cmsouaidOct 8, 20203 minThe KidnappingThe maples were shutting down for winter, but I don't remember whether it was sunny or cloudy. There might have been one hydrangea still...
cmsouaidOct 4, 20204 minThe Eleventh Hour (COVID) Book TourTour Date - September 26, 2020-- My new poetry collection was being released during a pandemic and the likelihood of an in-person book...
cmsouaidMay 9, 20203 minA Mother’s Day ReflectionWhen 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...
cmsouaidApr 28, 20203 minJesus is a Slow DriverOR: “What I discovered about teaching, I discovered raising my son” Alex proclaimed it— ceremonially. He was four at most and we were...
cmsouaidMar 30, 20201 minBiography of a Virus: PreludeEveryone’s naked, including the doctors. Everyone’s a cat staring from their window. The earth was always headed in this direction. I’ll...
cmsouaidMar 21, 20201 minAbove 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,...
Carolyn Marie SouaidNov 11, 20181 minLife in Nunavik: What I Did While Waiting to be Confirmed on a Flight for Tomorrowate seaweed fresh out of the water checked my emails checked my Facebook watched a dog stand guard while his friend stole scraps from the...
Carolyn Marie SouaidDec 31, 20171 minTwo Poems to Usher in the New YearNEW YEAR’S DAY 00:01 A.M. Dropped, the Ball orchestrated the Big Bang, the constellations, the Square & its ear-nose-and-throat-splitting...
Carolyn Marie SouaidOct 15, 20171 minPre-Launch Reading to RMC CadetsIt is fitting that my first public reading of Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik took place at the Royal Military College in...
Carolyn Marie SouaidSep 10, 20173 minOn Writing a NovelYears 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...
Carolyn Marie SouaidJun 1, 20171 minLizzie & Me*Some say your ancestors arrived from the Bering land bridge 4000 years ago, followed the caribou herds. Mine arrived here by boat from...
Carolyn Marie SouaidNov 19, 20164 minChez les Géants: Devolving Into Inuit StereotypesAs 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,...
Carolyn Marie SouaidNov 13, 20162 minSo Long, LeonardHommage à Leonard Cohen: A Perfect Offering Saturday, November 12 4 to 6 PM Parc du Portugal, rue Saint-Laurent Kathy Kennedy and the...
Carolyn Marie SouaidJul 29, 20164 minLuck & Happenstanceimage © CMS I'm in Saskatchewan for the Sage Hill Writing Experience, a ten-day retreat for writers at various stages in the development...
Carolyn Marie SouaidMay 7, 20162 minAccurate 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...
Carolyn Marie SouaidApr 18, 20164 minOn Kanien’kehá:ka LandComing 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....
Carolyn Marie SouaidMar 25, 20165 minThe Donald Trumps of TomorrowThis post was written in response to a Bill Maher editorial in which he examines how instilling an overinflated sense of self importance...
Carolyn Marie SouaidMar 14, 20163 minJustin Trudeau & Poetry©DH-Foto Something I posted on my personal Facebook page after Justin Trudeau became the 23rd Prime Minister of our country has...
Carolyn Marie SouaidMar 2, 20164 minOpen Letter to the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Canada© Carolyn Marie Souaid Like you, I became a teacher. I felt that teachers played a vital role in the well-being and future of a society....
Carolyn Marie SouaidFeb 24, 20165 minUnsettling 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...