I think about this poem all the time

The launch for NMLCT is just three days away! I'm looking forward to seeing you there! Wednesday, Sept 24 at The Piston 937 Bloor St West Toronto 7:00 - 10:00 pm

NEW PAINTING!!! "Architecture of the Island of Wrong Animals" 30" x 22", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

Ba-dee-ya! youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

Ladies and gentles, animals and machines, and everyone in-between . . . . we are ONE WEEK away from the launch of NMLCT! I'd love it if you could join me to celebrate! Wed, Sept 24, 2025 at The Piston 937 Bloor Street West, from 7 to 10pm [festivities included]

Our review of WRESTLING WITH CADENCE can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/theseabo...

Toronto people, the legendary Dennis Lee is launching his new book of essays tomorrow evening. Alas, I will be out of town, but you can go, and you should.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Ladies and gentles, animals and machines, and everyone in-between . . . . we are ONE WEEK away from the launch of NMLCT! I'd love it if you could join me to celebrate! Wed, Sept 24, 2025 at The Piston 937 Bloor Street West, from 7 to 10pm [festivities included]

I've received many messages from concerned constituents over the past 24 hours, asking me about the standing ovation connected to Charlie Kirk in yesterday's session in the House of Commons. Please see my statement on the matter.

I support the union of full-time support staff at Ontario colleges who striking for better working conditions, better learning conditions, and a better future for Ontario’s students and college graduates. Solidarity. We are the horses! #saveourcolleges

Some adjustments have been made to my fall tour schedule. These are the up-to-date dates, or as I like to call them, "the up-to-dates!" Full details here: www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/events.html

I'm coming to PICTON, ON to discuss my new poetry collection NMLCT with poet Andrew Faulker at the Picton branch of the Prince Edward County Public Library. Books & Company will be there to sell copies of the book. Sat, Sept 20, 2025 2pm–3pm princeedwardcounty.librarycalendar.com/event/paul-v...

Thanks to Luigi Sposato for a five-star review on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

NEW PAINTING!!! "Architecture of the Congregants" 30" x 22", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

I'll be at Kingston WritersFest this Friday, Sept 19, for two events: my "How to Read a Poem" workshop, and then a poetry panel with Callista Markotich and Terese Mason Pierre called "Projections and Reflections" with host Jason Heroux. See you there! www.kingstonwritersfest.ca/how-to-read-...

Too many education bureaucrats and administrators are in the pocket of corporate interests. The deeply corrupt laziness of policy makers who push AI into our schools must be resisted by everyone who cares about quality education. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/13/c...

Was delighted to have a chance to review Kyle Flemmer's hilarious space-themed experimental poetry book, Supergiants, over at Strange Horizons. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... @kyleflemmer.com @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social #booksky

I would like to remind everyone that the #Nazi order to euthanize those with mental health issues (and other #disabilities ♿️) was called Aktion T4. This involuntary euthanasia killed 300K people by conservative estimate. Kilmeade is promoting Nazi killing protocol. Literally, he is saying we should.

Greatl day at the Mississauga Literary Festival! I did a talk on reading poetry and helped with the launch of Issue No. 8 of the @theampersandreview.bsky.social. Great people, great venue, great sense of community, all sorely needed in these brutish times. Thank you, @mississaugalib.bsky.social !!!

Christie Pits, Toronto. Best sign of the day.

I support my full-time support staff colleagues at Ontario colleges who are on strike for better working conditions, better learning conditions, and a better future for Ontario’s students and college graduates. Solidarity! @opseusefpo.bsky.social

"Let them eat jobs."

Thanks to @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social for this review of NMLCT that I will treasure for a long time. "Honestly, I have not really read a poetry collection like this one. It’s a highly original book." — Chris Banks, The Woodlot Read the review here: the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/10/r...

There's an excerpt from Canisia Lubrin's new book, The World After Rain, in the @yalereview.bsky.social. Check it out! yalereview.org/article/cani...

NEW PAINTING!!! Architecture of the Shroud of Intelligent Life 30" x 22", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

RIP Rick Davies. "Goodbye stranger, it's been nice. Hope you find your paradise." www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ayk...

This Saturday, September 13 at 10:30am, I'll be giving a talk on reading poetry at the @mississaugalib.bsky.social. And just one hour later, one room over, I'll be hosting the launch of Issue No. 8 of the @theampersandreview.bsky.social. It's a wonderful festival, and I hope to see you there.

NEW PAINTING!!! "Architecture of the Whirlwind Emerging from its Aerial Lair" 30" x 22", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

Thanks to @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for publishing my short essay called "Skeuomorph, Ritual, Synesthesia, Mutation, and the Protean Well of Language: Fragments of a Poetics." You can read the whole piece here: alllitup.ca/poetry-in-mo...

RIP Mark Volman of the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, The Mothers of Invention, and the Plastic Ono Band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4Z...

NEW PAINTING!!! "Architecture of the Annihilation of Matter by Antimatter" 30" x 22", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

I'm loving this article by poet and physician Conor Mc Donnell about his forthcoming new collection "What We Know So Far Is …" The book will be out in the October! www.oncreativewriting.com/post/conor-m...

Visit the link below to see me read my poem "On Monstrosity" from my new book NMLCT from @ecwpress.bsky.social. Thanks to @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for having me on board!

Due to some scheduling issues, the Mississauga event with poet Alexander Hollenberg has to be rescheduled again. A new date will be announced soon, probably in November. Don't worry, this will happen and it will be fantastic.

Hey, it's @bandcamp.com Friday! A perfect day to check out the electronic expressionism of wererabbit. All my music is PWYC on Bandcamp. wererabbit.bandcamp.com

UPDATE: The event at Sheridan College in Mississauga, together with poet Alexander Hollenberg, originally scheduled for Oct 2, has been moved to September 29. Full details at www.paulvermeersch.ca. Link in profile.

Because people are asking how to pronounce the name of my new book! NMLCT = "animal city"

Almost every on-line pronunciation guide for the word "phthalo" is wrong. Only Bob Ross is correct. f-THAY-low

just write stuff that no one will ever care about, forever

It's ALIVE!!!! Today is the official pub date for NMLCT, published by @ecwpress.bsky.social!

This is not a mystery. The Pandemic™️ was indeed ~a pandemic~ therefore, people not being congregated in offices are less likely to get sick. Additionally, if you're already working from home, working while sick is easier (& safer for others!) So, OF COURSE sick days will increase with RTO!

Every writer looks forward to those reviews when the critic really understands what the book is trying to do. @selenamercuri.bsky.social has done just that in her review of NMLCT in @theseaboardreview.ca. I am grateful. Read the review here: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/nmlct-poem...

NEW PAINTING! "Architecture of the Aperture" 30" x 22", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

I’m with The Weeknd: bring back the SkyDome

"They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery." -- THEY LIVE

Today is Dennis Lee's 86th birthday! And there's more good news! Our best living poet has a new book of essays, and the launch is coming up on September 19th. Here are the details. WRESTLING WITH CADENCE Fri, Sept 19, 2025 Flying Books 784 College St, Toronto 6:30-8PM HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DENNIS!

Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Oh look! @sfu.ca has created an artificial faculty member they don’t have to pay or give benefits to, so of course they made her a Black woman. And they don’t even have to hire a real person! This is shameful.