This Sunday, I have the grand good pleasure to open in support of my dear friend Stevie Manning launching their debut collection, SHAMPOO BOY @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social along with local legend, Derek McCormack @derekmccormack.bsky.social & the one & only, Eileen Myles. ra.co/events/2245945

Thrilled to find out this NORMA COLE event is streaming live from @citylightsbooks.bsky.social w/DALE MARTIN SMITH & JOSEPH SHAFER Register citylights.com/events/norma...

Your country is going to hell. You should buy a book.

I want more poets to read like this.

Sorting through my old photos

Keith Taylor

"This man who walks with me." The Jim in my life. #SMLTA @themockler.bsky.social sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/for-those-...

This night is going to be epic. @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social #packanimal @derekmccormack.bsky.social #Kirby #EileenMyles #StandardTime STEVIE MANNING "SHAMPOO BOY" #LAUNCH steviemanning.rocks/2025/09/21/i...

Read @bonnycd.bsky.social's review of Travis Sharp's Yes, I Am a Corpse Flower (pub. @knifeforkbook.bsky.social) in Issue 32! ...Not the heady perfume of abstraction, but the carrion/clarion call to come pollinate while the getting is against all odds good. www.thetemzreview.com/bonnycd-shar...

"this is a book of exorbitance, it's the gorgeous is engorgement— oh STEVIE MANNING we love love you please throw up." @derekmccormack.bsky.social "STEVIE MANNING's syntax is like shattered glass, glittering and sharp as hell." @scotttreleaven.bsky.social steviemanning.rocks/shampoo-boy/

Running into a poem you loved is like bumping an old friend at a pub. Thus do I find Robert Creeley's "The Rain," six stanzas I copied on the back of my AP econ spiral notebook in high school, and re-read often during that neolib seminar. Ooof the splendid enjambment of that “semi-/lust”

friend & @meeklingpress.bsky.social -mate sent this tiny zine, “how to darn a sock” with their latest packet…& IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED!

"Just when I thought queerness was waning the heavens part... Jesus Fucking Christ STEVIE MANNING is the second coming GLORY BE! This is the queer kingdom & SHAMPOO BOY holds the fucking key...a 2L bottle of coke exploding QUEER RADIANCE IN ABUNDANCE in a Raf Simons dress." - KIRBY, She

"15 minutes with you Oh, no, I wouldn't say no Oh, people see no worth in you I do" Seeing off this one at Union Station. The brilliant @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social, artist author of BLOOD ROOT @gooselane.bsky.social

"She's gotta practise with a raccoon's deft hands, headfirst in the garbage." #TodaysPoem #poetry from Elegy 4, Sybil Elegies by Tanis MacDonald from Mobile (2019 @BookhugPress.bsky.social) bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

Dorianne Laux

100 Poems Read by @itsakirby.bsky.social (under quarantine, 2020) knifeforkbook.com/2020/03/19/k...

"And the wildflowers are canary yellow Turnip violet and bone china white Because they hate us that much" #TodaysPoem #poetry from Labour Day by @james-lindsay.bsky.social (2021 Dusie)

"YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER is really remarkable, and offers us a unique work of ill/queer goretesquerie, of body-embodying body-first verse that pairs nicely with a glass of something fruitfully heady like, say, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception." www.thetemzreview.com/bonnycd-shar...

Thinking of my father tonight, who left us on this day in 2020

New #ChrisHutchinson LOST SIGNAL @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

One of my favourites by Jean Valentine #smallpoemsunday

from rehearsals: a projected image from She Who Has No Master(s)' series of photo-poems "we [/] breathe"

September and Friday and nightfall.

O-Canada - Watch Yer Snacks Timothy Wilson Hoey n.d.

Northeast corner. #inmyroom

Last night's star-studded shindig celebrating the newly acquired #bpNicholCollection at #TMULibraries lovingly tended to and gifted by Brian Dedora & Donald Irving. Dedora in conversation here with Dale Martin Smith.

Islands by Muriel Rukeyser

Oh my goodness. Gorgeous! I have her leaf on my wall from Puddles of Sky Press. www.puddlesofskypress.com/chapoems--po...

Please join us. #hamont

Stevie texts: "Doll, are you free to open for me at my launch Sept 28th?" #StandardTime @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social Me: "I'm yours babe." Stevie: "...and Derek McCormack is joining us" Me: LOVE me some @derekmccormack.bsky.social Stevie: "...o, and Eileen Myles" Me: ra.co/events/2245945

The brilliance that is #KateSiklosi #Conjure #PaperViewBooks paperviewbooks.pt/books/conjure/

Jane Hirshfield

This 'unsung' treasured hero & friend #bestinthebiz @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, poet JAMES LINDSAY #KFB #TheLake @gooselane.bsky.social #OnlyInsistence gooselane.com/products/onl... www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p159/J...

LISA FISHMAN reads from their new #WaveBooks collection, ONE BIG TIME at 5 à 7 @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

TONIGHT'S DOUBLE BILL #cautiontraffic 5pm @coachhousebooks.bsky.social 7pm #QueenBooksTO #porcupinesquill

“Thought does not progress in a single direction; instead, the moments are interwoven as in a carpet. The fruitfulness of the thoughts depends on the density of the texture.” —Theodor W. Adorno

Two Nights. Two Experiences. Sept 12 & 13 at the Time Based Art Festival in Portland OR. #tba25

"No other writer of our time & place was so diverse, attempted so much, & never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, lovingly edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social & I, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...

I'll be joining @henricole.bsky.social for a conversation onstage following his reading at @booksonthepark.bsky.social this Wednesday at 7pm in celebration of his new book The Other Love. Please come; it's free and a great way to beat this heat. 😃❤️

"Thirty... at last!" May you always be, LIT.LIVE #Happy30th

The gods have come to fuck, Hungry- shivering with river silt- Teeth breaking in the heat of Bones, salt- skin clear of spit.

Only 9 more days till we get a new Susan Howe book … www.ndbooks.com/book/peniten...

Another powerful poem by Maggie Smith

from the author of bpNichol Chapbook Finalist, "Joan Would Say" #KFB STEVIE MANNING steviemanning.rocks Shampoo Boy @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social ra.co/events/2245945

This way >>>> (it's still going!) Wayzgoose @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

These came and I wasn't quite expecting them yet and it's a small oddity of the writing life that a stranger will come to your door and hand you what you've been working on for years. Here they are among some of their influences, I think they're starting to feel at home with me.

My heart's @citylightsbooks.bsky.social dalemartinsmith.com #normacole