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

My 14 year old was introduced to AI thru the fan-fiction community, meaning complete outrage. She has not touched it. Her Comp Sci teacher was trying to get her to *just try* it to which she angrily replied: I already use AI, the original AI. Actual Intelligence.

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

It’s always difficult to help people from Gaza in Egypt- but they are generally trapped there without the ability to work- Sharif is also has a serious back condition which means he can’t even get off books work generally. But he’s still trying to deal with the medical issues of his infant son

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!

I've only ever had this bitter bile collect in my throat before waking on days when I've had to get ready to leave #Kashmir

Really looking forward to this one! I'll be reading from THE BOOK OF Z 💜

Here's a pink heart inscribed with the word "Dosti" = "Friendship" in Urdu script. Be a friend for Gaza, where Zena needs milk and food. Keep sharing and keep protesting. #CeasefireNOW #DisarmIsFake #StopArmingIsFake #FeedGazaNOW

The Book of Z is a persona poem, written in the imagined voice of a contemporary Zulaykha.

As one of the co-contributors to the anthology RIVER IN AN OCEAN: ESSAYS ON TRANSLATION (trace press, 2023) I've had the pleasure of reading Okka's work & meeting her online. Her amazing essay in RIVER similarly constitutes an expression of #care for the translator, as here, for the #reader 💜

Not saying guerilla tactics *require* black tie. But ahhh, how nice it is to see them align. So very nice. 🍉 ✊

This is Dina and her children in Gaza. Please keep sharing, donate if you can, and tell your elected officials their inaction is complicity & complicity is unacceptable gofund.me/972ab97fd

I suggest my local hot dog stand in front of English Bay Beach in Vancouver, as the location for this. The vibe at sunset is unbeatable. And I think the guy who runs it makes his own garlic sauce.

Ottawa is apparently run by people who hate kids and/or who prefer to fund police on the backs of kids? A climate justice strategy would pay people to take transit as much as possible, and responsible officials worthy of their damn pay checks would have started to do this in 2010.

From a translator and painter I admire, a truly appalling prospect at the U of Chicago, a major centre of scholarship on South Asian languages. It's as if universities…hate…literacy

Things weren't shitty enough in #Kashmir, so sure, this latest book ban makes perfect sense jacobin.com/2025/08/cens...

I went to see filmmaker Rehab Nazzal’s photography/multimedia art exhibit called DRIVING IN PALESTINE at the Vines, a local Vancouver gallery. Please keep sharing, giving, protesting. #FeedGazaNow

Mark Carney & the Liberals have basically told us they're neo-cons. #AngryDadPoli #CdnPoli

My love of Islamic art! What to say about this 16th C Safavid era Herati painting, "Farhad carves a milk channel for Shirin", except: lucky, lucky, Shirin. Her springtime yellow dress; that prancing, lovely horse. Every kid should have the chance to learn how to ride horseback. #FeedGazaNOW

So, I am an avid follower of/ learner about Islamic art. I have been able to maintain and develop this interest because my parents were able to house, feed, clothe, and educate me. No aerial bombardment, starvation siege, or other state terror. You know the feeling? Pay it forward. #FeedGazaNow