Susan Connolly, "Christmas Eve" (2019). Merry merry, to all who celebrate!

the page is just a metaphor for all that can’t be put on it —Mark Yakich

Check out these lovely asemic works by Pouran Jinchi, "Untitled (Poetry #96-1 & 2)" and "Ruba’iyat Series #34" (1996).

A blank list. This is modern art.

VERY grateful for this amazing review by Amanda Earl in The Temz Review: "playful, sexual, animalistic, fun, kinda kooky, uninhibited"

Wondering what to read over the holidays? Look no further. @henryghenrik.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social @ghostlyverse.bsky.social #poetry #bookreviews

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"Art is all use." —bill bissett A beautiful rejoinder to "art for art's sake".

I maintain that Tanya Tagaq's 2019 Ted Talk is amongst the best sound poetry created in the 21st century: youtu.be/dumvYzfuT0w?...

It's #blackfriday here at the ILT: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2nd Dublin edn.) Two single-sided black pages face each other at pp. 56-57. "The ‘blackness’ is printed on both sides of the leaf with what appears to be a solid woodblock." The Laurence Sterne Trust

Syllable Haiku One two three four five six seven nine ten elev- en fourteen sixteen

My life is a series of people saying to me, "I can't believe you don't know this!" and a series of people saying to me, "I can't believe you know this!" Latest example: Kristof Lauwers' "After bpNichol" (2009). www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4P2...

Paul Dutton, "Texture" (1979).

Stained-glass version of my Penteract Press book BardCode. I have been encouraged to make one of these for every one of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. The labour!

Five Formative Texts from the Canadian Avant-Garde: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/five...

Write a poem

A simile is like an I in smile.

Probably my favourite book from 1624: Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624).

What's that, Christmas? Friends, Penteract Press is sadly winding down operations. They have launched a major sale of some of their incredible books (including BardCode): Customers get 40% off all books and chapbooks using the code PENULTIMATE at checkout. penteractpress.com/store/bardcode

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