Someone remind me to email Etsy

mail's going out tomorrow for patrons and my longest time subscribers... then more after that... IDK, this was never supposed to be so formal. We were all stuck at home.

AVAIL YOURSELF OF CANADA POST'S "Philatelic Service" BEFORE MARK CARNEY ENDS IT

Did you buy a zine about horseracing from me 3 years ago? Did you buy a zine about horseracing from 3 years ago? Yes, that is Did you buy a zine about horseracing from 3 years ago with a rocket up its ass making up ground fast and just when it needs it coming into the final leg

Critically: You must INTENTIONALLY REQUEST expedited processing by including a letter with your citizenship request explaining your situation, along with supporting documentation.

Issue 36, the Lonesome Glory by Ethan Rein Vilu will finally be in the mail this week. It has taken me months to get a relatively basic chapbook out the door. Idk what went wrong with me this winter but I hope it goes away.

!! we’re launching a new chapbook next friday at the vault! if ur in nanaimo, come check out the readings & open mic ✨ if ur not, that is sad, but u can follow us here or on instagram @ thisisasquarehouse

"i meant to pay the gas bill and i meant to pay the power and i meant to pay the cable and i meant to pay the water and i meant to get us milk and bread and sandwich fixings at the winco on the corner but i was smoking cigarettes in the living room again they were smooth as hell,"

NEW from the press! we’re excited to launch Lee Groen’s debut chapbook, A Little Something Extra, as part of the next GRUB STREET reading series friday april 3, 6-8 pm @ the vault nanaimo

props to @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social, which has the largest public collection of These Days zines and chapbooks, and soon chewing gum

you want poems about alien abductions

Fetch my next poem, boy! youtu.be/Km3kv5Fb7uM?...

Discordia Review like

Prose wrote as a song splitlipthemag.com/flash/0326/t...

The rotating 3D art gets you in the headspace

Crazy when I tell someone i make zines and they're like, "So do you print them too or are they just online?"

bless these punks for actually forcing a conversation. www.discordiareview.com/p/opinion-ac...

fuck it, fuck this bridge: it's not a zine if it costs $45 ottawa-design-club.myshopify.com

Youraislopbores.me is back up and delivering vispo

Youraislopbores.me is back up and delivering vispo

a grizzled vet maneuver right here, folks. ya love to see it 🫡

the next GRUB STREET reading series is coming up april 3rd at the vault #nanaimo! open mic following featured readers Lee Groen + Masha Zhaksybek. + chapbooks and zines available for purchase, door prizes for open mic readers. bring your notebook!

@asquarehouse.bsky.social @heartlines-spec.com @ex-puritan.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social @fillingstation.bsky.social @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social @julianday.ca @battleaxepress.bsky.social if you had to merge with another literary outlet, which would it be and why?

For the record, if These Days could merge with Good Golly Zines... oof, that'd be fun. Their accessible local coverage of municipal politics plus my contributors immediate reaction art.

New issue is a heartbreaker, and it's yours for a trade-by-mail or 4 Canadian dollars. DM for details

Hard to see, but there's a naked gardener hiding in there

@robmclennan.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social if you had to merge with another NCR lit platform, which would it be?

@robmclennan.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social if you had to merge with another NCR lit platform, which would it be?

When AI can generate this, I give up. Until then G-d keep the brave men et al maintaining Discordia

Get the new issue by subscribing or messaging us. Already got one swap going so that's an option. tbd if I give Etsy whatever data they want from me

Beautiful work by our friend and feature, @jlyndelia.bsky.social

it’s trading card day at collage club 🐒

big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!

art by @jlyndelia.bsky.social words by Peter Gibbon

New issue out next week. DM for details because fuck Etsy

sorry @jlyndelia.bsky.social for getting your last name wrong in issue 51 I mean 31

issue 36 probably coming out before issue 35 but so it goes

MAC UPDATE CAN'T JIVE WITH 15 YEAR OLD BROTHER PRINTER DRIVER AGAIN. WELL STEP RIGHT UP AND BREED ME WHY DONCHA

COMMENTS ON GOOGLE DOCS CONVERT INTO INVISIBLE CONTENT CONTROL BOXES IN WORD FOR MAC. FUCK YA WHY NOT

FUCK THIS COLD I'M GETTING THE LONESOME GLORY FORMATTED AND COVER OPTIONS TO THE PRINTER

Who else got an email from Robin Richardson this morning?

I never publish my Ottawa poems, and every so often, I write a new Ottawa poem.

Buy 2 copies of CARTOON YRSELF from @asquarehouse.bsky.social so you can eat one with quesidillas

Ok actually have 2 issues for real in the works.

March 24-30, 2026: readings + performances in English and French (and Polish)! 2 new Hall of Honour inductees! workshops by Sheri-D Wilson + Paul Vermeersch! & a free reading at Carleton University by Karen Solie! check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

dalton wrote an excellent little chapbook & then we published it thru our new poetry press, a square house. if you’re local (nanaimo) it will be for sale at the next GRUB STREET reading series. otherwise, msg me for info!

the VERSeFEST volunteer appreciation reading! Margo LaPierre, Myriam Legault-Beauregard, Natalie Hanna + Daniel Groleau Landry! // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @arpbooks.bsky.social

Buy this before i buy them all

Who else is excited for Slutflowers?