Jack Mitchell

Poet & classicist, in-house poet at @TheHubCanada, author of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘣 (2025) and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴 (2021).

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Excellent (I'm biased but really it is excellent) @TheHubCanada interview with my dad Jim Mitchell and his co-author Kevin Lynch on their Donner-Prize-nominated book about reshaping Canadian government:
https://t.co/3JLNaGj3JH

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@ZaidJilani Criminals too busy passing legislation

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@SleeperBlueJays It’s a bit odd that our outfielders hit last

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@BlueJays @MLB Can he climb a scoreboard? We need negative ERA.

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@geraldfillion @RadioCanadaInfo Étrange méchanisme pour en faire.

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@QueDeLarmes @FortySacks The Crown passed the Quebec Act, at the risk of provoking its colonies (which it did), when those colonies were baying for assimilation of New France.

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@rah_66_comanche How can the EU regulate technology of a long time ago

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@GuntTim90840 @Ogcsn @lovemethrice It’s more a real estate holding company.

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@colbycosh I thought it was from Lake Titicaca and spread to Hawaii via great balsa rafts.

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@ggreenwald I think Dave Rubin did as well as a 49-year-old man with his haircut could do.

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@DemocritusSr But well for him whose feet have trod
The way of toil and weary strife,
Whose hands, from sorrows of this life,
Have built a ladder to his God.

(3/3)

Wilde was a genius but he needed more practice in writing verse.

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@DemocritusSr O well for him who’s never known
The hunger of slow, fruitless years,
Nor wept a father’s shuddering tears,
Nor like a widow slept alone.

(2/3)

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@SohrabAhmari Our now thankfully ex-PM Trudeau used to alarm me in this way a lot, describing what "Canadian values" are. Any value held by a Canadian is a "Canadian value," in my opinion -- good or bad; and there are many widespread ones I would not like to institutionalise.

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@MazMHussain (2/2)
It's rather amazing that only 60 years after Montesquieu's Persian Letters, which of course were inauthentic, the authentic version was composed! Too bad it took until 1827 for it to be printed (in translation) and until our time for it to be accurately translated.

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@MazMHussain Read this today, very interesting read. You have to respect both his curiosity and his integrity. Very shrewd and generous observer of England and Scotland. Most of all it points to a phase of East-West relations when each was regarding the other with sincere respect. (1/2)

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@CodifyBaseball Yeah well when you have both Murakami and the Pope

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@PaulMcKenna4 @TheHubCanada Thank you!

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My poem in @TheHubCanada this weekend sets the tone for Operation June Weather here in Halifax.

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The Hub's poetry of the week by @jackmitchell.

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In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.

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@german_saucedo If historically the great bulk of art has been produced by conservatives, and modern US conservatives are incapable of producing, appreciating, or critiquing art, maybe US conservatives are not conservatives.

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@chesswoodseats What has inspired your Doric turn?