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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...
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susanwismerpoet
- May 25
- 1 min
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...
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susanwismerpoet
- Mar 30
- 1 min
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...
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susanwismerpoet
- Jun 12, 2021
- 2 min
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,...
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susanwismerpoet
- May 17, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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susanwismerpoet
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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susanwismerpoet
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
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.
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susanwismerpoet
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Hoar Frost
what parts of Winter stay decay fall rot disperse unseen arise enchanted quicken become vernal secret resurgent into...
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susanwismerpoet
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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susanwismerpoet
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
Looking down: the Bruce Trail, October
#brucetrailmorning #lichenlover #autumnwalks
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susanwismerpoet
- Sep 19, 2020
- 1 min
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,...
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susanwismerpoet
- Aug 27, 2020
- 1 min
YOU are invited to
Watermarked: A Collaboration of South Georgian Bay Poets and Storytellers Watermarked is a collaborative (and emergent) effort of poets...
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susanwismerpoet
- Aug 19, 2020
- 1 min
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. ...
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susanwismerpoet
- Aug 16, 2020
- 1 min
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,...
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susanwismerpoet
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Celebration
My ancestors arrived in what is now called Canada seeking refuge at the turn of the 19th century. They came by boat from Scotland on my...
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susanwismerpoet
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Space to Breathe
How moved I was to be at Sunday's anti-racism Solidarity Walk How disturbed I am that these actions are still needed How fortunate I am...
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susanwismerpoet
- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
In Solidarity
Too often, my species confounds and troubles me. What would a world without racism feel like? What would my country without racism be...
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susanwismerpoet
- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
First Dips
May 24, 2020 I am loving small rituals In these roiling times of uncertainty, trepidation, constraint and confinement, the absence of...
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susanwismerpoet
- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
Sage Hill Writing Experience
Just about one year ago, I heard that my application to Sage Hill Writing Experience’s Summer Poetry Colloquium had been accepted. I was...
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susanwismerpoet
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
At the Post Office!
Headed to the post office the other day with a big brown parcel!
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