Pain and Beauty in This Year’s Poetry Reading: Full Circle

2022-11-17T11:56:56-05:00

Poetry is a place into which we can disappear from pain. In these collections, there are many other themes explored, but these passages intertwined like threads through my reading. In “A Toothless Crackhead Was the Mascot” from Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015): “This begins the concept

Pain and Beauty in This Year’s Poetry Reading: Full Circle2022-11-17T11:56:56-05:00

Autumn 2022, In My Reading Log (Twelve Indigenous Stories)

2022-11-14T15:21:54-05:00

A couple of weeks ago, I attended Wordstock, a literary festival in Northern Ontario (they presented all their events in-person and online), and one of my favourite discussions was between three northern Indigenous authors, which reminded me that I had intended to share some other recent Indigenous reads. The Wordstock

Autumn 2022, In My Reading Log (Twelve Indigenous Stories)2022-11-14T15:21:54-05:00

Autumn 2022, In My Stacks (with #MARM plans)

2022-10-24T16:17:18-04:00

As you might guess, many kilometres north now, I’ve found that the weather grows cold more quickly. It was a shock to change the bedding, to the December-Freeze set, at the end of September. To pull the scarves and toques from the closet (but not, quite, mittens and gloves).

Autumn 2022, In My Stacks (with #MARM plans)2022-10-24T16:17:18-04:00

Summer 2022, In My Reading Log

2022-10-05T11:24:50-04:00

Even though I am reading more than I was when we first arrived up here, my habits remain changed. I finished the new Thomas King—Thumps DreadfulWater—mystery. This is not the place to begin with the series (Anne, I’m looking at you!) but for loyal readers, who have followed from

Summer 2022, In My Reading Log2022-10-05T11:24:50-04:00

An Assortment of Indigenous Storytellers

2022-07-08T18:15:02-04:00

Lisa at AnzLitLovers is hosting a week dedicated to the works of indigenous authors, an event she has retitled First Nations Reading Week, July 3rd-10th, which is an excellent opportunity for me to mention a poetry collection that I absolutely loved earlier this year, in the company of a

An Assortment of Indigenous Storytellers2022-07-08T18:15:02-04:00
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