Joe's still speaking. "...They say it would be wine and roses If England were for Englishmen again" "I missed the fourteen-eighteen war But not the sorrow afterwards" "...The garden party not a word was said The ladies lifted cake to their mouths" youtu.be/_TwDOO_RJ8Y

Next Sunday! Fun, inspiration, etc. Come join us!

😂 @existentialcomics.com existentialcomics.com/comic/121

🍁 Here’s our #CanadianSongOfTheDay 🎶 “My Crud Princess” by No Joy of Montreal, Quebec from the 2025 album “Bugland.” 💪 #SupportCanadianArtists — it’s great for our artists, culture, economy, and your SOUL! #CanadaSky #Canada 🎧 youtu.be/Qu0-NrqtXDA?...

Post you from a different era.

'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt

"...I cover my ears, it’s not enough. But I suppose the engineers weren’t wrong. We are getting somewhere after all, and fast— we’re almost to the next station which could double as a bomb shelter should we need one…"

I walk everywhere. A lot. I’m limping by the end of the day and struggling to find proper footwear (preferably boots and never leather) for the Wet Coast. Insoles make every shoe too tight. The problem is systemic for women looking for reasonable shoes for changing needs. www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

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!

Album of the month begins in a few hours via @theriffmedia.bsky.social. Scroll for Zoom link. Welcome to all! 1pm PST/4pm EST @jthepisodes.bsky.social will lead our discussion on The Foreign Exchange’s seminal debut Connected. medium.com/the-riff/the...

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

Join us @ the Listening Post (Hastings & Main) November 6th @ 6pm in celebration of Muriel Marjorie, poet, activist, and actor well known in the DTES for the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize readings & open mic, plus launch of this year’s Fire from the Heart chapbook: www.heartofthecityfestival.com

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Poets Wanted: Dead or Alive, Open Mic & Tellers of Short Tales feat. Gina Armstrong & Victoria Vancek of “Haunted History BC” & JG Chayko with a spooky short story. Hosts: Chelsea Comeau & Janet Kvammen CENTENNIAL LODGE, Queen’s Park Wed, OCT 29, 7-9pm Free! Costume Contest! Prizes! rclas.com

"How many grams does it take to sing the blues? How many grams does it take to shine?" #TodaysPoem #poetry The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanThomasD.bsky.social) (2025 Only Poems Daily) www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...

“Reclamation is thirsty work". Great poem up by Marilyn Letts on in long con’s @longconmagazine.bsky.social October issue: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/ma...

ISSUE 2.2 (longconmag.com/issue-2-2/) is Connor Andersen, Yvonne Blomer, Sarah Burgoyne, A. Damon Cutter, Angela Hibbs, Lori Langille, Marilyn Letts, Gil McElroy, Jessica Patterson, Anton Pooles, Emma Rhodes, Natalie Rice, Hugh Thomas, Kieran Valde, & Hannah Zamora

Courtney Barnett is back with her first new music since 2023. Hear "Stay In Your Lane" www.brooklynvegan.com/courtney-bar...

Joy — like music, like love — is one of those entirely unnecessary miracles of consciousness that give meaning to survival with its bright allegiance to the most alive part of us www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/04/m...

Peaches announces 1st album in 10 years & tour with Model/Actriz: hear "Not In Your Mouth None of Your Business" www.brooklynvegan.com/peaches-anno...

Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska

October 8th is one of my favourite days because this one time on October 8th - I went to Christopher Columbus' birthplace and installed a plaque on his home, claiming the property on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.

From their second album #TheHorrors “Mirror’s Image" youtu.be/0EOPIi4Q3lM #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MyRockNRoll

Had me laughing out loud. “Reasons to seek revenge on parallel universes” by Jamie Anderson in Room 48.2

Another great single following “The Dictator” with “The Manifesto” by #Gorillaz youtu.be/6JIv1l96zN0

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...

And the horrors continue: Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law.

Power tune of the month. Appropriately the first station I heard this electrifying band. “I Got Heaven” by #MannequinPussy. #KEXP youtu.be/3aoTvCJM7fE

There's NewPoetry today from Adam Sol (@adamsol.bsky.social). newpoetry.ca/2025/10/06/c...

Argh! Yes, if you search Outlaw Alice Lebow, it should come up to watch here.

Here's my interview with Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark... decider.com/2025/09/30/c...

😍 #LivingColour #CultOfPersonality youtu.be/MfY7jG-3rlE

The third day of our fifteenth issue includes new poetry by Laurie Koensgen , Ryan T. Pozzi and Mileva Anastasiadou, and The art of writing #118: an interview with Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com

Ten Years in the Making. Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10 knifeforkbook.com

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

Such a joy to have this re-release thanks to #Audiopile (Vancouver) and thanks to my hubs.

Have a few of these titles on order (Joseph Dandurand, Randy Lundy) and one to pick up: if: prey, then: huntress by @christinashah.bsky.social. Congratulations! www.cbc.ca/books/34-wor...

In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Love this record. #SuperFurryAnimals www.mnprmagazine.com/news/super-f...

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"Wellwater is full of small revelations. At this point, Solie has little left to achieve, but if her poems keep letting their mask slip, they might genuinely surprise us. She has been a thrillingly unpredictable poet for twenty-five years. Who knows? She might just start telling it straight."

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available! , anticipating the press' thirty-third year of activity, / @neonpajamas.bsky.social @russellcarisse.bsky.social @kevinspenst.bsky.social @frankyfrancescannon.com ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

ANNOUNCING the WINNERS of our THIRD PINHOLE POETRY CHAPBOOK SEARCH! RAYYA LIEBICH, TOSH SHERKAT, ARIEL GORDON, YVETTE LECLAIR, DAVID ROSS LINKLATER, JESSICA LEE MCMILLAN, LM ROCHEFORT, ANDREW FRENCH & ROBIN SUSANTO We’re excited to share more details about our 25/26 season soon!

“Worldly Girls unfolds like a series of controlled explosions, each essay detonating just enough certainty to reveal what lies beneath...” @selenamercuri.bsky.social reviews the debut memoir from @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social for @thenewquarterly.bsky.social tnq.ca/under-review...

Poets, do consider submitting to this lovely journal full of incredible poems and interviews on writing from so many poets I admire. Check it out!

My very limited understanding of the technology had me believing that hallucinations were the wrong concept because (1) everything LLMs do is repeat statistical probabilities, and so have no grounding in reality or truth, and (2) LLMs are not beings and do not perceive and so do not hallucinate. 1/

Blue skies + Literature? Heck yeah!