Vanessa Stauffer

Canada eyes putting nuclear reactors on the moon | CBC News In order to maintain a presence on the moon, there’s going to be a need for energy. How do you maintain a colony of people in a place that has roughly 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 days of darkne...

wtf we haven't even finished blowing up earth yet www.cbc.ca/news/science...

also shout-out to the taxpayers of ontario, thanks to whom I still have a house to run home to AND recovery milkshake cash, public health care 4ever

I inaugurated the Windsor free half marathon and decided to keep going since this month is 14 years cancer-free. Shout out to Dr Peter Ferguson, who possesses the bonkers ability to remove part of a leg in such fashion that it can still do dumb shit like this.

I have an intense desire to dress up as an inflatable frog for halloween and possibly also for the rest of my life

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

"The Window" by Lynda Hull & some bonus VS whatever is the poetry equivalent of fanfic.

just poetry things (& my actual favourite poet)

dear M&S poetry editors, please acquire the manuscript I sent you

I guess having your soul crushed by a multinational corporate monolith would be exciting in a way

lmao no you do not have an exciting opportunity penguin random house

An image of Maid Marian and Robin Hood from the animated film Robin Hood

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

A Bite of the Apple - Biblioasis A GLOBE AND MAIL GLOBE 100 BOOK Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable […]

Lennie Goodings: www.biblioasis.com/shop/non-fic...

the guy in the crowd saying "welcome to the war zone" through a megaphone for president

DARK LIKE UNDER by Alice Chadwick (@biblioasis.bsky.social). Reviewed by @wildsustenance.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/dark...

I did indeed price train tickets from Windsor—but there's a virtual attendance option you can register for here, too.

Counterpoint: people are complex

A list of words for coffee in ten different languages...

10. Welsh = coffi
9. French = café
8. Manx = caffee
7. Romanian = cafea
6. Dutch = koffie
5. German = kaffee
4. Swedish = kaffe
3. Malagasy = kafe
2. Icelandic = kaffi
1. Ojibwe = makade-mashkikiwaaboo (literally “black medicine water”)

"Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass In which Plato, Saussure, and Helen Vendler walk into a childhood river.

should probably rebrand as "Oldies but Goodies"

YOU’RE A LECTERN oh wait

phew am I enjoying having an adult at the podium

"Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem" by Bob Hicok Three memories, Or: why you should call up a friend and read a poem to her.

I don't know what to do with myself anymore, so it seems that I do this. follow along if you are similarly aimless and besotted by poems.

Lmao

"The Guild" by Edward Hirsch This one is for my brothers, living, lost to me, and dead.

this is *not* my favourite poem, for once, but it's still a good one (and a favourite poet, and my favourite blue heron).

Quote graphic featuring the following quote from Prime Minister Carney’s statement on Canada’s recognition of Palestine: “Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.
 
My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

"Preludes" by T.S. Eliot Eternal heartache of the cosmic kind

I wrote about—surprise—my favourite poem.

Thank you to @thewalrus.ca for including Robyn Sarah's new collection WE'RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW in their 'Best Books of Fall 2025'!

For those of you in Montreal, a reminder that Robyn Sarah will be launching her book tomorrow, September 18, @ 5PM at Librairie Bertrand. We hope you can make it!

A lovely German phrase for describing a place in the middle of nowhere is wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen. It means “where the fox and hare say goodnight.”

The greatest thing, he said, was presence
To be yourself in your own time, to stand up
That poetry was precision, raw precision
Truth and compassion: genius