The Mackinac

Online poetry magazine bridging the strait between nostalgia and the immediate, the wilds seen and unseen. Editors @leneagrace + @brookesmoody.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

lol when a poem is like, “you thought you could just revise this by tightening up the language?? nope, you need to dig down way deeper into your emotional core again!! good luck!”

[fujoshiana @luexhughes]

If you‘re up to it, reply to this tweet with your favorite poem(s) by a Black poet.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i over-identify with everything. maybe that’s the poet’s condition. i can over-identify with a twig. with the wind. with the sound between them

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i’d rather care a lot and feel “too much” and try “too hard” and say everything’s that on my heart than pretend i’m some “cool,” aloof person. i’m not here to not mean it. and by it i mean my life

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

had to mute some poetry accounts on here. just not interested in grand statements about the power of literature right now. you know, you really don’t need to be capital P Poets 24/7. just eat a reeses peanut butter cup and ugly cry like the mammal you are

[New School Creative Writing @NewSchoolWrites]

A Generous Latitude by @leneagrace
When the Beat Drops by @heckerbooks
Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics by @raygonne
Stop That Yawn! by @caronlevis
And Then There Were Crows by @SmilingDarkly
Love, Sugar, Magic: A Dash of Trouble by @AnnaMisboring

[New School Creative Writing @NewSchoolWrites]

Congratulations to all of our alumni who published books in 2018! We hope you join us on Feb. 28, 2019, for our annual book party! Party 🎉 details & full list of this year's books 📚 ➝ https://t.co/FjxMDwYHvr

[ECW Press @ecwpress]

🎁 Today we're featuring wonderful collections by @PaulVermeersch, @leneagrace, @JasonFreure, and Jonathan Bennett! They make great gifts for the poetry connoisseur on your list! 🎁

To find more great holiday gift ideas click on the link:

https://t.co/Yssc6Ud55n

[CBC Books @cbcbooks]

"A few stanzas can pack an oceanic punch..." - B.C. poet Lenea Grace: https://t.co/sj4jgDghxr

[The Mackinac @TheMackinac]

Congrats to past Mackinac contributor @LorieMatejowsky on being selected for @BestNewPoets ! https://t.co/d3qfetURlE

[The Mackinac @TheMackinac]

Tremendously sad to hear of Priscila Uppal's passing. An incredible poet! She was our first featured poet and interviewee.

[CBC Books @cbcbooks]

Priscila Uppal has died at the age of 44. https://t.co/4zWJhQrZfo

[League of Canadian Poets @CanadianPoets]

League member M.A. Mahadeo reviewed Lenea Grace's debut poetry collection, A Generous Latitude, for our website.

"Grace’s debut collection is one to embark on for answers, laughter, and simple truths which we all can relate too."

Read it here:
https://t.co/mssZJtvuKz

[Craig Morgan Teicher @cteicher]

This is an essay I wrote for @nytimesbooks about something my son Cal and I love to do together: reading. It’s about a joyful life with a child with special needs and how much any two people can really understand about each other. https://t.co/b8QkAnsIKi

[Victoria Chang @VChangPoet]

New Yorkers read poetry apparently. W train uptown.

[Mark Wagenaar @MarkGWagenaar]

What a metaphor can do in a poem

Mark Irwin, from Large White House Speaking

[CBC Books @cbcbooks]

How Lenea Grace wrote her debut poetry collection. https://t.co/oFXw9gaHZc

[ECW Press @ecwpress]

A Generous Latitude by @leneagrace is on this list! 😍😍😍 https://t.co/30EskofG0R

[Mark Wagenaar @MarkGWagenaar]

Andrew Grace in last week’s @NewYorker

[CBC Books @cbcbooks]

"A few stanzas can pack an oceanic punch — that is to say, deep and far-reaching — and do so without the luxury of length afforded to novels. I'm interested in poetry as a form of controlled chaos." https://t.co/sj4jgDghxr