bartlett pears, painted by james marion shull, 1916

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Let’s go!

Let's go #BlueJays

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

Thanks so much to @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social for his review of my @gaspereaupress.bsky.social book over on his wonderful website The Woodlot! the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/28/t...

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The nine runs Toronto scored in the sixth inning are the most in a single inning of a World Series game since Detroit put up a 10-spot in Game 6 in 1968, according to @ESPNInsights.

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

2-2! My good luck charm is coming through!

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Our Autumn issue is now on its way to subscribers, featuring Summer Wishes (2023) by Ann Manuel on the cover. Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305

Read to an appreciative and large crowd in Gagetown today (with Jennifer Houle and Paula Eisenstein). Thanks to Paula and Larry Eisenstein for organizing and hosting! I had a great time and sold some books!

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

Haines Junction, Yukon Doris McCarthy 1991

Happy birthday to Willie O'Ree, born on this day in 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick! The first Black player in the NHL, he played 45 games for the Boston Bruins, recording 14 points. In the WHL, he had 639 points in 785 games. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Thanksgiving means hiking up Dalhousie Mountain

Hey @thefwordnb.bsky.social if you find yourself in Dalhousie, try heronbaybrewing.ca. Just had a flight and it’s great. Super local, can only find here. Owners name is Steve!

In Dalhousie looking at the clouds by the Bay of Chaleur.

Retro vibes and cloudy skies

Linden leaves framing tonight's Harvest Supermoon 🌿

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

No plans this weekend? The 22nd annual Poetry Weekend festival is happening at Memorial Hall on UNB campus! Here’s the schedule! (The poets marked in red are poets with chapbooks I published.)

Minou’s hopefully going to get in to see a vet today.

#RIPDrJaneGoodall #RIPJaneGoodall #DrJaneGoodall

UNB Reading Series Presents: Anuja Varghese, Author of Chrysalis and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, with an opening reading by Alessandra Naccarato OCT 2nd 2025 7:30 PM @ UNB Art Centre - Memorial Hall (9 Bailey Dr.) (An accessible venue) FREE OF CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME!

Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025 If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you. See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

The most recent used record added to my collection earlier this week. Appropriately cranked this morning. Why stand On a silent platform Fight the war Fuck the norm

Kaoru Yamada - Bright Morning by the Bay

Announcing the publication of a new Emergency Flash Mob chapbook: Walking Directly on the Earth by Spencer Folkins! You can order a copy now! $10 +$3 for shipping anywhere in Canada or just $10 for local pickup/delivery. This book is limited to 60 copies. DM to order or for more information!

Announcing the publication of a new Emergency Flash Mob chapbook: Walking Directly on the Earth by Spencer Folkins! You can order a copy now! $10 +$3 for shipping anywhere in Canada or just $10 for local pickup/delivery. This book is limited to 60 copies. DM to order or for more information!

i hope this email never finds you. i hope you are free

Our first Call for Papers is live! If you are interested in writing the history of New Brunswick, engaging with popular audiences, and supporting small museums, then we would love to hear from you! Proposals for submissions are due 30 September 2025. See below for details:

Announcing a new chapbook from Emergency Flash Mob Press, Troposphere by Jennifer Houle! You can order a copy now! $10 +$3 for shipping anywhere in Canada or just $10 for local pickup/delivery. This book is limited to 60 copies. DM to order or for more information!

Yours truly, quoted in this piece by CBC Kitchener Waterloo www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The full moon setting behind the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly Building. 🌕 Fredericton NB August 9, 2025 – 5:56am #moon #fullmoon #sturgeonmoon #photography

Today’s recommended read: “But it may not be enough to create, to contribute, to have influenced others if one feels, as I do now, that the very culture in which one was nourished, and to which one has given one’s best in return, is itself threatened.“

We need more human beings.

A few nearby friends dropped off some beautiful bouquets from their gardens. And I ventured to Backstreet when I picked the boy up from work and came home with this Allan Ginsberg record. Also stopped at Forest Hill cemetery to say hi to a few poets.

Unfortunately, the news from pathology was not good for Lambert and we made the difficult decision to put him to sleep this afternoon. Apparently it was an aggressive form of cancer and we could tell already his quality of life was affected.

"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

A few images from our latest post on diagramming sentences in the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/diagramming-sentences-in-the-19th-century

The Walrus has just profiled the publisher of my book!

Lunch and some reading in the rose garden!

Way to go @adelebarclay.bsky.social !

Woohoo! Congrats Tamas!

BREAKING NEWS: This video will likely improve your day.

I'm pleased to announce the launch of Story Phi, a new philosophy podcast by co-hosts Chelsea Haramia (@chelseaharamia.bsky.social) and Kelly Weirich (@kmdoublev.bsky.social). Come for the story. Stay for the philosophy. First episode available now at storyphi.buzzsprout.com