Earth scientist, writer & editor. PhD Candidate in Arctic Geography at UCalgary. Pro-magpie. Party mix connoisseur. Magazine enthusiast. Black Canadian & white settler mixie girl (English + rusty French, learning Finnish). OCD/ADHD. Chronic Pain. Jokes (she/her)
Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), Alberta, Canada
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Thank you Elena Johnson for the awesome conversation about science, poetry, OCD, current projects, and a few of my fav recent reads. Interview up now at Event Magazine.
#OCD #Poetry #CanLit #SciPoetry #EarthSciences #Weather #SciArt #Geography #Geoscience
https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2023/11/elena-johnson-interviews-samantha-jones/
Saturday night reading. Party animal right here. Ice Humanities: Living, Working, and Thinking in a Melting World; edited by Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin.
"Response: is there anything there
if you never check? Refuse
the temptation to tip open the hatch
and send up a homemade periscope, a phone
strapped to a broom handle should do the trick"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Site Orientation / Attic by Samantha Jones (@KeywordSmart) (2023 The Blasted Tree) https://tinyurl.com/bdh86bt7
I was recently interviewed for Read Alberta and the post is up! Loved chatting with Olajide about my chapbook, writing process, being a creative in Alberta, book picks, and more!
#OCD #Poetry #WritersLife #CanLit #AlbertaWriters #AmWriting #AmReading
https://readalberta.ca/interviews/site-orientation-and-other-small-talk-with-samantha-jones/
Last night, kiddo said, “I want to learn ‘cute’ in every language.”
I knew cute (English) mignon/mignonne (French), and söpö (Suomi).
We thought it would be fun to slowly collect the words as we learn from friends, family, community, and our networks. So far, folks we know have added Hungarian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and German to the "cute" list.
If you would like to add to his list, I will pass it along!
Last year I published “Emergency Preparedness,” a feature essay, in THIS Magazine. Thinking a lot about the intersections of mental health, climate change, and extreme events this week in smoke-blanketed Calgary.
You can read the article free online here: https://this.org/2022/01/06/emergency-preparedness/
#OCD #MentalHealth #Neurodivergence #ClimateChange #Weather #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeEvents #EmergencyPreparedness #Alberta #Calgary #Flood #yyc
I grew up surrounded by a family of storm enthusiasts on the east coast of Canada, where I developed a fluency in the threat of tropical storms, hurricanes, and winter storms. Each weather system evolved according to its own unique before, during, and after. For me, each event was a coupling of fasc
Looking forward to this conversation!
Mark your calendars for a Brown Bag Lunch Reading by poet Samantha Jones, followed by a conversation between Jones and Matthew James Weigel on the relationship between art and science!
Join us Wednesday, April 5 from 12 to 1 p.m. MDT in Henderson Hall (Rutherford Library South 1-17), or join via Zoom.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CLC Brown Bag Lunch with Samantha Jones & Matthew Weigel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
So, I have some news. Super excited to be able to say that I’m going to be a NeWest Press poet! 🤩 Attic Rain coming your way in 2024. Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey. Can’t wait for more. ❤️📚
#CanLit #Poetry #Alberta #SmallPresses #OCD #MentalHealth #Neurodivergence #AmWriting
Vicki Ziegler