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Micheline Maylor

@michelinemaylor.bsky.social

Independent academic, poet, editor, reviewer, writing and mindfulness mentor.

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Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative Henry Fonda originally formed the Committee for the First Amendment was in 1947.

Oscar-winning actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of โ€œMcCarthyismโ€ during the 1940s. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Review of Wade Davis' "Beneath the Surface of Things" | FreeFall Magazine By Michael Frey Beneath the Surface of Things by Wade Davis Greystone Books (2024) Wade Davis' latest essay collection "Beneath" offers a social

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of Wade Davisโ€™ Beneath the Surface of Things @greystonebooks.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-wa...

15.09.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of Blaine Newton's "Rag Pickers" | FreeFall Magazine By Vivian Hansen Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton University of Calgary Press (2025) Thomas Trofimukโ€™s blurb offered me a guiding question on this review of

new review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social or @BlaineNewton's Rag Pickers by @VivianHansen and @UniversityofCalgaryPress: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-bl...

07.09.2025 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of Tolu Oloruntoba's "Unravel" | FreeFall Magazine By Catherine Owen Unravel by Tolu Oloruntoba Penguin Random House (2025) Unravel is a poetry of serious sonority, worthy of engraving on stone: lyrical,

New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @toluini.bsky.social Unravel by @CatherineOwen and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-to...

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TtD supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold Lisa Pasold grew up in Tio'tia:ke/Montrรฉal. She is a storyteller and poet. She has published 6 books, mostly of poetry; a chapbook, Kindnes...

Touch the Donkey supplement #283 : seven questions for Lisa Pasold
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11.08.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is lovely news and we're particularly delighted to see Douglas Barbour, whose poetry we published many years ago, honored this way:

05.08.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of Aisha Sasha John's "Total" | FreeFall Magazine By Catherine Owen Total by Aisha Sasha John McClelland and Stewart (2025) Performative poetry, page-bound, retains its power, but also establishes a

new review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social by @CatherineOwen. @AishaSashaJohn's Total and @McClellandandStewart freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ai...

04.08.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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another morning if wee oneโ€™s swim lesson, as I explore new poetry titles by Lorne Daniel and Susan Musgrave (ed. Micheline Maylor, // @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social @michelinemaylor.bsky.social

22.07.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of A.F. Moritz's "Great Silent Ballad" | FreeFall Magazine By Beth Everest Great Silent Ballad by A.F. Moritz House of Anansi (2024) The 22nd book of poetry by A.F. Moritz is not a quick read. Nor should it be.

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. Al Moritz, The Great Silent Ballad with @houseofanansi.bsky.social is revied by Beth Everest. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-a-...

18.07.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of Hollay Ghadery's "Rebellion Box" | FreeFall Magazine By Kathryn MacDonald Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery Radiant Press (2023) Perhaps one shouldnโ€™t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Rebellion Box

New review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @hollay.bsky.social Rebellion Box by @kathrynMacDonald and @radiantpress.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ho...

07.07.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The great unboxing of @SusanMusgrave's collected works. @wlupress.bsky.social Out now!

06.07.2025 20:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of Beth Everest's "Some of the Facts" | FreeFall Magazine By Megan Nega Some of the Facts: Jasper: When Tales Were Told by Beth Everest Frontenac House (2024) Beth Everestโ€™s new collection of short fiction about

@MeganNega thoughtfully reviews @BethEverest's Some of the Facts: stories about Jasper. All proceeds go to fire relief.

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Gah! Her work is awesome!

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artsPlace - National Indgenous People's Day Movie Night Exploring Indigenous stories and conservation initiatives.

@CanmoreArtsPlace in Canmore Alberta on June 21st. artsplacecanmore.com/whats-on/scr...

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Bullfrog Films presents...Meddle
YouTube video by Bullfrog Films Bullfrog Films presents...Meddle

Hey @mnystudio.bsky.social ! Your film is coming to my town! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqd...

11.06.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of Michael Blouin's "Hard Electric" | FreeFall Magazine By Catherine Owen Hard Electric by Michael Blouin Anvil Press (2024) A reviewerโ€™s main aim should be to offer intelligent critique within a context of the

New Review @freefallmagazine.bsky.social ! @CatherineOwen Reviews @MikeBlouin's Hard Electric: freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-mi...

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Last year, while I was writing at Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, in NS, w/ my friend & fellow writer, Sandra McIntyre, I began an essay that would speak to my ideas of what โ€œhomeโ€ means to me. Thanks to @michelinemaylor.bsky.social & FreeFall Magazine for giving my
essay a good home. ๐Ÿ™โค๏ธ

07.06.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of Rayanne Haines' "What Kind of Daughter?" | FreeFall Magazine By Tonya Lailey What Kind of Daughter? by Rayanne Haines Frontenac House Poetry (2024) The title of Rayanne Hainesโ€™ fourth book of poetry asks one of many

New review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social of @RayanneHaines' What Kind of Daughter by @tonyalailey.bsky.social and @FrontenacHousePress freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ra...

13.05.2025 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œYour prayers, oh Passer by!โ€

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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Saganโ€™s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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Rappelling Commonwealth Couloir with skis on our backs
YouTube video by Nate Yauck Rappelling Commonwealth Couloir with skis on our backs

Make my son and his friends go viral and find sponsorship @acteryx.bsky.social @patagonia.com @Petzl

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D.D. Jackson Quartet (feat. Yoon Choi): "SO, SAY I" [music by D.D.; lyrics by Micheline Maylor]
YouTube video by D.D. Jackson D.D. Jackson Quartet (feat. Yoon Choi): "SO, SAY I" [music by D.D.; lyrics by Micheline Maylor]

@D.D.Jackson @YoonSunChoi @GeorgeKoller and @larnelllewismusic.bsky.social made my poem sing!! This is awesome! Thanks, Music Friends! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJZi...

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Review of Jann Everard's "Blue Runaways" | FreeFall Magazine By Jonathan Greenbaum Blue Runaways: Stories by Jann Everard Stonehewer Books (2024) Those of us who read the CanLit magazines know that emerging writers

New Review up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. @JonathanGreenbaum reviews @JanEverardโ€™s Blue Runaways. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ja...

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Day 21 is Susan Musgraveโ€™s really beautiful book of poems, Exculpatory Lilies. Musgraveโ€™s work is stunningโ€ฆas always. Here are a few of my favourites from this collection.

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Love, love!!!

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Re: Wild Her - Quill and Quire Shannon Webb-Campbellโ€™s latest poetry collection, Re:Wild Her, is inhabited by an otherworldly narrator โ€“ part mystic, part pagan, part cool auntie, part It girl, all the way feminist goddess. The ded...

My review of @ShannonWebbCampbellโ€™s Re:Wild Her @bookhugpress.bsky.social is up on @quillandquire.bsky.social. Check it out.

quillandquire.com/review/re-wi...

22.04.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review of David Martin's "Limited Verse" | FreeFall Magazine By Vincent Potter Limited Verse by David Martin University of Calgary Press (2024) The best science fiction uses its theoretical framing to investigate

review of David Martin's Limited Verse @universityofCalgaryPress is up @freefallmagazine.bsky.social : freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-da...

14.04.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How NOT to break Copyright Law #writer #writerslife #authorsky #amwriting #writingcommunity

14.04.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OMG, I love this!

04.04.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Glad to have my review of Bret Crowleโ€™s book of poems, Jesus is a Voyeur (Frontenac Press) published in @periodicities.bsky.social.๐ŸŒฟ

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