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Linda Besner

Linda Besner will publish a new book of poetry, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds, in 2017.
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May 2016 / Poetry

Bells, Liberty, Undue Exultation

April 11, 2016April 11, 2020 - by Linda Besner

a poem

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Illustration by Julie Flett
March 2016

In Their Own Words

March 25, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Linda Besner

The fight to preserve the Cree language

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Photograph by Harvey K
Sports

Hearing Aid

August 6, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Linda Besner

Broadcasting the Pan and Parapan Am Games to sound- and vision-impaired spectators

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Illustration by Sara Guindon
Poetry / September 2013

Plan to Be Ready

August 20, 2013June 21, 2016 - by Linda Besner

My intern swings a lantern through the swamp. Bloodhounds on the track of the elusive mind map, in our boat we nose over ghost orchids, cull lucid proofs from the …

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Photography by François Pesant
Arts & Culture / May 2013

The Power of Montreal’s Thriving Deaf Community

April 23, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Linda Besner

Discovering Montreal’s vibrant Deaf culture

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October 2012 / Society

Bar Stool Stories

September 11, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Linda Besner

An oral history of Mohawk ironworkers

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Dogwalker’s Law

January 11, 2012March 8, 2019 - by Linda Besner
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Illustration by Adrienne Kammerer
Education / September 2011

Spellbound

September 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Linda Besner

La nouvelle orthographe is supposed to improve language—to the chagrin of some French speakers

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April 2011 / Poetry

Dogwalker’s Law

April 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Linda Besner

The Korean chatelaine who claims she never boffed her former dogwalker (and blots her creamy affidavit swearing theirs a chaste relationship) is perjuring: if she didn’t, she should have, as …

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