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A short interview about writing and the teaching of creative writing at Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs

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2 weeks ago

Everyone, my new book of poems is available for pre-order$19.95. If you pre-order directly here from Frontenac you will be supporting this brave Canadian publisher and helping advance sales for the book.
Also: * We pay postage on pre-orders in Canada and half for international orders. …

It Begins in Salt | Frontenac House Ltd.

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It Begins in Salt, a book of poems, wanders the halls of an ocean blue-collar life while rummaging the heart spaces of growing up, and the evolves into the mothering, labours, and loves. The poems explore the ways the heart grows, and the tentacles of complexity grow and evolve “to infinity”. Th…

Natalie Meisner

4 weeks ago

Close up of new book cover with art by Stacey Walyuchow. I love it and this exquisite blurb by fellow YYC Poet Laureate Emeritus Kris Demeanor got me right in the tender bits. Available soon for pre-order and please join us from anywhere for the online launch in April.A closer look at Natalie Meisner’s cover for It Begins in Salt! Natalie captures the bits of earth, water, and salt that make us human. Don’t take my word for it though! Check out this excerpt from an amazing blurb by Kris Demeanor:

"Natalie Meisner untangles and re-assembles the detritus— which is infused with memories of a tireless mother, desperate love of child and partner, and apologies to an injured Earth—into poems that are a tribute to impermanence, that teach us with humour and humility how to be ‘fit to live in this world as it is’, and that implore us to care.
When salt touches a wound, the pain is sweet because we know it’s healing. So are the crystalline images in It Begins in Salt."

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Natalie Meisner

2 months ago

Timeline photos#PoetryPause
Take a pause for "My Sons’ Breathing" by Natalie Meisner.
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