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a reading, writing, and photo blog. oh and animals. and their rights. there ain't never been any reimer reason, and i'm not gonna start now

Tiger and lion (Taken with instagram)

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I love you #eastvancats (Taken with instagram)

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End of an era (Taken with instagram)

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I love you #eastvan (Taken with Instagram at Eye Contact)

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#photoadaymay #16: I’m reading my dear friend D-Zomp’s words on the train! And remembering him bitching about this photo shoot even tho he is clearly a babe. @poetryisdead (Taken with Instagram at Joyce - Collingwood SkyTrain Station)

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#photoadaymay #15: love (Taken with instagram)

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Browsing Archive: June, 2010

animals & animality and just act natural | kingston

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such 


 I am super excited to attend the Animals & Animality Interdisciplinary Conference taking place this weekend at Queen's University. I've never been to Kingston and hope it treats me well. The temp when I land is supposed to be 27 C, which will be a shocker from the mid-teens and clouds we've had in Vancouver since, oh, February?

 Also my "East Van Cats" piece will take part in the adjunct Just Act Natural art exhibition, which is also exciting for me because it's my first show, and also I'm ve...
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the new normal

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 19, 2010, In : poetry & poetics 
The introduction I wrote for Nicole Markotić's reading tonight at KSW's Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics series. 

Poet, critic, novelist and teacher Nicole Markotic writes fault lines of sensation. She pictures lapsed Mormons and ruminates Alexander Graham Bell in the 19th or 20th century, where telephone voices call problem bodies. Markotic invents the telephone all over again with sympathetic vibrations, memories, confessions, misunderstood gestures with tongue and femur. Syllables ...


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spam OR poetry wednesday?

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, In : spam OR poetry? wednesday 

yufm jonka ixe


came running from the building to join her.

attitude is a little melodramatic. No--not on the bed. Draw a 

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3 am prose fragment

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, June 11, 2010, In : 3 am prose fragment 
I was always waiting around for the Big Other to tell me what to do, to give me a sign. I couldn't tell if I was stupid or not. I went off meat but then bled 15 days out of 30 and had to go back on, rather in, by which I mean the animals went in my mouth and I swallowed. We were 17, and ravenous, and we made the mother cook spaghetti for us at 2 in the morning. This is what comes from organized sport and international travel for teens. Everyone we knew in high school had acquired jobs and hou...
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because i know at least daniel is reading this......

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, In : spam OR poetry? wednesday 
that's right, kids. another installment of the ever popular SPAM OR POETRY? WEDNESDAY!!!!!

boci upuy poa
SpamX


and fifty strong, was nothing to speak of artistically--a square believing they could sell it out to him at a slightly higher price. The 

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east van walk 6.7.10

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, In : East Van Walk 


T&T Supermarket at Renfrew & 1st Ave




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Hastings Park & PNE "Master Plan" Open House | June 10 -23

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such 
I wrote some emails a while back about the egregious BC Arts Cuts, which got me on the mailing lists of BC Provincial MLA for Vancouver-West End and Official Opposition Critic for Tourism, Culture and the Arts, Spencer Chandra Herbert, and Vancouver-Hastings MLA Shane Simpson.

Good thing that, as they both frequently send out news I can use.

For example, did you know that a consultation process is underway regarding the redesign/ redevelopment of Hastings Park & the PNE (fans of Oana Avasilichi...
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this is your uterus on drugs

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, June 7, 2010, In : blog blog blog 

Or, Poly Poly Poly Poly Polymenorrhea! (to the tune of Karma Chameleon)

 Well, I missed the Trout Lake poetry picnic at which I was supposed to read. And I feel like a giant asshole. Or, to be more precise, a giant uterus. A giant uterus that makes promises and then doesn't fulfill them. An unreliable uterus. 

--Hey, anybody seen that giant uterus?

Nah, it never shows up when it says it's going to. 

--What a jerk uterus!

I know, right?

I'm going to see what I can work into Urban Dictionary. Also, I...
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east van walk | June 3, 2010

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, June 6, 2010, In : East Van Walk 



The Mendoza Lane House
missed the open house for it in May...


but you can see more of it on the lanefab website


Burrardview Park




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got non-fiction? want money? | malahat review creative non-fiction contest

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 5, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such 
 
 The Malahat Review's Creative Non-Fiction Prize

Deadline: August 1, 2010
Prize: $1000 CAD
Submit one work of creative non-fiction between 2000 and 3000 words in length. No restrictions as to subject matter or approach apply. 
Entry fee: $35 CAD for Canadians
$40 USD for entries from the United States
$45 USD for entries from elsewhere
(entry fee includes a one year subscription to The Malahat Review)
For more information: 

http://www.malahatreview.ca/creative_non-fiction_prize/info.html
Enquiries: ma...
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OLSON conference CLOSING at the KSW | Sunday June 6 from 8:00 onwards

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 5, 2010, In : poetry & poetics 

closing party for the Charles Olson Centenary Conference

featuring poetry readings by:

Charles Alexander
Carla Billitteri
Michael Boughn
Victor Coleman
Ben Friedlander
David Herd
Jeanne Heuving
GP Lainsbury
Kim Minkus
Peter O'Leary
Richard Owens
John Roche
Lytle Shaw
Jonathan Skinner
Sharon Thesen
Jacqueline Turner

Sunday June 6 
W2 Storyeum 
151 W. Cordova St -- [NOTE our new address!]
8:00 pm 

THIS READING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC guests not registered at or participating in the Olson conference are encouraged to a...
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sick sick sick [sic]

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 5, 2010, In : [sic] 
I've been sick since my latest trip to Calgary, at which I attended a book club in my old home of Woodbine and hosted a party at Comrad Sound with readings by ryan fitzpatrick and Claire Lacey, and some really terrific music by Church of the Very Bright Lights and the ever lovely Morgan Greenwood. It was one of those rare, perfect evenings of warmth and friendship.

The first week home brought Aunt Flo and the Flu. The second week brought a severe depressive episode, and the end of the second w...
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