Deeply grateful for this first review and close reading of The Garbage Poems. What a profound gift it is to review poetry - not just a generosity to the author & book but also a building & sustaining of important creative community <3

"Swanson’s poems articulate such lovely bricolage, stitching narratives as a collage of subject, accumulation & language, stitching narratives from found materials into reason, logic, story." From @robmclennan.bsky.social's review of @annajswan.bsky.social's latest. the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/25/a...

So delighted to see The Garbage Poems on this preview list from @49thshelf.bsky.social - and especially to share it with so many fabulous poets! I just got to hear Katherena Vermette read from Procession this week at Woody Point and it was extraordinary.

Just to be clear, I don't believe Canada has a "right to exist" either.

The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

Have you seen the latest Riddle Fence? Poetry by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social, @madopiano.bsky.social, SA Leger, Matthew Gwathmey, Stephen Kampa, Lucas Crawford, Christ Hutchinson, Liz Huntly/Jesch, Eva Haas + great fic/cnf too! Preview of Amber Dawn's stunning work: riddlefence.com/feature/exce...

A non-fiction essay of mine was published with Riddle Fence! It details a year in my life when my ex-husband had a psychotic break. I’m immensely proud of this essay and so grateful to RF for seeing its merit. CW: psychosis, domestic violence, trauma. riddlefence.com/feature/smal...

Anna wrote about writing the Garbage Poems in Impact, our book about #women and #concussion. I’m a big fan of this project. Support Anna if you can! ualbertapress.ca/978177212581....

🍉 Please help us continue to keep the thousands of eSIMs we bought active so Gazans can connect with the outside world For more: chuffed.org/project/crip...

💔 every. day.

This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:

I think this might just be my current favourite Between The Covers podcast episode & that's saying a lot. It's been a hard time lately, for all the obvious reasons, to think into the future. Listening to this conversation is the most I've been able to in a long time & I'm grateful. This book. Wow.

This is a gorgeous book. Seriously. Go read it. @estmcphee.bsky.social

Exciting news—my new book has a cover!!! Art by April White. Design by Natalie Olsen. 🩷🩷🩷 And… my publisher has agreed to print the illustrations in full colour! If you can, please support Brick Book’s pre-order campaign to cover the extra costs of colour printing: igg.me/at/garbagepo...

Not an accident. Not a natural disaster. Not a humanitarian crisis. Not a tragic or unintended side-effect. Not a famine. (drawing by weirdmomart on IG.)

I've been heartbroken to watch this news unfold. Sending love to the Filipinx community and everyone affected. I am also struggling to understand what the police consider to be an act of terror, given how quickly they decided this was not one.

So excited about this launch on Wed hosted by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social. The books all look amazing, but I was lucky enough to have the chance to read Buzzkill Clamshell by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social pre-pub & I can tell you it's truly spectacular. Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/arsenal-pu...

Excited to be reading some garbage poems at the online launch of The Goose's "Waste" issue TOMORROW (Saturday) at 10am PT/1pm ET. Register (free) below. Join us for some thrash-themed art and writing. And check out that cover art by April White!! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-goose-...

Last day for advance polls. PLEASE VOTE even if the system sucks. Useful resources: Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca Remember YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote 🧵

If not yet familiar with the work of @farzanadoctor.bsky.social, she is a social worker & writer whose webinar on burnout, vicarious trauma, & self & community care was cancelled by the Canadian Association of Social Workers, so if you also support Palestine, please email them! 🍉 bit.ly/lettertocasw

Heading out to the Advance Polls to vote now. PLEASE VOTE. Useful resources: Palestine Platform: votepalestine.ca Help w/ strategic voting: smartvoting.ca Remember - YOU DON'T NEED TO VOTE STRATEGICALLY IN MOST RIDINGS. Only if Conservatives are in danger of winning b/c of a split vote.

My friend just send me this essay by @davidnaimon.bsky.social, just in time for Pesach, and it's truly extraordinary. Deeply moving meditation on some of my favourite preoccupations including memory, water, mikveh & Miriam. Can't do it justice here - go read it! www.ecotheo.org/etreview/may...

Speakeasy Reading Series is back April 16th, the last of the school year! Featuring the amazing @phillipdwightmorgan @clairegeddesbailey @spondeee.bsky.social & Speakeasy’s very own Chi Leung Lee. Join in person or watch the live-stream on Zoom, 7:00 pm Eastern. ALL are welcome!

Thanks a million to yolk literary journal for publishing this nonfiction piece—a tribute to Tori Amos disguised as a coming of age story & memoir of my teen years.

So honoured to have one of my poems included in this year's round of Opaat micropress pamphlets! Blessing for the Matzah connects the story of Passover to the current day genocide ongoing in Gaza. Thank you @thisisannick.bsky.social - I can't wait to read them all!

How can @MarcMillerVM claim the US is safe for refugees when it is not even safe for Canadian Citizens? @melaniejoly must show some backbone and get Jasmine home (along with all Canadians illegally detained abroad). www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTsI...

"I say: How is this my concern? I’m a spectator He says: No spectators at chasm’s door ... " From "I have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater" by Mahmoud Darwish www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52553/...

congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.

Thankfully we have The Guardian. Most media makes this out to be some kind of two-way disagreement. It's not. The article makes clear it's Israel blatantly violating the agreement, secure in the knowledge that its deadly benefactor is cheering on the genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Ramadan Kareem to my friends and neighbours who are observing this month. Wishing you beautiful and meaningful connections even in difficult times. May liberation, peace, and justice replace occupation, apartheid and genocide. 🌙

Well this is HORRIFYING. With you in love and resistance my friends, especially those directly impacted.

Was sad to have missed this, so I was glad to find out there's a video available. That title. Ugh. That's it.

A while ago, I made an IG post to explain some of the material threats to life and wellbeing that trans people are currently facing - just cross-posted to Substack since I heard some folks are finding it useful to share What’s At Stake for Trans People In 2025 open.substack.com/pub/kaicheng...

Armed military police on UBC campus today to protect IOF war criminals invited to compete at sporting events as though they didn’t serve in an army that has killed at minimum a child every 30 minutes for the past 16 months. Monitoring from the rooftops like snipers.

Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!

So thrilled to be included in this latest GARBAGE-themed issue of The Goose Journal! The poem is from The Garbage Poems (forthcoming from Brick Books this Fall) & the cover features gorgeous garbage art by April White who also illustrated the book! Free online access: scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/

Canadian hypocrisy and racism in such stark contrast. Note as well that during 2024 over 8,000 Israelis were approved for and arrived on work permits to enter Canada.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

When asked to name something beautiful in a round of intros yesterday, I held up this brand new book by my dear friend Lisa. It's a stunning much-needed reminder about how to find joy in small places even when I’m not entirely okay, how to be alive & awake to the world in all that it is, even now.

"cherish."

www.jrgsocietyforthearts.com/2025daas disabled arts symposium in atlantic "canada"

The corporate coup is global. Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it. They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule. They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

I love how people have been getting aware and mobilized about the power of consumer boycotts this past week. Please add on products included by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. Get an app like @boycatapp.bsky.social and scan every item before you buy.

Check out this beauty! 😍

Breaking breaking breaking: Israel is carrying intense air strikes on Gaza City right now. Update to the previous post: a neighbor of the bombed houses believes there are at least 15 people under the rubble. I previously wrote that 5 people were killed.

"Thank you for all that you did and thank you for showing us that will power is still an incredible source of change, and a renewable source at that. Thank you for caring and thank you for humanizing the people that too often get dehumanized. Thank you for being real."