Reposted by Luanne Gauvreauwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt 4703119
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Where are the statues of 28-year-old social workers? Dorothea Palmer deserves one in downtown @en.ottawa.ca 010
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Reading Bachelard’s Poetics of Space for this summer’s long project but every fifth sentence sends my head off on a tangent—I may never finish it! 241
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Present tense is easier to write than past tense, but an *interesting* present tense is much harder. —Elizabeth McCracken 020
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 16/04/2026spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things, while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. —E. E. Cummings 011
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Poet Karen Solie in a fabulous dress reading at @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social last night from her TS Eliot Prize-winning book Wellwater, finding the poetry in the West Edmonton Mall. 041
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 19/03/2026When I was a kid and got a hard candy stuck in my windpipe, my dad held me upside down by the ankles and shook me. Effective but not a recommended method! This article has more practical advice. The key is to do SOMETHING, and with conviction. thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...thetyee.caSomeone Choking? This Is Better than the Heimlich Maneuver | The TyeeNew evidence says back blows are more effective for adults, children and infants. 000
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Last night, the mist was rolling off the snowbanks like tumbleweeds. 010
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Fra Angelico at the Museo San Marco, Florence. 000
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Literary egotism consists in playing the role of self, in making oneself a little more natural than nature, a little more oneself than one was a few minutes before. —Paul Valéry 000
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Low tide has never been so dramatic. Seascraper’s a three-act story of damp atmosphere and the deep quiet of its young protagonist. Perfect winter evening read. 020
Reposted by Luanne GauvreauThe New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Susan Haldane's "Scattering My Father's Ashes" from Issue 176! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/scatte... #poetry #amreading #poetsofbluesky 0114
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I go for haircuts expecting them to make my hair better, but they just make it shorter. 030
Reposted by Luanne GauvreauA. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social · 14/11/2025My latest Echolocations issue: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/echo...english.web.ox.ac.ukEcholocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 5) 1175
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Where is the barista who will walk among the café tables with a pot of cappuccino asking, “Can I top you up?” 010
Reposted by Luanne GauvreauThe Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025📣 Today’s the deadline for our fiction contest! Last year’s winner, Luanne Gauvreau, has some great advice: 011
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Always worth reading Miranda July. This in the “burn it all down and you’ll get a book out of it” tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert or Glennon Doyle (though fiction). Some great ekphrastic writing about dance. 040
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Toilet facts: “Comfort” height is not comfortable; “Standard” height is no longer standard. 000
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. —Charlotte Brontë 041
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Psychedelic baby supernova from Gary Barwin. 120
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 16/04/2025A film that takes place where you are from. 020
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 11/04/2025The Fiddlehead didn’t hold back on asking the big questions! thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...thefiddlehead.caAn Interview with Luanne Gauvreau | The FiddleheadEditorial Assistant Yogesh Tak's Interview with 2024 Fiction Prize Winner Luanne Gauvreau whose story "Roses for Bodies" was published in Issue 302 (Winter 2025) 021
Reposted by Luanne GauvreauRadio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Travel through your ears with us to.... the Forest of Dean Episode 30 - Wind and time in the forest (40mins) It's 8am one sunny May day. Blackbirds join wrens, robins and song thrush in the cathedral of trees. > bit.ly/LenFoDn2 0113
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 20/01/2025“Sail on, sail on O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate. Sail on, sail on—“ Let’s hope, with Leonard Cohen, that democracy can hold its course. 030
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 03/01/2025A wonderful start to the new year! Thanks to judge Zilla Jones for her close and generous reading of my story. So pleased to have my work appear in the always great @fiddlehd.bsky.social 050
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 13/12/2024New chapter: In which I find myself on a list. 060
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This time of year I always remember how I was radicalized as a language-loving child by the crazy syntax of Christmas carols. 020
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Reminder from Samuel Butler to help me resist the siren call of the end-of-year lists: “The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” 020
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Starting fresh on Bluesky this November with words from Susan Gillis’s Come In, Come In. 020
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social · 18/10/2023I'll begin with an ending. From "Faithful and Virtuous Night" by Louise Gluck. 050
