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bextatic.bsky.social
Writer and poet playfully exploring what it means to exist in a body with multiple chronic illnesses. She/her. I live with my plants and craft supplies in Toronto. My poetry and creative nonfiction can be found linked here: https://linktr.ee/bextatic
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This is a heavy one. It is about wanting to be the best support possible to a sibling in crisis and the uncertainty of what that can mean moment to moment. This poem received an honourable mention from the League of Canadian Poets summer contest and I am proud of it. poets.ca/emergency-co...

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My piece “MS Clinic” is in this beautiful issue of Feels! The launch was so lovely and Hannah, Sarah and Therese did an amazing job editing this work. I am honoured to be included with such amazing writers and artists! feelszine.com/products/dis...

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So excited to read my piece and celebrate the FEELS Disability issue launch this Sunday! In-person and virtual event! www.eventbrite.ca/e/feels-issu...

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Excited to share this Creative Nonfiction piece out in Honeyguide Literary Magazine! Bee in My Skylight is about a bee who came to visit and how it is hard to ask for help sometimes. 🐝 www.honeyguidemag.com/issue-9/new-...

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Come see me next week at the Disability Holiday Market! Sunday December 8, 11am-5pm at Wychwood Barns 601 Christie Street. Visit my instagram @knots_and_clay to see the hats, earrings and ornaments I have been making!

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It’s a writing from bed kind of week. Symptoms are flaring and I am resting, reading and writing into the question that popped into my head when I couldn’t sleep, “what does the universe smell like?”

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Thrilled to receive an honourable mention in the League of Canadian Poets Summer Lovin’ Contest! Congratulations to the winners and all the honourable mentions! Read the winning poems here: poets.ca/summerlovin2...

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Curious about me, my writing and my poem recently published by Pinhole Poetry? Check my interview with them here: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview... Thank you @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for creating space to share and learn more about the poets in the July 2024 issue!

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Check out my two new poems in Corporeal, “Language of Alone” and “The Messes are Mine” www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-14/re... These pieces are part of my poetic explorations of being immunocompromised and isolated over the last few years. Take a look at the other great work in this lovely lit mag!

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"gnawing knowing safe in a fantasy serving this moment not really what I want" #TodaysPoem #poetry Small Screen Safety by Rebecca Wood (@bextatic.bsky.social) (2024 @pinholepoetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2786ptxu

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Find my poem “Small Screen Safety” in this beautiful new issue of Pinhole Poetry. I am so grateful to be a part of it! What a lovely day to explore desire.

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Issue 3.2, our first themed issue, features the work of 28 poets and 2 pinhole photographers who have all engaged with the idea of desire. We’re so excited to see it out in the world. Please check it out online! We hope you enjoy & share it widely! pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...

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I have been having a lot of disturbing dreams lately so I was very appreciative this morning that my brain gave me a dream where I was SO excited I was about to meet Kermit. I lost my mind when I found out his nephew Robin was coming too. (Never actually met them but the anticipation was amazing.)

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Need a little poetry in your Sunday? I have three poems out in the current issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Read them or hear me read them here: wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...

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Excited to share that my essay “Vocal Fold Messages” has been published in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. This piece is about my experience with bamboo nodules on my vocal folds caused my creatively overactive immune system. wordgathering.com/vol17/issue2...

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I just completed my last of 12 medical appointments in a two month period. Specialists, MRI, testing, follow ups. I do not recommend. I continue to be tired.

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