Michael Lista
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
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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.
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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.
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Jul 10, 2023 |
memoirland.substack.com | Keziah Weir |Manuel Betancourt |Michael Lista
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Nov 17, 2022 |
thewalrus.ca | Michael Lista
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