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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who remembers pompom tennis socks? Teen me was so bad at tennis my instructors discouraged me from taking the end of summer test. I’m in awe of the young players on the tour these days. Please remind me to check in on them if I’m still around in 20 years

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

September. The pears are almost ripe and falling through leaves to the ground. Here’s a poem for the season from my long-ago first book, Swimming Among the Ruins

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Someone is watching me make coffee

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As the lights go out all over the world, be a shining beacon It is important everyone knows there is still good out there, and where to find them The darker it gets, the more you shine Do not lose your humanity

A bright sun appearing through the mist of a River Medway morning. Photo by my wife who wishes to remain anonymous

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My heart aches for all the schoolchildren killed this year in US gun violence

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Driving through the Anthropocene — Happy to be reading in the wonderful series POETEA June 3 in Wakefield, QC #poems #livereading #anthropocene

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Spring springing in the backyard

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Jan Ska 🇨🇦 @janmoleski.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If you shop at Loblaws and see this, please turn the package upside down. Help your fellow Canadians boycott the USA. 🇨🇦 🍁

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Reading this now and cannot put it down. ❤️

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Friends in Kingston Ontario, could I call on you for a small favour? I lost a pair of glasses downtown near St George’s Cathedral, and might have a lead on where they are but I can’t get to Kingston for a few days. If you can swing by that area today, let me know and I’ll give you the details? 🤞🤞🤞

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Concerned about CTV cancelling fact checking? Here’s one way you can make your voice heard: sign the petition chng.it/QVsFgMGdKy

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Have you seen this petition yet?

PETITION TO REINSTATE RACHEL GILMORE’S FACT-CHECKING SEGMENT ON CTV

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Thanks, Hakeem! [Letter calling for Hegseth's immediate firing.]

No transcription but it's Jeffries on fancy letterhead saying Hegseth should be fired.

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Chris Holski @chrisholski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Ouf, that's a bad line break. Especially when a significant part of your political identity is 'verb the noun.'

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What is he hiding! What’s he hiding from! How is it even legal for him to be leader of the official opposition without security clearance!!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

As an artist in 🇨🇦 I call on artists in all genres and arts patrons of all political persuasions to boycott the Kennedy Centre as long as Tr*mp and his minions are involved

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Nate @nathanmerch.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Keep it up, DC. Boycott the Kennedy Centre. Show producers, cancel your bookings and move your productions to another of the many incredible DC venues.

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Bob Rae @bobbyrae48.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Prime Minister Marc Carney 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli I did it in two weeks. Why can't Poilievre do it after 3 years?

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

First attempt at moon photography and excited to learn more. Lunar eclipse March 14 2025, eastern Ontario

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A great 🇨🇦 #litmag I’m happy to have a couple of #poems in. And what stellar company! @smcormond #suesinclair @manahilbanduk @ronnabloomroom Sneha Madavan-Reese Eve Joseph Jennifer Gossoo (how is this the first poem of yours I’ve seen??) @jockobenoit and the list goes on! Thanks, @malahatreview

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is a powerful little book! Vertebrata by Mreid@bsky.social, from Turret House Press

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Abstract: Bro, do us dudes bro-bro to pump gun bulk at the war gym? How cool rad is that right? White Anglo-Saxon bros, my normal dudes, bro gym dudely ammo bro? In order to explore this dudeportant bronomena, I will require bro bro bigly bags of cash in small bills bro.

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A gorgeous winter day in 🇨🇦

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

. "The shriveling husk of a waning moon..." —Angelina Weld Grimké #ForgottenPoets #blackhistorymonth #poetry

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Twin stars through my purpling pane,
The shriveling husk
Of a yellowing moon on the wane
And the dusk.

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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

peace dove instead of an olive branch a broken wing #HaikuChallenge (wing) #senryu #haiku #3lines #micropoetry

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Over the last week, protests against Trump have been held all across the country. And to this point they’ve received scant news coverage.

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Protests Against Trump Build Momentum

People are speaking out against his cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Devin Kelly making me rethink resilience as my personal word of the year “I’d rather a world that acknowledges fragility rather than resists it... It is in this world that we might see our connection to one another, rather than our various possibilities to exploit and be exploited.”

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Danusha Laméris' "Glass"

Thoughts on fragility.

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A poem for the winter solstice. May we all carry light into the new year www.susangillis.ca/2020/12/sols...

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Please, if you're able, support Independent bookshops in the run up to Christmas. Their curation and knowledge will help you choose books that no algorithm can. And algorithms don't smile and chat to you either. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The hard shapes of snow as found collected in the odd knot of a fallen tree…✨

Hard tiny snow balls in a strange oblong wooden shape. There is moss underneath.

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Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I’ve worked with the brilliant poetry journal Arc, & more brilliant people than I can count, in various capacities over the years. Please consider supporting us this GivingTuesday in publishing and promoting the best Canadian poetry. Even $10 a month really helps! Visit buff.ly/47t7phB for info

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