Self care on a frigid day here in Waawiiyaatanong means poetry work on strange new long poem, ordering groceries on line, and generally avoiding leaving the house. Maybe some Jim Harrison reading later. Big day, ya know.

I type this while I eat a cold sconedog: Holy, do I love me a friday night Hhaudenosaunee Gathering. Food, company, and watching the next generations come into the culture. Lenape Skin Dance to close it all out. #indigenous #windsoressex #lenape

Been reviewing my Works in Progress, trying to figure out what goes out next into the completion queue. Looks like a toss-up between a short-fiction mss (Shift Change) and an Indigenous historical fiction novel (Waters That Divide). Either way, good chance of a fiction/prose pivot in 2026. #writing

The ghosts of waterways, the markers of lost towns, the medicine we leave behind, is etched in water, frozen or free. Any season is the right season for books. But the spirit moons in these last months of year call for them more strongly. #indigenous #poetry #books #writing #reading #midwest

Flow into a new season in one of Canada’s most celebrated literary landscapes, with Leaf Counter. A lyric decolonial romp through the Ontario’s famed Prince Edward County, Leaf Counter draws us through the poetics of the land and the struggles of the poet as decolonizer #books #indigenous #poetry

Great news for my new science fiction novel, After the Stars Fell. The project has received project funding from @canada.council. This funding will help me to complete this new book in the interconnected scifi universe I am currently working through. #books #canada #writers #grants #indigenous

And to celebrate the return here, why not a new essay up on the substack. #substack #oldtv #essays #southwalkerville #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #scifi #detroit

After a crazy few months that saw us sell and buy a house, move, myself publish two new poetry collections, and witness the grand fall of the pretendian Thomas King, I am back on this platform. And looking forward to it. Hello y'all.

As follow up to the post about using Indigenous cultural symbols to promote non-Indigenous events: curator told me that they know best (non-native) and that I could consign some books of mine to sell to make up for it. Pretty gross. Par for 3 centuries of settler occupation.

Cracking 70F in Waawiiyaatanong. Perfect day for MF Doom and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Warm Spring Afternoon. Ignoring the burning world for a few hours. Find your joy, y'all. Survival is only so much.

"The clatter and wallop / of the land beneath us, reads / like the finality of a folk tune" @dalockhart.bsky.social shares "Union Pacific North to Lake Forest" from his new collection COMMONWEALTH (@kegedoncepress.bsky.social) for today's #ALUtributaries. alllitup.ca/tributaries-...

Can't believe that I have to still say this in 2025: Our culture is not your costume or sales prop. If you are holding event and you have no Indigenous people involved in the event, don't use a medicine wheel as your backdrop. #yqg #indigenous #hottips.

Absolutely floored by this thoughtful and in-depth review of Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press). My newest collection is still not officially out in the world and in our trying contemporary times, making space for reconciliation and healing of our land is so critical. #writing #books #poetry #canlit

Back at it again, my socials. Here is a preview of the newest essay about CliFi, Indigenous literature, and how we imagine Futurisms with Min Sterling's Camp Zero at its heat. Read more at substack. Follow along. #substack #radio #essays #clifi #writing #poetry #indigenous #story #books

Big news: my new short fiction collection, Pishkok at the Dearborn Heights National Coney Island, has received project funding from Ontario Arts Council. This funding will help me to complete a first complete draft of the book. #writing #books #shortfiction #grants #newwork #ontario #canlit

Honest, one of the strangest new habits we've adopted this year is switching out US/American Beef for Australian Kangaroo. Carbon footprint sucks. Although Aussies are kin, so that's a plus. The pastas and chilis and the like are a lot more tastee. Strange year we're having.

Wanishi, A small note of gratitude to the Public Lending Right program and to all the work by Writers Union of Canada & Canada Council have done to make this program possible and successful. The support helps myself and countless others in the writing community across Canada. #writing #plr #canlit

Been away for bit, spinning vinyl and putting pen/ink to paper, and taking in some wrestling to finish off this new Bret Hart/Al Purdy poem. Let me say this: Wrestling is absolutely a framework for a rooted, cross-cultural poetics. Will have to write it all down. But it's there. #poetry #writing

Sneak peek from Issue 43 of Send My Love to Anyone--a poem from @dalockhart.bsky.social's new poetry collection Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press!) sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/nations-an...

Blows my mind that neither CBC nor countless Non Natives can wrap their heads and actions around the fact that Thomas King is not Indigenous. What is going to take? #writing #books #indigenous #native #canlit

Honoured to have North of Middle Island reviewed in the Seaboard Review. Wanishi to Dr. Robinson for taking the time to talk about this strange book.

Been cleaning up these John Prince Centos today and this had led me down many a strange rabbit hole. Most recent one is writing up small bio for Lord Cathcart, 2nd Earl of Cathcart, who was in Montreal. Decolonizing his stuff too. #writing #canada #history #poetry #indigenous

Wrapping an essay about being Lenape and witnessing the total eclipse from a American homestead on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. A piece of mythologies, borders, and the lake that supports us all. Submission this week. #writing #indigenous #midwest #water #lakes

Fresh book review up at Fiddlehead for an absolute classic of Indigenous poetry. Revisit Emily Riddle's 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize winner The Big Melt. #poetry #books #reviews #canlit #indigenous #writing

Thrilled to announce that my Indigi-Scifi Novel What Lies Beneath has received an Ontario Arts Council work-in-progress project grant. This funding will enable me to finish the manuscript and revisions to this exciting me endeavor in storytelling and writing for me. #writing #books #scifi #grants

Strange breakthrough in writing this evening. Hit the anchor poem, the final poem, for a grant project I was wrapping up. Hot lyric action at the ONroute outside Woodstock, ON on the 401 makes this night a wrap. #writing #poem #canlit #authors #nightwork

