Bedside. #current #read I Confess @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

"I write. I write to liberate what's not-there inside (me) & inside anybody else who happens to be interested" - Gerry Shikatani

Cameron Anstee on small press culture

“When you’re in that exhausted stage you are out of control. You can’t keep the ordinary social forms. You are forced to break them because there is no way to handle them … A lot of my work is concerned with exhaustion leading to an opening” (Vito Acconci, 1971)

Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)

@amandaearl.bsky.social shares memories of Judith Copithorne on @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/aman...

"In the luminous labyrinth of language, our old friend content shimmers like a chrome relic from a future we’re already living. How fascinating and how frustrating that a single word should map our species’ psychic trajectory so precisely, so inevitably." transmediale.de/en/journal/e...

“history is not bound by time, but it is an inheritance to which successive generations contribute their own meanings” - Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda

Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics avoid travel to the US: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

“[I] hope that anyone who is in the field of publishing, particularly commercial publishing, will find some way of continuing to publish and to argue for poetry. I say this because I firmly believe that poetry is language raised to its highest power” (bpNichol)

“Now I know what it’s all about is apprenticeship. Masters are an illusion” (bpNichol)

"Brain pan hammered into a pure sound." Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/alle...

Happy National Poetry Month! We're back with the next feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek! Preview "The Place You Leave and the Place You Return To" from her debut collection, No One Knows Us There, which is out now! bookhugpress.ca/national-poe...

Saddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died:

Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous

Wait, did everyone notice that THE GATE OF MEMORY: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, edited by Brynn Saito & @brandonshimoda.bsky.social, is 40% off alongside all other poetry titles @haymarketbooks.org for National Poetry Month, oh my🌺 www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...

🖊✨Call for Papers! We are accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "Suburb Nation." Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2025 (PT)

“Your environment is the language in which you live. Words aren’t neutral like magnetic tape. They create the qualities of an experience.” - Sheila Watson

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker

And see you in Halifax this very week!! I believe I will be on stage talking to Alexander MacLeod for part of this, love it. Look at that title, gosh I love to bang the drum about art and class! But that's what happens when you make a 400 page book about it eventscalendar.smu.ca/smuhalifax/d...

It's been a long time coming! The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more! ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...

This weekend in Halifax, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi join us for 2 events: 1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198 2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm

"In Bonememory, the questions I am working with are about how memory is held in our bones and what that means personally, familialy, intergenerationally, collectively" @annaveprinska.bsky.social robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-o...

I can't speak to enrollments or financial viability. But I echo the concern that cuts seem to be happening without academic & social repercussions being accounted for – and that's a sector-wide problem, not just a York problem. The liberal arts vs STEM paradigm is a political construct.

Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities. We know that the majority of Canadians don't support political interference in research and education. We need these freedoms. #StopNSBill12: www.ansut.ca/bill-12/

Too much to say about this in a single post — IWP’s history and such — but this is indeed another huge loss: lithub.com/the-state-de...

The latest issue of Amodern is live: AMODERN 12: COUNTERTYPE Typography, Alternative Print Technologies, and Everyday Ephemera amodern.net/article/amod...

“There are no minor facts on life, there is only the one tremendous one” - Elizabeth Smart

newly posted: Zane Koss : How does a poem begin? / @littlesparrows.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/03/zane...

CFP: Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...

"The ears do not close. Imagination does not sleep. A politics that stems from listening is a politics of imagination. A politics of the unseen, from the unseen: the inner ear, of the world." Nicolas Jaar, from "The Ear of the Storm" transmediale.de/en/journal/t...

"I always feel I am questioning when I write novels, and I wanted to deal with my long-lasting question about human violence and the possibility or impossibility of refusing it." - Han Kang on writing The Vegetarian

Man Rei

These aren’t out officially until April 15, but I have a STACK of them sitting on my desk. Just saying…

"I would like to write like you. You are exploring what I would like to dare.” - Nicole Brossard Over on @periodicities.bsky.social, I muse upon a poem's beginnings, and its emergence from affinities I share with companion writers and artists. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/eric...

The latest episode of Poem Talk –– featuring Al Filreis, Bob Holman, Christy Davids, and Herman Beavers on June Jordan –– is out now: jacket2.org/podcasts/rad...

Never not disgusted by the way educational institutions use the language of disability and accessibility to justify their increased use of predatory AI. Apparently, instructors have no right to guard their IP against companies like Amazon, our lectures used to train the tech that will replace us.

A new book by the great Fenn Stewart! Forthcoming from @bookhugpress.bsky.social: bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

Please join us for this—if you aren’t in Philly, here is the livestream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3HS...

🧵intergraphia Open Call Submission window: 3 March, 9 am GMT to 10 March, midnight GMT. Submissions cannot be accepted before or after these times. We will try to make our decision by 21 April. We're sorry that we will not be able to offer individual feedback to unsuccessful submissions...

Forthcoming : Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973 www.fantagraphics.com/products/dis...

Cameron Anstee in @periodicities.bsky.social: "I like the expanse one can find with a reduced palette; the opening yielded by close attention to something very small; the conflicts between the work and the ways it can be encountered." periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/came...

I did this interview with Leigh Anne Power @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social on #cdnpse and the humanities about 2 months ago and promptly forgot about it (I was in the UK for research, so jet-lag explains my memory!). Thanks to those who found it! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Capilano Review is looking to hire a part-time literary editor. And, they are offering a salary. thecapilanoreview.com/careers/?mc_...

Thrilled to see that UbuWeb rides again: