Black-capped chickadee and alto recorder with digital processing

"The right of opacity becomes the right not the be understood, not to be reduced to epistemic violence of comprehension and judgement. Or, colloquially, “You don’t know me; don’t pretend that you know me.”" - James K. Stanescu (writing about Édouard Glissant)

Song for birds and duduk (an Armenian double reed instrumental) for #Earthday open.substack.com/pub/garybarw...

A duet with starlings. I imagine the inside of my mouth is the shape of a songbird. garybarwin.substack.com/p/starling-m...

Very cool project Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner has created and that I had the great pleasure to participate in. A series of transit shelters with poetry/visual poetry/sound that asks how sound, image, and place interact with poetry. versevancouver.ca/vancouver-tr...

Bees, stars, community, poetry

**** after a prompt by @neonpajamas.bsky.social based on an Olivia Cronk poem (here: neonpajamas.substack.com/p/067-poem-p...)

a 71 word unreleased poem (with a free writing prompt) from Olivia Cronk is now live neonpajamas.substack.com/p/067-poem-p...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to post small poems you’ve written, or ones you love by other poets :) here’s one by my friend @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social, published this week in Michigan City Review of Books~

#shortpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Bpnichol.ca is up and live! Browse, search, and explore hundreds of links, downloadable ads, theses and dissertations -- its a clearinghouse of poetic/prosaic awesome: bpnichol.ca

#shortpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

some above/ground press author activity: Gary Barwin + Lillian Nećakov, Shelly Harder, Katie Ebbitt, Zane Koss, Carrie Olivia Adams + Pearl Pirie, / @cybersubrosa.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/04/some...

@garybarwin.bsky.social reading a tribute to the late Paul Dutton last night. So many good stories, and amazing performances.

Tonight!

Making art in many media: how studying with bpNichol was a model for many of us. open.substack.com/pub/garybarw...

Watch a video where I attempt to play a tree like a saxophone open.substack.com/pub/garybarw...

Social media in dangerous times: "kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight." On incessant art posting and resisting paint-by-numbers petrocapitalist hegemonic violence. garybarwin.substack.com/p/on-incessa...

This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @dominicrivron.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

Odes to mushrooms, the greenness of grief & more with @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @lisamariebasile.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

I listen with small bones to birds #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Typewriter and bird's nest. Music with a barn swallow, soprano saxophone and electronics.

Two poems after prompts from @neonpajamas.bsky.social great substack of prompts. (Mine are from #4 and #65)

1/4 In my forthcoming novel, Aether and Ego, they leave Earth in 1821 and because they didn't have the technology at the time to be absolutely air-tight, Charles Babbage invents the "airator." #PrideAndPrejudice #JaneAusten #AetherAndEgo #Austenite #Austenesque #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky

He says this so well -- Irish empathy, sorrow, and resistance. And refusal to surrender to dehumanization but to value the human.

Joe Brainard

THE MINUTE REVIEW - a little magazine, photocopied & sewn - seeks short (250-500 word) reviews of experimental, concrete, and risk-taking poetry and prose, especially by women and writers of colour. Please send submissions to [email protected]

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon, reading (and lecturing) in Ottawa later this month as part of VERSeFest / @nadagordon.bsky.social @subpresspoetry.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/rob-...

The Parenthetical Set

Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social

above/ground press author spotlight #21 : Gary Barwin / @garybarwin.bsky.social ; , celebrating his ninth chapbook through above/ground press, abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

for Valentine's Day, a text which serves as a valentines for many things.

music to write to I created this small suite of 5 piano pieces based on work by Erik Satie. Maybe they'll feel peaceful and inspiring to you in your work. garybarwin.bandcamp.com/album/all-sm...

Happy Birthday, Gertrude Stein. youtu.be/XHIm6iLCZTk

Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social

UPDATE! @garybarwin.bsky.social is the latest poet featured on "In the Third Sleep"! inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Why do we worry? Every word on earth is in the perfect place.