Now that it finally feels like spring in Saskatoon, seems like a good time to share my spring poem from the January 2026 issue of @prairiefiremag.bsky.social.

It's April! Welcome to Poetry Month! Here's a list of 30 prompts to maybe get your keyboard or pen jumpstarted. I've tried to put together a variety. Happy poem-ing for these next 30 days! #NationalPoetryMonth

Here are some short fiction collections we're loving this spring! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... @newestpress.bsky.social @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @greatplainspress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social #CanLit

Absolutely love Natalie Southworth's debut, There's Always More to Say.

This is Calling It Back to Me’s release day, though the book, stacks of them (or boxes? how are they housed?) have been sitting in a warehouse (where?) for a month, and they've been trickling into this world with me in tow, into this present, this March, this reluctant, catastrophed spring.

Pam Rehm

Popping on here to share that I've a new bilingual poetry chapbook out. Verfondre / Wormmelt is an experimental melding of traditional translation with the poème fondu, a poetic form invented by Michelle Grangaud, a member of Oulipo. Out now with Baseline Press. www.baselinepress.ca#/verfondre-w...

Cannot wait for this event & seeing what arises. All welcome, Take Cover Books event listing here: takecoverbooks.ca/events

Our winter issue is on sale now on our website and in stores around the country! Featuring new work like this haunting new poem from Morgen Jahnke. Details: prairiefire.ca/current-issue/

Honored to have a new poem in The McNeese Review, a journal I absolutely love! Thanks to editor, Michael Robins, and poetry editor, Gwenyth Wheat, for giving “Copyist” such a kind home and for inviting me to speak about my process in crafting it (included in the replies)! Check it out, friends! 💙

I'll be doing a reading at St. Peter's Muenster, SK on Feb. 26 at 7pm. Come check it out, either in person, or via Zoom! stpeterscollege.ca/blog/book-pr...

Reading through Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal’s fine anthology of contemporary Hindi poetry, PERENNIAL, I was stopped cold by Seth Michelson’s razor-sharp translation of Rati Saxena’s devastating “Refugee”—a poem for our time, for all times. “…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”

Another perfect poem for February from @joseolivarez.bsky.social. Get the book, Promises of Gold, here: bit.ly/promisesofgold #poem #booksky #writing

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa from Skin Museum #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a poem published in this new issue of Prairie Fire!

Leaving home as inherited condition. Displacement as engine of industrial ag. Whatever became of my great-grandmothers. What they became when they landed here. What they thought or believed, couldn’t say, couldn’t do. Our present chews holes in shared memory. This will be my fourth book.

Starting the year with a complicated one - featured today on Poetry Pause @canadianpoets.bsky.social : poets.ca/a-bell-is-a-...

Kudos to @josiahnelson.bsky.social for his excellent short fiction piece in the new issue of Brick! Clever, alchemical, eerie - a great read. @brickliterary.bsky.social

Grateful beyond words that my essay about living in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War was selected for Brick 116, which is now out in the world!

Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.

mosab abu toha #smallpoemsunday

A poem for your Sunday ~Marie Howe Annunciation I thought I'd die from being loved like that...

From @seanthomasd.bsky.social's book, The Second O of Sorrow. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/9781942683551 #poem #books #writing

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

off to be kissed and changed Tom Clark

"Aware of time drifting away, as clouds do, moving overhead, the pewter clouds holding back rain and slowly tarnishing." #TodaysPoem #poetry Search Party by @ianletourneau.bsky.social (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yc3vvnne

Bill Knott

yes.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride! From Kay Ryan (U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010), we have "We're Building the Ship as We Sail It," which first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Poetry. It's also in THE BEST OF IT: New & Selected Poems. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!

Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading. freebloodybirds.com

I'm just going to quietly put this here and make some noise later. Poems. September 15. Brick Books 49thshelf.com/Books/I/In-a...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you feel so inclined, you can post small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by Kess Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social, from their Apt. 9 Press chapbook Gavel sound. Gravel sound. 💫

why do you keep writing political poems? something got stuck in my throat: I think it’s Vietnam: millions of tiny little bones

I have 3 poems in this brand new beautiful issue of @cv2magazine.bsky.social Thank you, editors! Here's "Medieval Feminism."

Robert Billings

Just came across this lovely poem in my current read, ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM by Akira Ritos (@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social).

Pleased to have a couple poems in @cv2magazine.bsky.social spring issue. Sharing one here:

And because place calls to place / inside us, he is seventy in the kitchen, / even as he is twelve in the farmyard

Ashbery: in the idea of what time it is

Merwin: thank you for friends and long echoes of them

Grateful and excited to have a poem out with South Dakota Review:

Carl Phillips