Dear @theglobeandmail.com Please bring back poetry reviews that reflect the complexity and deep engagement of our thriving CanPo world! We need discussion, critique, and space not mini synopses, and coverage of primarily non Canadian writers.

WHOLE CLOTH READING:Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen reads Roughly for the North from start to finish! Nov 5, 5-7pm,Green College UBC & livestreamed! Carrie is an Inupiat writer from the Ugiuvamiut tribe whose poems of the Bering Strait are beautiful. Join us! wholecloth.substack.com/p/carrie-aya...

Know a writer of exceptional promise with a manuscript in progress, who has faced significant barriers to fulfilling that promise? Yosef Wosk VMI Fellowship applications are open until November 10, 2025! Apply at www.vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com @vmiprogram.bsky.social

Oct 25, 1:30pm @writersfest.bc.ca I chat with Dennis Lee about Wrestling with Cadence. He's the author of 40 books, including Alligator Pie, the beloved children's classic-but did you know he also cowrote the story to the movie Labyrinth (starring David Bowie)? writersfest.bc.ca/festival-aut...

I can’t believe the NBA has stronger guidelines concerning integrity than the US Govt. They hold their players to a stricter standard than the govt considers for the president.

We loved hearing you read all of With My Back to the World from start to finish! The lines, like Agnes Martin's, are clear and packed with intensity-it was wonderful to see the images while relaxing into your sustained read. @bronwentate.bsky.social and I were happy to host you!

Thrilled to have Victoria Chang reading her entire book for our reading series, the Whole Cloth! She'll share visuals of Agnes Martin's paintings as she reads. Join us in person or via livestream. If you come we have cookies and copies for the community! wholecloth.substack.com/p/today-vict...

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Join us THIS SATURDAY from 2-3:30 PM at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for readings from this year's Poets! Hosted by Vancouver's poet laureate @eleekg.bsky.social and followed by discussion and Q&A. #ReadLocalBC #WordVancouver #PoetryInTransit

Come ON, @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. Are you going to cover workers' right at all in the #AirCanadaStrike, esp rights of underpaid women workers? Or are you just going to bang on about stranded passengers day after day after day? Why not ask callers what they think of unfair labour practices?

We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens <all> the time over & over again 👇

behold the poetry of this testimony!

We are reminding residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites. Routine mosquito trapping and testing for West Nile Virus have confirmed a positive mosquito pool in Ottawa. Please read the PSA here: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

🚨 If you were on the BC Ferries 10:15am sailing August 9 Duke Point to Tsawwassen please check your vehicles, trailers or boats for Luigi, a black and white tuxedo #cat wearing a blue harness. Luigi slipped out of a small window opening of his owner's vehicle and disappeared on the lower car deck.

Ohio managed to get thousands of people to hold hands and link arms in a human chain that stretched 8 miles to stand against ICE. 8 miles of humans linked together.

Very happy to point people towards interesting poetry!

Pacific Northwest aflame

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together. Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

I'm the featured poet this Wednesday for the Poetry in the Park series at Emery Barnes Park 2-4 pm. I'll be reading poems from my new book Night Moves @anvilpress.bsky.social. After the reading I'll be giving a writing prompt so bring notebooks and pens! #poetry

What does a poet laureate actually *do*, you ask? They offer informal summer listening to the amphibian chorus, of course. Go listen to frogs with @eleekg.bsky.social!

FRIDAY NIGHT FROGS: Come listen to REAL frogs! No agenda, no plan, no time constraint. We will gently gather around 9:30pm at the water feature at Mundell Park at UBC Wesbrook Village and enjoy the chorus. Stay 5 mins or 500, it’s up to you! More info at versevancouver.ca!

I wish every single person these cruel and sadistic Christians know and interact with would proclaim they are gay and completely sandbag this kind of incitement.

Come read poems with us!

Things about mainstream publishing I wish more people knew: 1) The NY Times Bestseller List is a marketing list, not an accurate list of the best-selling books for that period. 🧵

ICE agents attempted to enter Dodger Stadium on Thursday but were denied entry to the grounds by the team, a source familiar with the circumstances told CNN.

‪BREAKING: ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out to abduct people, in unmarked cars, wearing masks and no uniforms or badges, protesters dump buckets of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they’re ICE for days afterward.

Reminder: if you want to turn off the auto AI search suggestion (and thereby save water, starve the borg, and more good things, etc) type in your search term and add "-ai" and it won't furnish those stupidly inaccurate AI suggestions!

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

Tomorrow Vancouver looks to do something they haven’t done in modern history — officially rename a street Here’s a look at why Trutch Street is being renamed to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm, and how the city is dealing with the language complications that presents

Congrats to you, melanie! I'm so excited to read it!

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Hard to convey how total and inescapable the Baby Mozart empire was 25 yrs ago.

Pretty amazing. Thank you San Francisco.

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

Yay Shashi!

Copenhagen is expected to receive 30% more rainfall by the end of the century. The city is responding with a massive long-term adaptation plan. https://n.pr/4dYZOvs

never underestimate the necessity and power of your small contribution!

Kelowna Companies Won’t Run Pro-Choice Billboards The crowdfunded campaign aims to counter anti-abortion billboards in the region. #BritishColumbia #Canada #ItsYourChoice #ProChoice 🍁 thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

Opening night is coming with features @eleekg.bsky.social @kevinspenst.bsky.social and host @jkirton.bsky.social. What a night it will be! Details here: rclas.com/recurring/po...

Loved seeing this wasp's nest with the beautiful artistry of it plus incorporating the fern.

headline construction masterclass

Toxic pesticide levels found in tampons 40 times higher than legal limit for water

We're all going to die from preventable illnesses because the government is using ChatGPT. Jesus.

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

LUNCH POEMS: I'll be savouring @robtaylortv.bsky.social 's tidy bites of haikus from his new book, Weather! I'm bringing pieces from the Pinhole Poetry chapbook Gary Barwin and I made, CHROMA, because colour and sound are delicious when mixed. Free!Bring your lunch! www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-poem...

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