Joy Harjo's BASIC RULES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT POETS

First blurb for my forthcoming poetry book, Wound Archive, is in! Thank you so much to Cameron Anstee for reading this book with attention and generosity. It may be the honour of my life to have this book in the same breath as Paul Celan and Phyllis Webb 🙏. Publication in April. Pre-orders available

March / ripped out of February, a raw thing. Marianne Boruch

Victoria Chang

Edits submitted! Third collection of poems forthcoming in April. It was hard to return to many of the poem-fragments that make up this book, because they speak to a wounded time. Pre-orders available at the link in my bio. Thank you for your support, always 🙏

Het duurde even, maar het was het wachten waard! De gedichtenbundel #Bonememory van @annaveprinska.bsky.social heb ik eindelijk binnen. Zo mooi, ik ga het niet droog houden #CurrentlyReading

What, you may ask, does a forgotten poem by a foreign-born Hollywood extra have to tell us now? All I can say is that Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED has been a source of comfort for me over the past few years—a sympathetic voice reaching across decades. “Been there,” he nods…

Mary Oliver

-22 in Kiev today. Another poem from Bonememory by @annaveprinska.bsky.social

“Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.” —Louise Glück, “The Red Poppy”

Thank you for this deeply moving poem - psalm - for our times, @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social

Poets – in their boundless-absurd desire to fly – / flock their verse with birds, babbling / and babbling and calling it birdsong. Loving BONEMEMORY by @annaveprinska.bsky.social

Honoured to have Bonememory as an Alberta bestseller in December. Books seem to come and go so quickly these days. Thank you for continuing to read this one 🙏

Our literary series forwards bold and lively voices that entertain and engage. Discover Brave & Brilliant poetry. https://ow.ly/fOzG50XNrhE

“history used the back verandah to negotiate its terms and collect its dues” —Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." —Louis Adamic

it's that time again, folks

Probably “Demon Copperhead” for prose & “Bonememory” for poetry. @annaveprinska.bsky.social

“At first I was lonely, but then I was / curious.” —Ada Limón, “The Endlessness”

Look, we are not unspectacular things. We've come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder? - Ada Limón

“The poem does not come, but its place is kept set.”

Another wintry poem by Linda Pastan, this one decidedly darker.

Bonememory navigates a lattice of identity with nuance and wordplay as identity wanes and waxes and temporary peace is found. Anna Veprinska's Bonememory. Reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine https://ow.ly/cxvV50XmCXA

Bonememory by Anna Veprinska reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine https://ow.ly/OyrJ50XmEeG Lore, bones, memories, meaning. These gatherings are as chronic as the speaker’s pain, heightening awareness of goings-on “beneath skinsong.

“She was the kind of woman who liked to shrug; deep within her was an everlasting shrug.” —Claudia Rankine, from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Bonememory navigates a lattice of identity with nuance and wordplay. Anna Veprinska's Bonememory. Reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine. https://ow.ly/yV2y50XmE5U

Reading in Edmonton with @jasonvpurcell.bsky.social in conversation with @liammonaghan.bsky.social Thank you, @magpiebooks.bsky.social for hosting! ✨

Here I go again, writing about tenderness.

rob mclennan's spot light 115 features Anna Veprinska of Bonememory! Check it out: https://ow.ly/RfBP50Xm0NU

From Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms

A short piece in which I discuss poetry lifting language out of its housecoat. And there’s a newly published winter poem here, too. Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for all you do to support authors in Canada 🙏

Thank you @fiddlehd.bsky.social for this initiative. Looking forward to this issue!

“Bite into joy like you bite a radish” —Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“History will enter here, whistling like train wheels” —Dionne Brand, Ossuaries

“you will discover, as I, / that verbs are a tragedy, a bleeding cliffside, explosions” —Dionne Brand, Ossuaries

Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.

I am nowhere happier than in poetry. Woolf’s Voices, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, Sept. 2025

Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley

“Earth, my love, I want that too. Believe me, no more of your springtimes are needed to win me over” —Rilke, from Ninth Duino Elegy

My third book of poems is coming out with Gordon Hill Press in spring 2026! It’s a book of minimalist experimental poetry about the emotional wounds love and illness have the capacity to inflict. And the housing of those wounds in the archive of the body. Pre-orders now available. Link in my bio 🙏❤️

Fairy. Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy

"I’m on a new medication that forces my soul out of my body like a pine forest felled to make room for glass." #TodaysPoem #poetry For body with burden by @annaveprinska.bsky.social from Bonememory (2025 @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3mdwnhua & tinyurl.com/mtvt8hs2

“The way light keeps its shadow by swallowing it” —Ocean Vuong, “Into the Breach”

Lucia Perillo

Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social

Reading through old writing notes and found this question from my past self, who studied (and still studies) poetry after trauma: “why didn’t I study laughter?”

“Is routine a kind of prayer?” —Tessa McWatt, The Snag

“That old ontological riddle about forests is a trick. If we are listening, everyone can hear every tree that falls in every forest.” —Tessa McWatt, The Snag

Jim Johnstone, from The King of Terrors

"We felt an ache we realized was happiness, almost unbearable." From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines. Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/9781946482846 #poem #books #writing