Added 2 poems by Ken Gierke: "Gorgeous" set in the wonderous #NiagaraGlen starring a great blue heron & an intergenerational exploration of #LunaIsland called "Fury or Beauty." Stop what you're doing & have a gander at them(bad pun!) niagarapoetry.ca/2026/05/23/g... niagarapoetry.ca/2026/05/23/k...

The deadline for nominating someone to the Niagara Falls Arts & Culture Wall of Fame is May 31. 2 Categories: Artist & Cultural Builder. Both for outstanding contributions to the cultural life of the community Know someone who fits these criteria? Nominate them at nfexchange.ca/culture/arts...

An early #poem on the site is Brainard's "The Fall of #Niagara," an #ekphrastic poem inspired by a calendar picture. He was editor of the #Connecticut Mirror & needed a filler. It became one of the most anthologized poems of #NiagaraFalls #poetry #blueskypoetry niagarapoetry.ca/2017/01/23/b...

Slowly, slowly the entries for the Niagara Falls #poetrycontest are coming in. If you need inspiration, here's a 3 min, compilation of pics I took of #NiagaraFalls over 1 year youtu.be/Rpe11uNzFZo?... Contest info at niagarapoetry.ca/2026/04/09/r... #writingcontest #poetsofbluesky #poetry #poems

Just posted a #poem by Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social "The Body" a fascinating depiction of a body's journey down the river and over the falls, a poem to be published in an upcoming volume by Betts niagarapoetry.ca/2026/04/30/b... #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #deathpoetry

The Niagara Falls Poetry Project 25th anniversary celebration continues with a poetry contest! Poems must be about Niagara Falls! Prizes! Details at niagarapoetry.ca/2026/04/09/r... #poetrycontest #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcontests Please repost

Tonight's the night! Join us at the Niagara Falls History Museum to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Niagara Falls Poetry Project. There will be cake! niagarapoetry.ca/2026/02/04/c...

Please join me in celebrating 25 years of the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website going live. Thursday, April 9, at the Niagara Falls History Museum. #poetry #poems #NiagaraFalls #poetsofbluesky niagarapoetry.ca/2026/02/04/c...

I got a copy of Arborealis: A Canadian #Poetry Anthology 2018. Niagara area #poet Keith Inman has 4 #poems in it - 1st & 3rd prize winners, & 2 Judges Choices awards. Links to "Figure Eights" niagarapoetry.ca/2026/01/31/k... & "Rock Paper Scissors" niagarapoetry.ca/2026/02/03/r... #poetsofbluesky

I've spent the last few days adding a long poem from 1835 by William H. Coyle "Falls of #Niagara, as Seen From the Table Rock," In a note Coyle laments the lack of #poetry about the falls. There are 27 (of over 700) written by 1835 on the site. #NiagaraFalls #Poems niagarapoetry.ca/2026/01/26/c...

Just added a #poem written in the late 1800's/early 1900s with a decidedly different take on #NiagaraFalls than usual. Morris Rosenfeld's "Niagara Falls" niagarapoetry.ca/2026/01/18/r... #poetry #poetsofBluesky

Stephanie Nielsen’s #poem "Have You Ever Been to #Niagara?" is now a children’s book, illustrated by Bronagh Morgan.Ordered from [email protected] Local arts newspaper reviewer John Law reviewed it in the St. Catharines Standard on December 29, 2025. niagarapoetry.ca/2021/05/17/b... #poetry

T.W. Kriner has been writing 4-by-4 poems lately - 4 lines with 4 beats per line, with a pair of rhyming couplets. 3 are about Niagara Falls - "The Niagara Dead," "Niagara Gorge 1993," and "The Late Fisherman in the Niagara Gorge." niagarapoetry.ca/author-search/ and scroll down to his name.

Last summer I got an unexpected call from the Niagara CAA magazine asking if they could feature me in their "What's Your Favourite" column, which features local people talking about the area. The digital copy arrived this morning. magazine.caaniagara.ca/winter-2025/...

