Best Canadian Series: CALL FOR 2025 JOURNAL ISSUES! Every year, Biblioasis publishes Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Essays, and Best Canadian Stories, anthologies which feature works that were published in magazines/journals/online publications the previous year. 1/5

Please join us for a reading and celebration of Keith Maillard as he retires from the School of Creative Writing. 🎉 Everyone is invited to attend this online event (Zoom). 🗓️ Thursday, October 16 ⏰ 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm 🎟️ RSVP for meeting link RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...

Stats confirming that Jews are the number one victims of hate-based violence.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven.

So pleased to be joining a passel of great poets in Fredericton next weekend, October 3 through 5. Many thanks to The Writers Union of Canada for funding my presentation.

📣Come and work with us!📣 Thistledown Press is hiring an assistant editor! This is a seasonal, part-time position starting in November 2025. Deadline to apply is October 17, 2025. Visit our website for the full job description! thistledownpress.com/2025/09/25/w...

Palestinians deserve more than survival under siege. They have the right to feel safe in their own homes, to fall in love, to study, to raise children, and to dream of a future. None of this is possible under military rule and occupation. (4/4)

(2/5) 🏆 Vancouver poet Fred Wah is recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. Fred Wah has a long publishing history with @talonbooks.bsky.social. 🏆 Talonbooks' Leanne Dunic has also won an award - the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for “wet”

Save the date: October 30 panel at the Vancouver Public Library on Poetry in Translation with Rahat Kurd and Deborah Woodard, moderated by @bronwentate.bsky.social

dudes rock

Shana Tova to all who celebrate. May we find, especially, peace. Within and without.

Congratulations to Leanne Dunic on winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (@bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social) for her book "Wet." You can read my interview with Leanne about the book over at @readlocalbc.bsky.social:

Submissions are open! If you published, wrote, or illustrated a book in 2025, be sure to consider submitting it for the 42 BC and Yukon Book Prizes! For more information visit: bcyukonbookprizes.com/how-to-enter/

This really is worth your time. Well done, @thedailyshow.com

Just adore Laux.

Yet another wonderful poem by the marvelous Maureen Hynes: poets.ca/seven-envies...

This 2007 novel by Ann Patchett is a wonderful companion piece to Lisa Moore's This is How We Love. Each examines with compassion alternative visions of family, each demands we see the good in others. Another recommended read for those needing to have their faith in humanity restored.

Join The Walrus! Applications are open for two Editorial Fellow positions. The deadline to apply is September 29. thewalrus.ca/about/careers/

You know, I think we all pretty much know what rough beast has slouched into Bethlehem to be born.

Oh just re-read this exquisite book by Newfoundland's Lisa Moore for my book club. Can't recommend highly enough. If you need your faith in humanity restored, this is the novel for it.

Oh this one will certainly make you smile! Another post by my brilliant friend, Amela Marin. On Werewolves, Tomatoes & Names open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

Another gutting, moving post about war, hunger, and humour by my briliiant friend Amela Marin: On Bananas, Turkey & Laughter open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

As a family doc, I’m recommending the updated COVID and flu vaccines to all my patients when they become available this autumn, including pregnant patients, young children, and seniors (to whom I will also recommend the RSV vaccine). Elbows and sleeves up for important public health measures 🇨🇦💉

Sunflowers in Kitsilano, Vancouver. Blue sky moment amidst mostly smokey skies.

It's not just that we have to save our country from Trumpism. We have to save the entire world from a ravenous, reckless, criminal U.S. government. It's a moral imperative.

Excellent news here in Canada: There will be an overhaul of the Ontario vaccine registry to tackle measles resurgence and modernize Ontario's outdated vaccine records. The Covid-19 vaccine registry has been very helpful. Keeping track of all routine vaccines is very smart. Elbows and sleeves up 🇨🇦💉

Armed settlers, backed by the Israeli army, stormed a Palestinian village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron yesterday and terrorized defenseless families. At least 13 Palestinians were injured; a 3-month-old baby, elderly women, and children. (1/3)

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Another moving post by my brilliant friend, Amela Marin, on oranges, bridges, Jaffa, Gaza, and hunger during war. On Wrath of Gods, John Lennon and the Scent of Oranges open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

Listen to Mohammed talk about what it means to be silenced and oppressed by your own government while trying to live “normally” amid a genocidal war.

What happens in the state of Florida does not stay in the state of Florida. If they remove school vaccine mandates, INFANTS AND CHILDREN WILL NEEDLESSLY DIE ACROSS NORTH AMERICA. Vaccines save lives. Don’t mess with population health for political points. Same goes for Canadian provinces.

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

It has nothing to do with crime.

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Inspired by @akkabah.bsky.social I went to the local farmers' market, bought approx 8000 cubic metres of fresh basil at a mere $450,000 and produced this lovely jar of pesto. (Comic exaggeration)

Natalie Shapero

Not entirely innocent visitor to the birdbath. Owners have her belled but she walks without a single jingle.

When this time is over (& it will be) & somebody asks me to describe its nature & spirit, I shall play this clip. It embodies the whole cruelty, nastiness, sneer, indifference, cockiness, glee, inhumanity, & evil. It proves they knew what they did was illegal, but they did it happily, voluntarily.

Sunset walk Locarno Beach Vancouver.

Deeply moving post on war and hunger by my brilliant friend, Amela Marin: On Magic Pouches, Tasting in Kabul & Bartering for Food open.substack.com/pub/theatrum...

This is exactly the wrong time to kneecap arts and culture in this country

I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Visiting the museum of immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax. My grandparents, Joseph, Rose, and aunt Fran (Feiga) arrived in Canada on the Scythia in 1948 as Holocaust survivors from a German displaced persons camp. When we react to antisemitism in Canada and around the world, this is our story.

To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice, That Henry liveth still: but were he dead,

YES. Let’s dismantle the whole damn thing.

Oh this is sweet. A tonic in these times. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57038/...

Sam in moody, chilly, foggy Alert Bay, BC.