seriously

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I’ll tell you more about my Inuit friend. He is a Sixties Scoop survivor who’s also done some organizational work with Sixties Scoop survivors in the past. He got this place and has been trying to raise it for a while then reached out to me. We got him 550 on Twitter but it’s been stuck.

Everyone I see on here so far is either an American, or a Canadian following American news all wide-eyed, munching popcorn, as if there is no other world.

April 22 is Earth Day! If you want to engage with thinkers who care about the planet, water, the forests, the rivers, land stewardship, combatting extractive practices, and the more-than-human world as much as you do, here are a handful of titles we think you’ll love.⁠ talonbooks.com/news/earth-d...

I live most my life in the effort to hold onto some steadying ballast between extremes

This 19th day of National Poetry Month, Chaudiere Books shares "The Harrowing Hour", a poem I wrote in 2005, when my son was ~18 months old, in stark contrast to last week, when he expressed professional dismay at my attempt to trim my own bangs, (seen here in alarming close-up).

I can't deal with the cuteness.

The Berger Chart is up at Verso! It's like playing bingo or "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" or collecting Pokemon cards, but so much better, because it's for grownup Berger nerds and devotees. @versobooks.bsky.social

I need to know this bird's stylist

We are delighted that The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social is a finalist for the 2026 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize! A huge congratulations to Rahat, and to all of this year's finalists! bcyukonbookprizes.com/2026/04/14/a...

Because we can never spend too much time reading literature and thinking about literature

8/9 #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @catebush.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social ‬@houseofanansi.bsky.social @nataliericepoetry.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #readingchallenge #booktok

7/9 #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @anuja-v.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @benjaminwrites.bsky.social @galleonbooks.bsky.social @annelllopez.bsky.social ‬ @feministpress.bsky.social @yilinwriter.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish

Coming back to this platform after some time away.

6/9 #DSPBposts #books from @tracepress.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @vincenzo.bsky.social @intifadabatata.bsky.social @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social @lenakt.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @tracepress.bsky.social @mailbykite.bsky.social @wordsweaver.bsky.social @rahat.bsky.social 💙📚

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books Bad Land by Corinna Chong (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, ed. Nuzhat Abbas (@tracepress.bsky.social & contribs @mailbykite.bsky.social @wordsweaver.bsky.social @rahat.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

the fascist nakba against Palestinians has lasted through 3 teeth-grinding christmases + new years. its armed thugs killed children in Gaza TODAY. for its biggest funder + profiteer to authorize the killing of one of its own citizens + lie about it is to carry on being fascist. it is not shocking.

You can say no.

asked my six year old niece what was wrong with phones and she said "people keep looking at them and don't listen to you" then asked "so what would you do about it" and she said "feed the phones to crocodiles" so her platform has my full support

The merit that anti-DEI policies revealed

On this second-to-last day of 2025, a vulgar Canada-backed series of mass crime continues into its third year with impunity. I have mentally pushed past my exhaustion + rage to focus on what I can do today. Support this fundraiser for a family in Gaza. gofund.me/44320e432

2024 was pretty bad and 2025 managed to top that easily and so, I am not eager to welcome 2026, yet... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rg1...

light a candle, eat a pomegranate, read in bed, repeat

amid vague mostly-misses on this app, a rare hit

ALL day

This sounds clearly like it would be the ONLY option… if this city weren't run by a mayor who seems to hate the ordinary functionality of cities and people who want Vancouver to be livable and have nice things

I have had to listen to a vexing number of "But I just use it to…" and "Well actually it's better than…" lately. It reminds me of the 90s, when people would nod, smile, & "you go girl" my rants against patriarchy and then go serenely off to another lavish 5-event wedding.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Good morning! The Book of Z is reviewed by the human literary institution known as rob mclennan: @periodicities.bsky.social If you'd like to buy a signed copy please send me a note 💛 🖤 #WinterIsHere #Poetry

Z…at the lonely end of the rink 💛

I also signed copies of THE BOOK OF Z at The Paper Hound last month here in #Vancouver 💜

Progressive political coverage from Teen Vogue began to grab headlines a decade ago, in the Obama-era of progressive stupefaction + celebrity worship. Teen Vogue came as a good shock esp here in magazine-starved Canada. I hope its success will be carefully studied.

Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott). It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!

Cover reveal day for Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba by Comma Press! I have a story in this one. It launches November 13th. Pre-orders are open at the link below: commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

Just going to leave the Minions Banana song here for the sake of youngest daughters who should not be hungry in siege state and leave off what I'm really thinking (inwardly screaming). Please share + scream at your elected officials. Sanctions now. Free 🍉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFuk...

Christina Shah channels her experiences working in a male-dominated field into her new poetry collection, if: prey, then: huntress. Read her full interview with BC BookLook. bcbooklook.com/sparkling-un...

Check out Marguerite Pigeon’s reviews of November, November by Isabella Wang, and I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand, now on The BC Review. #BCPoetry #JosephDandurand #IsabellaWang thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...

Reading SCAR/CITY + then being in conversation about it with @danielaelza.bsky.social has given me - paradoxically! - the feeling of connection + livability Vancouver constantly tells me I can't have. Also, Daniela's poetics of wordplay has an unusually deep, searching quality, (cont'd)

The new #poetry collection The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social is here! Kurd writes from the imagined voice of Zulaykha, “the wife of Aziz”/“wife of Potiphar" as she reflects on what consolations human desire and divine longing might offer our shared present tense. 💙📚 talonbooks.com/books/the-bo...

Yeah, I refuse to stop sharing them and I refuse to be overwhelmed alone. I live in a state that ships arms to the terrorists who enforced this state of siege and famine onto Palestinian families. I will not let them forget that what they are doing is illegal, immoral, and does not represent me. 🍉✊

Please keep sharing and keep demanding systemic change for Palestinian freedom from your elected officials.

Help us celebrate the release of 📚 The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social 📚 th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett 📚 No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social 📚 Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and 📚 tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social! See you there! 💙📚

Vancouver folks, you're invited 🙂 💜

Everyone in the world who has not lost their humanity is now talking with pleasure and excitement about this image, which makes it - as stain, in shadow - even more hopeful and excellent

What about seizing all Lockheed Martin assets to fund affordable housing in perpetuity for everyone right now? No fighter jets for you!