Been organizing and listening my vinyl library today. And definitely feeling that we lose so much by the Spotify algorithm. The joy of collection to what you find, owning it, physically have to start and stop it. Music as an act not a formless commodity. Remembering joy. #music #vinyl #listening

Ended up writing up this strange little essay about Robotech and specifically Lynne Minmay and how art and war and survival are all wrapped up in this odd little thought exercise. Perhaps something to follow. #writing #essays #anime #authors

Commonwealth makes the Quill & Quire spring short fiction & poetry preview. Get ready for spring to arrive to our returned lyric Indigenous Midwest. Stat tuned for previews and launch details. #books #canlit #poetry #indigenous #comingsoon #writing

Lailuwàn, mid-winter in Unami Lenape, a season of stories, a season in which we tend to talk about anything but the weather & anything but what is actually going on around us. A season where, post-holiday, post-family, community and connection falters. wazhashkpoetry.com/2025/01/14/d... #writing

Following the cold and dark days of winter, spring shall surely arrive. And with it this new poetry collection, Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press) Get ready for an Indigenous mediation on history, migration, the American Midwest, and endurance. #booksky #books #coverreveal #indigenous #writing #poetry

Still around, but the socials are sliding a little. Be confident that it's been a lot of pen and ink and reading some Northrup Frye and Hayden Carruth for good measure. Now back to MF DOOM on vinyl and more of the good work. #update #writing #reading

Wëli katënami! (Happy Birthday) to the great Canadian poet and writer Al Purdy. Alfred Wellington Purdy was born on this day in 1918 in Wooler, Ontario His work is an inspiration for myself and countless others across Canada and the world. #poetry #booksky #writingcommunity #canlit #canada #books

New and now ongoing part of my writing practice: BigXthaPlug's Take Care album at an appropriate volume level to open every session. Confidence and hype in one simple 30ish minute package. Perfection. Amped up new energy. #writing #hiphop #process #listeningsuggestions

Laughable that this is news to settler scientists. Yes. Our ancestors have made canoes for a long time. And many of our nations were considerably more technologically advanced than "Western Cultures." They could have asked. But then again, we are rarely believed or respected. #indigenous #history

And here is the most recent installment of the Temaskwes Miscellany in which I discuss high strangeness and story as liberator. A look at how Art Bell and late night radio acted in my development as a storyteller. #substack #radio #essays #artbell #writing #poetry #indigenous #story

Every winter season, when these first few snows hit Waawiiyaatanong, I instantly start craving another reading of Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country. Really kind of a annual rite of passage for me. Now to track down some Italian Roast coffee and make good use of this ceremony. #books #reading

New on Temaskwes Miscellany today. A discussion fellow Soutwesto writer Anahita Jamali Rad's Still. A book that not enough know or talk about. Consider subscribing and most important picking up a copy of this important work. #booksky #writing #books #poetry #substack #canlit

Cleaning up the Unami Lenape lexicography and a couple of the long poems for the Commonwealth collection due out in April 2025. Letting this ancestral language loose on midwestern spaces is right where we need to be. Kaòkche awaits, kpaane. #poetry #poems #indigenous #lenape #midwest #writing

Migration is central to what we are & fills our artistic lives. Knowing that the land matters and that we are able to freely move upon is central to our true selves. I return to the talk I delivered at Corpus Christi, TX last winter. #poetry #writing #literature #migration #books #keynote #substack

Middle of the week busy writers life. Three new tanka to frame sections in Leaf Counter book along with this Ryuko Matoi-Al Purdy long poem. Blurb requests going into the world. The small stuff, really. This is a fine way to spend one's time. #poetry #amwriting #poems #books

Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! https://buff.ly/3PoeZ6l

Hitting the revisions hard for this Purdy-Bukowski book due out next fall. New title (Leaf Counter) and new sections are filling out nicely. And three long poems about Thunderball, Brett Hart, and Kill la Kill anchor them. #writing #poetry #books #theprocess #canlit

New piece is up on the #substack on some very essential #indigenous reads on this thanksgiving in America. Let's talk a little bit about the great James Welch and his only book of poetry. #books #poetry #writing #montana #blackfeet #library #review #nativeamerican

hey new followers: above/ground press produces 60-80 chapbook titles a year, focusing on single-author poetry chaps (along w some prose chaps) + the quarterly Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], etc; 2025 subscriptions (32nd year!) now available: abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/abov...

Interesting question for y'all. I have had my rights returned for some of my first books. There is still demand for them, I do get messages about them (primarily from the US) and getting copies. Anyone out there interested in reissuing these books/pieces or should I just pub with my own company?

Really been loving these new VIA Rail trains rolling past Pillette Village. So much quieter, cleaner, and modern. They fit in with a changing planet, city, and region. We need more investment like this in Windsor-Essex. And as writer, trains are one the true romantic ways of travel.

From @kegedoncepress.bsky.social's freshest scorching hot Indigi-horror fiction anthology here is a noire-style poster for my piece about magnet fishing horror on the Detroit River. All-Indigenous writers with new winter stories. Makes a great gift. #fiction #books #indigenous #writing #horror

Finishing up a short essay about James Welch's only poetry collection, Riding the Earthboy 40, that will be on substack in a week. Realizing (yet again) what an important and amazing little book this. And how so much for me as a writer starts in Montana.

Newest post over at Substack has dropped. Join me as I lead you through some of the new work as it appears or appeared in Lit Mags across Turtle Island. Subscribe to Tëmàskwës Miscellany newsletter and get it delivered weekly to your inbox. #poetry #substack #writing #poems #canlit #literature