I know small poem Sunday is a thing here, but I’d love to do a more general round-up of minimalist poetry. Which poets do you admire who write/wrote on a very small scale, (i.e. work that is slight, compact, compressed, even aphoristic)?

Beautiful enchanting post about a neglected fruit by Amela Marin: Nespola – The Forgotten Fruit open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

Hope this happens: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dear Montreal friends -- so pleased to be reading from my poetry collection Talking to Strangers with these fine poets. Please come and say hi.

Also so excited to see A Place For People Like Us on CBC Books’s list of Fifteen Canadian Books to Read For Jewish Book month. An honour to be there with Cary Fagan, Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, Elise Levine and more 💗 www.cbc.ca/books/15-can... @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @rollwithheather.bsky.social

So there. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Link to that essay. Have kids if you want ‘em. They will live through the best of times, because they will help create them. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

their master loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon’s pitch.

I'm on my way to you Vancouver! To do this ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Few spots left.

Gave this to my sister, a researcher in Education, and she hung it in her office. Truer than every these days.

Thank you to CBC Ideas for having Holocaust survivor Jeanette Goldman and me on to speak about our family stories. Special thanks to Regis College at the University of Toronto for holding the event. And to Sean Foley for producing the piece. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Wow. Poems for these times: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Canadian authors, it's your last chance to register for PLR this year!

This is nice. As Carney says, nostalgia is not a strategy but let's keep all the good we've had in mind: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Heartening to have attention paid to an older book. Thank you, @cowenwriter.bsky.social !

May 5 MMIWG2S+ Walk for Justice 5:30pm Oodena Circle

Joyous post by the magnificent Amela Marin for a joyous day: Collector of Words & Memories open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

Yesterday we held over 30 screenings of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day ceremony hosted by the Parents Circle – Families Forum and Combatants for Peace at our community spaces, our Purple Houses, and other spaces across the country. (1/3)

A delicious delightful paean by my brilliant friend Amela Marin. Bread: The Companion of Life open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

This is the historical event that my 2019 novel, Rue des Rosiers, is based on. Stunning that justice has taken so long: bbc.com/news/article...

Yea, sir. The rascal’s drunk

I'm doomscrolling on Facebook — past puppy photos, Paul Schrader recounting his ayahuasca journey, hopeful dispatches from second and third marriages — when a post stops me. Someone says that he asked Pete Hegseth to drop a bomb on Iran in the name of my dead father. archive.is/Yhkao#select...

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

READ @stephenrodrick.bsky.social: They Want to Drop a Bomb in My Father’s Name rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

WOW

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Goldie Morgentaler will be giving a lecture about the life and works of the great Yiddish-language Canadian novelist, Chava Rosenfarb, in Calgary tomorrow evening. Register for the event: buff.ly/uRVYzcT Learn more about Letters from the Afterlife: buff.ly/3CU7knq

Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of Hungary’s!

Orban called Magyar to congratulate Magyar - and admitted defeat to his supporters. It's over. Peter Magyar and his Tisza Party wins with such an overwhelming victory that he has two-thirds of the seats in the parliament and can undo Orban's autocratic legalism!

Yes! Hope! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

No comment. Just happy.

wonderful news!

Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!

Delicious post by the delightful Amela Marin. The World is My Oyster open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

This post by the magnificent Amela Marin could not be more timely: Peace, Protest & the Power of the Powerless open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

Join us for a book launch celebrating exciting new books by Elizabeth Bachinsky, Aaron Cully Drake, Renée Saklikar, and Russell Thornton! We’d love to see you there!

Novelist Meg Todd (Most Grievous Fault) shares writing tips, book recommendations, and the joy of revising—reworking, cutting, refining, and shaping a manuscript into its best form in her Q&A with publishing coach Daphne Gray-Grant.

Don’t miss Margaret Gallagher’s interview with BC poet Russell Thornton on his new collection, Two Songs: Poems 2000-2025. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thou art a most pernicious usurer, Froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems A man of thy profession and degree; And for thy treachery, what’s more manifest?

Step aside, and I’ll show thee a president.

Maybe if the media and the international community had not largely given Trump a pass on his Venezuelan crime spree we wouldn’t be here. America’s president is basically just knocking over countries like they’re liquor stores right now.

ht: @stephenking.bsky.social

Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney "leaves and branches Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale So that you listen to the thing you fear." #stormdave

Air Canada promises next CEO will gouge customers in both English and French

Come write poetry with me this summer. They even have a bursary, if money is an issue. sagehillwriting.ca/scholarships...

O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.