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poster in green and yellow with two frogs on a curtained outdoor stage, one playing cello and one sax, three small frogs below listening. "Friday Night Frogs, informal spring listening to the amphibian chorus, April 25 @8pm with Vancouver poet laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner more info @ versevancouver.ca"
VANCOUVER: The Pacific Tree Frogs are singing! Come for an informal listening party to the frogs in the water features around Mundell Park at UBCβs Wesbrook Village. Weβll meet at the playground and wander towards the sounds. Think "amphibious John Cage".
"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"
After digging, @indiginews.bsky.social discovered that young adults from foster care haven't received a single dollar from MCFD's legislated SAJE program for rent support in over a year. "I'm not surviving," one youth told us. "I have so many problems."
My latest.
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If you get books on Audible, Becoming Kin is part of their BOGO sale, ending in a few hours in the US and available for $5.99 in Canada for the next few days!
www.audible.ca/pd/B0BN6TNC8...
Just finished If I Must Die, poetry and prose by Refaat Alareer.
A heartbreak of a book, but it ends beautifully, with a story of sharing dates in the midst of flight. Doing good is contagious, he says.
And it is. As @mskellymhayes.bsky.social says. Do good, and know that the good you do matters.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry and sound with Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Eduardo Abrantes supported by the Embassy of Canada. ForlagiΓ°, FiskislΓ³Γ° 39, ReykjavΓk, March 19, 2025, 16:00 The afternoon will feature a reading from Eleeβs poetry collection Trauma Head and a representation of the collaborative project based on the text. Eduardo Abrantes is a sound artist and artistic researcher based in Copenhagen. He works between sound art and performance often in collaboration weaving rhythms spaces movements and improvisation as opportunities for play.
ReykjavΓk: we'd love to see you March 19 at ForlagiΓ°!
I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Courtesy of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Winterton Collection, Northwestern University / Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
Portrait of two women, Zanzibar (c. 1900).
Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.
Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
www.centralparknyc.org/articles/sen...
Noelle Allen had the great idea to ask writers to share what work uplifts them in difficult times. I was very glad to get to write a little essay about two works that speak to the troubles, inspire and console along with othersβ book suggestions.
hamiltonreviewofbooks.com/blog/2025/02...?
March 31 deadline to submit poetry to the Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize! moritherapy.wixsite.com/murielsjourn...
Costco
Big hearts to Costco
Diversity has been proven to yield better results.
Spine of book propped against riotous colourful pillows. Book is black with yellow font reading Against Death:35 Essays on Living edited by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Page of a book, start of an essay titled βhow to make art out of thisβ by Joe Average
Joe Average died on Christmas Eve in his sleep two days after travelling to Ottawa to receive the Order of Canada.I had the chance to include his story about being diagnosed with HIV in 1984 and learning how to live with deep uncertainty in Against Death:35 Essays on Living @anvilpress.bsky.social
Lysol wipes.
every damn time I see this collaboration author photo I do a spit take. @garybarwin.bsky.social is a menace! πhttps://carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-49/barwin-kraljii-gardiner-take-rain