🏆 The WINNER of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry is ... ✨ WELLWATER by Karen Solie! ✨ 🔗 Learn more about WELLWATER here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/wellwater #GGBooks #GGBooks2025

Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott). It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!

Super thrilled to have Dora's poems in this issue 🤩 I also got to read a draft of her new book and it's sooo good

There's a quote by Assata Shakur, one I think of pretty much every day. "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." Truth. Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.

Just finished Wellwater and it is dazzling. Solie is really one of our best ❤️

Poetry in Voice is open for free poet-in-class requests! It's really one of my most favourite and meaningful things to do as a writer. After several years, I've amassed a number of great ideas and activities that can be tailored to K-12. Check it out!

happy finished a notebook and starting a new one day to me

TONIGHT!! Join Isabella Wang, @isabellawangbc.bsky.social and me for the launch of 'November, November', and 'if: prey, then: huntress!' Hosted by Natalie Lim. 7 pm, Massy Books. 229 E. Georgia St. @massybooks.bsky.social Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/huntress-i... #poetry #booklaunch

Happy to share the news that I recieved a Canada Council grant to help complete my second book. It was my first time applying for a grant and it feels unreal. I'm so grateful to live in a country that supports the arts in this way, (and hope it continues to)

Thank you Garth for inviting me to sign this and bear witness to the murders of Palestinian journalists ❤️💔

Hey, check out this fun "smashed" event where poets read work connected to songs from an album (Siamese Dream!) that a band then plays. I'll be reading with heavyweights Doretta Lau, Jane Munro, Junie Désil and others! Come on out! Oct 9th, at 8:30pm 🎸 www.facebook.com/share/1A4Tfa...

My online poetry class starts in a week! There's still time to join! 😁❤️

The lovely Arleen Paré is launching her new book this Wednesday at Upstart and Crow! I'll be having a conversation with her after. Should be fun, come on out! upstartandcrow.com/event/encryp...

Especially looking forward to this one. Elena Johnson and our newest member, the lovely Lauren Peat, will be hosting ❤️

l keep twirling this charm of a poem by @dseuss.bsky.social over and over blackbird.vcu.edu/to-belong-to...

This was a powerful and heartbreaking reading and talk ❤️💔 www.youtube.com/live/ct8JKK-...

Carney plans to cut 15% to the arts. Here is a letter template to send to politicians to oppose this. nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

whenever I want to tell my sons that what they're doing is irrational and pointless, I have to remind myself that my main passion in life is arranging words so they give rise to strange ghostly feelings

After many many years, I've starting sending out poems again! So happy to have a home for this dark little fellow at The Ex-Puritan ❤️ ex-puritan.ca/strike-anywh...

Hey, I'll be running Poetry 1 again this September, an online asynchronous class at SFU. Learn poetic forms and strategies! Give and receive feedback on poems! Immerse yourself in the wild possibilities of language! Check it out, share, and DM me if you want more details www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...

My mom took a picture of me reading poems

Hey, here's a thing I'm doing out in Richmond with Catherine Lewis! There's an open mic that you can sign up for if you're around docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... or just come and hang out! I'll be reading a mix of old and new poems

Always love a post-hangout email from writer friends with links to articles, podcasts, book recommendations, etc. What a lovely way to continue a conversation

Hi Canadian poets, just a heads up that EVENT magazine (where I am poetry editor) is open for poetry submissions right now until the end of the month. Send in your good stuff! www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/

@christinashah.bsky.social! @nate-nate-nainers.bsky.social! @shashibhat.bsky.social! Lauren Peat! I'll be hosting this one along with @kevinspenst.bsky.social. Come on out!

The brilliant @phoebewahl.bsky.social has made her ABOLISH ICE poster available as a free download for protest signs. phoebewahl.shop/products/fre...

I'm starting to send new poems out to journals again after many years. Any great places I should look into? What are your dream publications? Happy to consider online or print

Shashi, Shashi! @shashibhat.bsky.social 🤩

"I’ve been thinking about what happens when writing is pushed. When we feel the need to say things that might seem overdramatic or even like melodramatic tropes. But what happens when the world exceeds the bounds of regular drama, of what is seemly in writing?"

"As a western Canadian book awards organization, we can’t help but be deeply disturbed by the growing trend of politicians politicizing education which directly targets marginalized authors, illustrators, and students." Read the full statement here: bcyukonbookprizes.com/2025/05/30/s...

Such a nice clean joy when poems I selected are reselected for this great series. Congrats to these lovely poets! 🤩

This is tomorrow at our new venue! Join us!

Hey Vancouver, Nick Thran is in town! He'll be launching his new book, along with Tom Wayman tomorrow evening at Iron Dog Books. See you there! irondogbooks.com/events/25468...

Simple and refreshing question from a gr.12 student yesterday, worth pondering: how do you feel before writing a poem, and how do you feel after?

Such great books on these longlists. Congrats all! ttps://poets.ca/longlist2025/

If you have been impacted in any way by the horrific tragedy at Lapu Lapu festival, here is an emergency response resource sheet compiled by Filipinxs local to Vancouver 👇🏼👇🏼 docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Looking for a place to shop on Indie Bookstore Day and everyday in Canada? Let me know if I missed ya (sorry not intentional) or if you know a shop that needs to be added! #ShopLocal #IndieBookstores #IndependentBookstores go.bsky.app/VMTA1Qu

We’re excited to announce the May 11th edition of Dead Poets Reading Series at our new home, Outsiders and Others #100-938 Howe St! featuring @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social, Dora Prieto, Curtis LeBlanc and Alex Leslie! Reminder that this is a masks-required event. See you there! www.deadpoetslive.com

Yearly reminder of this beautiful Gillian Welch song m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjwa...

What a gorgeous little poem ❤️

From "A Guide to the Poetry of Li Ho (791-817) by Eliot Weinberger in Brick: A Literary Journal 114

Congratulations to all the finalists! The Dorothy Livesay shortlist especially, is 🔥🔥

Relatedly, check out this charming interview with Estlin by @roblucastaylor.bsky.social as part of his long-running interview series www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/04/02/t...

Lot going on this April poetrywise, but this is one that would be good to mark in your calendar. Estlin McPhee is launching their amazing debut book of poems, along with a new collection by Hari Alluri. Marc Perez will read too, and I will host and read a few poems too tinyurl.com/4x8zcxk3

🍁 Canadian Publishers. 🍁 Canadian Authors. 🍁 Printing in Canada. 🍁 Warehoused in Canada, Employing Canadian Distributors. Read Completely 🍁Canadian Books.

Glad I got to be part of this powerful shared experience ❤️

The Whole Cloth Reading Series and @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social are teaming up for a live reading of Pat Lowther's posthumous collection, A Stone Diary. Come read it with us at Green College on April 2nd. Thank you @eleekg.bsky.social and @bronwentate.bsky.social for making this happen!

From 'Midnight & Other Poems' (2009) —Mourid Barghouti [tr. Radwa Ashour] #poetry #poem #poems #palestine

It's Promote the Book of a Poet Who is Completely Off Social Media Day! (a day I just invented). One of my faves, Nick Thran, has got a new collection, Existing Music, that looks really good. check it out nightwoodeditions.com/collections/...