I'm going to Montreal to launch my new book with Stephanie Bolster and Gillian Sze! Wheeeee! If you're there, come! (And if you can suggest a quiet restaurant open Sunday night I'll prescribe you a poem.)

To have @robmclennan.bsky.social eyes on one's work is to feel a part of the poetry landscape in a welcome way. There's something very distilled and calming about this response to my book that i appreciate. Thank you, rob!

Ronna Bloom, In a Riptide / @ronnabloom.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/ronn...

9/27... Poetry by @ronnabloom.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/book... #AmReading 💙📚 #BookSky #poetry

Here's some beauty for you.

"It helps, I find, to dress for God who, if present is what everyone wears underneath." #TodaysPoem #poetry Clothes by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) asterismbooks.com/product/in-a...

"I'll know you when you get here - but if you don't arrive I'm waving anyway, because you might need it on your long road through, the one everyone is taking." #SundaySentence #TodaysPoem Envoy by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/in-a-ripti...

Sometimes like now in a different town and on my way further, i am shocked by my utter freedom. And privilege.

If i were in Victoria, i'd 100% go to this! @christinashah.bsky.social @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social

"Has anyone done that for you, lately or ever? Come over, torn open the sky and let the snow fall in the wrong month to show there's a rip in the face of the world?" #TodaysPoem #poetry Rending the Garments by @ronnabloom.bsky.social In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/21/v...

The host of Fresh Air on CBC Radio, Ismaila Alfa, and I had a conversation about poetry and I prescribed him some poems! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

small one has ringette (a long day for her so far: picked her up from guide camp to lunch in car en route to ukulele and then straight here), so starting in on three further Brick Books titles, by Jody Chan, Estlin McPhee and Ronna Bloom, / @ronnabloom.bsky.social @estmcphee.bsky.social

There's NewPoetry today from Ronna Bloom (@ronnabloom.bsky.social). newpoetry.ca/2025/09/22/s...

"Happiness was just out there in the air and Lord knows what's coming next." Happiness by @ronnabloom.bsky.social from In a Riptide (Brick Books), launching this evening at Toronto's Flying Books

I wish you could smell this. Book launch bouquet and brownies. (Tho if you come to Flying Books tonight you can eat the brownies.)

Today is publication day for my book IN A RIPTIDE. Yay! It's out!

I am agog. 😯 And happy. In a Riptide is officially out on September 15. Pre-order and it will come. #Brickbooks #love #poetry #books

Thank you to 49th shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social for including if:prey, then:huntress on this list! I'm in fine company: @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @isabellawangbc.bsky.social @ronnabloom.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social, John Barton, Joseph Dandurand- and more!

IT'S HERE!!! Happy Labour Day. Why not celebrate with some work-themed poetry? Pre-order 'if: prey, then: huntress' at nightwoodeditions.com/products/978... Who are some of your favorite work poets? #poetry #workpoetry #LabourDay @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

For you. Today.

Saturday morning poetry anyone? If you're in EST zone watch at 10am in your pjs. Sept 13. Poets from all over. The whole day. Streaming ...

Tuesday poem #647 : Ronna Bloom : Things he said the last time we visited / @ronnabloom.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2025/08/tues...

An old poem of mine. Because August.

We cannot let this government continue to lead us toward more death and destruction. We need an urgent ceasefire to end the bloodshed, to end the destruction and annihilation of Gaza, and to finally bring the hostages back.

Kinngait Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2002

"If I were dying Thursday, this might be the last smoke bush I see. Its red hair on fire." #TodaysPoem #poetry All Day I Look at Things by @ronnabloom.bsky.social (2025 @thewalrus.ca) tinyurl.com/2uhjft9t

Ronna Bloom is a Toronto-based poet, educator, and the author of seven books of poetry. In a Riptide, her new collection, is out in September. Check out her latest poem, “All Day I Look at Things”: thewalrus.ca/all-day-i-look-a...

Shab-e She'r is called "Canada's most diverse and brave poetry series." And while it may be that, it is also a love-fest! This was last week, reading with Mbonisi Zikhali Zomkhonto. What a blast. Thank you, Banoo Zan and all who came out.

#MorningVibe Havfy is a fearless Nigerian poet, artist, & activist using her voice to fight injustice, challenge norms, & empower women. Through spoken word, fashion, & human rights work, she speaks truth to power. She is all women. Rise the fuck up.

For my student and friend Andrew Crabtree who left too soon... (in the summer issue of Queen's Quarterly)

I'm just going to quietly mention that I've pre-ordered this from Queen Books in Toronto ... and I. cannot. wait. to. receive. it.

114 in Toronto in the shade. Feels like Fahrenheit.

"Luka Dončić" by Nick Thran, from his wonderful new collection Existing Music (@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social).

I'm just going to quietly put this here and make some noise later. Poems. September 15. Brick Books 49thshelf.com/Books/I/In-a...

The little ink drop was crying, because his mother was in the pen and he didn't know how long the sentence would be. Thank you very much. I'll leave quietly.

among the trees...

Really glad to have a piece in the newest issue of @thenewquarterly.bsky.social, with @globalecochange.bsky.social, @ronnabloom.bsky.social, and many others. Thank you to Pamela Mulloy for inviting me to contribute. Thanks also to the juvenile squirrel for coming to pose for a photo.

I look at this beautiful display of potatoes and all I can think of is children in Gaza and it breaks my heart. What is taking so long to make this right?

Flower-headed woman.

Surprised, grateful, and happy! Thank you @brickliterary.bsky.social @queensquarterly.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social

Monday news

Today I celebrate self-care, health care, life as it is, and cake.

Every year it flowers around my birthday. This year i was away. It waited.

I have 3 poems in this brand new beautiful issue of @cv2magazine.bsky.social Thank you, editors! Here's "Medieval Feminism."

Beauty at the corner store

To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic – John Cooper Clarke #InternationalHaikuDay

Evening light

Kitchen sink and sun

Refik Anadol at Kunsthaus Zurich #art #zurich #kunsthaus #installation #glacierdreams #glacier #fragility #awe #AI #data #climatechange