In this seventh episode, Kyeren Regehr welcomes Yvonne Blomer—poet, editor, and the fourth Poet Laureate of Victoria. This episode is generously supported by Bolen Books, independently owned and operated by the Bolen family since 1975. @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social

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Death of Persephone is ten months old! I've travelled to over a dozen cities to read from it. It took me fifteen years to write, a record for me, though I am not a fast writer. if you've not read it, please do. Its first print run sold out in 6 months, but I have copies!

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Award-winning poet, @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social was on Writer's Radio to discuss Death of Persephone, her poetry collection in which she displaces the myth of young Persephone in Hades’ violent underworld. Listen to the whole episode with Carole Harmon at www.writersradio.ca/podcast-dire...

Delighted to be interviewed about Death of Persephone on Writers Radio www.writersradio.ca?fbclid=PAQ0x.... Huge thanks to Carole Harmon and the sound crew and @caitlinpress.bsky.social

Alice Notley (November 8, 1945 - May 19, 2025) abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/alic...

Happy to have my review of Yvonne Blomer’s Death of Persephone: A Murder in @periodicities.bsky.social Thanks to rob mclennan for giving my reviews a good home. 🙏❤️ @robmclennan.bsky.social @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social

National Poetry Month is waning and I have not kept up with daily prompts but have been teaching a poetry class and writing where I can. I have been playing with mark making, image and text, letting my pen wander. happy #poetrymonth2025

youtube.com/watch?v=aDmp... Delighted to be reviewed here 💖 jump to 30:20 to watch

Pretty excited about my first event as Poet Laureate with @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social, Nina Mosall and Tracy Wai de Boer! As well as @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social, John Barton, Steven Ross Smith, @andreascottwords.bsky.social, and more!! We also have cellist Maria Wang joining us!

We have a city poetry book prize! Three cheers for DCReid & Victoria Book Prizes! 🥂This was such a heartfelt afternoon, and the readings from Tim, Ali & Arleen were superb (of course). Ali Blythe, Yvonne Blomer, DCReid, Arleen Pare, me, Tim Lilburn (I'm just reading the bios)

Doggone lucky over here on this twodogday.

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Big fat full flowered Cherry Blossoms in James Bay, YYJ

Please vote Green if you can, esp. if you are in this most popular parliamentarian’s riding 💚✅🌿🌎

Thank you to Herizons Magazine and E.R. Zarevich for this review. herizons.ca

I wrote a blog post for the After Hours Coffeehouse I'm part of at Churchmouse Books @ St Mary's Church, Oak Bay where readers and singers, musicians and literature lovers share their favourite pieces based on a theme. Last month it was Water for World Water Day www.stmarysoakbay.ca/blog/chronic...

I have spots available in the next zoom class: New York Poets $200 Mondays on April 7, - May 5, 6:15-8:30 Pacific Time on Zoom Wednesdays on April 9-30, from 2:45-5:00 Pacific Time on Zoom We will read and write from Frank O’Hara, John Ashbury, Barbara Guest and James Schuyler. pm me.

Hello BlueSky. I am a poet and writer, a teacher and a proud Canadian who never thought I'd have to write I'm a proud Canadian. 🍁 Here is my most recent book of poems, apt for these times, it is about violence to women and a reimagining of the Persephone Myth. #women #myth #poetry #maywomenrise