colleen coco collins @collcococoll
coco, solo. here for the birds. on my knees for songs/poems/sea/sky/beats/trees. atemporal... she/they 📷Giles 👕Rezonance linktr.ee/colleencococol… mi'kma'ki port greville ns Joined November 2021-
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..today, as history repeats itself, we are faced with the rise of a new variation of the earlier "besiege your siege", as free people across the world engage in the imperative to "encamp your camps."
..today, as history repeats itself, we are faced with the rise of a new variation of the earlier "besiege your siege", as free people across the world engage in the imperative to "encamp your camps."
..spiraling gloriously at ferocious speed,Collins grabs at language from across centuries. reading this collection is being on a bullet train of sound & form[...]it's a history of the world & a million-word dictionary raining down; read w dazzled caution. theampersandreview.ca/blbb-sorry-abo…
..listening, she told the CBC, is most important. "if you go & you say, ‘oh, I know the story, I don’t need to hear anymore,’ there is trouble there." -Alanis Obomsawin 🕯️📢 #MMIWG2S ncct.on.ca/donations/
upturn the poem cup that runneth over & o! lemme at it as reader.. #stanzatasseomancy merci @cbcbooks @biblio cbc.ca/books/literary…
"..it['s] a question of how far you need to distance what a plant is doing from what [we're] doing.. bees detect different styles of art if they’re shown enough pictures. how much farther down that ladder do you look? what’s, like, past insects?" ..🌱 theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…
tonight ce soir 7 pm reflections poemreadings lunenburg bound books with Michael Goodfellow & Natalie Rice @biblioasis
"..you are the beginning of the family of waves held by the shore".. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🕯
.."thwart fired me into consciousness; elude-pursuit keeps me here!" ✒️ merci @OpenBookON for the chance to muse poemmaking..
.."thwart fired me into consciousness; elude-pursuit keeps me here!" ✒️ merci @OpenBookON for the chance to muse poemmaking..
What is happening?! a: SORRY ABOUT The FIRE launch & reading with Luke Hathaway halifax/kjipuktuk tonight fri apr 26 7 PM trident booksellers & café stellar support from @AfterwordsF @FryeMoncton @biblioasis @kingsbook
dawning now!: gratitude to @openpoetrybooks for introducing SORRY ABOUT The FIRE to their poemreaders.. 🤎
dawning now!: gratitude to @openpoetrybooks for introducing SORRY ABOUT The FIRE to their poemreaders.. 🤎
grateful for the moment to talk poem shop, & the margins of the heart, & word.. 💐 #sorryaboutthefire
grateful for the moment to talk poem shop, & the margins of the heart, & word.. 💐 #sorryaboutthefire
".. the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt [AI war machine] Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based"... 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…
eclipsed by this kind review.. 🌘 thank you @TorontoStar & Wanda Praamsma🖊 @biblioasis (also: here comes the heliacal tabula rasa.. thank you the empyrean!) thestar.com/entertainment/…
tonight apr 5 @OwensArtGallery sackville NB 🕖 PM 📖 launch delighted to read from SORRY ABOUT The FIRE🤷🔥 alongside 🤍 @juliedoiron @oldernowthen @StevenLambke & Amy Siegel @biblioasis @Tidewater_Books
Dr. Luke Hathaway of @SMU_English is among the writers featured at Halifax's Spring ForeWord literary celebration. On April 26, he's in conversation with @collcococoll on her debut book of #poetry, Sorry About the Fire. Learn more: afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/spring-foreword. #artswithimpact
Dr. Luke Hathaway of @SMU_English is among the writers featured at Halifax's Spring ForeWord literary celebration. On April 26, he's in conversation with @collcococoll on her debut book of #poetry, Sorry About the Fire. Learn more: afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/spring-foreword. #artswithimpact
o i wanna go to this dinner party.. 💫 🍽🥢 🍰 🕯 thank you @cbcbooks 📚 ; merci, miigs, go raibh maith agat for inviting #SorryAboutTheFire to the poetry potluck / potlatch.. sweet.company. cbc.ca/books/37-poetr…
i wrote a book of poems: 🪔 dispatches from some kind of slipstream.. SORRY ABOUT The FIRE tinders april 2 kindly stoked by @biblioasis biblioasis.com/shop/forthcomi…
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