My first acceptance in 2026 after returning to writing in April. Thanks to @petrichorlit.bsky.social and Seth Copeland❤️🙏🙏

Extending warm congratulations to the award-winning Canadian poet Karen Solie for winning the Windham-Campbell Prize! 🥳👏👏👏 She and I appeared in the same spring 2023 issue in Poetry London, along with other major names.

Leading a talented poetry reading line-up at this Monday's Creek 53: Portraits of Living Nature art exhibition with Professor Chris Buddle. Redpath Museum, McGill University.

Pablo Neruda has been with me through thick and thin, quiet days by the poolside where I read his verses aloud. Happy World Poetry Day🍾

I'm looking forward to reading my poems @ Creek 53, Redpath Museum, McGill University. Happy share the floor with professors and other accomplished poets like myself🙏❤️

Watching online responses to Emerald Fennel's postmodern take on "Wuthering Heights" reinforces how liberating the camp aesthetics really is in advocating for an unbridled artistic vision that pushes boundaries.

I took an intensive course ANTH 326 this semester@McGill University: Anthropology of Latin America. Today our TA released the results of our final individual paper and I'm happy to say I aced it with an A- 📚🏅🎖💝

This came completely out of the blue. Moko Magazine wants to publish one poem from a bundle I had sent one year ago! I'm currently studying @ McGill, and yet, the acceptances keep coming through 🌟🫶🔥 My thanks to Andre Bagoo!

A little reflection after watching Sean Carroll's Big Think video, 'Are we living in a clockwork universe?' drawn from Newtonian physics.

Can't wait to return to McGill this fall. It's been a long time coming

My encounter with a manicou. Trinidad's wildlife a few steps away from where I live🐾

It's publication day at Heavy Feather Review, featuring an elegy in prose dedicated to my brother❤️🙏. A piece a long time coming. It was hard to write, let me just say. Thank you Jason Teal for the chance to share my story heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/03/12/t...

After a 7-month wait, a light at the end of the tunnel: my 2nd acceptance in the new year 2025 by way of Grub Street Literary Magazine housed in Towson University, Maryland🙏🙂❤️. Thanks to the editors for selecting my poem: Charlotte Knauth, Valentine Schneider and Catherine Sigler. A surprise🥳

My 2025 Pushcart Prize-nominated poem "Metamorphosis" has just been published in Bayou Magazine, Issue 79 along with other fantastic work. Check it out. You can read it online. My other poem "Postcolonial Jeremiad for the Free and the Brave" is available in print. Thanks Bayou! 🙏🎀

Before Rachael Ray Gunn, a young Mel Gibson performed his version of the kangaroo dance in the film "Tim" (1979) 🤭 Nothing new under the sun

And there it is, my first acceptance for the new year 2025, an elegy dedicated to my deceased older brother🕯💐 Thank you Heavy Feather. Means the world to me❤️

Cheers for a new beginning🥂🍾

A year of personal triumphs🏅 I've been writing poetry since 2018. I've just gotten started. Thank you Professor Miranda Hickman, Carolyn Hembree and Seth Copeland for giving me memories I'll cherish for a lifetime♥️🙏

Rest well, Mr President. To a long life well served. My mum served alongside you at Carter Center🙏 Serena Joseph-Harris, former High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland🇹🇹, Friend of the Inter-American Democratic Charter

I'm pretty sure there are lots of new poetry collections coming out next year, but reading through Guardian's 'books to look forward to in 2025' list leaves the reader with a (mistaken) impression it's painfully lacking. What happens when all 👁 are on big names and accolades. Science books, same.

✏️ For this week's #TitleShowcase, we're highlighting @poetrylondon.bsky.social ✏️ 👀 Read these poignian poems by @joelanthonyhar89.bsky.social, Danny Nunziata, Holly Corfield, & Lisa Luxx here: ✍️ exacted.me/TitleShowcase ✍️

I've put in the work. I didn't get my 2 nominations for nothing. Happy to see others taking delight in pieces I've written and sharing them🙏👍 Thank you Exact Editions.

Yesterday I picked up this ole fella from The Word on Rue Milton, one of the best 2nd hand bookstores in Montreal. The contents, vintage👌. Found myself re-reading Sir Walter Raleigh's 'A Vision Upon This Conceipt of The Faery Queene' multiple times.

Professor Miranda Hickman and everyone else at Poetry Matters, McGill's Department of English, I owe you🙏❤️ My prospects as a poet has taken off ever since. Thank you!

Thank you @poetrysociety.bsky.social for the special mention in the current Members' e-bulletin. My first Pushcart nomination after writing for 6 years. Bayou Magazine, what will I do without you?🙏❤️

'I'm offering/a simplistic/ pattern for revolution' in the poem 'WTF'sums up the gist of Eileen Myles collection, "a 'Working life'." Her language: unpretentious, plain-spoken, shrugging off the trappings of classism & high culture for fragmented stream of consciousness rooted in the working class.

This is a dream come true🕯🤭🍾. My deepest thanks to editors Carolyn Hembree, Karen Chio and Julie Landry💝

The editors @ Bayou Magazine have nominated my poem "Metamorphosis" forthcoming in Issue 79 this Nov. for a 2025 Pushcart Prize 🏆, my first ever🥳🙆‍♂️🍾. It's so surreal! Huge thanks to Carolyn Hembree, Karen Chio and Julie Landry for this extraordinary honour🥰💝 I had to wait 2 long years for this🤭