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stephanie roberts (all lowercase)
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reading: Best Canadian Poetry 2024
artist, poet ✊🏾 UNMET (Biblioasis 2025) rushes from the river disappointment (MQUP 2021), POETRY Magazine 🇨🇦🇵🇦
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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · Nov 6
having a great year #CanLit #poetry
announcement that UNMET the poetry collection by stephanie roberts is a Quebec Writers' Federation finalist for the 2025 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Graphic includes the QWF logo, an author's photo by River Roberts, and a thumbnail of the book UNMET which features a lit sparkler on a soft grey background.
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Can anyone recommend a good book about Simon Bolivar? Today is Guayaquil Independence Day and I had to Google it because my knowledge of Bolivar stalls out at what I learned in K-12
October 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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A peek inside the graphic novel planner!

If you want one of the first printing run, be sure to sign up for the campaign.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
A notebook open on a desk in front if a rack of markers. The open pages show pages for writing and a rectangle intended for comic page thumbnails. A photo of an open notebook showing two comic cover concepts where two have been scribbled in. A photo of a notebook for graphic novelists. The top is black with a space to write the project title. The bottom has a graphic of scattered pages designed for scripting and thumbnails. The notebook is surrounded by an open pencil case, a pad of Bristol board, a cup of tea, a few leaves of a houseplant, and a mechanical pencil sits on top of the notebook. The background is golden colored hardwood.
October 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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One of the knock-on benefits of Universal Basic income, would be that people would not need to waste time on forms, and could use that time for projects, growing vegetables and many many more things.
"Being poor is actually a full-time job & being broke is like a full-time job with the amount of paperwork and the time going from office to office proving what you have done. With Universal Basic Income all that would be eliminated with the time liberated to do something socially productive." . — David Graeber
October 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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nobelprize.org
Newly awarded peace laureate Navi Pillay has held states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to victims of violence and conflict.

#NobelPeacePrize
October 9, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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By Navi Pillay ( 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate )

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide (Published 2025)
The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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drug use, murder, jazz 😂
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You’ve been warned, parents.
MOVIE REVIEW I Called Him Morgan *** (Out of four stars) • Directed by Kasper Collin. Distributed by Submarine Deluxe. • Running time: 1 hour, 29 mins. • Parent's guide: Not rated (adult themes, drug use, murder, jazz). [I circled JAZZ in red]
October 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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“Jazz Dancers” by Aldonia R. Bailey (American) - Acrylic on canvas / Possibly 1974 - San Bernardino County Museum (Redlands, California) #WomenInArt #AldoniaBailey #Bailey #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #JazzArt #DanceInArt #BlackRenaissance #art #artText #arte #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists
American artist Aldonia Bailey described “Jazz Dancers” as showing dancers “swaying to the music” while people enjoy jazz in Central Park. Rather than isolate a single performer, she makes collective movement the painting’s subject as six women seem linked by an invisible beat, their repeating postures carrying the eye across the canvas like notes in a melodic line. Bailey’s saturated color, simplified forms, and energetic brushwork privilege atmosphere and memory over strict realism. The six Black women sweep diagonally across a vivid green lawn, their bodies leaning backward and sideways as though caught in the same musical phrase. Bailey dresses them in long, brilliantly patterned pink, blue, yellow-green, orange, and deep red skirts paired with pale sleeveless tops, jewelry, and hair ornaments. Their elongated poses turn movement into rhythm so arms bend, shoulders tilt, and skirts flare as the dancers sway together. Behind them, small pavilions painted in pink, blue, and white punctuate a park filled with loosely rendered figures. Tall palms and dense trees frame a glowing yellow-orange sky, giving the scene the warmth and bustle of an outdoor summer festival. This is jazz experienced through motion, community, and pleasure. The work also participates in a long tradition of Black artists representing music and dance as spaces of creativity, social connection, and cultural continuity. Bailey, a Louisiana-born artist long active in Southern California, has repeatedly returned to jazz, dancers, family, and Black everyday life throughout her practice. Her inscription appears to date the painting to 1974, which would make it an unusually early work in her career. The painting appeared in the San Bernardino County Museum’s 2026 exhibition Black Renaissance, where its exuberant celebration of Black music, movement, and communal life resonated with the exhibition’s dialogue between the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary Black creativity.
October 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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October 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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“I don’t understand why they tell us not to rebel when all we study are people who rebelled—Rimbaud, La Boétie…”

( @humanite.fr is doing some excellent live coverage of the student protests)
www.humanite.fr/direct_conte...
October 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Congrats to Anne Carson!

"What fascinates me is to see his catastrophe, at whatever level of consciousness he chose it, as a method extracted from translation, a method organized by the rage against cliché."

"Variations on the Right to Remain Silent": handmade-web.net/assets/carso...
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October 8, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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nobelprize.org
‘Nox’ is an unforgettable work by this year’s literature laureate Anne Carson.

Published in 2010, it was written in memory of her brother Michael, who was mysteriously absent prior to his death in Denmark in 2000. Palpable here is a deep sense of loss that works its way up from below.
October 8, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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i can't hear that song and not think of this 😂🤣😂
October 8, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Everything Solnit says… because this is know-your-place aggression, too.
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
October 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs.

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.
www.artnews.com
October 8, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Congratulations Anne Carson, Canada’s poet extraordinaire, for winning the Nobel prize in literature.

🇨🇦

#Canada

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.
www.bbc.com
October 8, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
October 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's and I have some personal news to share with you. Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge. As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner. Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for. I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing With love and gratitude, stop to end
October 7, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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I’m so embarrassed that we now live in a world where celebrities are able to critique the public and that they’re right. 😭
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“Chatbbt, is it raining?” Summer please. 😭😭😭
October 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Cannot stop drawing apples
Six apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons Four apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons
October 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
September 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Full text:
The same two images of a snake covered gate side by side with the text: Sanhedrin 75a: There was an incident involving a certain man who set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. And they came and asked doctors what was to be done with him. And the doctors said: He will have no cure until she engages in sexual intercourse with him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not engage in sexual intercourse with him. The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not stand naked before him. The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter. The Sages insisted: Let him die, and she may not converse with him behind a fence.
October 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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out: falling asleep to a podcast

in: falling asleep to a poetry audiobook
October 7, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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Yellowstone & Landman..

Got so bad after the first 2 episodes that I never even watched either of them, because shows about landlords are boring.
October 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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also #sweetjesus Andrew Scott
youtu.be/LCWPnyOTV0g?...
October 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Full segment here:
USA: Poetry, Frank O'Hara (1966)
YouTube video by cassandra gillig
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:29 PM