awaiting an update on dead computer, so sitting in mall food court with new titles from Nightboat Books, by Sophia Dahlin, Kay Gabriel and Edward Salem, // @sophiadahlin.bsky.social

Prageeta Sharma, Onement Won / robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/prag...

IF YOU DONT WANT 'ELBOWS UP' THEN STOP WITH THE THREATS TO INVADE AND THE TARRIFS YEH F^N &^%&%$* www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

small one about to begin this week’s ukulele lesson, so I’m going to dig into Ottawa writer Rebecca Hirsch Garcia’s The Girl Who Cried, / @ecwpress.bsky.social @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social

computer died last night, so if I owe you an email, it might be a while before I can do anything,

Congratulations @robmclennan.bsky.social

Qurat Dar, Non-Prophet / @quratdar.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/qura...

dead computer, so while solutions are being developed, sitting a morning at a mall food court with reading and notebook, the new issue of Rob Manery’s SOME, Eve Luckring’s latest, and a pile of titles from Brick Books,

small one about to begin this week’s ukulele lesson, so I’m going to dig into Ottawa writer Rebecca Hirsch Garcia’s The Girl Who Cried, / @ecwpress.bsky.social @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social

Qurat Dar, Non-Prophet / @quratdar.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/qura...

8am ringette ice time, not fully awake enough to know what I’m reading,

ringette practice, and the new Susan Howe,

Younger people won't believe this, but during the Second World War, Disney put out cartoons about how it was your patriotic duty to stand up to fascists, even noting that we'd each have to take a financial hit if we wanted to win that struggle. No, really!

children collected from German school, choir, fed and home; so attempting another hour at different terrible sportsbar, with notebook, pen and different mound of Brick Books titles, before time to take wee one to ringette,

dead computer, so while solutions are being developed, sitting a morning at a mall food court with reading and notebook, the new issue of Rob Manery’s SOME, Eve Luckring’s latest, and a pile of titles from Brick Books,

Mail received @robmclennan.bsky.social

computer died last night, so if I owe you an email, it might be a while before I can do anything,

very cool to see this billboard for FIFTEEN DOGS at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, the play based on André Alexis’ novel; you know he’s from here, yes? even used to live a few blocks from the theatre, // @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

It's a quintessential right of passage for small press poetry books to be reviewed by @robmclennan.bsky.social and we're ever so grateful to him for bringing MA|DE's debut collaborative collection into the fold. Rob calls ZZOO "layered, and sharp” and remarks on its “smart and engaged language."

TtD supplement #286 : seven questions for Lina Ramona Vitkauskas / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/09/ttd-...

MA│DE, ZZOO / @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/made...

TtD supplement #286 : seven questions for Lina Ramona Vitkauskas / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/09/ttd-...

MA│DE, ZZOO / @palimpsestpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/made...

they are, in fact, allowed to do that

"Yesterday two ghosts wandered along the aisle. The child ghost raised a hand and pointed at me. 'A note boat.' The mother ghost laughed, and corrected the child. “No, it’s called a notebook.”

S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook, , some notes from earlier this spring; reading Dodie Bellamy in the Air Canada Lounge, en route to Vancouver, / @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...

new from above/ground press: My Life as a Notebook, by Jason Heroux abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...

Vaccine availability in Ontario. Free. Everyone 6 months of age and older who lives, works or goes to school in Ontario may receive their COVID-19 vaccine starting on October 27, 2025. Some may receive your COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) and flu shot as soon as they become available in the fall.

IF YOU DONT WANT 'ELBOWS UP' THEN STOP WITH THE THREATS TO INVADE AND THE TARRIFS YEH F^N &^%&%$* www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The secret is out! The vast majority of 2025 for me was reading for the 2025 City of Ottawa Book Awards where I was on the jury for English Fiction. Here is the shortlist! Congrats to the nominees! Full list here: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

2025 Ottawa Book Awards shortlist : On Beauty: stories, , in which i would like to thank the academy, etc. / @ualbertapress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/2025-ottaw...

above/ground press author spotlight #10 : Ben Ladouceur , launching a new above/ground press chapbook as part of The Factory Reading Series, alongside Michael Lithgow + Nathanael O'Reilly, / @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

new from above/ground press: My Life as a Notebook, by Jason Heroux abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...

above/ground press author spotlight #10 : Ben Ladouceur , launching a new above/ground press chapbook as part of The Factory Reading Series, alongside Michael Lithgow + Nathanael O'Reilly, / @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

•ABC fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller •MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech •FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless Corporate Media Has Failed Us www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...

hey! im on here! cool,

Great to see AC affiliates Nina Berkhout, @robmclennan.bsky.social, Denise Chong & Katherine Leyton among this year's Ottawa Book Awards finalists!

2025 Ottawa Book Awards shortlist : On Beauty: stories, , in which i would like to thank the academy, etc. / @ualbertapress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/2025-ottaw...

Bad headline: "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments" Good headline: "ABC bows to government pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’" Kimmel did not criticize Kirk. He said his death was being exploited and implied the killer was pro MAGA

This is all he said.

Kimmel made jokes, which were poignant and intelligent, in his monologue, on his comedy variety show, and got suspended. Brian Kilmeade seriously advocated for giving lethal injections to homeless people, on a news show, and he's going to work, business as usual.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I say it again: they believe in free speech for themselves alone. They can say whatever they want without consequence. We are free to say what they deem acceptable. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s the internal logic of fascism, where they are in control and all of us are subservient.

very nice! my first ever shortlist for the Ottawa Book Awards, for On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press); ; congrats to Manahil, Nina, Paul and Chuqiao for also shortlisting! / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social ; ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with catherine corbett bresner / @spuytenduyvil.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...

very nice! my first ever shortlist for the Ottawa Book Awards, for On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press); ; congrats to Manahil, Nina, Paul and Chuqiao for also shortlisting! / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social ; ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook, , some notes from earlier this spring; reading Dodie Bellamy in the Air Canada Lounge, en route to Vancouver, / @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with catherine corbett bresner / @spuytenduyvil.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...

coming up November 22nd: the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @razovsky.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...