I have found the definition of Beauty--of my Beauty. It is something ardent and sad, something a little vague, allowing for conjecture... finally (so as to admit courageously how modern I feel in matters of aesthetics), a sense of unhappiness. —Charles Baudelaire, Fusées

Georg Nees "Schlotter" (1965-68) remade by Christina Pletsch. I have measured out my artlife in sugar cubes...

"Narsinh XVIII"

Cassils, "Undersight" (2025). On Oct. 4, the artist will project the 199 words banished by the Trump administration, encrypted as dots and dashes of searing light, into the night sky over 12 hours, from sunset to sunrise. "It's a distress signal," says Cassils.

14 Hours until the first rocket is launched in Canada from the new Atlantic Spaceport (near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland). www.nordspace.com/info

I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

"A History of Poetry Comics" by JB attn: @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social

To twist an Atwoodism: the right are afraid that the left will laugh at them. the left are afraid that the right will kill them. @margaretatwood.bsky.social

By Ian Duhig

Günes Isitan, "Hybridities: Almost Other" (2024) takes swabs from subjects faces using film and lets the microbe grow on the film in a petri dish. The results are stunning. www.gunesisitan.com/hybridities-...

How is it that every etymology reads like a poem? Like... Origin from oriri arise, rise, get up appear above the horizon become visible be born be descended receive life

What an auspicious start for the new SETI Institute award! The first annual Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize has received hundreds of submissions from 31 countries around the world. Brilliant launch of the award!

Hem Press' editor had the great pleasure of sitting down with Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social to talk about bpNichol! You can watch it here (due to a technical mishap, you only see Gregory's screen). www.youtube.com/watch?v=md6-...

ChatGPT5 has read my "plunderverse manifesto" and can now autogenerate plunderverse texts FROM ANYTHING.

My friend Christodoulos Makris is running this online master class, which I highly recommend: "How does the poet adapt to the advent of generative artificial intelligence, which is capable of instantly producing a 'publishable' or even 'award-winning' poem?" www.eventbrite.ie/e/insights-w...

This was my first post on Facebook, 15 years ago.

So, the David Gray Chair and the James McNulty of the SUNY Poetics program are just... gone? This isn't death by a thousand cuts, but two fatal blows.

Kay Rosen: “All of the letters that make up the phrase THE FOREST FOR THE TREES can be used to spell only the words THE FOREST."

The soundpoetry of Starlings: storing data in birdsongs. #bioart www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

And so to simplify: poetry = art with words prose = art with sentences novels = art with narrative visual poetry = art with letters Ferdinand Kriwet, "Rundscheiben" (1960/63).

Chalk, under a microscope, reveals itself to be made of the bones of ancient plankton, a creature crucial to the great oxygenation of the earth. Chalk, used to outline death, is made of death from this creature that enables our life. #coccolithophores

Pleased to have work in "Language is a Virus" an online art exhibition to commemorate The Xenotext. With @anamariacaballero.bsky.social and @sashastiles.bsky.social objkt.com/collections/...

Jim Dine, "Seeing thru the Stardust, The heat on the lawn (Claude)" (2017). Earthenware and bronze,

IMPREINT, "Entartete Kunst #1631" (2024). @impreint.bsky.social "has vigorously and painstakingly sanitised, obscured, and hidden... unpalatable into intriguing and beautiful re-contextualised imagery poetically undermining the actions of the oppressor", in this case Nazi archival photographs.

Submissions are coming in already from countries around the world. I remind you all of the new Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize by The SETI Institute for emerging writers. No entry fee! www.seti.org/news/the-set...

Dick Higgins, "Glasslass" (1974). A modular poem in which the principal structural factor is the repetition, usually in different contexts, of one or more elements of the text. Each element becomes a module that may be expanded, compressed or otherwise altered. Or not.

MB14, "Pyramids" (2023). New Sonic Poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=11MN...

"For thinking is always firstly thinking the thinkable -- a thinking that modifies what is thinkable by welcoming what was unthinkable." Jacques Ranciere, Aisthesis

Some mail day! The astounding artist box of responses to The Xenotext has arrived from Coach House today, complete with my headband and my new chapbook, "The Crown." My afternoon is now shot, given over to the indulgence of these contents.

"EITHER YOU TRANSFORM OR YOU DESTROY": Steve McCaffery's "for a poetry of blood" from Stereoheadphones 4 (1978). @jkchunt.bsky.social I read this as an addendum to, perhaps refinement of, Brooker's "The Destroyer".

The Book of Un by M. NourbeSe Philip, published by Container Press, as part of their rolodex series of literary/artist editions. Michael Leong's work is also lovely.

"No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, & never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social & I, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social : chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The typewriter pyramids of Kasper Pincis (2013). "To be typed rather than written: the idea of typing as a separate medium in and of itself plays a key role"

It is my great pleasure to introduce The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize, a new initiative from the SETI Institute, a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of life, intelligence and consciousness in the universe. $1000 grand prize. www.seti.org/news/the-set...

Wearable poetry: my work "The Crown" in which every gem colour corresponds to a specific syllable sound in the crown of sonnets called "The Crown of Venom" in Christian Bök's The Xenotext.

From the BardCode launch in St Cats.

rob and Christine in Ireland! Friends in Dublin, this will be a great event. www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/tra...

On now: "The visual and the textual, the lucid and the illegible: a vibrant exhibition of the last sixty-five years of experimental poetry." Curated by Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh, in collaboration with Conley Lowrance, Grolier Club, NYC, through July 26, 2025 4columns.org/mobilio-albe...

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Friends in St. Cats and environs, the next reading in the Phylum Press Reading Series will be Thursday 3 July on the Niagara Artists Centre (NAC)'s amazing roofdeck. This one is going to be excellent. Open to all, free (as in words). Hope to see you here!

when yu want to know what writing is mor than anything yu look at writing - bill bissett

Letteral landscape by the Brazillian artist Mira Schendel.

“our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves are frighteningly inert” —Donna Haraway, 1985

Robert Richardson, "civil liberties/Official Secrets" (1989). avenuebob.com

"No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, and never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase your copy of SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, lovingly edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social and I: chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...

After a splendid launch last night in Toronto, I'm delighted to announce that our album is now available on Bandcamp and that pre-orders of the vinyl can be reserved. Thanks to Siren Recordings @whatisapoem.bsky.social @lillianallen.ca muttertonguetrio.bandcamp.com/.../woken-an...