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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cmsouaid
- 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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cmsouaid
- 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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cmsouaid
- 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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cmsouaid
- 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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cmsouaid
- 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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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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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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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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Carolyn Marie Souaid
- Mar 2, 2016
- 4 min
Open 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....
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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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