Tomorrow night! I perform with poet Patrick Friesen alongside two of Canada's best flamenco artists, guitarist Gareth Owen and dancer Denise Yeo. Learn more, and buy tickets, here: www.vancouverflamencofestival.org/palabra-flam...

I love that my ❤️ Melanie Siebert is shortlisted for the inaugural DC Reid Poetry Prize! The jury calls it an 'extreme act of empathy and a profoundly ethical gesture towards the “unknowable interiority” of others' Cheers to her and for this new #Victoria #poetry award! @melaniesiebert.bsky.social

They've lost their silhouette.

A glance at an extraordinary new release from Luke Hathaway. A NYT Best Book of Poems when @biblioasis.bsky.social first published it. Rereleased with a new afterword to his afterword and poems—and man has he travelled, body and spirit. One of our best writers today.

Ali Blythe is the author of three poetry books, including Stedfast and Hymnswitch. He recommends Luke Hathaway's poetry book Years, Months, and Days. With: @aliblythe.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social #Booksky More below 👇

Applications due in ten days!

I love our new cat door notifications.

Tomorrow! I'd love to see you there!

It was such a pleasure talking with Rob for Arc. Everyone should have the chance to. @roblucastaylor.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social

This is what I get when I type “love” into my photo search ❤️

Oh! I didn’t post the image with the books. 😆 Just the gorgeous poets themselves!

I’ll read from the incomparable Jean Valentine (1934-2020) shortly. At @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social for @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social with @melaniesiebert.bsky.social, @arleenpare.bsky.social and @jencurrin.bsky.social.

Looking forward to hearing these voices. I take so much ♥️ in Mandelstam. He lived in a time of fear, repression, the state dictating the confines of what could be said or written, sudden arrests, sentences without trial, exile, death….and yet he kept writing, kept free in his mind, in his poetry.

Keats adores my Brandi Bird pick! Such a nice morning prepping for a writing workshop for LGBTQIA2S+ youth at Foundry later today. ♥️ writing and spaces that help us preserve our freedom of thought, being and the full rainbow of emotions including joy & wonder. #booksky @babydollbird.bsky.social

Oh man some of my favourite live and dead poets!

I wrote about trans community suicide prevention, including a 4-step guide to peer interventions with links to further resources, for Xtra: xtramagazine.com/health/we-mu...

Omg have you met our other #cat #Keats? She sits in a bookshelf.

When I am zoned out on Teams meeting and I hear the word ‘penultimate.’

Stedfast has been longlisted for the 2024 Fred Cogswell Poetry Prize! With great thanks to judge @roblucastaylor.bsky.social and the Royal City Literary Arts Society. See the full list: rclas.com/2024-fred-co... including favourites from Lorna Crozier and Dominique Bernier-Cormier.

"We try to keep to ourselves the daily falling apart. We seek what gives us the slip — we lie in bed and wiggle for it." #TodaysPoem #poetry Hawk & Hare by @aliblythe.bsky.social (2019 @ex-puritan.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4xzh6k45

Jan 2 first poems and runs with @melaniesiebert.bsky.social ❤️