A. E. Stallings

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Nancy Huggett, / @nancyhuggett.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

Victoria Chang

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney "leaves and branches Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale So that you listen to the thing you fear." #stormdave

National Poetry Month: Andy Weaver, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Melissa Powless Day, / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

With gratitude in abundance to the folks at North American Review:

for #smallpoemsunday I'm sharing my poem in the latest issue of Fairy Tale Review CC: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

One of mine in The Offing #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social “There are no stupid questions”

“And suddenly, in view of these reflections, Ulrich had to smile and admit to himself that he was, after all, a character, even without having one.” (Musil, The Man without Qualities)

There's NewPoetry today from Tolu Oloruntoba. newpoetry.ca/2026/03/20/p...

Join us on Tuesday, March 24 for VERSeFest x Riverbed Reading Series at 7:00pm at Club SAW. Tickets here: www.verseottawa.ca/en/events?da...

Great to see Anna Veprinska on this list. Look for new work from Anna this summer in our Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue.

It came. It’s beautiful🥹. My deepest thanks to @pinholepoetry.bsky.social Order here: pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/

Another poem featuring crocuses as it first appeared in Crannóg

🖊✨Call for Papers! We are now accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "From One Solitude to Another: Dialogues around Québécois Literature, Indigenous Literatures, and CanLit," guest-edited by Marie-Andrée Bergeron and Sarah Krotz.

Alden Nowlan

In a 1947 letter after a visit to Paris, Clarice Lispector recounts a piece of literary gossip: that Proust’s Albertine was based on a man named Albert who had worked at the Ritz and was said to run a restaurant. 🙃 (a small glimpse of how Proust circulated in literary talk at the time)

Lebanese health officials say that 31 health workers have been killed by Israeli strikes. Israel claimed, without evidence, that Hezbollah has been using ambulances and medical facilities. It’s the Gaza playbook all over again. Gift link:

Don't miss today's conversation with poet Joan Naviyuk Kane about her latest collection "with snow pouring southward past the window" Audio📻❄️: milkweed.org/between-the-... @upittpress.bsky.social @naviyuk.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @guggfellows.bsky.social

A Pinhole Poetry CHAPBOOK LAUNCH Yvette LeClair will read from her new chapbook A GIRL SO EASILY at Hair of the Dog, 2nd floor 425 Church St, Toronto, ON APRIL 19, 2026 2 PM with special guests Julie Cameron Gray & R. Kolewe Copies will be for sale at the event

A fascinating discussion between Kyle Flemmer and Kim Mannix is up at On Creative Writing: www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...

A heartbreaking poem by one of Canada's finest

Submissions open March 1. Send us your strongest poems and be part of the next issue!

I received my contributor's copy of the winter issue of "The Fiddlehead." An honour to be included in such an incredible issue. Thank you to the editors.

Thrilled and honored to be included. Thank you Phillip and @[email protected].

From our winter issue, a new poem by Susan Robertson

An interview with poet Polly Clark features in Issue 7 of @madridlitmag.bsky.social. She speaks about her new Bloodaxe retrospective, Afterlife: New & Selected Poems, out today, and shares a poem from the book.

don't forget that we're running two (Ottawa, in-person) poetry workshops as part of our 16th annual festival next month: by Toronto poet/editor Paul Vermeersch, and by Calgary poet/performer Sheri-D Wilson; spaces still available! see here for further information: verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

It’s publication week for Tales of Health, a book that brings a medical humanities framework to the Romantic genre of the National Tale and its questions of health and citizenship.

Leila Chatti, Wildness Before Something Sublime / @leilachatti.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/leil...

hiiii i'm super excited to have a new poem in the latest issue of @upthestaircase.bsky.social. i hope you'll give the issue a visit: www.upthestaircase.org

For a whole year, DHS hid that they murdered Ruben, a young man in Texas, after a traffic stop. Just like they did with Silverio, Renee, Keith, Alex, and Linda, they lied and avoided accountability. How many more people have to be executed before my colleagues realize that reforms are not enough?

My novel, The Unravelling of Ou, is featured in the Foreword Reviews Writers of Color column and I’m delighted. Not just because it’s marvellous review, but because as an “ethnically ambiguous” mixed race individual, it’s wonderful to be seen. www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-... #bookreview

Inspired by today's incredibly poem on @rattlepoetry.bsky.social rattle.com/allergy-dad-...

late-phase imperialism, seen by children—as Conrad said, "not a pretty thing when you look into it too much"

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