Nancy Huggett
@nancyhuggett.bsky.social
Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
Working my way through the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social and taking my time because SO MANY GOOD WORDS! New-to-me poet Megan Barnet is living in my brain/heart right now. “..the clock / on the pallid wall continues to hack at time / with its arrhythmic arm, all of us lurching forward …”
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Working my way through the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social and taking my time because SO MANY GOOD WORDS! New-to-me poet Megan Barnet is living in my brain/heart right now. “..the clock / on the pallid wall continues to hack at time / with its arrhythmic arm, all of us lurching forward …”
Great review... "my writing became a constellation of attentions." Giving me a lot to think about (and more to read... ALWAYS! thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social )
Elizabeth Robinson, vulnerability index / @nupress.bsky.social ;
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Elizabeth Robinson, vulnerability index
Meth-filled rage that makes the man’s screams audible over a two-block range. Rage that enables him to heave a heavy rock overhead int...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Great review... "my writing became a constellation of attentions." Giving me a lot to think about (and more to read... ALWAYS! thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social )
Three new poems from my (in progress) collection up at @oneart.bsky.social yesterday. With thanks to EIC @markdanowsky.bsky.social & Louisa & all my poetry mateys (not the rodeo poets, trailheads) & @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social for prompts. oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/17/t...
Three Poems by Nancy Huggett
Wake Me in a Silly Stupid Way (our daughter’s request, post-stroke, most mornings) My husband is a pirate, a patch, a breach of laughter in the morning. Stealing our daughter’s memory of what she’s…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Three new poems from my (in progress) collection up at @oneart.bsky.social yesterday. With thanks to EIC @markdanowsky.bsky.social & Louisa & all my poetry mateys (not the rodeo poets, trailheads) & @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social for prompts. oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/17/t...
So much praise for this debut collection (FINALLY! I get to have a whole volume of Jane's work in my hands!) by @janezwart.bsky.social www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / 74 pp. / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: February 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOO...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
So much praise for this debut collection (FINALLY! I get to have a whole volume of Jane's work in my hands!) by @janezwart.bsky.social www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
See you at the small press book fair!
less than two weeks for the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! and catch the pre-fair reading at Anina's Cafe the night prior! readers to announce soon,
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the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fair autumn 2025 : will be held on Satur...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
See you at the small press book fair!
Oh, the wasps, the wasps. Another amazing poem by Jane, who has a book coming out soon!
It broke my heart to write this poem, and I would give it back if I could reverse my brother's death or my mom's diagnosis. But it doesn't work like that. So I'm trying to open my hands to the joy of having a poem in @thenation.com. Thank you, Kaveh Akbar, et al.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Cancer
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October 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Oh, the wasps, the wasps. Another amazing poem by Jane, who has a book coming out soon!
This heartbreak dare of an essay addressing genocide in Palestine by my writer friend Rayya Liebich www.geist.com/fact/rightha...
Righthand Justified - Geist.com
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October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This heartbreak dare of an essay addressing genocide in Palestine by my writer friend Rayya Liebich www.geist.com/fact/rightha...
Tremolo by Alison Hurwitz! oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/11/t... That hourglass at the end, the "geometry of separation" & the subdivisions "of certainty." Stunning.
Tremolo by Alison Hurwitz
Tremolo After the painting by Agnes Martin Three thousand miles away, I can’t go with my mother to the heart doctor, so I wish myself beside her, dis…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Tremolo by Alison Hurwitz! oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/11/t... That hourglass at the end, the "geometry of separation" & the subdivisions "of certainty." Stunning.
Whoever needs to hear/see this….
I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Whoever needs to hear/see this….
A new flash up at @American Literary Review and the timing couldnt be better/weirder, as it is the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death from melanoma. I miss her. americanliteraryreview.com/2025/10/02/c...
"Contrafabula" by Nancy Huggett
My mother didn’t end up in the hospital with an unknown diagnosis that quickly turned to cancer. The doctor didn’t draw black blood. The moon was not full, never full, never traced an amber arc in the...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A new flash up at @American Literary Review and the timing couldnt be better/weirder, as it is the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death from melanoma. I miss her. americanliteraryreview.com/2025/10/02/c...
So many great poems (&poets) in here! @hollay.bsky.social & Laurie Koensgen!
The fourth day of our fifteenth issue includes new poetry by Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social , Isabella Mori @moritherapy.bsky.social and Andrew Shields, and The art of writing #119: an interview with Terri Witek
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October 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
So many great poems (&poets) in here! @hollay.bsky.social & Laurie Koensgen!
Some wonderful poems out in the world today. First, this harbinger of winter in @pinholepoetry.bsky.social newest edition by @brettwarren23.bsky.social Brett Warren (and other stunning work... go visit!) pinholepoetry.ca/13960-2/
· P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y
BRETT WARREN Feeding the Bees Yellow flags pop up like daffodils along our street, with stick-figure icons of children and dogs to warn of poisons in chemical-drenched lawns. We’re outnumberedbut we k...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Some wonderful poems out in the world today. First, this harbinger of winter in @pinholepoetry.bsky.social newest edition by @brettwarren23.bsky.social Brett Warren (and other stunning work... go visit!) pinholepoetry.ca/13960-2/
Have a wee one up at Canary Lit Magazine (canarylitmag.org in this autumn Equinox issue. Dive in and read some other remarkable poems like D.R. Goodman's On Returning to Asilomar "but the trees must seed their own / resistance on the bones of what remains" canarylitmag.org/contents.php...
