It's not fall without the Small Press Book Fair!

One of my favourites by Jean Valentine #smallpoemsunday

Come help Dagne Forrest and me celebrate our Baseline Press chapbooks along with special guest @nancyhuggett.bsky.social. Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa.

In Ottawa November 14!

One month only. Submit now: scrivenerreview.com/submit

This poem. Why does this season I love so much make me sad?

Heather Christle online! I'm signing up now!

Two poems for #smallpoemsunday, one by Charles Simic (the master!) and one from my Baseline Press chapbook. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

If you're in or near Ottawa, don't miss this!

Come help Dagne Forrest and me celebrate our Baseline Press chapbooks along with special guest @nancyhuggett.bsky.social. Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa.

Reading about neuroscience leads me to reconfirm that a fundamental quality I value in poetry is its ability to "perturb those restless proactive seas." Poetry loves to get in the way.

My new chapbook “Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City” is here and available to preorder from Baseline Press: www.baselinepress.ca#/jacaranda-t... #poetry #poem #chapbook #CDMX #Mexico

What a great list! I’m particularly eager for @nicolavulpe.bsky.social’s latest.

Ada Limón, from Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (2025). @rachaelboast.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Bywords is the best! A great selection of local poetry every month and a constantly updated literary calendar. Easy to submit and a delight to read!

This important anthology's available here in Canada as of today, folks. Received confirmation this morning that my copy has just shipped.

Poets receive an honorarium upon publication. Poems published in Bywords.ca between September, 2025 & August, 2026 will be eligible for consideration for the 2026 John Newlove Poetry Award.

Got buzzed by a hummingbird on its way to visit the bee balm I started in yoghurt containers in the snow. Thank you Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library for the seeds and directions.

For the last day of #DisabilityPrideMonth, a poem that first appeared in Couplet Poetry back in 2022.

Always a great event!

Highly recommend!

Are the grasshoppers unusually large this year?

Glorious morning at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden with a friend, frogs, a toad, tadpoles, and birds from large (pileated woodpecker) to small (hummingbird). The ravine is non-stop wildflowers.

Thank you, @pinholepoetry.bsky.social !

Thank you, Phillip. I’m thrilled I’ll be included! (This poem is from my chapbook, So I Go, out with the remarkable Baseline Press.)

Love this by Steven Heighton from the preface to his “Selected Poems 1893-2020.”

Shameless self promotion go! In all honesty though it's a privilege and delight to be included in this series. Thank you so much @robmclennan.bsky.social for all that you do for the poetry community.

Thank you @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for making room among so much astonishing work for my small poem for my mother. pinholepoetry.ca/11822-2/

I wrote a review of @josephkidney.bsky.social's Devotional Forensics for @cv2magazine.bsky.social and had a darn good time doing it. read the review here: contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/devo...

Baseline Press has sold out of my chapbook but I still have a few copies. Let me know if you want one.

Beauties!

An honour and delight to have my small poem honouring my mother included. Can’t wait to see the issue!

don't forget that the the ottawa small press book fair : spring 2025 edition, is this weekend, yes? and there's always a FREE STUFF table; and on Friday, also: The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 20 : at Anina's Cafe! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

I’ll be at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair this Saturday with my Baseline Press chapbook & free Baseline bookmarks. If I get my act together, there will also be cookies. And you can preorder Baseline’s summer titles now. Saturday, June 21 Tom Brown Arena 141 Bayview Station Rd Noon-5:00 p.m.

“Song, which I am equating with poetry, creates a feeling in the hearer; if the feeling gives pleasure, you have understood the song.” — Mary Ruefle One reason those vomitous AI summaries of poems help you understand precisely nothing.

Yay new poem in Bywords! bywords.ca

The June issue of Bywords.ca is out and features poems by Anna Jordan, Ian Li, Helen Roberston, and Rob Thomas. bywords.ca

This is an abomination considering the environmental impact. And one of the whole points is to get people (not computers) curious about what others have encountered. Please reconsider @inaturalist.bsky.social and please value the planet and community—please value anything besides money.

Thrilled to have a poem in @scrivener1980.bsky.social ‘s Summer Feature.

come hear poetry, Ottawa.

Tuesday, June 10 at 6:00pm! Join Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Chimwemwe Undi, in her 1st Ottawa reading since her appointment. She'll share the stage w/ Ottawa Poets Laureate David O'Meara + Véronique Sylvain. @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Sunnyside Branch, OPL (1049 Bank St) : Free

We are open for submissions! All genres, always free! June 1-July 15! psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

If you missed Kaveh Akbar’s Blaney Lecture on Poetry & Spirituality you can still listen to it here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDx...

Spend a literary afternoon with Amanda Earl, Christine McNair, & rob mclennan on Sunday, June 1. 2025 2pm, The Lieutenant's Pump, More info: AngelHousePress.com. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers Union of Canada for sponsorship of readers.

I’ll be there selling my Baseline chapbook with samples of others from their shop and possibly some goodies to give away.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

the FINAL DAY of National Poetry Month 2025 via Chaudiere Books offers a new poem by Helen Robertson! / @helendestroy.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...

Join @amnesty.ca for an online discussion with award-winning novelist & journalist Omar El Akkad, in conversation with host @pacinthe.bsky.social. Sunday, May 4, 7pm ET Register for the free Zoom presentation at octopusbooks.ca/amnesty