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A podcast for Pear Season
What a privilege to be invited by Kerrie Penney to be part of this year's Untethered Series for Secret Heart Broadcasting!...

susanwismerpoet
Oct 32 min read


Autumn Book ADventures
It's been a busy September. And a delightful one, with readings in Kingston, Picton, North Bay, Wasaga Beach. ...

susanwismerpoet
Sep 231 min read


Hag Dances launch events!
Coming soon : September 1: Secret Heart Broadcasting Podcast Release: A Simple Offering , my segment, The Untethered Series's second...

susanwismerpoet
Aug 281 min read


This week!
The Poetry Bus is on the move again! Thanks so much to www.theartistshouse.ca for inviting me to launch Hag Dances at our August Poetry...

susanwismerpoet
Aug 101 min read


It's About time
Such a delight to be included in the new Pinhole Poetry theme issue on Time. As always, inspiring to be in the company of such fine...

susanwismerpoet
Jul 111 min read


Hag Dances is here and the Poetry Bus is going on the road
Upcoming Events Hag Dances and Hand Shadows and I are going on the road, eager to put these books into the hands and ears of people who...

susanwismerpoet
Jun 31 min read


How Poets Respond to Peril
When Russia invaded the Ukraine last February, it was hard to know how to respond. Millions of people fleeing bombed homes, women and...

susanwismerpoet
Nov 3, 20221 min read


My Great Bruce Trail Adventure: Week 1
This summer's great adventure is to walk the Bruce Trail from its start at Queenston in Niagara-on-the-Lake to its finish in Tobermory on...

susanwismerpoet
May 25, 20221 min read


Poets in Response to Peril
What can a poem do? In response to recent events in Ukraine and as an act of solidarity with people everywhere whose lives are endangered...

susanwismerpoet
Mar 30, 20221 min read


Unquiet Flowers
Every child matters Including all those who died Those who are still being removed from their homes Those who as adults are suffering,...

susanwismerpoet
Jun 12, 20212 min read


How to Survive a Plague?
Create a collaborative live performance of poetry and dance of course! Within and Beyond, a pandemic program of dance and poetry, will...

susanwismerpoet
May 17, 20211 min read


Dear Mom
.....from me all things proceed and unto me all things return.... It's Earth Day today. I can feel your belly jiggle, hear you laughing...

susanwismerpoet
Apr 22, 20211 min read


Uncertainty
a constant expectation pussy willows in the window set to catch morning’s lemon light every time I put my boots away, it snows again.

susanwismerpoet
Mar 31, 20211 min read


Hoar Frost
what parts of Winter stay decay fall rot disperse unseen arise enchanted quicken become vernal secret resurgent into...

susanwismerpoet
Feb 16, 20211 min read


Surreptitious Redemption
water wind run rain snow ice lichen mold rust mildew moss while people argue zones plans laws money fleck crumble sliver shards fall back...

susanwismerpoet
Jan 18, 20211 min read


Looking down: the Bruce Trail, October
#brucetrailmorning #lichenlover #autumnwalks

susanwismerpoet
Oct 16, 20201 min read


Watermarked at the Collingwood Art Crawl
Seven local poets who said yes. Intakes and outtakes, starts and stops. The ones who knew how, the ones who do not. Smartphones, cameras,...

susanwismerpoet
Sep 19, 20201 min read


YOU are invited to
Watermarked: A Collaboration of South Georgian Bay Poets and Storytellers Watermarked is a collaborative (and emergent) effort of poets...

susanwismerpoet
Aug 27, 20201 min read


Fiddlehead's 75th Anniversary Issue!
Fiddlehead Review's 75th Anniversary Edition is out. Lots of wonderful content, including Brian Bartlett's selection of poets over 50. ...

susanwismerpoet
Aug 19, 20201 min read


Interstices
I 6am mid-August, the backyard labyrinth. The young brown rabbit doesn’t care much about me, takes her time quiet chew, something low,...

susanwismerpoet
Aug 16, 20201 min read
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