From 'The writing in the sand' series by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, documenting life on the beaches in the North East of England, 1973-1998 #WomensArt

“…That all the things are liquified at death and run into the same shimmering pool. That everything alive is one sweet-tempered creature mangled in the spokes of the sun.” — Bruce Taylor, from “X-Ray” in We Drove All Day for This, just out from Véhicule’s Signal Editions.

Luka Modrić: class act through and through. ⚽️😢🫂

underrecognized holiday: new notebook day

Micro-season: milkweed blossoming in such high humidity that the air smells like sauna.

A favourite of mine, this season and always.

Robert Frost

Have just been re-reading Ruth Stone and (oh wow!) that always shakes me to my core & reminds me of what’s what in poetry & most things.

Nooooooooo!!!! I’m going to need hundreds and hundreds of fireflies now!!!!!! ⚽️😢⚡️🪲

“Content is the ‘world’s worst word,’ he adds, because it dehumanises writing and suggests ‘it has no real value inherently, and it doesn’t matter if humans made it or not’.”

Give me a yard sale map & a lightning bug map & let Germany make it to the quarter finals — & I will be a happy girl this summer.

The peonies: again with their “I can’t even.”

Very drama. Much precipitation. 🪶

Love, // the poem is not a craft I steer to reach you. Here I am. Cameron Awkward-Rich

many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild affair

Delighted to have 2 poems in @eventmags.bsky.social. The poetry curation here is so thoughtful: work in conversation about homes that are the body & house & Earth. With a fabulous Lorna Crozier poem that begins “Feet are the whole shebang.” Many thanks to Poetry Editor @raoulfernandes.bsky.social.

Isabelle Arsenault is an award-winning Canadian illustrator living in Montreal #WomensArt

Looking forward to receiving this issue, which has a new poem of mine in it. Thanks to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and the editorial team at Nimrod.

"The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively long for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life—" ⸻ Helen Vendler on James Merrill in 1972

Keeping the party going with this Jim Daniels poem

This poem is really meeting the moment for me. 🔥🐿️⛑️🧝🏼‍♀️

Morning field report: the peonies are too heavy for all this world.

Montreal micro-season: 7-year-olds doing jumps on their trottinettes in the bike lane.

So pleased to have two new poems in this issue, along with many writers whose work I admire.

Thrilled to celebrate @mishasolomon.bsky.social's debut collection alongside another alchemical friend, @effervescentvoid.bsky.social 🥁 If you're zooming in/near/thru Calgary/Mohkínstsis, come land in our poetry's nest❗ Jun/18 | 7PM Owl's Nest (815A 49th Ave SW) 👉 owlsnestbooks.com/events/51798...

Looking forward to this online event.

That sudden writerly urge to leave a room and go add the word “rhomboid” to a line of a poem composed three months ago.

never enough human art

It's time to celebrate The Fiddlehead's spring issue with another virtual launch! Join us on Zoom Saturday, June 13 at 7 pm ADT for readings by Melanie Power, winner of the 2025 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and issue 307 contributors Abhimanyu Acharya, Raoul Fernandes, and Christine Stewart-Nuñez!

What’s your sign?

Wendell Berry

So grateful to have a poem forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry. Thank you to @thewalrus.ca for first publishing “And Then Came the Day” and to guest editor @tolu.ca for selecting it for this anthology.

Thrilled to have my "Meditations in an Emergency" in Best Canadian Poetry 2027. Kinda flabbergasted that this is the 3rd poem from my debut to appear in BCP. So grateful to @biblioasis.bsky.social, to Anita Lahey, and to @tolu.ca. And what a bonus that @sarahwolfson.bsky.social is in there with me.

A poem that makes me want to stop writing poems — but also to keep going, and steadfastly. Niedecker tends to have this effect on me.

Notes on Witches ~ Pip McGough

Teach your students to discern what is good Help them understand what they desire and the difference between that and manufactured want Teach them how to imagine

Tuesday poem #687 : Melanie Power : learner’s permits / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/06/tues...

Pleased to have a poem forthcoming in this issue!

Julie Suk

Micro-season: a bumper crop of house spiders heralds the start of farm share season. 🥰🕸️🥬

do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

Female birds with confusing names.

What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?

Still looking for contemporary/living CANADIAN POETS who write about the GREAT LAKES. Come on guys I know you have poems about the Great Lakes, where are you?

Micro-season: almost excessive blossoming! 🌷🌷🌷

Micro-season: almost excessive blossoming! 🌷🌷🌷

Another memorable miniature from Wendy Cope's Collected Poems (2025). This one hits a little different nowadays.

paws and poems

The Montreal International Poetry Prize submissions window officially closes tomorrow. Don’t miss your final opportunity to submit to our extended deadline! For more information and to submit your poetry head to www.montrealpoetryprize.com #poetry #poetryprize #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

This one will always live rent-free in my head #SmallPoemSunday