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Maleea Acker

@emaleea.bsky.social
290 followers 361 following 26 posts

Poet, post-doc, geography lecturer, community-based researcher, journalist. Author of award-nominated “Hesitating Once to Feel Glory” (poems), Nightwood Editions, 2022 and “Gardens Aflame,” (NF) on LEKWUNGEN/WSANEC Garry oak meadows. Part dog, part plant.

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The (benign) Dictator, the small planet in my last book of poems, just called to instruct me to sing a little song each morning: “Que bonita estoy, que bonita estoy, yo me quieeeerro…” then hung up. I’m still laughing.
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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My doctoral supervisor @reubenroseredwood.bsky.social, from back in the day, at his best on CBC news, comparing 47 to a bloated, poisonous, blimp fish that gets tossed onto beaches after storms to annoy barefoot walkers and titillate stray dogs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I used to call these the Canada Council grant results flowers, as they were always in bloom when that fat or thin letter arrived. (Actual name, red-flowering currant)
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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Other than bourbon, I can’t really think of a comestible that US red states produce that I’ll miss. And even that, well…
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