The City of St. Catharines is inviting applications from local poets for a one-year appointment as Poet Laureate, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the City's incorporation. Get the details here www.stcatharines.ca/en/news/city... #poetslaureate #Poet_Laureate #poetry #poets #St.Catharines

Upcoming Sijo poetry workshop. Contact Keri Switzer [email protected] for details

Earlier this year I indexed "Behind the Bricks", a history of the #MohawkInstitute. On Tuesday it was launched at the Woodland Cultural Centre, where the Institute building was reopened as a museum. A powerful book, and a powerful museum. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... woodlandculturalcentre.ca

I've posted a "new" poem on the website - "Falls of Niagara: A Sketch" by Newton orig. publ. in 1825 in the American #Baptist Magazine. Check out this #poem & hundreds of other #poems about #NiagaraFalls at niagarapoetry.ca/2025/10/01/s... #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

I've recently published #poetry from over 2 centuries apart - Lines Written at #Niagara by Oldschool (1807) & Once Walking in Old Niagara by Kriner (2025) Check out these & hundreds of other #poems about #NiagaraFalls at niagarapoetry.ca #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

Episode 4 of #Niagara #History & #Poetry #podcast now up. The story of Avery & the photo Babbitt took of him clinging to a tree before his #death. #Poems by A. Duringer, W.D. Howells & @jamespenha.bsky.social Youtube youtu.be/tWfRKluO_bA audio niagara-history-and-poetry.castos.com/episodes/nia...

I've just posted a poem about the Battle of Cook's Mills by J. P. Merritt, about one of the last skirmishes in the #Warof1812. I've been looking for a #poem about this skirmish for a while, many thanks to Arden Phair for digging this one up for me #poetry #warpoems niagarapoetry.ca/2025/05/13/m...

Recently in #CostaRica visiting a couple who wintered there. Here is a Panamanian white-faced capuchin #monkey (more pics on my fb page www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...)

Vivid images abound in Joanne De Simone Reynolds' #poem "Niagara" #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #NiagaraFalls #blueskypoets #writingcommunity niagarapoetry.ca/2025/04/05/r...

Romance at #NiagaraFalls is alive and well, as Nolan Natasha describes in their #poem "Niagara Falls." Nolan also performs their poem on a video that is linked to on the page - it's well worth a view. #poetry #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity niagarapoetry.ca/2025/03/30/n...

Got a message from my #podcast aggregator congratulating me for being # 97 in the category #History (Indonesia). Thanks for that. I guess @jamespenha.bsky.social may have something to do with that! (BTW - Avery/Platt is the next episode) #Niagara #poetrycommunity #poetry niagarapoetry.ca/podcast-2/

I’ve finally started a #podcast - #Niagara History and Poetry, in which I discuss the #history of Niagara Falls through the #poetry that has been written about it. Youtube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Audio only niagara-history-and-poetry.castos.com more.. #Poetrycommunity #PoetsofBluesky #poems

Just added an 1857 romantic #poem, "Lines to Harriet," about a man reminiscing about his first love at the abandoned schoolhouse on Clifton Hill, #NiagaraFalls. Includes a #history of the schoolhouse. niagarapoetry.ca/2025/02/26/h... #poetry #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

Brock Univ. #UNESCO #Sustainability #Poetry #Contest is open to #Niagara Residents until February 14, 2025. 2 themes - Int'l Year of Peace & Trust & Int'l Year of Glaciers' Preservation. Prizes! Click link to see past winners brocku.ca/unesco.../su... #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Poems

Salon of the Refused - St. Catharines Join us at the Salon of the Refused at the Niagara Artists Centre in S. Catharines on March 20, 2025. Hosted as part of the Phylum Press reading series. phylumpress.ca #poetrycommunity #poetry #readings

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Preparing an episode of my upcoming #podcast on the #history of #NiagaraFalls through #poetry, the sad tale of Joseph Avery, using #poems by William Dean Howells, James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social as main poetic sources, & then found a poem by Alexander Duringer @alexanderduringer.bsky.social

Unfortunately, my website is down for some reason. I have contacted customer support but it hasn't reappeared yet. As I'm Canadian, I can still access my TikTok account, which I did for the first time in ages. Probably also the last time in ages also.

