Montreal, are you free this Thursday? Tamara Jong and I are launching at Argo Bookshop at 7 p.m. November 6. Tamara's memoir Worldly Girls was CBC's top pick for nonfiction this fall, so don't miss out! Register for this free event here: www.ticketsource.com/argo-bookshop.

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts & The Writers’ Union of Canada for the National Public Readings program funding. See you Ottawa poetry folks tonight! At our spookiest!

Thank you for shining the spotlight & sitting w my poems, rob!

One day left to apply for the Augur Editor role! You'd get to collaborate with an awesome team on putting our future issues together, for both Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social. Apps on our site!

Tour dates! If anyone has suggestions for reading series in Canada (or virtual) I can ask if they'd like to have me to read from Ajar and/or talk about editing poetry, I'd love to hear them. Next up: Oct 3 👻 Gatineau: Nuit Blanche Oct 14 👻 Ottawa International Writers Festival Oct 31 👻Ottawa

Ajar is finally in print, and I wanted to do an unboxing video that would reflect my life in its fullness at the moment. Postpartum proofreading, dog walks & doctor’s visits, precious conversations, late nights, diaper changes, a little alone time, a lot of family time, and exciting mail.

“A devotion to poetry is a way to make friends, while devotion to specificity is a way to make poems.” Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for the chance to share some of my thoughts on poetry ✨

Tune in tonight at 10 pm EST / 7 pm PST ✨

I strongly suspect that god/God is a category error for reality.

""Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in [Buzzkill Clamshell], Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates and intensifies." This review means everything; thanks @margolapierre.bsky.social prismmagazine.ca/2025/04/04/t...

This poetry collection is spec-tac-ular & is going to spark all the best conversations #BuzzkillClamshell

Banff Centre's 25/26 Lit Arts offerings: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS (w/ Madden, Som, Hart), DEEP WINTER WRITERS (w/ Pester, Hussain, Victor), SPRING WRITERS (w/ Robinson, Sealey, Ravinthiran), EARLY CAREER YA & CHILDREN"S BOOKS (w/ Scott, Boteju, Ferguson) & more!!: www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts

Here is a Canadian Poets Starter Pack! 🪶💐🩷 If you're a Canadian poet and I've missed you, comment below, and I'll add. (Also, if I made a mistake in adding you to the list, let me know, and I'll remove you!) Please share so folks coming to Bluesky can find their people! go.bsky.app/JbjXoTN

Okay, I have done it! I have made a Canadian BIPOC Poets Starter Pack. I'm definitely missing folks, so feel free to share! ✨️🌻 go.bsky.app/Jugnv9d

Tonight!

TONIGHT: VERSeFest closing night / Spark Beer, door 7pm/8pm @ajdolman.bsky.social, Myriam Legault-Beauregard, Nduka Otiono, Rhonda Douglas [special guest!], @jasonchristie.bsky.social, Klara du Plessis + Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi / @versefestottawa.bsky.social www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

@versefestottawa.bsky.social performers @amandaearl.bsky.social and @ajdolman.bsky.social (the latter on tonight, at Spark Beer on Somerset) were on All In A Day with Alan Neal. Have a listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Be aware that there are only THREE DAYS LEFT in the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser! and the schedule for the spring edition of VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival (March 21-24) will be announced soon! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

I've been waiting for perfect, but let's just do the thing. I need 3-4 board members to launch a national Canadian bi+ organization with me.

"goldenseal and sedge and lady fern devil’s bit and daisy and aster violet and ivy—every leaf will wither. You will suffer the same." #TodaysPoem #poetry Thicket by Sandra Ridley from Vixen (2023 @bookhugpress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/5j6atnxt & tinyurl.com/d7c72zu2

Has snow already been falling where you are? Arc's new Vice President, Kayla Calder, is asking for "Layered" poems for this month's Award of Awesomeness. So, bundle up and get your submissions responding to this prompt in before November 30! More details: buff.ly/3o0qYMO

UBC Creative Writing is hiring in Black Speculative Writing (TT position). Speculative is understood capaciously—writers across genres are invited to apply. Please share with your networks. 12/11 due date. Happy to answer questions about dept, Vancouver, etc. creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

"Keep my water flat, I don’t need it to be interesting. I’d prefer not to say—that’s a preference. I’d prefer to stay—that’s a preference." #TodaysPoem #poetry Low Maintenance by @ConyerClayton.bsky.social (2023 Plenitude Magazine) tinyurl.com/4d32tbyk

Hello, writer/editor/publishing friends 👋 In the words of the late great Gil Scott-Heron: I’m new here. Will be communicating amid the constant snuggles of this dog.