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Michael Lista

Toronto

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Contributing Editor at Toronto Life

Nouns & verbs in @NewYorker @thewalrus @TheAtlantic @poetrymagazine | Contributing editor @torontolife & @macleans | New book: Barfly & Other Poems @biblioasis

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  • Jun 7, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Michael Lista

    Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.

  • Jun 7, 2024 | lithub.com | Michael Lista

    Auld Lang SyneArticle continues belowThere used to be too many things anyway—Plans and people and places to go. If you weren’t careful, you could wasteA whole day with someone else. The movies stretched fifty feet high,Went on forever, and smelled like popcornAnd kissing. My favorite barDidn’t even get to drink itself to death. It died of thirstAnd loneliness, and didn’t even waitFor me to go first. Before it was zilchThe pay was a pittance.

  • May 31, 2024 | inkl.com | Michael Lista

    Only thirty-eight years old, the tortured poet John Thompson died in Sackville, New Brunswick, in 1976. His second book of poetry, the scarcely finished Stilt Jack, was published two years later. It has been deemed a minor Canadian classic—the kind of book that, in a more just or literate world, would be hailed as a national treasure. It has also been taken to suggest that Thompson—by all accounts, an alcoholic—was so in love with death that the coroner was wrong to rule his demise an accident.

  • Jul 10, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Keziah Weir |Manuel Betancourt |Michael Lista

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Michael Lista @michaellista
10 Jan 25

RT @GCLongform: Seven years ago today we featured Michael Lista's "The Hacker King" as our first piece on GCL. https://t.co/AUoaS7OPak (@to…

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2 Jan 25

RT @thewalrus: There’s a new trend on LinkedIn: broetry, or “poorly-written self-help-like” posts with a lot of line breaks that outwardly…

Michael Lista
Michael Lista @michaellista
15 Nov 24

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