new poetry from me and @anotherdavidcurrie.bsky.social about stand-up and sit-coms and crouch-gags chapbook available now from above/ground press

i'm p useless when it comes to using social media. but here's a review i wrote recently for the woodlot:

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

amazing turnout last night at the vault in nanaimo! shout out to featured readers Masha Zhaksybek + Lee Groen, and big big thanks to everyone who signed up to read at the open mic! see you at the next GRUB STREET reading series 🐛

i want you to put the word out that we're back

big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!

a grizzled vet maneuver right here, folks. ya love to see it 🫡

new work from yrs truly... email us at the press to order a copy!

big thanks to lauryn @chly.ca for this awesome write-up! get acquainted w/ a square house & get ready for the inaugural GRUB STREET here:

as someone who lived it, this is the exact advice ppl considering getting their cw mfa need to hear. & in fewer than 300 characters, no less!

our first ever reading series GRUB STREET is happening one week from today at the vault!! featuring Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming, + poetry open mic (with door prizes) to follow. hope we see you there!

Tuesday poem #666 : Ealhwine : Illeism dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/tues...

the secret to being a small poetry press is that...

periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief 🦎 read/subscribe:

j'accuse...!

if u were followed by a little acct with a house for a pfp today, now you know why!

Hi to our 500+ followers. Do literally any of you want to buy CanLit trading cards?

wrote a love letter to saskatchewan (my latest post on leftover drafts):

i wrote about wanting a front porch, and how much that feeling sucks sometimes. my latest leftover draft, on wanting or not to say hello:

DIY > AI

on dirait un anglicisme:

i used to regularly serve tea to margaret atwood at a cafe in toronto except she always made the person she came with pay, order, and carry her drink to the table for her.

Elite matchup to kickoff the CFL season tonight

BREAKING: Philadelphia Phillies are trading RHP Jordan Romano to the absolute nearest Pizza Nova franchise for a slice of stale Hawaiian & a Bud Prohibition Brew. #RingTheBell

Lowkey really enjoy this logo. Just give me a happy bird. This bird isn’t smug, he isn’t condescending, he just loves the game.

imagine voluntarily tuning in to a cable program every saturday night just to wholeheartedly fill your diaper about it to an audience of none lol.

my wife (@jlyndelia.bsky.social) once again proving newsletters can be literary:

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you’re so inclined, feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by my friend Jo Ianni (@wtfisapoet on other platforms), from his startlingly good new chapbook FAT LUCK AND FUZZY SONG (Apt 9 Press) 🌎

the collections agency spins 'if i had 1 million dollars' on their hold line radio & i mean, talk about your SALTED KNIFE. talk about your CAUTERIZED BURN. get savvy with @dd6669.bsky.social

two new poems out today! they among great company on Discordia Review's Fellow Travelers feature. get weird here: discordiareview.substack.com/p/bird-doggi...

POETRY FREAXXX: available for purchase now. my first chapbook in like 10 years. HOTCOUNTRY98 is a collection of poems that deal w/ loneliness, love & regret. all via the lyrics of #1 country tracks from 1998. order now: discordiareview.substack.com/p/tune-in-to...

big trouble in little pope

We’re just innocent men

Go get rejected! The momentary violent compression of hope into more flattening numbness when you could have had the one thing you truly fucking want in life. Nope! Not today! Maybe not ever! Become a writer! It's so life affirming

It's Friday which means it's finally time to c̸r̵a̴c̷k̸ ̶o̷p̷e̵n̷ a bo̴̠͑̓y̵̗̹̿͗ with the C̷ò̼̮l̟̫͎̃̈́d̷̆̌ O̷̬̙̒̍̾ͅn̠͛ͅe̖̟͋͜s̶͍͑͜

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day 1: already on the wall. #ringthebell

One more sleep until baseball. The eternal sleep. Death. Baseball is Hell. War is Hell. Baseball is War.

the cat is out of the bag. join gabe & me for two hours of weirdo creepy music (read: punk & metal), tuesday nights starting at 10pm ⛓️🤘🦇⛓️

tsk tsk. this could've been avoided with one quick trip to the writer's circle at his local bridgehead...

I wrote the @pitchfork.com Sunday Review on my favourite Black Flag album. Special thanks to my editorial personal trainer @philipsherburne.bsky.social for beating this into shape like a Rollins bench-press sesh: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

i won't eat them in boots i won't eat them in suits i won't eat them with an axe i won't eat them with a tax another round of dumb slogans and ham i do not like them, pierre-i-am

the undisputed king of "bookish" fantasy baseball team names, checking in.

when you read classic literature but at yr heart's core, yer just a canadian scumbag:

Transphobes are such fucking losers, dude. It’s wild

a french-cuban fusion restaurant called "chez guevara"

just call it what it is, you wimp: a threat of annexation by means of economic force. the moment you adopt & normalize the language of the oppressor, you've lost.

yr new favourite poet has joined the chat...

GREASE THE POLES & SCALP THE BUS SHELTERS. THE BIRDS HAVE DONE THE UNTHINKABLE.