so excited to see it out in the world. Please check it out online! We hope you enjoy & share it widely!

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I have been having a lot of disturbing dreams lately so I was very appreciative this morning that my brain gave me a dream where I was SO excited I was about to meet Kermit. I lost my mind when I found out his nephew Robin was coming too. (Never actually met them but the anticipation was amazing.)

Need a little poetry in your Sunday? I have three poems out in the current issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Read them or hear me read them here: wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...

Excited to share that my essay “Vocal Fold Messages” has been published in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. This piece is about my experience with bamboo nodules on my vocal folds caused my creatively overactive immune system. wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...

I just completed my last of 12 medical appointments in a two month period. Specialists, MRI, testing, follow ups. I do not recommend. I continue to be tired.