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Poet's work Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoff from this condensery

“Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade.” A poem by Lorine Niedecker.

I will someday be the gossip canlit needs. I’m working on it.

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025: A Video Countdown to watch previous video countdowns please visit: https://www.videocountdowns.com/ this year's video is once again in support of the Palestine Children's…

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025

A Video Countdown

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Can’t wait to read this! I rewatched Labyrinth so much that I wore out the VHS. That codpiece began a lifelong obsession with Bowie.

At a Victoire vs. Frost PWHL game at Place Bell (Let’s 👏 Go 👏 Victoire) and just now learning that an Islander plays for Minnesota. Torn loyalty for this Montrealer from PEI.

How does the real interact.
Perception leaves a skeleton.

Abandonment witnesses ruins,
stagnant plastic private strangeness.

Charged with the flood, random
interior exile followed.

— from Long Exposure (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Stephanie Bolster

Aw thanks 🥰

I agree. It’s like diving into the most delicious gossip sesh with a friend you know is oh so wrong, but who nonetheless delivers the goods.

A dream!

Oh no. I related too hard

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Updating my CV. Does “working for years as an underpaid adjunct with no benefits” go under “service to the profession”?

Extraordinary news! If I am not directly teaching Simpson’s writing (which I presently am), I’m recommending it to everyone I know.

I teach Wednesday evenings until 10 PM so, though it breaks my heart, I will miss this. Have an extra magical evening!

A reunion. In Montreal. 05Nov 7pm @argobookshop.bsky.social

Cory. @gaspereaupress.bsky.social
Jessica. @gooselane.bsky.social
Kirby. @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

Free. Come hither. Feast. Enjoy. #reading #poetry
www.argobookshop.ca/events

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
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Long Exposure • Montreal Review of Books Temporally and geographically expansive, Long Exposure’s apparent digressions sediment into uncanny layers.

“I’ve heard it said the only safe terrain is to write about oneself because you’re not encroaching on anyone else’s material experience of trauma. But... I don’t feel like I know where I end and someone else begins. There’s no pure self that is not touched by other people.” ❤️‍🔥

~Stephanie Bolster

She stood apart from her own stardom, even as she desired recognition, and so successful was Keaton’s deflection of her “I” that we hardly noticed that her career lasted as long as those of her most successful male contemporaries—Pacino, De Niro, and so on—something very rare for a female star.

Deep thanks for the playlist at the back! I’m listening to it now while playing Super Mario Galaxy & I feel like I’m back in my childhood home on PEI playing Nintendo beside the kitchen radio.

From Eric Schmaltz’s I CONFESS.

I look for you like a mushroom peering
through soil & new earthly shades / I

find you at the riverside & I give you
a golden melon that I grew just last
spring / I

tuck your book into the bottom of my
bookcase & walk by softly each day

Reading @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social’s I CONFESS.

From “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World” in Ryan Fitzpatrick’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN

history flips
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks

Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.

JUST IN. #MONTREAL

Jessica HIEMSTRA @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social
KIRBY @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Cory LAVENDER @gaspereaupress.bsky.social

05 NOV 7PM
ARGO BOOKSHOP
argobookshop.ca/

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

Montreal vigil & march for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Trans & Two-Spirit people happening Oct. 4 An annual vigil and march are taking place in Montreal to memorialize and mobilize for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Montreal vigil & march for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Trans & Two-Spirit people happening Oct. 4

The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame | The Tyee Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it.

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it. @tyolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

This is one of the most euphonious headlines I’ve ever read.