"Goodbye, Super A ... it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind. The bakery section flooded when the roof fell in. I would have liked your yogurt, but it had just expired. Your freezers burned out long before your lunch meat ever did." ♡... I sing this tribute with love ...♡

new from above/ground press: Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, Touch the Donkey #48 + a bilingual anthol eds. O'Meara/Sylvain, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-...

new from above/ground press: , Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, + a bilingual anthol eds. O'Meara/Sylvain, / @yukondawn.bsky.social @noahsparrow.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/new-from-a...

"A really pronounced style might feel in the way, but I think that science fiction is such a capacious genre that it has space for a lot of experimentation." Let's talk more about words! Thanks to @ndbooks.bsky.social and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for work that sparks these sorts of conversation.

I had such a blast chatting with Dan and Paul. Please give it a listen, or check out the transcript if audio is not your jam

and to cap off the Black History Month book posts, this controversial classic

another from Sean's library. Tough going for me, but if you're equipped to comprehend things like "its primary intertextual relations are with politico-ideological discourses and forms of praxis" then it's a solid read.

a banger, as the cover would imply

Before "James" and "The Trees", Percival Everett had already published a lot of books, and some of them are pretty out there (in the best way)

total-ly recommend

Nigerian-Albertan poetry

I don't have my letter because the mail takes a bit longer to get here but like my fellow authors I too am thankful for libraries, library users, and the program that pays authors for thier books being in libraries

I wish @fillingstation.bsky.social would assess my last submission so that I could submit all this new stuff to @fillingstation.bsky.social

situating dub poetry within the avant garde

some above/ground press author activity: Christina Wells, Eileen Myles, Gary Barwin, Larry Sawyer, Misha Solomon + Dawn Macdonald, / @garybarwin.bsky.social @mishasolomon.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/02/some...

Valerie Mason-John responds to James Baldwin

Two deep-rooted charmers on plant communication (yes, there are emails!) by @yukondawn.bsky.social : “Leaf Rust” and “Lichen on Moss.” Read them in our Winter issue www.ettereview.com/winter2026/m... Dawn won the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize for her poetry collection, Northerny

massive biography of this pioneering data scientist and sci-fi writer

super problematic but VERY EXCITING 1930s newspaper serials about a megalomaniacal mastermind out of Harlem who plots to take over the world

Black existentialist thought

continuing with the "education" theme for today's Black History book recommendation

Really fine review to start the week from @yukondawn.bsky.social on CF Ramuz, whose Into The Sun has just been reissued by @ndbooks.bsky.social, in a translation by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan. “Ramuz’s sentences have the beauty of a beam of sunlight through swirling dust.”

Issue 7 is now live! With new work by: Lauren Camp Theodore Heil Marc Kaufman @yukondawn.bsky.social @nataliemarino.bsky.social Adam McOmber www.ettereview.com/winter2026/

hey i've got stuff at the beautifully designed online journal -ette review www.ettereview.com/winter2026/

reminders for all of us involved in post-secondary education

In which we explore my likes and dislikes, and meet this stunning first collection from poet Alexander Hollenberg! #booksky @gaspereaupress.bsky.social reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/alexander-...

not the first time I've repped this classic

another selection from Sean's bookshelf

I have a small piece in the inaugural issue of Journal of Experimental Practice, out of NYU -- mine is a "fake translation" of Paul Valery, seizing false cognates and mishearing the sounds of French; one of a little series and possible future chapbook. wp.nyu.edu/artsampscien...

Today's book recommendation courtesy of my husband Sean, who is the main philosophy reader around here.

Just read the words "Open Mic" as "Ozempic"; that is the feeling of 2026

May I recommend to you the surreal and astonishing Wizard of the Crow.

The one and only Dany Laferriere. Not actually a Japanese writer.

And of course Fanon himself. I love how this Pelican edition just puts it all out there on the front cover.

Black History Month reading recommendations no. 9: the cover of this recent Fanon biography has much the same colour scheme as this Canadian government collectivist bookmark campaign

Black History Month reading recommendations no. 8: not that I've succeeded in learning very much Swahili, but why not try? (there's also apps for that)

Black History Month reading recommendations no. 7: sticking with the Afrofuturist vibe I would highly recommend Tade Thompson's Rosewater trilogy www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tade-...

Black History Month reading recommendation no. 6: the intense and baffling Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, the OG afrofuturist www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/38904/...

Black History Month reading recommendations no. 5, The Amiri Baraka Reader ... get to know this key figure of the Black Arts movement www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amiri...

Black History Month reading recommendations no. 4: Gary Jackson's "graphic novel in verse", small lives www.unmpress.com/978082636842...

Black History Month reading recommendations: Wayde Compton's 49th Parallel Psalm arsenalpulp.com/Books/9/49th...

newly posted: Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social : A Weed Is a Word That Is Out of Place / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/dawn...

Black History Month reading recommendations #2, A General History of Africa -- I've not read all 11 volumes but they are very comprehensive, written from an African perspective, and available open access. www.unesco.org/en/general-h...

Black History Month reading recommendations #1 www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/new-...

so stoked to have a chapbook out with the legendary above/ground press! please order it, order a whole bunch of stuff, heck just subscribe to the whole chapbook series, it's oodles of awesomeness in your mailbox

My friends, please take a moment for the strange and wonderful Sheri-D Wilson's Bulls Whip & Lambs Wool (1989). reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/sheri-d-wi... #booksky

Kickass recommendations here (including a few from me)

Is it a review? An interview? An oracle? It's Erina Harris experimental poetry collection "Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead"! #booksky reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/interview-...

Obligatory year-end wrap-up ... and what's going to happen next: reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/what-ive-l... #booksky

Still a tad chilly at -43C. Have taken to wearing gloves indoors as am developing chilblains like someone out of Dickens. Still very grateful to have this thing called "the indoors."