Makes you wonder how deeply judges read for these prestigious prizes. I sense, more often than we'd like to admit, it's a quick skim n' sniff. It's like mistaking the smell of a high-quality air freshener for an actual forest.

Interesting to enter into Ben Lerner's oeuvre with Transcription. Craving critical chit-chat on it after finishing, but almost every review is in deep conversation with his other novels - I suppose the point is that Transcription is, too. I want a close read of just this one!

Drama is baked into my DNA. For example, my father just told me earnestly and emphatically that babysitting a diabetic cat for two weeks has been the "most stressful period in his life".

I want the Habs to win the playoffs so that in 10 years I can write a short story that begins with "It was the summer the Habs won the playoffs."

I love how I can decode the daily daycare status updates now as Interactions = Excellent (basically no biting/unconfirmed), Great (1-2 biting victims confirmed), and OK (several biting casualties). An inspiring level of positivity

All of Canada when Bad Bunny yelled CANADAAAA

I am officially old because I started skipping lines in my notebook to make my small handwriting easier to read

“Bricking” your phone just sounds weird and horny I’m sorry

my twee-themed playlist is so powerful

Bananaphone is one of the best songs of the 20th century

I’m thriving with all my little typos in the age of AI

Not me seeing this fortchoming Emily St. John Mandel and thinking it was with Fitzcarraldo Editions

Peter Shamshiri looks exactly how he sounds. Like if he was on Love is Blind that's exactly the guy I'd be imagining when those doors open

I remember my preteen goth brain could NOT comprehend that Johnny Cash covered "Hurt" by NIN

Doesn’t take a crystal ball to see 🔮👀 🕺a cowboy always finds a way to leave 🎼🎶🤠 (Me, on the metro passing Berri Uquam)

If Poshmark is to be believed, only Polly Pocket queens wear Sezane. Where’s the Sezane for us Dolly Dump Trucks

After years of putting it on the back burner, I finally overhauled my website! It’s soooooo dreamy. www.domenicamartinello.com

“Is this [really, really old thing] more relevant now than ever before?” yes. always. we’ve outgrown this question

“Mom brain” is such a misogynistic concept. Also, I just spent 4 minutes staring at the word “devote” thinking it meant de-vote, like undoing a vote? It’s fine!!!

Ate a strawberry so juicy and summery that it confused my entire body........ going to stick to my winter fruit diet of potatoes from now on

Must release a new edition of GOOD WANT so I can use an alternate cover with these girlies

I don’t even want to know. Let there be some mystery left in this life

Feedback from the tenured prof in your undergrad poetry workshop:

Nicole, I see what you did there, good job babe

New Year’s resolution: stop scrolling on phone (free) then going to café to scroll on phone (-6 dollars +caffeine)

MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER DANCED BALLET, my debut full-length collection, comes out on March 17, 2026. You can pre-order it now, from all the usual places, or ideally from your favourite local indie! Thanks to Brick Books for bringing this into the world.

montrealers! come to the launch of POST-MAN tomorrow at de stiil books! i’ll be in conversation with the brilliant domenica martinello, & laura mota-juang will read some poems to kick off the evening!

We're recruiting judges for the 2026 #NMA26 #DPA26 & #B2B26 Awards. Judging takes place remotely in Feb & March 2026. Editors, journalists, designers, illustrators, photographers & subject experts welcome. Apply → zurl.co/5dqEN

consumerism final boss blah blah but dressing up my 12 month old in cute seasonal halloween-themed outfits that only fit them right now and can never be worn again......... damn what a high

Be honest is it a red flag or a green flag when an event organizer invites you to read and says they’re “a fan of your work, particularly [random Not Good poem published online in 2014]” I’m triggered lol

I did my best to push back on my book being "trans memoir" as it's about many things, but most of all how my life was formed by labour. I got my first job @ 13. I was a journeyman Glazier @ 21. I wasn't a writer (or a trans) until my 30s. Celebrate Labour Day by reading about labour 🔗: is.gd/E42lih

sorry I need to put this somewhere odious vapours rising off of me after finishing this ghoulish book

Grateful for another little Un Momento interview with Italocanadese, this time for Good Want: italocanadese.org/2025/07/07/u...

It's $100 USD to access the Oxford English Dictionary online for one year

I’m at the acceptance stage of motherhood like, maybe the baby is meant to lick the leg of the kitchen chair. Maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be

When are the crusty loser men in Concordia’s creative writing department retiring so I can teach

Squid Game season 3

Our obvious starting point—that @manahil.bsky.social is a very fine poet—somehow failed to prepare me for how good Heliotropia is. Warm-hearted. Embracing. Meticulously crafted. Whimsical. Fantastical. Botanical. Astronomical. Sometimes verging on chant or prayer. Plus Star Trek.

Opinion: Arcade Fire announced the release of their latest album, Pink Elephant, in the most casual of ways. Every post on social media, every lyric of their newest single, is a downplay of the serious allegations against Butler. By @yaraelsoueidi.bsky.social therover.ca/opinion-arca...

do you ever need to contact someone and discover they have hotmail dot ca or icloud addresses and realize, fuck, these people basically live email-free lives…..

[to the tune of Pink Pony Club] woke marxist pope

“Duolingo but for _____” no. shut up

This is absolutely a systematic reason working class writers are underrepresented in the field, but we DO exist. We just had to bust our asses and catch a few extremely lucky breaks to wriggle in through the cracks.

Trillium Book Award for Poetry The Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful (McClelland & Stewart / Penguin Random House Canada) DADDY by Jake Byrne (Brick Books) Terrarium by Matthew Walsh (icehouse poetry / Goose Lane Editions)

PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛 chuffed.org/project/1299...

Dropping mad stacks on Raffi tickets

*has one beer* People who wear thumb rings are so mysterious… is this something

Alternatively, please request that your local city or university library carry it—I’d be forever grateful! I can put in a request for Montreal libraries if you have a book you’d like to be made available to the library-going masses but don’t live here.

Good Want is not carried at the Concordia or McGill library. I’d love for it to be available to read for free, in as many places as possible, especially at my alma mater. Would any current students/staff help by making a request for it? I can send all the info + will find a way to pay it forward ❤️

So happy to see @domenicahope.bsky.social’s Good Want on the Pat Lowther longlist. A recent poetry favourite.