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Oct 8, 2020
3 min

The Kidnapping

The maples were shutting down for winter, but I don't remember whether it was sunny or cloudy. There might have been one hydrangea still...

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Oct 4, 2020
4 min

The Eleventh Hour (COVID) Book Tour

Tour Date - September 26, 2020-- My new poetry collection was being released during a pandemic and the likelihood of an in-person book...

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May 9, 2020
3 min

A Mother’s Day Reflection

When I was six, I got a diary for Christmas. It was the kind that fits in the palm of an adult, with a dark red cover, Byzantine-style...

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Apr 28, 2020
3 min

Jesus is a Slow Driver

OR: “What I discovered about teaching, I discovered raising my son” Alex proclaimed it— ceremonially. He was four at most and we were...

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Mar 30, 2020
1 min

Biography of a Virus: Prelude

Everyone’s naked, including the doctors. Everyone’s a cat staring from their window. The earth was always headed in this direction. I’ll...

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Mar 21, 2020
1 min

Above Lake Superior (1922)

with apologies to Lawren Harris The artist, I would suggest, had a notion of the future, his rendering of clouds and gaseous mountains,...

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Life in Nunavik: What I Did While Waiting to be Confirmed on a Flight for Tomorrow

Carolyn Marie Souaid

Nov 11, 2018
1 min

Life in Nunavik: What I Did While Waiting to be Confirmed on a Flight for Tomorrow

ate seaweed fresh out of the water checked my emails checked my Facebook watched a dog stand guard while his friend stole scraps from the...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Dec 31, 2017
1 min

Two Poems to Usher in the New Year

NEW YEAR’S DAY 00:01 A.M. Dropped, the Ball orchestrated the Big Bang, the constellations, the Square & its ear-nose-and-throat-splitting...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Oct 15, 2017
1 min

Pre-Launch Reading to RMC Cadets

It is fitting that my first public reading of Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik took place at the Royal Military College in...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Sep 10, 2017
3 min

On Writing a Novel

Years ago, I wrote a snooty piece about how poetry was the highest of all written forms, that its demands on the reader and the writer...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Jun 1, 2017
1 min

Lizzie & Me*

Some say your ancestors arrived from the Bering land bridge 4000 years ago, followed the caribou herds. Mine arrived here by boat from...

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Chez les Géants: Devolving Into Inuit Stereotypes

Carolyn Marie Souaid

Nov 19, 2016
4 min

Chez les Géants: Devolving Into Inuit Stereotypes

As a Qallunaaq (White/non-Inuit) with a personal interest in the North, I try to see as many Inuit-themed films as I can. These days,...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Nov 13, 2016
2 min

So Long, Leonard

Hommage à Leonard Cohen: A Perfect Offering Saturday, November 12 4 to 6 PM Parc du Portugal, rue Saint-Laurent Kathy Kennedy and the...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Jul 29, 2016
4 min

Luck & Happenstance

image © CMS I'm in Saskatchewan for the Sage Hill Writing Experience, a ten-day retreat for writers at various stages in the development...

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Accurate Pap Test Only for Women Who Can Afford It

Carolyn Marie Souaid

May 7, 2016
2 min

Accurate Pap Test Only for Women Who Can Afford It

"A Pap test plus an HPV test (called co-testing) is the preferred way to find early cervical cancers or pre-cancers in women 30 and...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Apr 18, 2016
4 min

On Kanien’kehá:ka Land

Coming off the metro at Atwater station a couple of days ago, I noticed a commotion in the usual spot where people sit begging for money....

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Mar 25, 2016
5 min

The Donald Trumps of Tomorrow

This post was written in response to a Bill Maher editorial in which he examines how instilling an overinflated sense of self importance...

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Mar 14, 2016
3 min

Justin Trudeau & Poetry

©DH-Foto Something I posted on my personal Facebook page after Justin Trudeau became the 23rd Prime Minister of our country has...

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Open Letter to the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Canada

Carolyn Marie Souaid

Mar 2, 2016
4 min

Open Letter to the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Canada

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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Feb 24, 2016
5 min

Unsettling Selfies ... Of the North

(Still from Dominic Gagnon's Of the North) Last Friday night I attended a clandestine screening of Dominic Gagnon's collage-film, Of the...

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