Canary - A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis
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September 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Have a wee one up at Canary Lit Magazine (canarylitmag.org in this autumn Equinox issue. Dive in and read some other remarkable poems like D.R. Goodman's On Returning to Asilomar "but the trees must seed their own / resistance on the bones of what remains" canarylitmag.org/contents.php...
I've been remiss in sharing this most brilliant Canadian poet. His exploration of masculinity and recovery and just being human is so tender and fraught. "My poetry is an exorcism of sorts. And my holy water is tenderness." Thank you @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for making his Poet of the Year!
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've been remiss in sharing this most brilliant Canadian poet. His exploration of masculinity and recovery and just being human is so tender and fraught. "My poetry is an exorcism of sorts. And my holy water is tenderness." Thank you @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for making his Poet of the Year!
See you there/here!
NEXT WEEK! Don't miss this gathering of the 2025 Lampman Award finalists at Perfect Books on Tuesday, September 23rd. Readings start at 7pm, and books will be available for purchase. If you're in Ottawa, come on out!
Join us at Perfect Books on Tuesday, Sept 23, for a special reading with the 2025 Lampman Award Finalists: Emily Austin, Manahil Bandukwala, and AJ Dolman. Don’t miss the chance to hear these incredible poets share their work before the Lampman Award winner is revealed later this fall!
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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New poem from my collection (out on submission) about caregiving and brain injury up at the lovely @thirdwednesday.bsky.social with thanks to @joankwonglass.bsky.social & the Ontario Arts Council & poetry mentors ntr & trailheads. thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2025/09/12/w...
Wood Duck / Nancy Huggett
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September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New poem from my collection (out on submission) about caregiving and brain injury up at the lovely @thirdwednesday.bsky.social with thanks to @joankwonglass.bsky.social & the Ontario Arts Council & poetry mentors ntr & trailheads. thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2025/09/12/w...
Thanks Ottawa Public Library for this stash of delight! And weather that invites sitting outside & reading poetry!
September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thanks Ottawa Public Library for this stash of delight! And weather that invites sitting outside & reading poetry!
Red leaves, mostly some gold & the turn that I was expecting but also made me laugh & cry.
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
September 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Red leaves, mostly some gold & the turn that I was expecting but also made me laugh & cry.
Such a great lit mag! Funky & fun Funicular! Submit!!!
August 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Such a great lit mag! Funky & fun Funicular! Submit!!!
Thanks to the @Ontario Arts Council and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for support in completing my first poetry manuscript!
August 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thanks to the @Ontario Arts Council and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for support in completing my first poetry manuscript!
Saturday September 20, poetry chap launch with Dagne Forrest & @snullr.bsky.social (& guest reader moi!)
August 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Saturday September 20, poetry chap launch with Dagne Forrest & @snullr.bsky.social (& guest reader moi!)
Another in my series of Caregiver as . . . prose poems up at @funfunfunicular.bsky.social (voted by @chillsubs.bsky.social followers as "where the cool kids submit" .. and their submission window opens around August 18! so consider submitting!) www.funicularmagazine.com/read/caregiv...
Funicular Magazine | Caregiver as onion
Nancy Huggett Less perishable than other foods, can be carried on long trips, easy to grow in a variety of soils, containers, and climates. Useful for sustaining human life.
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August 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Another in my series of Caregiver as . . . prose poems up at @funfunfunicular.bsky.social (voted by @chillsubs.bsky.social followers as "where the cool kids submit" .. and their submission window opens around August 18! so consider submitting!) www.funicularmagazine.com/read/caregiv...
This interview with my friend Hilary Fair, whose winning CNF essay is in @eventmags.bsky.social www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/07/bush...
Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair - EVENT
HILARY FAIR is a writer from Ontario. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly and is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. Her essays have been short-listed for both the Edna Staebler Award and the CNFC/Humber Literary Review Nonfiction Contest. In 2021, she won the inaugural Amy Award for memoir. KRISTA EIDE: Congratulations on winning first...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This interview with my friend Hilary Fair, whose winning CNF essay is in @eventmags.bsky.social www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/07/bush...
If I were in the US, I’d submit to @perugiapress.bsky.social ! What they publish (gah!) and the way they support their authors is amazing! Go ahead! Submit!
Joan Kwon Glass was interviewed by @pw.org in “Winners on Winning” after winning the 2024 Perugia Press Prize. Thanks, Joan, for these kind words. Our contest is open till 11/15 to emerging women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities. See Linktree for details. @joankwonglass.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If I were in the US, I’d submit to @perugiapress.bsky.social ! What they publish (gah!) and the way they support their authors is amazing! Go ahead! Submit!
See you all there!
TONIGHT! the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! tickets still available! (and might there even be a new Stuart Ross chapbook on-hand? / @mreid.bsky.social @razovsky.bsky.social @jasonchristie.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ;
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the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird,
celebrating THIRTY-TWO YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly fourteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
See you all there!