↪Swipe to find out how place impacts these Poets’ work Join us tomorrow from 2-3:30 PM @wordvancouver.bsky.social in Robson Square to hear readings from our featured poets! followed by discussion and Q&A. Read the full interviews here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...

Join us THIS SATURDAY from 2-3:30 PM at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for readings from this year's Poets! Hosted by Vancouver's poet laureate @eleekg.bsky.social and followed by discussion and Q&A. #ReadLocalBC #WordVancouver #PoetryInTransit

If you love arts and culture in Canada, please consider signing the @artscoalitionca.bsky.social letter before September 15th! 📣✒️ #DontCutTheArts @readlocalbc.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to be a part of this year’s Poetry in Transit roster and to be reading at the Word Vancouver Festival in a few weeks as part of the kick off 💚🚊💚 Here are some details on the launch (just in case you happen to be in Vancouver): www.wordvancouver.ca/poetry-tent/...

Fresh off the easel 💚🎨💚 Sunshine Bay is one of our favourite swimming spots in the Kootenays. I’m looking forward to getting back there soon ❤️ Sunshine Bay, 28” x 22”, acrylic on 1.5” gallery profile canvas, 2025. Contact to purchase.

I interviewed B.C. Premier David Eby this morning after his visit to Nelson and Trail. He said the province can't offer financial relief to post-secondary institutions making cuts due to drops in allowed international students. Instead he's lobbying the federal government for change.

I’m so proud of @tylerharper.bsky.social and all the amazing work he does everyday. This nomination is SO well deserved.

As someone who got their start at a rural community college and who now teaches at one, I stand behind everything our union leader, Takaia Larsen, says here. These places need protecting for students and their communities.

"The 'worst-case scenario' can be found in Newfoundland and Labrador, he said, where small towns in that province have lost three-quarters of their news outlets in the past 16 years." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/loc...

Spotted in the wild: one of my bestie's @leesadean.bsky.social books, and my book just hanging out (as it should be).

Our wonderful local arts association ndac.ca asked me a few questions about writing and making art in the Kootenays :) Big thanks to Sydney Black for including me in this series :)

As someone who teaches first year composition courses, amen to this. Give me energetic, messy, human prose every time. AI “perfection” is the worst.

Things that are keeping me feeling hopeful: taking an art class and being terrible at it; my dog just being; knitting a cardigan while drinking coffee out of my favourite mug; and dog dates. What’s keeping you going?

me: international competitions are dumb and I don't care also me: I want canada to win 700-0

A friend gave me this wonderful book by Richard Wagamese a while ago. I like to flip through it sometimes for the wisdom it offers. Today I landed on this section about Canada. It seems fitting to share.

I feel honoured to see my name on this list by @readlocalbc.bsky.social My book is deeply dug into the soil here, so it feels extra special to see it recognized as regional literature ❤️ www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/01/29/1... #readlocalbc #bcbooks #poetry

Hello Fellow #Canadians, I've whipped together a starter pack of Canadian authors, indie publishers and bookstores. In light of the economic warfare we're about to endure, I wanted to create a starter pack so we can support each other. Let me know who to add! #Booksky #Canada go.bsky.app/51MFsXj

Writing advice that should be more popular than it is: - Take workshops taught by writers in your community - Go to book launches and readings in your community - Proactively practice craft by reading about it, applying what you read, and discussing it in your community

Even if you don’t have the spoons right now to read the article, I would URGE you to download it so you can have access later no matter what. There is a PDF download link at the top of the article. If you want a printed copy, there is a printable zine below:

Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

I’m teaching Book 1 of Art Spiegelman’s Maus this week in my Comics and Graphic Novels class. It’s felt prescient for years now, but right now the parallels feel overwhelming :( I recommend it if you haven’t read it, but take care of yourself while you do 💔

No particular reason to bring this up, but Jack Kirby was inundated by complaints from Nazi sympathizers after publication of his famous cover that showed Captain America punching Hitler. It was drawn and published before the US officially entered WWII. www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/20...

THREE starter packs of litmags - #1 - bsky.app/starter-pack... #2 - bsky.app/starter-pack... #3 - bsky.app/starter-pack... 4 Lists LitMags bsky.app/profile/laco... Poets bsky.app/profile/laco... Writers bsky.app/profile/laco... Editors & Readers bsky.app/profile/laco... #WritingCommunity #Skypoets

#OnlyBeautifulThings was a big success and helped a lot of folks yesterday. The great thing about hashtag events is you can scroll through them anytime. Like today if you need to. You might also enjoy scrolling #ArtAdventCalendar for literally thousands of pieces of art posted in December.

