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the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!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

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

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

TODAY at 2pm #withrowpark

New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜 @creamcityreview.bsky.social @triohousepress.org

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

I wrote a section of this in each class at UCD - with Declan Hughes, Éireann Lorsung, Sarah Moss and Jonathan Creasy.

So much going on in this remarkable poem by Joshua Mehigan.

So pleased to reissue @travissharp.bsky.social amazeballs @knifeforkbook.bsky.social debut YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER, (sold out print run) now downloadable @asterismbooks.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/yes-...

flock of flamingos balanced on slender stemware or mad flight of hats, magenta origami, by Schiaparelli, above ground, you stand poised as flames on candlewicks, but under earth I know you’re a heavy dark mass “Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Gobsmacked, honoured and thrilled to have a Baseline chapbook coming in the spring.

A very cool call for subs! #Disability #CanLit thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

We're delighted to see Khashayar Mohammadi on this great poetry panel: resilientwritersradioshow.buzzsprout.com/2077625/epis...

“Across the parking lot, a Texas Roadhouse is coming down, and some of us watch and some lower groceries into cars’ trunks. I am thinking of the mirrors in the bathrooms. I am thinking of the drop ceiling…” From “Folding” by Jane Zwart in ISSUE 27!

No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission. If you identify as disabled, please submit!

ISSUE 32 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!! www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

Canada 🇨🇦 recognizes the State of Palestine.🇵🇸 www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. truthout.org/articles/im-... (I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )

Let’s mock them still

100 Poems Read by @itsakirby.bsky.social (under quarantine, 2020) knifeforkbook.com/2020/03/19/k...

You know, I think we all pretty much know what rough beast has slouched into Bethlehem to be born.

Chantal & Erín. This. Wednesday. antlerriverpoetry.ca (if only she had wings to fly)

Come out!! Sept 22nd at Massy with @isabellawangbc.bsky.social @christinashah.bsky.social and Natalie Lim! www.eventbrite.ca/e/huntress-i...

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.