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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 9h

“let less happen,” “withdraw your grandeur.” This is one of my absolute fave poems of an absolute fave poet of mine.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 10h

Just got word that our Disability: The Revolution issue has sold out and that we'll be doing a second print run! This has happened only once before in the magazine's 81 year history. So proud to have played a part in bringing this to our readers.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So lovely to read poems in the Haskell Library & Opera House yesterday. The historical building straddles the line between Canada and the US — where Stanstead, QC meets Derby Line, VT. I loved connecting with poets from both sides of the border. Gratitude to Stanstead Arts & organizer Derek Webster.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The recording of our Issue 308 Disability: The Revolution Virtual Launch is now available to watch on our YouTube! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Issue 308 Summer Issue Launch - YouTube

This reading took place as part of The Fiddlehead's Issue 308 Summer 2026 Launch on Thursday, September 24, 2026 with readings from A-E Best, M.L. Campbell, ...

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It honestly reads to me like a poem or essay prompt for you….

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson's "Short Talk on Gertrude Stein About 9:30" as it appeared in Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (2005)

Anne Carson

Short Talk On Gertrude
Stein About 9:30

How curious. I had no idea! Today has
ended.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A genius. A poet. A woman. A translator. A Canadian. An icon.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A fantastic choice! I once sat across from her at a dinner in her honor and it was too wide a table for us to actually converse so we just shot each other knowing looks as we ignored the people to either side of us. It was one of the best one night relationships I've ever had.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca · 06/10/2026

At the Toronto International Festival of Authors on October 29, series editor Anita Lahey and I will be presenting BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2027, and selected readings from some of the featured poets. If you're in town and can attend, please join us at Victoria College Chapel at 6:30 PM.

Book cover featuring the following text: Best Canadian Poetry 2027 Selected by Tolu Oloruntoba

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry but why did they not diverge straight into the galleries of The Museum of English Rural Life

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Looking forward to reading at this event with poets from both sides of the border.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Next Saturday! Do come out if you are in the vicinity on either side of the border! Looking forward to hearing @sarahwolfson.bsky.social and @ringtales.blacksky.app and so many more!

Flyer featuring a photo of two gray jays. Info: Cross-Border Poetry, 18 Québécois and Vermont poets, celebrating poetry, community and unity. Saturday October 10, Derby VT and Stanstead QC, Haskell Free Library and Opera House, 1-5pm.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in class, I heard myself compare a particular poem’s movement to the tiki-taka style of soccer (an unhinged overreach). Tried to save face by turning the moment into a lesson on metaphor as an act of inquiry, which I think is from Mark Doty. Unclear this worked. 🤣🫣🤷🏻‍♀️⚽️

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She’s so great! Hilarious. I wrote down so many good quotes. Will share some this weekend!!!

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Revision is just hanging around with the poem.” — Marianne Boruch, in tonight’s wise, poignant, often laugh-out-loud funny 2026 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

you hear the word loaded / and a sensory constellation / is lit The Thomas Lux poem I keep coming back to

THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLY

is not silent, it is a speaking-
out-loud voice in your head: it is spoken,
a voice is saying it
as you read. It's the writer's words,
of course, in a literary sense
his or her "voice" but the sound
of that voice is the sound of your voice.
Not the sound your friends know
or the sound of a tape played back
but your voice
caught in the dark cathedral
of your skull, your voice heard.
by an internal ear informed by internal abstracts
and what you know by feeling,
having felt. It is your voice.
saying, for example, the word "barn"
that the writer wrote
but the "barn" you say
is a barn you know or knew. The voice
in your head, speaking as you read,
never says anything neutrally--some people
hated the barn they knew,
some people love the barn they know
so you hear the word loaded
and a sensory constellation
is lit: horse-gnawed stalls,
hayloft, black heat tape wrapping
a water pipe, a slippery
spilled chirrr of oats from a split sack,
the bony, filthy haunches of cows...
And "barn" is only a noun--no verb
or subject has entered into the sentence yet!
The voice you hear when you read to yourself
is the clearest voice: you speak it
speaking to you.

--THOMAS LUX

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you! Caused me to draft an aubade! I think I first learned about them from you.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I actually read it first in high school English! In Vermont. Shortly after that we read Toni Morrison’s novel Jazz and between the two, I saw enough of how you could use language that I wanted in!

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the first poems I ever looked at seriously. I was totally captivated.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love this so much. Apex shortform social media post.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love. Also would be an amazing idea for a party. Wear something from a poem.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 22/09/2026

Need an afternoon reset? Pause for some poetry and read Kateri Lanthier's “Severed”: thewalrus.ca/severed

On the left: a black and white photo of Kateri set against a turquoise background. On the right: text that reads “Severed. Random wildflowers. An overspill / of daylilies from our (too-busy-to-) garden”

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exactly! It goes over really well. A good but inviting challenge early in the term when establishing that concept.

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New on the EVENT Blog 🌸 Read an excerpt of "Because" by Sarah Wolfson SARAH WOLFSON is the author of A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press, 2019), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. www.eventmagazine.ca/2026/09/poet...

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So good! Poet Joyelle McSweeney helped bring me to the term “idiolect” and I now teach one of your poems in my suite of exemplars for students.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love your voice. It’s so layered and unafraid to be brimming with both deep artfulness and simple utterance.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Donald Hall, born on this day in 1928

Where the poet stops, the poem
begins. The poem asks only
that the poet get out of the way.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The needfulness of this event seems to grow with every passing day, though even in less fraught times such events should happen more often. 🇨🇦

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I totally know what you mean! Well said.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

biggest problem with this app remains not enough poetry and idle musing

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I second Narrow Road. Toxic Flora and Foreign Bodies are also great places to begin! Just—read everything. She’s great!

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just taped for the BBC on this fascinating set of observations in humpback whales. I argued that yes we should strongly consider maternal love + grief here, based on what the researchers report--and on what we know abt animals' emotions. #whales #cetaceans #grief #animalgrief #deathstudies #nature

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Do whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation

The behaviours we observed could represent grief, but they could also reflect maternal attachment, confusion or instinctive caregiving

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He’s such a masterclass in many things. He was introduced at his launch as a someone who studies pond water but when I spoke with him after, he corrected the record: “it’s actually bog water.” The cover of his new book bears a photo of an (I assume bog-dwelling) amoeba he documented. :)

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have that quote on a sticky note above my desk! :) 🫏 💪🏼

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Among my favourite living poets. Have you read his new one? (We Drove All Day for This?) Perhaps this is from it, actually.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Edward Hopper “Morning Sun” Oil on Canvas

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Occasional reminder that pedagogy should be eccentric and calibrated to the uniquely bizarre access you have managed to cobble together in order to crack open a complicated form of understanding.

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