Nouns & verbs in @NewYorker @thewalrus @TheAtlantic @poetrymagazine | Contributing editor @torontolife & @macleans | New book: Barfly & Other Poems @biblioasis
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Some uh personal news
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We don’t always agree, but when she’s right, she’s right.
National Post nationalpost.com/news/margar… via @nationalpost
God forbid one has the gumption to question the truth universally acknowledged that the author of “How Pants,” is one of the best poets alive, lest one be chided by even less interesting Canadian writers,
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Haven't read Carson, but this essay about her work is certainly fine prose!
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A dissenting opinion:
thewalrus.ca/audens-opposite…
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The boring bit of prizes is the articles going 'this is why they rightly won'; the valuable bit is the articles explaining why they shouldn't have.
(Pure neutral here: have read no Carson)
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thewalrus.ca/audens-opposite…
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Here's the thing: Anne Carson is unquestionably one of the worst writers of our time or any time. So it's meet and proper she's won the Nobel.
“How words can squirt sideways.” This is so infinitely bad it can’t be explained.
Read this mindblowing essay on snow in the @LRB if you want an initiation into the Carson world. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n08/…
My favourite essay on Carson, by the infinitely brilliant @jasonguriel poetryfoundation.org/poetrym…
Yeats is the exception that proves the rule. He was awarded the prize before he’d published his masterpieces. But the Nobel was always more about politics than poetry—I have a suspicion Carson’s win has as much to do with Carney’s prose as the merits of Autobiography of Red.
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"Everyone warned me: dreams are dumb, and lead
To having to need to drag down a street
A stupid bag, a mattress, and some sheets"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Noble Street by Michael Lista (2026 @TheWalrus) thewalrus.ca/noble-street/
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A naked man with a rebar spear. A woman lugging a rain-soaked mattress. A neighbourhood transformed by systemic neglect.
In @michaellista's new poem, “Noble Street,” the speaker bears witness to a city in crisis: thewalrus.ca/noble-street/
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“A couple has been living in folding chairs / At the foot of my street for five years, / Outside, come any weather, and won’t part.”
Read “Noble Street,” the latest poem from writer @michaellista: thewalrus.ca/noble-street/
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My forthcoming book, Fan Mail, features essays about great novelists like @GreatDismal, great poets like @ae_stallings, great directors like @WhitStillman, and great cartoonists like @tomscioli.
Please consider preordering from @VehiculePress using the link below…
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Seven years ago today we featured Michael Lista's "The Hacker King" as our first piece on GCL. buff.ly/38qEnmO (@torontolife @michaellista)
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There’s a new trend on LinkedIn: broetry, or “poorly-written self-help-like” posts with a lot of line breaks that outwardly resemble poetry if you squint a little. If you would like an antidote to broetry, Michael Lista makes the case for actual poetry:
thewalrus.ca/poetry-slam/
