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I'm reading next Thursday, May 22. Celebrating the Al Purdy Prize & foundation, including this year's winner, Al Moritz, with Molly Peacock. I have one Al Purdy anecdote that I may or may not share. If I don't, it'll be my great silent ballad.

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Nils Frahm tonight at Massey Hall. 🤯 I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear.

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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

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Really excited to have Karen Solie on Vic’s campus next year as the Shaftesbury Writer in Residence. www.vic.utoronto.ca/academic-pro...

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I am asking Canadians for a strong, positive mandate to deal with President Trump and build a stronger economy here at home.

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When Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet, died in 2013, his last words were sent by text: Noli timere. “Don’t be afraid.” I wrote about these words, why I stopped fighting cancer, and knowing a black bear for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13... #booksky #cancer #naturewriting

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Meta AI missed two of my four books, the f*ckers! Plus among the dozen or so poems & articles they did pirate, they missed a TON of online content, prose & poetry that I've published over the years. What am I, chopped liver?

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I'm a firm believer that writing can change lives. Do take the time to read this piece - it's an eye-opener. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"and you can see that I am a sensitive man" 🌼

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Hertz in G&M, sugarcoating: "Flight Risk is not so bad that it is good – it is simply so bad that it is really terribly awfully very very very bad, the kind of zero-effort exercise that will leave even the most bruised and battered action-movie junkie begging for the sweet release of death itself."

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👀 Some welcome transparency here: On jury work: "Of the 118 books, I read 27 cover-to-cover (23%). I read less than 10% of 42 of the books (36%)... On winners: "70% of the finalists for the 2023 and 2024 Governor General’s Awards were first books; prizes too often treat writers like new cars" 👏👏

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Today is a Kid-A Da-Y…

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“you can’t write of discovery / without disco.” —Dancin’ Andy (Weaver)

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cf. my 15,000 one-word texts to my wife: "[Leibniz] seemed to be constantly in touch with everyone: his literary remains include fifteen thousand letters written to some thirteen hundred people." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Craig Davidson on Pyper: "When Andrew called me after returning from Italy knowing he had cancer, before he hung up he said: 'I love you.'" 💔 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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A sad day for all who had the privilege of knowing Andrew Pyper—a talented, kind, generous, genuine and joyful person, gone too soon and already missed. Please consider donating to Tree Canada in Andrew's name: justgiving.com/campaign/and...

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Still good.

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NYT finds space for 3 poetry books in its top 100. The Globe and Mail? A big fat 🍩 In a year when Ondaatje has a new collection too--that's one low hanging donut. The selectors seem to know poetry exists; they describe a few novelists as poets, as if it's relevant. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Coolness.

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Woof. No idea how the concept of this ad is supposed to play out but…I like it. I’m going with—hydrants rise up after years of being pissed on by 🐕.

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Deactivated Twitter. Happy birthday to me. 🥴

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“That’s the hardest thing about / becoming a poet, tomorrow you have to / wake up and become one all over again.” —Dobby Gibson

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Karen Solie is reading NEW poems at some rando's launch. Toronto, you should come out! 🎙️ Wed May 8, Noonan's Pub (formerly Dora's), Broadview & Danforth. 🪩 eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

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Lossless "takes the sonnet form down to its studs," says @chrisbankspoet.bsky.social. I'm going to steal that line. This is what you want in a review: what works, what doesn't, and healthy selections from the poems. The Woodlot is what we need. Thanks, Chris. 👏 the-wood-lot.ca/2024/03/30/h...

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Been proud to serve on the CH Poetry Board these past years. Sunday we join forces (w/o T. Liem, sadly) for the first time IN PERSON. Can't wait to see if I'm the tallest.

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Our children are like subatomic particles. We're desperate to know how they interact with world when we're not there. But the only way to learn is to observe, and the act of observation changes how they act. Anyway, a poem of mine. ⬇️ thewalrus.ca/i-pass-his-s...

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#lunchtimereading

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Lady Bird >>>>>>> Barbie

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Today's Monday was a Built-to-Spill-day day.

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Actual thought I just had while looking in a mirror: This shirt makes me look balder.

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Not bad for a lunchtime reading spot. 13th floor, Robarts.

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Realizing yet again that poems (and poetry collections) are never finished only abandoned.

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Auden rhyming ‘know it’ with ‘poet.’ Merry Christmas, all.

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‘What in the world’: Is there a better definition of time than James Schuyler’s?

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