Well, that's just adorable...Stray Puppies Seek Refuge in an Outdoor Nativity Scene in Greece | GreekReporter.com shar.es/ao75oC

h/t Fipi Lele

2016: it’s only four years, how bad can it get 2021: are the armed insurrectionists storming the Capitol aware that there is a plague ravaging the land

Way to go Writers' Trust!

This. Right. Here! Looking so forward to reading this new work from the one and only Dr. Angie Abdou!

Steven Heighton’s Selected Poems: A remarkable moment in a remarkable career wellandtribune.ca/ts/entertainme… via The Tribune 🇨🇦

Steven Heighton's debut album The Devil's Share available now. "Wise, world-weary, diagnostic and prophetic, Heighton’s finely hewn tunes leap from your speakers as vividly as his words levitate off the page." Neil Hobkirk, THE NOVEL IDEA #stevenheighton wolfeislandrecords.com/stevenheighton/

Selected poems and now the album! It's been a busy 2021 already for Steve. wolfeislandrecords.com/stevenheighton/ House of Anansi Press

“Steven Heighton has wrestled with so many fierce words and concepts and, I daresay, he has triumphed. ‘The Devil’s Share’ is a masterpiece.” — Ira Israel reviews this "stunning debut" album link.medium.com/SiMNQOecvgb House of Anansi Press Biblioasis CBC Music

#OldGrowth forests are at the heart of B.C.’s nature, but current policies fail to protect these rare ecosystems from logging. Speak up for these forests before they are gone forever. nwmd.io/s/twitter/YRE4…

Loving that Hugh Christopher Brown clavinet on this one!#makemondayfunky #stevenheighton instagram.com/p/CQHTuTKgd0N/…

Steven Heighton: Heighton began his creative life as an aspiring songwriter, in high school in Toronto. He kept at it into his early twenties, busking his way around Australia and Europe, playing a few… dlvr.it/SC0yWq #Featuredartists #Americana #Blues | Don's Tunes

A wonderful gift for the young writer in your life! Original Character Sheets: A companion workbook to challenge writers of all experience levels #writerbooks #YAwriters amazon.ca/dp/B09MJ6Z4FB/…

Yes!!

"music disables that thing in your head that’s always judging, objectifying, and it pierces the protective layers encasing your heart. Once melody cuts through the Kevlar, the words enter freely and deliver the coup de grace. It’s like music turns each word into a bullet."

With gratitude to @vanopticon and Biblioasis

We've got a very special post to end the week: an #excerpt from the late, beloved Steven Heighton's posthumously published story collection, Instructions for the Drowning (Biblioasis). A stunning collection from a deeply missed talent: open-book.ca/News/Read-an-E…

So happy to share this!

Instructions for the Drowning is among The Best Books We Read This Week in The New Yorker! Many thanks to everyone there and Biblioasis. (και συγχαρητήρια αγάπη μου...) newyorker.com/best-books-2023

Kevin Lambert becomes the very rare non-French writer to win the Prix Décembre in France for his lushly Proustian novel *Que notre joie demeure* (forthcoming in English from Biblioasis). ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/20226…