Joanna Streetly

@joannastreetly.bsky.social

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Writer, parent, artist, little free libraries addict. Best Canadian Essays 2017, Best Canadian Poetry 2024, 4 books incl Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast, Caitlin Press. She/her
Tla-o-qui-aht territory
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Congratulations also to Angela Kenyon, Susan Down and Cheryl Knopp 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I look forward to reading your work in the forthcoming anthology. Thanks also to the FBSW for providing opportunities for publication and payment! #poetry #writing #amwriting #poetrycommunity

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Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativityyoutu.be In August of this year, as part of his Red Hand Files correspondence project, legendary musician Nick Cave was asked questions about creativity and ChatGPT b...

About last night….

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For the total cost of the transmountain pipeline so far, 35 billion, you could outfit 2,333,333 homes with solar.

This morning’s walk. #autumn #sunrise

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Just heard @lacymjohnson.bsky.social read her piece in Emergence Magazine on the haunting legacy of the oil industry on the land in SE Texas. Feeling into my deep well of disgust. I just remain so sad about what we’ve done with gift of our beautiful world. And so angry at Exxon. Diabolical.

What Survives – Lacy M. Johnsonemergencemagazine.org Feeling for the edge of change, Lacy M. Johnson walks through a wetland nature center near Houston that has reclaimed the land where a neighborhood, sunken by oil extraction and subsumed by floodwater...

Japanese maple eye-candy #fall #autumn #gardening 🌱 #acer

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“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” ― Anais Nin

Ball worship… #dogs #sunset #sunsetphotography #winter

The dog didn’t eat my homework, but my teen daughter left home today. Is that reason enough to miss my school assignment deadline? #emptynest #studentlife #maturestudents #writing #amwriting

Mid November at parallel 49 and these petunias are still thriving. A friend started them from seed and gave the seedlings away—gifts I enjoy every day. #gardening 🌱🌱🌱🪴

My newest poetry crush, “Quiet” by Victoria Adukwei Bulley. This also comes as an audiobook. After hearing her read so beautifully at the Vancouver Writers Festival, I’m tempted! #poetry #poems #writing #reading #writingcommunity

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It’s always a great day when a Xerox box from @robmclennan.bsky.social arrives in the post. This batch includes the @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social festschrift, sundry above/ground goodies & my first visual chapbook, Dinosaurs of Glory!

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The YVR poet laureate Fiona Tinewi Lam is CRUSHING it. She shows up to so many events, participates and then blogs about it. She is so supportive! fionalam.net/2023/10/29/d...

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what? new chapbooks over the next week or two by Rae Armantrout, Nikki Reimer @nikkireimer.bsky.social , Stephen Collis + rob mclennan/Julie Carr @juliecarr.bsky.social ? and a forthcoming Adriana Oniță title? that sounds amazing! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/abov...

POV you find the typos when you are A) just about to press submit B) have just pressed submit #writing #amwriting #poetry #submissions

Just a huddle of Lawyers’ Wigs waiting in the wings. 🌱 #mushrooms #fungi #shaggyinkcaps

Almost Halloween and this heritage sweet pea variety still blooming like it’s going out of style… 🍁🍂🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🍂🍁

White pelicans at St James Park Lake, between Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace. They arrived and never left #birds #pelicans #london

Event of the year at the #VancouverWritersFestivalRebecca Solnit holding a packed house in thrall. “Optimism is the lottery ticket you sit on the couch clutching; hope is the axe you use to break down the door.” #writing #writers #climatecrisis #hope

And then there’s this! 🤭 #poetry #literature #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity Thanks to @prairiefire.bsky.social for publishing this poem first and to Bardia Sinaee and Biblioasis for including it in #bestcanadianpoetry2024

#poetry #literature #writing #amwriting #books

Fall mornings have arrived

Hi @manyworlds.place please add me to skywriting

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This is a really useful post from the @authorsguild.bsky.social for all of us whose books were illegally used to train AI without our consent: authorsguild.org/news/you-jus...

You Just Found Out Your Book Was Used to Train AI. Now What? - The Authors Guildauthorsguild.org If you’re an author, you may have recently discovered that your published book was included in a dataset of books used to train artificial intelligence systems without your permission. This can be...

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This poem freshly out in Cirque is my love letter to an island I can’t bear to return to.

Lovely row over to Meares island in the equinox calm.