I really love Elliot's readings.

Congratulations to Karen Solie!

I just know the producers of “A House of Dynamite” were livid when “Paradise” came out. I can’t say more without spoilers.

I remain in Jana’s debt for this.

Negative royalty statements on all 3 books. I should perhaps…promote the books a bit?

happy "the car clock is finally correct" day to all who celebrate

Yesterday while doing dishes I figured out how to arrange this book. I think I have a way back in!

I was finally able to schedule an hour in a dark room to listen to Mac Miller’s “Good News” on repeat. Mac’s sad boy speaks to mine.

“Look upon me, an implacable hand broken on the skulls of assailants…” feudal.substack.com/p/no-thing-b...

I’m not saying the Gabby’s Dollhouse dance party my kids are having is interrupting the miserable morning I was having, but I’m not *not* saying that either.

Stabbed through the heart by this passage from Isaac Fellman’s THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI.

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The fine folks at carte blanche published my poem, “Broken Windows Theory” in their transformation issue. Sincere thanks to the editors carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-52/olo...

The sky’s white with November’s teeth, and the air is ash and woodsmoke. A flush of color from the dying tree, a cargo train speeding through, and there, that’s me, standing in the wintering grass watching the dog suffer the cold leaves. I’m not large from this distance, just a fence post Ada Limón

Wondrous things I’ve encountered in Premee Mohamed’s THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS: vibration-activated lightspiders in a glass enclosure, for illumination; limb regeneration; bio-engineered wasps that can deliver analgesics and antibiotics in cadence. I haven’t even gotten to the war pterodactyls!

Wait I dig this remake of Neal Stephenson’s SNOW CRASH.

Just finished creating my slides for the MacEwan reading on Wednesday and I find myself quite proud of myself. It’s a strange feeling (since I struggle with self-worth issues) but reviewing 6 years of published work has given me a good zoomed-out view.

Back to the dreadful and delightful Jackson Lamb. His hair looks even smellier this season.

kyla houbolt ONE FROG from her chapbook collection, But Then I Thought

Is waking up in tears a sign of life stress? Asking for a friend.

(Bob Marley writing drafts) I'm gonna be steel like an eel in Biel I'm gonna be tin like a pangolin in Turin I'm gonna be lead like a hammerhead in Hampstead I'm gonna be zincy like a minke in Helsinki

Or a full-length collection. David Fincher and/or Lana Wachowski need to option @paulvermeersch.bsky.social ‘s NMLCT.

Trio of upcoming events: 1. October 9, 7 PM, MDT: Flywheel Reading Series, with Beth Everest & Doug Waite. Pages Books, Calgary. 2. October 15, 12:30 PM MDT: MacEwan U Visiting Authors Series. Room 7-265, MacEwan University Edmonton. 3. November 19, 12 PM PST: SFU Lunch Poems, with Karen Solie.

Ian McEwan’s WHAT WE CAN KNOW is set in the year 2119, and follows an academic’s research of archival material in his investigation of the life and work of a legendary poet. It is a very effective proxy for examining the late Anthropocene and how large our folly must loom to future generations.

Wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

CHOTINER: did you know who his dad was when you started to taunt him? ODYSSEUS: no, I should have guessed some god but I figured I was protected by Athena and it would probably be fine if I mocked him CHOTINER: Remind me, what is Athena the goddess of? ODYSSEUS: wisdom… look, can we move on?

The Rapture is an independent contractor. They can only give you a general window for it.

I know it’s greedy but I have 3 versions of Vajra Chandrasekera’s THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS checked out from the library: ebook, audiobook, and hardcover. Now I can be in the story at every waking moment, whatever I’m doing.

Qurat Dar, Non-Prophet / @quratdar.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/qura...

PET SEMATARY (Stephen King, 1983)

Daedalus adding hot sun skeptics to his prototyping team for viewpoint diversity

The So-So Santini

Autocorrect on my phone changed “Lorca’s duende” to “Lorax’s duende” and you know what? I’d like to know more.

Only one cous for me, please, I’m on a diet.

University of Alberta Press poetry window is now open, until Sept 30, for collections by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. 50 pages min. Our poetry jury will choose up to three manuscripts for publication in Spring 2027. ualbertapress.submittable.com/submit/71285...

There are 2 kinds of traveler: the ones who go in search of something and the 1s who are running away; the 1s who are eager to discover new worlds and the 1s who cannot stand the world around them; the 1s who expect a lot from other countries and the 1s whose only wish is to get away from their own.

🎲 The Junta of Happenstance by @toluini.bsky.social (‪@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, this debut weaves together meditations on illness and disease, finding beauty amidst chaos. alllitup.ca/books/the-ju... #lpg50 #canlit

Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social

Day 24 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social UNRAVEL by Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social Nigerian-Canadian poet, one of finest contemporary poets. Ancient to future colliding histories, visions, science, self, myths & apocalypse. Vivid, precise, a syntax complex & original. @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

“Colors Change,” by Tank and the Bangas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTBy...

human: I can’t believe moles can talk! mole: I write books, too. human: No way. mole: Well, I will. I just need to buy this next humanskine to write it in. human: this next what

[This post is trying to sell you something. Feel free to skip!] Hey, Fam, my Doctor Who novella is finally in the world. Available at all good outlets and some bad ones.

Kirby writes, and makes, beautiful books. I feel lightened, yet moored (that is, I feel held) having read this gem of a book this morning. Thank you, @itsakirby.bsky.social

What a lovely review to wake up to. Deep thanks to Catherine Owen, Micheline Maylor, and FreeFall for this.

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Philip Larkin said "What will survive of us is love," but research based on previous collapsing civilizations suggests it's more likely to be inorganic items that can be buried, burned, or struck without significant degradation. Likely what will survive of us is ceramic toilets.

An incandescent editorial letter from @paulvermeersch.bsky.social “Art makes nothing unthinkable.” theampersandreview.ca/new-page-82

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

My last 2 reposts go so well together. I love it when art and the universe conspire like that.