Nikola Tesla had a huge influence in the development of #NiagaraFalls, inventing the AC electrical system. There are #statues of him on both sides of the Falls. E.R. Baxter III wrote this #poem featuring the American statue #Blueskypoetry #poetry #electricity niagarapoetry.ca/2025/01/17/n...

Join us for the Poetry Exchange, at the Niagara Falls Exchange, 5943 Sylvia Place, Niagara Falls, Ont., January 16, 5-9 pm. Bring along your #poetry, or your favourite #poem by someone else, to read, and listen to other local poets reading their poems. Light refreshments are provided.

Just spent a challenging 2 days adding a long Spanish-language #poem to the website - El Poema del Niágara by Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde, written in 1880. Now looking for an English-language translation to add also. niagarapoetry.ca/2025/01/12/b... #poetry #Blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

In my memories from 8 years ago a post came up. The tree near my house always reminded me of the giant #grasshopper thing in Andrew Smith's Grasshopper Jungle, which looks like it is being made into a movie. Sadly, the tree is gone now. #books #bookshelf #booksky #yalit

A #poem on the NFPP website- "Barn" by Lorette Luzajic was just referenced in a post on the Ontario Barn Preservation @obp.bsky.social website about #barn #poetry in Canadian #history. The link to the post is at the bottom of her poem niagarapoetry.ca/2024/08/02/b... #BlueskyPoetry #Poetrycommunity

2025 Just Buffalo Literary Center @justbuffalolit.bsky.social #poetry fellowship applications are now open. www.justbuffalo.org/apply-for-th...

Continuing the #poetry of the #Warof1812 theme, I've just added Charles Mair's rousing #poem "Sir Isaac Brock to His Soldiers" published in 1893. Richly illustrated by a painting of Brian Deines, housed at @brockuniversity.bsky.social. niagarapoetry.ca/2024/12/23/s... #warpoetry #poetrycommunity

I'm in the midst of posting a few #poems written about the #Warof1812 in the #Niagara area on the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website. I've created a separate index page to make it easier to find them #poetry. #warpoetry #poetrycommunity niagarapoetry.ca/sample-page/...

I get stats reports on niagarapoetry.ca which tell countries & referrals are coming from. 3 of the top 6 countries in the last few days are Russia, Ukraine, & Kazakhstan. The 2nd referrer (after Google) is @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social. I'd love to find out if it's being used as a course resource.

In March, 1848 the #Niagara River & #NiagaraFalls, dried up due to an ice jam. I just ran across this #poem by John Newmark @gavroche.org about that event. I've included a link to information about the day Niagara Falls ran dry. #poetry #poetrycommunity niagarapoetry.ca/2024/12/14/n...

I just ran across this #poem by J. H. Chant called "Niagara's Rainbow," . The last 2 stanzas remind us about Canadian-American relations (written in 1915, when Canada was still using the British Union Jack as its flag) #poetry #Poetrycommunity #NiagaraFalls niagarapoetry.ca/2024/12/09/c...

Jetpack stats cut off my free account as I accepted donations on the website. They wanted $12/month for a corp account. I used the "buy a cup of coffee" site & got 1 $3 donation 2 yrs ago. I took it off the site, appealed, & got the free account back. I would have needed 48 cups/year to break even!

I've just added a #poem about Laura Secord and her trek during the War of 1812, which led to Canadian success at the Battle of Beaverdams, near #NiagaraFalls. The poem is by Charles Edwin Jakeway, published in 1897. #Warof1812 #BattleofBeaverdams #poetry #heroines niagarapoetry.ca/2024/12/08/l...

One of my favourite words is slubberdegullion, a filthy, slovenly person. @susiedent.com

For 25+ years I have been collecting, sharing, & discussing the #poetry of #NiagaraFalls. There's over 600 #poems on my website, & many other resources too. My landing page shows the latest poem that I have posted, now a #haiku by Mia C. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do. niagarapoetry.ca