Sadiqa de Meijer
@sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
writer of alfabet/alphabet (Palimpsest 2020), The Outer Wards (Vehicule 2020), Leaving Howe Island (Oolichan 2013), Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston (she/her) sadiqademeijer.com
These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
September 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.
Some years require a lot of lanterns.
August 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Some years require a lot of lanterns.
Found some old papers and there was a Phill Hall line I'd written out to hang over my writing table.
August 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Found some old papers and there was a Phill Hall line I'd written out to hang over my writing table.
Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.
August 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Dear people, my new book of essays is here 🧡! In The Field comes out in October, but you can pre-order it from Palimpsest Press now if you like: palimpsestpress.ca/books/in-the.... You can also make a purchase request at your local library and read it that way.
In this essay I follow the route of Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum from Amsterdam to Westerbork, and I'm grateful to TNQ for including it in their summer issue. One would like to be a balm on many wounds, are Hillesum's journal's near-last words. Please read her any chance you get.
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In this essay I follow the route of Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum from Amsterdam to Westerbork, and I'm grateful to TNQ for including it in their summer issue. One would like to be a balm on many wounds, are Hillesum's journal's near-last words. Please read her any chance you get.
When summer came, the reflective driveway marker was no longer lonesome in a white windswept vastness.
July 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
When summer came, the reflective driveway marker was no longer lonesome in a white windswept vastness.
However they pull these pigments out of the soil makes each of them a genius.
July 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
However they pull these pigments out of the soil makes each of them a genius.
Hello to the Summer issue of BRICK 💙 & thanks to the editors for including my essay Dwaallichtjes (little-wandering-lights) ✨.
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Hello to the Summer issue of BRICK 💙 & thanks to the editors for including my essay Dwaallichtjes (little-wandering-lights) ✨.
Wrote this poem for the Skeleton Press issue on 'Gatherings' based on the conversation at a community Iftar in March. My thanks to all who attended 💚.
June 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Wrote this poem for the Skeleton Press issue on 'Gatherings' based on the conversation at a community Iftar in March. My thanks to all who attended 💚.
Upgraded the bike to gold duct tape ✨.
May 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Upgraded the bike to gold duct tape ✨.
'Before you tell the story, you have to prepare the room for the story.' Zehra Naqvi
May 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
'Before you tell the story, you have to prepare the room for the story.' Zehra Naqvi
Hey #ygk, tell us what the Causeway meant to you & you'll be contributing to a collaborative community poem:
www.cityofkingston.ca/arts-culture...
www.cityofkingston.ca/arts-culture...
May 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hey #ygk, tell us what the Causeway meant to you & you'll be contributing to a collaborative community poem:
www.cityofkingston.ca/arts-culture...
www.cityofkingston.ca/arts-culture...
like something almost being said /
May 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
like something almost being said /
I've returned from the Escuela de Otoño de Traducción Literaria in Buenos Aires with even deeper appreciation for the people who perform the sensitive transformation of a book from elsewhere into their own language.
May 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I've returned from the Escuela de Otoño de Traducción Literaria in Buenos Aires with even deeper appreciation for the people who perform the sensitive transformation of a book from elsewhere into their own language.
#ygk You're invited to join us tomorrow - hear poems on dancing to the radio, on what to do with a Phoenix feather, on the sound of slush, on the emotions of trees, on what home means after migration...
April 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#ygk You're invited to join us tomorrow - hear poems on dancing to the radio, on what to do with a Phoenix feather, on the sound of slush, on the emotions of trees, on what home means after migration...
