Touch the Donkey supplement #290 : seven questions for Aidan Chafe / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttd-...

Hockey Players Blast ‘Heated Rivalry’ For Unrealistic Depiction Of Anal Sex

WOW! Congrats Aidan! @allegorically.bsky.social

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver). Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Spotlight series #113 : Christina Shah / @christinashah.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; robmclennan.medium.com/spotlight-se...

ONLY POEMS feature!!!

Thrilled to have been selected as the ONLY POEMS 2025 Poet of the Year! @onlypoemsmag.bsky. www.onlypoems.net/contest/poet...

Cover reveal! I'm beyond excited to share that CLOUDWATCHER, winner of the inaugrual Stern Prize from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & forthcoming from Copper Canyon, has a cover and is now available to pre-order (link in the replies)! 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️

There are few greater honours than this (and all the moreso when the poem is this good). Thank you, Jessica!

Aidan Chafe's @allegorically.bsky.social poem "Cowboy Archetype Survival Guide" is live in Issue 68 of The Ex-Puritan. Read here: ex-puritan.ca/cowboy-arche...

had one of those listening to Sarah Marshall’s “Birmingham” and singing through the roof of the car after realizing the lyrics are about a woman breaking free of an abusive relationship!

I asked the class what they do with their insecurities and the boy who missed my preamble about generations of men who won’t talk about their emotions says, “I just push it down, like a man. There’s no point talking about it.” And, he got the last word in before the bell. Amen, it’s Friday.

A Gr. 11 student wrote, “Some people with the brightest light cast the darkest shadows.” One of the best lines I’ve read this year.