One of the reasons David Lynch's work meant so much to me is that he promised that no matter how ordinary-seeming the space you occupy, you contain an unmeasurable quantity of weirdness that deserves expression. I am promising myself that from here on out, I will try to write even weirder.

My brilliant brother has started the account @harmscommitted.bsky.social as a place for gathering stories on harm reduction. If you are at all interested in reportage on the drug crisis, give them a follow.

I’ve been going for a lot of long dog walks ❤️ Needless to say, they help.

I have ordered the crew of my ship to plug their ears with wax and tie me to the mast as we sail past the musical region of Whoville this Christmas so that my dangerously small heart might grow to full size while their chest cavities, which contain normal size organs, remain intact and healthy.

For the last day of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing this painting I did of one of my favourite places, Kokanee Creek Park 💙 Thank you to all the artists who’ve shared their work over the past 24 days ❤️ ‘Kokanee Creek Park in December’ 30”x24” Acrylic on 1.5”gallery profile canvas

My happy place ❤️ Happy holidays, friends. Wishing everyone peace and moments of joy.

Fellow humanities grad school nerds, this is gold. I mean: Louis Althusser: Once you are perceived by the Elf, you are interpellated as either “Naughty” or “Nice.” There is no neutral form of existence within Santa’s ideology.

So grateful to be included on this list.

For Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing this painting I did of a sunset in Riondel. I’ve spent a lot of summer evenings here and never get tired of it. Sunset from Riondel 30” x 24” Acrylic on Canvas

For Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing this painting I did of the lake after a big storm 🌈 Rainbow Over Kootenay Lake Acrylic on 1.5” Gallery Profile Canvas, 40” x 30

For Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing another painting I did of the north end of the lake 💚 ‘Fires Burning to the South’ 24” x 18” acrylic on gallery profile canvas. I’m so enjoying all of the art being shared! Thank you to all of you Art Advent Calendar artists out there.

It’s still a thrill to see my book in the wild. Here she is at the always lovely @notablybookish in Nelson BC ❤️❤️❤️ nonpublishing.com/boundary-ter...

For Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing this painting of Kootenay Lake in early September 💚 Last Camping Trip of the Season 16” x 20”, acrylic on 1.5" gallery canvas.

As more and more journalists have been making the move to Bluesky I've been maintaining a starter pack of all the reporters, editors, and photographers from The Canadian Press, our country's leading news service. Go ahead and click through to get caught up on all of our work go.bsky.app/PE3Ue74

For Day 11 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing this painting I did of the little valley I get to call home. ‘City Lights’ Acrylic on Canvas 20” x 16”

For Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing a painting I did when I was in a bit of a gothic mood. I have still have a soft spot for this oddball painting 🔥❤️🔥 ‘O Sweet Incendiary’ 30” x 40,” Acrylic on Gallery Profile Canvas.

For Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing this painting I did of Nelson from Kootenay Lake. It’s included in the wonderful 2025 Kootenay Boundary Art Calendar by @plumtreelife. This is publisher’s last year in operation before her retirement 💚 www.plumtreelife.ca/kootenay-bou...

For Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing this little painting I did of the moon in December. “Winter Moon” 8”x10”, acrylic on gallery profile canvas

In case you missed it, here’s a review of my debut poetry collection. Smaller press publications can sometimes get lost in the swirl of it all. #poetry #bookreview #smallpress

For Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m posting this painting I did of the north end of Kootenay Lake a few years ago. This summer, this region was hit hard by wildfires :( ‘North of Lost Ledge’ 48” x 36”, acrylic on gallery profile canvas

For Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m posting another painting of Kootenay Lake. I spend a lot of my summers off from teaching camping at different spots along the lake 💚 These paintings are really love letters. ‘Sunset Over Kootenay Lake in July’ 30” x 24”, acrylic on canvas

For Day 5 of #ArtAdventCalendar I’m sharing another painting I did of Kootenay Lake (I’m a bit obsessed with this body of water). This one is the view from the beach at Ainsworth Hot Springs 💚 Kootenay Lake in June 18” x 24”, acrylic on gallery profile canvas

Thank you to @jacquelinegelineau.bsky.social for the interview 💚