Happy Easter

Doing poetry month again, following the #napowrimo prompts online. This one was somewhat inspired by Stephanie Bolster’s poem “Many Have Written Poems About Blackberries.” It’s a Thimbleberry tanka!

Make your voices heard like we are doing at the Phoenix Poetry Prize. and wait, if they start supporting Canadian poets again does the Phoenix poetry prize report them for impersonation? Or simply demand a copyright fee? 😂

Awesome! Tom Wayman and I live in the same rural valley. He’s been a very supportive mentor to me (and he’s an excellent poet, too). Congrats to both poets!!

Congratulations to Joseph Dandurand and Tom Wayman! I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU (Nightwood Editions) and Out of the Ordinary (Harbour Publishing) have been shortlisted for the 2026 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The winner will be announced on April 21.

I don’t take the bus anymore because I live in the middle of nowhere, but I find great joy in knowing that others get to be illuminated by poetry on their commutes! LOVE Poetry in Transit ❤️❤️❤️ @readlocalbc.bsky.social

One year away from this honour and still going strong!

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I love this series, How Does a Poem Begin. This just in from Em Dial: “It is the where that contributes to a poem’s possibility and how it opens up something in the reader. It is the where that decides which side of history the poem lies upon.”

It’s Friday night and I’m definitely taking about poetry 🙌🙌

my favorite topic of conversation is poetry. like, i'm not kidding! i want to talk about poetry on a friday night! i will! also, i love talking about food while eating different food

“We’ll keep them in the ghetto as long as they want” Pierre Eliot Trudeau stated as his 1969 white paper on Indian policy was rejected by First Nations. Canada wants certainty for resource extraction. This is why they’re in a rush to legislate First Nations inherent rights under crown sovereignty.

This piece by @meghanor.bsky.social nails the big problem looming for literature and AI, and it isn't any of the problems (copyright, homework, slop, bias, energy) most people spend their time worrying about: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o... A fantastic and well-informed essay.

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

This is precisely correct.

Canisia Lubrin wins the 28th annual Danuta Gleed Award for her short fiction collection Code Noir #CanLit writersunion.ca/news/winners...

Congratulations to Valérie Bah (Vehicule Press), winner of the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award, and to Vicky Zhu, winner of the Youth Short Story Award. Check out our full coverage of this majestic evening here! #AmReading #Novel #CanLit #ShortStory #Prizes open-book.ca/News/The-Win...

The name for this essay came to me in a dream, so I followed that dream until I found Wordsworth above Tintern Abbey in the jaws of a goth snake… Intrigued? Thanks for reading! #poetry #essays #writing #canlit #writingcommunity

Some days are random AF: in the past hour I have helped a dude push a 35 foot power pole down a bank into our backyard and edited a poem about the Neptune Equester. Now I feel like I should write a poem about a 35 foot power pole 🤣 #writing #poetry #rurallife

Someone asked me two days ago at an event why I write and I was like, to save myself. I think they were expecting more, but that is the most accurate three-word summary I can think of 🤷‍♀️ #blueskywriters #writingcommunity #writing

Celebrate Asian Heritage Month with these NeWest classics!! #NeWestPress #AsianHeritageMonth #CanLit #CanadianLiterature #Canadian #AlbertaReads

In Zilla Jones' novel, an opera singer gives a voice to the Grenada Revolution #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/booken...

Congratulations to this year's #BertonHouse writers-in-residence! ◢ Jesse Keith Butler ◢ Cody Caetano ◢ Krista Foss ◢ Helen Knott ◢ Angela Long ◢ Rebecca Thomas Learn more about this year’s residents here: bit.ly/4k3schN #CanLit #PierreBerton

Deadline: May 30. Poems in dialogue with other poems. Edited by Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social & @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social planetearthpoetry.com/after?ss_sou... #canpoetry #canlit

“Death steals everything except our stories.” ― Jim Harrison

Bid your hearts out for an important cause and a jazzed up bookshelf!

YES!!! 😍😍

Two recent titles: Natalie Rice's Nightjar and Sean Howard's Overlays

Two most recent spring titles: John Terpstra's A Carpentry of Words and Wood and Sue Goyette's Future Howl

We've a wonderful excerpt up from Saad Omar Khan's Drinking the Ocean at the Miramichi Reader: miramichireader.ca/2025/05/exce...

Feeling very excited about this, yet another gem from the inimitable @danilabotha.bsky.social 😍😃😃

I was lucky to catch Dale Martin Smith’s reading in Vancouver at SFU a few weeks ago. He was so astonishingly humble about the power of his work. Highly recommend this book; it’s a gem @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social should get a prize simply for making the longlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A phenomenal achievement for any press, let alone a young micropress. Get your copy of Dale Martin Smith's stunning "The Size of Paradise" and celebrate #canpoetry on the world stage. #canlit

Currently working on a craft essay titled “Poetic genesis: goth girl swallows Wordsworth like a snake”. #poetry #essays #writing

When you are only half listening to everyone all day long for days because you were up late writing a novel 🤷 #writer #writinganovel #blueskyauthors

The League of Canadian Poets' Awards shortlists have been announced. #CanLit #CanPo @canadianpoets.bsky.social poets.ca/shortlist2025/

Another list of great books! I just want to say Code Noir took me months to read and re-read. I didn’t want to miss a single brilliant nuance. Highly recommend!

This is such a great longlist. Was also pleased to see so many @gaspereaupress.bsky.social books included! Congrats to all the nominated poets 👏🙌

Ben Ladouceur’s rigorously researched new novel is romantic, harrowing and transportive

Thanks to all the bookstores that have hosted authors like me over the years, sell our books, keep the vibe alive. You mean the world to me ❤️ #CIBD25

some above/ground press author activity: Rae Armantrout, Laynie Browne, Michael Turner, Kevin Stebner, Leesa Dean @leesadean.bsky.social , Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social , bpNichol + Jason Heroux, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/some...

Poetry-only press Brick Books marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating the “unlikely feat” of publishing nothing but verse for half a century. bit.ly/44CDJAc

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Go tell you favourite bookstore owner(s) how important they are to you and buy some great books while you’re there ❤️

Writers, are you listening to this podcast? @hollay.bsky.social brings on the most interesting guests. This is another great episode with @sawpoet.bsky.social !!

Happy to share this poem which is from my forthcoming book, Interstitial (spring 2026). It’s about my mom who after having polio needed to wear a metal brace. My grandma used to have to tighten the cage every morning. Thanks @chaudierebooks.bsky.social and @robmclennan.bsky.social !!!

Oh man, two of my fave poets in conversation 😍😍. Hell yes 👏 👌

In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Literature episode, I speak with @robmclennan.bsky.social about his extraordinary collection of stories, On Beauty (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Listen here: . newbooksnetwork.com/on-beauty 📸 Photo credit: Marc Perez #literature #shortstories

I'm starting a new interview series with writers called I've Been Meaning to Ask You. I'm not putting my guests through something I won't do, so I've kicked off the series with a self interview answering these strange and personal questions myself! sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/ive-been-m...

It has been heartbreaking to say the least to see post-secondary institutions (in particular Humanities programs) be eroded or flat out gutted this year. Some countries have figured out subsidized education; why can’t we?? #canpoli #educationforall

Like what actually would we do without @naomiaklein.bsky.social ? Seriously