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literature, art, ephemera, etc. 📚poetry press + distro 📍snuneymuxw asquarehouse.ca
amazing turnout last night at the vault in nanaimo! shout out to featured readers Masha Zhaksybek + Lee Groen, and big big thanks to everyone who signed up to read at the open mic! see you at the next GRUB STREET reading series 🐛
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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!
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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
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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!
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These Days
2 months ago
When AI can generate this, I give up. Until then G-d keep the brave men et al maintaining Discordia
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A “no loads refused” publishing orgy
Here's how indie publishing really works and what one city's extreme lit mag craze can tell us about the scene as a whole
https://www.discordiareview.com/p/montreal-has-too-many-lit-mags
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big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!
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rob mclennan
3 months ago
the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! /
@versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
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robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
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the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online!
March 24-30, 2026: readings and performances in English and French (and Polish!) by Marie-Célie Agnant, Olivia Tapiero, Sanita Fejzic, Melis...
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-schedule-for-sixteenth-annual.html
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a grizzled vet maneuver right here, folks. ya love to see it 🫡
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as a zine distro & small press, we love this theme. send them yr work!
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Jerf Blerkman
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Money is a living thing, with G-d given wisdom
"O life how it dies and grows on trees," says Jeff Blackman.
https://www.discordiareview.com/p/money-is-a-living-thing-with-g-d
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These Days
3 months ago
Buy this before i buy them all
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new from the press: cartoon yrself - dalton derkson our first publication is dalton derkson's umpteenth chapbook. "cartoon yrself" is a riff on dennis lee's "riffs" (1993) & in the short collection dalton wrestles with the rarest of poetry's muses: loss, longing & language. info:
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see you tonight at the vault! Elke Sorensen + Taylor Fleming 6-8 PM - open mic - $5 or PWYC
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4 months ago
These events listings are from The Hub Nanaimo, your weekly insider guide to the best of community arts and culture.
thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/even...
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Events in Nanaimo for the week of Jan. 15 to 21, 2026 – The Discourse.
These events listings are from The Hub Nanaimo, your weekly insider guide to the best of community arts and culture.
https://thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/events-in-nanaimo-for-the-week-of-jan-15-to-21-2026
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big thanks to lauryn
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for this awesome write-up! get acquainted w/ a square house & get ready for the inaugural GRUB STREET here:
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4 months ago
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v excited to feature Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming this friday at the vault for the first GRUB STREET reading series! details:
asquarehouse.ca/grub-street/
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Lit Hub
4 months ago
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/
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our first ever reading series GRUB STREET is happening one week from today at the vault!! featuring Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming, + poetry open mic (with door prizes) to follow. hope we see you there!
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the secret to being a small poetry press is that...
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Amanda Earl
5 months ago
Dear current & former Ottawa students, residents & workers, I warmly invite you to send poems to
Bywords.ca
for our January 2026 issue. The deadline is December 15, 2025 & all the details are on
Bywords.ca
under Guidelines, but you can ask me questions at any time:
[email protected]
. Happy December!
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rob mclennan
6 months ago
THIS WEEKEND! CELEBRATING THIRTY-ONE YEARS OF THE OTTAWA SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR! TOMORROW:
smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
TONIGHT! The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, Stuart Ross, Liam Burke + Amanda Earl,
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jesslyn delia
6 months ago
dalton & i started a little poetry press + distro! we’re hosting our first reading series and open mic in january (details to come) 🐒 follow us!
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