Oh Alice!

Gobsmacked & oh so grateful to the village that made this! @fiddlehd.bsky.social (obviously), @lorri.bsky.social , @hollay.bsky.social , Rayya Liebich, Jen Robinson, Hilary Fair, Sarah Pittoello (my Kairos writers group), and of course, my daughter-the maker of all my days. Also, go read Marzipan!

Inspired by @electrarhodes.bsky.social (last year? Year before?) just pulled out our new woodlands advent sculpture. Let the badgers frolic!

Working my way through the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social and taking my time because SO MANY GOOD WORDS! New-to-me poet Megan Barnet is living in my brain/heart right now. “..the clock / on the pallid wall continues to hack at time / with its arrhythmic arm, all of us lurching forward …”

Great review... "my writing became a constellation of attentions." Giving me a lot to think about (and more to read... ALWAYS! thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social )

Three new poems from my (in progress) collection up at @oneart.bsky.social yesterday. With thanks to EIC @markdanowsky.bsky.social & Louisa & all my poetry mateys (not the rodeo poets, trailheads) & @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social for prompts. oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/17/t...

So much praise for this debut collection (FINALLY! I get to have a whole volume of Jane's work in my hands!) by @janezwart.bsky.social www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

See you at the small press book fair!

Oh, the wasps, the wasps. Another amazing poem by Jane, who has a book coming out soon!

This heartbreak dare of an essay addressing genocide in Palestine by my writer friend Rayya Liebich www.geist.com/fact/rightha...

Tremolo by Alison Hurwitz! oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/11/t... That hourglass at the end, the "geometry of separation" & the subdivisions "of certainty." Stunning.

Whoever needs to hear/see this….

A new flash up at @American Literary Review and the timing couldnt be better/weirder, as it is the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death from melanoma. I miss her. americanliteraryreview.com/2025/10/02/c...

So many great poems (&poets) in here! @hollay.bsky.social & Laurie Koensgen!

Some wonderful poems out in the world today. First, this harbinger of winter in @pinholepoetry.bsky.social newest edition by @brettwarren23.bsky.social Brett Warren (and other stunning work... go visit!) pinholepoetry.ca/13960-2/

Have a wee one up at Canary Lit Magazine (canarylitmag.org in this autumn Equinox issue. Dive in and read some other remarkable poems like D.R. Goodman's On Returning to Asilomar "but the trees must seed their own / resistance on the bones of what remains" canarylitmag.org/contents.php...

I've been remiss in sharing this most brilliant Canadian poet. His exploration of masculinity and recovery and just being human is so tender and fraught. "My poetry is an exorcism of sorts. And my holy water is tenderness." Thank you @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for making his Poet of the Year!

See you there/here!

New poem from my collection (out on submission) about caregiving and brain injury up at the lovely @thirdwednesday.bsky.social with thanks to @joankwonglass.bsky.social & the Ontario Arts Council & poetry mentors ntr & trailheads. thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2025/09/12/w...

Thanks Ottawa Public Library for this stash of delight! And weather that invites sitting outside & reading poetry!

Red leaves, mostly some gold & the turn that I was expecting but also made me laugh & cry.

Such a great lit mag! Funky & fun Funicular! Submit!!!

Thanks to the @Ontario Arts Council and @arcpoetry.bsky.social for support in completing my first poetry manuscript!

Saturday September 20, poetry chap launch with Dagne Forrest & @snullr.bsky.social (& guest reader moi!)

Another in my series of Caregiver as . . . prose poems up at @funfunfunicular.bsky.social (voted by @chillsubs.bsky.social followers as "where the cool kids submit" .. and their submission window opens around August 18! so consider submitting!) www.funicularmagazine.com/read/caregiv...

This interview with my friend Hilary Fair, whose winning CNF essay is in @eventmags.bsky.social www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/07/bush...

If I were in the US, I’d submit to @perugiapress.bsky.social ! What they publish (gah!) and the way they support their authors is amazing! Go ahead! Submit!

See you all there!

This winding almost but never deadend of a poem, this infinite loop.

Thanks to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for some looking-forward-to-reading poems in the Poet of the Year contest... & the winner is-- Canadian! Aidan Chafe!! I'm delighted for an HM, along with some of my favourite poets -- @toddedillard.bsky.social ! newsletter.onlypoems.net/emails/webvi...

Wow. Just stunned today by @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social work up at @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social (the poems AND the interview. Also, Chris is my favourite reviewer of Canadian work (over at The Woodlot, the-wood-lot.ca) Whoot Whoot! www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-...

For all the caregiving writers out there. Thanks @electrarhodes.bsky.social for bringing @ecatherine.com to my attention! Do good work!

A new Jane Zwart poem!!! (...names / and new names, nucleotides and years)

@snehaskanta.bsky.social We're in the latest issue of @funfunfunicular.bsky.social together! I haven't got mine yet, but can't wait to read yours! I love all their covers! Lots of good words in here! www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/funicul...

This then! What more could you ask for today, day of rest, unrest, stirring the pot with consideration for the rights of nature, and with WORDS! The most wonderful words found in Is a River Alive? Thanks @davidnaimon.bsky.social This is on my Sunday listen list. Bumped to the top.

Somehow got chosen for This Week's Shortlist and I am so very happy and now... tuning in to read the other work! Grateful Fridays! Thanks @turnandwork.com

These treasures troved from the @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social book fair yesterday. Old, new to me, new. So hard to make choices and only come home with three. @susanrobertson.bsky.social , Anne-Marie Todkill & Sneha Madhaven-Reese

Anything by @toddedillard.bsky.social will light up your dusty day.

So many thanks to @theforge.bsky.social for picking this weird little triptych. Thank you @saracrowley.bsky.social for finding it & fixing it & sharing it (& for the amazing author questions.

Tenderness. Jane Hirshfield. open.substack.com/pub/janehirs...

Meet me there!

Delightful afternoon listening to @amandaearl.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social at The Lieutenant’s Pub. Cold outside but oh so warm inside with the poets & friends.

I am continually struggling against metaphor .. so I know what I’m reading tonight!

Our Spring 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!

I can’t go, but you can!!!!! Sigh

A reason to be in Brooklyn today!

3 new poems by @conniepostpoet.bsky.social up at @oneart.bsky.social !!!! Be broken. oneartpoetry.com/2025/05/24/t...

Alice Notley. The answer is awe. mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...

Somehow a poem of mine has made it into @biblioasis.bsky.social 's Best of Canadian series!?! My mum would probably be proud, and at 67, that still means a lot to me! So delighted to be with such fine company (including @puneetdutt.bsky.social digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/best-canad...

The poems drew me in & then this interview! Hard to determine which I love more (also, what a voice in the poem "The Dipshit"!). I think it depends on the time of day. But Thank you @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for introducing me to Jeremy Radin. www.onlypoems.net/poets/jeremy...