Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...

Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu

I wish you were here, dear, in this hemisphere, as I sit on the porch sipping a beer. It’s evening; the sun is setting, boys shout and gulls are crying. What’s the point of forgetting if it’s followed by dying? - Joseph Brodsky, "A Song"

the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2026 edition: June 20, 2026 / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Ottawa’s two current poets laureate have curated a very cool reading of eight Ottawa poets (in English and French) writing on visual art, all included in accompanying above/ground press handout chapbook! / @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social

A producer in the London bureau is the *only* CBS person quoted in their story about Israel killing its longtime freelance cameramen in Gaza—someone who once filed dispatches for them from an ambulance, while wounded. Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief. www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...

Hamilton friends, Sharp Words is coming up fast and the third panel of the day is this great discussion between Brad Smith and Jamie Tennant - we hope you can come down to Bridgeworks and join us! You can find the full details here: www.sharpwords.ca

In memory of Louis Zukofsky, born on 23 January, 1904, here are my Five Love Sonnets with Rhymes Stolen from Louis Zukofsky's "A"–9. From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.

@cv2magazine.bsky.social makes such a lovely magazine, and I'm happy to have this poem win a spot there. As a huge fan of The Weakerthans, I feel the proximity to a gem from John K. Samson an added bit of luck.

Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the @tseliotprize.bsky.social with Wellwater (Picador)! Watch Young Critic Caleb Simon's video review of the collection at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIJ... #TSEliotPrize

Karen Solie won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for Wellwater, a collection exploring environmental destruction.

New blurb: 'Tales of Health is one of the best recent examples of medical humanities approaches in literary studies...a rigorous formal exploration of the national tale and a complexly intersecting disability theoretical provocation...’ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Today, Peter Schireson’s ‘Report from the Afterlife’ is our featured poem from our most recent issue.

Our 16th issue is here! Head over to pinholepoetry.ca/current-issue-pinhole-poetry/ to read all the amazing poems and check out Wenda Salomon’s beautiful pinhole photographs. Please share this issue far and wide. We’re very proud and grateful to be able to publish such good work.

“the courses of the droplets on your skin, so given, and gone.” Beautiful. From Alastair Morrison. Thanks for highlighting this one, Vicki. It was such a treat to read.

"Fixed courses, immutable pull; still one could have been elsewhere." #TodaysPoem #poetry Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus by Alastair Morrison (@alasmorrison.bsky.social) (2025 @theshorepoetry.bsky.social) www.theshorepoetry.org/alastair-mor...

Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat... Please share widely.

Jim and Michael. #KFB10 #Spring2026 #poetrywellserved JIM JOHNSTONE Eye for an Eye www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p206/J... MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p204/M...

British reporters often ask the best, most direct questions

Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review! porterhousereview.org/articles/ski...

What a year. This arrived today, very lovely & very cold, from Orison Books. If you want a copy of your own, you can pre-order here: Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/NR1Q8l2d3jcV...

A reminder from Charles Olson, who was born on this day in 1910

Our first outing. [What fun!] #LIVE #SendMyLoveToAnyone THE MOCKLER @themockler.bsky.social & Me on #SelfPromotion #connectingwithreaders substack.com/profile/2120...

Prince Edward Island's finest poet? Maybe. Mark Strand, from Darker (1970)

Students! Have you written a poem about math or a mathematical concept? There is a contest, and it is free to enter. Deadline January 20th: www.ams.org/learning-car...

So, Oedipus Rex. But what are your other favourite works of literature where self-discovery is BAD?

So, Oedipus Rex. But what are your other favourite works of literature where self-discovery is BAD?

My poem from the new beautifully done Nixes Mate

Delmore Schwartz, born on this day in 1913

btw, SO EXCITED about the poetry we have coming in the next issue of @reckoningmag.bsky.social -- aah! It's so good.

Great to see this article by @alasmorrison.bsky.social that explores the relationship between genre fiction and psychiatric care while making a case for interdisciplinary study. mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Creative Constraints Workshop Series In a series of 90 minute Zoom sessions, explore how creative limits can reroute writing habits, silence the inner critic and open up new ways of making a poem. register & find out more at pinholepoetry.ca/events

Let this be the season of brave submissions and literary joy. Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme

the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...

We’re missing pieces for our next issue! We’re still looking for a few more poems and pinhole photography submissions. Check out our guidelines on our website and send in work by Nov 28 to be considered for the Jan 2026 issue. pinholepoetry.ca

I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/... Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/... Free link: mh.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf...

For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)

One month until the disability issue deadline, folks. Keep those poetry submissions rolling in!

Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

One of the three Forrest Gander translations featured in the autumn issue of The Fiddlehead.

Sitting pretty. 10~5 TODAY #smallpressfair @victoriacollege.bsky.social

If you like this☝️you’ll almost certainly like this👇

A haunted house, but it’s the Criterion Closet you’ll never get to visit because you’re just a fucking poet.

Lucky to have had two poems in @havehashad.com -- many thanks to @jlyocum.com for choosing them and to @neonpajamas.bsky.social, whose delightful weekly prompts inspired the first!

I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press. www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5