I look for you like a mushroom peering through soil & new earthly shades / I find you at the riverside & I give you a golden melon that I grew just last spring / I tuck your book into the bottom of my bookcase & walk by softly each day Reading @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social’s I CONFESS.

Bedside. #current #read I Confess @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

"I write. I write to liberate what's not-there inside (me) & inside anybody else who happens to be interested" - Gerry Shikatani

Cameron Anstee on small press culture

“When you’re in that exhausted stage you are out of control. You can’t keep the ordinary social forms. You are forced to break them because there is no way to handle them … A lot of my work is concerned with exhaustion leading to an opening” (Vito Acconci, 1971)

Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)

@amandaearl.bsky.social shares memories of Judith Copithorne on @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/aman...

Amanda Earl : on Judith Copithorne

When Joakim Norling of Timglaset Editions told me he had chosen green for the end papers for Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry aft...

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"In the luminous labyrinth of language, our old friend content shimmers like a chrome relic from a future we’re already living. How fascinating and how frustrating that a single word should map our species’ psychic trajectory so precisely, so inevitably." transmediale.de/en/journal/e...

“history is not bound by time, but it is an inheritance to which successive generations contribute their own meanings” - Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda

Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics avoid travel to the US: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

“[I] hope that anyone who is in the field of publishing, particularly commercial publishing, will find some way of continuing to publish and to argue for poetry. I say this because I firmly believe that poetry is language raised to its highest power” (bpNichol)

“Now I know what it’s all about is apprenticeship. Masters are an illusion” (bpNichol)

"Brain pan hammered into a pure sound." Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/alle...

Allegra Sloman : An elaborate scaffold of meaning(s) : on David Dowker

David Joseph Dowker was in his 70th year when he died on 5SE in North York General on March 24, 2025, subsequent to a fal...

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Happy National Poetry Month! We're back with the next feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek! Preview "The Place You Leave and the Place You Return To" from her debut collection, No One Knows Us There, which is out now! bookhugpress.ca/national-poe...

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Jessica Bebenek | Book*hug Press

We’re back with the third feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek! Jessica is a long time member of Book*hug's community, and we are very happy to final...

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Saddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died:

rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · last yr.

ah, hell; poet David Dowker has died; thewhig.remembering.ca/obituary/dav...

Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous

Wait, did everyone notice that THE GATE OF MEMORY: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, edited by Brynn Saito & @brandonshimoda.bsky.social, is 40% off alongside all other poetry titles @haymarketbooks.org for National Poetry Month, oh my🌺 www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...

The Gate of Memory

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🖊✨Call for Papers! We are accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "Suburb Nation." Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2025 (PT)

“Your environment is the language in which you live. Words aren’t neutral like magnetic tape. They create the qualities of an experience.” - Sheila Watson

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker

And see you in Halifax this very week!! I believe I will be on stage talking to Alexander MacLeod for part of this, love it. Look at that title, gosh I love to bang the drum about art and class! But that's what happens when you make a 400 page book about it eventscalendar.smu.ca/smuhalifax/d...

2025 Cyril Byrne Lecture with Kate Beaton

Fri. 21 Mar., 7:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. [ADT]: We Were Always Working and Making Art: Rethinking the Economics and Value of Creativity An evening with Kate Beaton New York Times Bestseller, Winner of Cana...

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It's been a long time coming! The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more! ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...

This weekend in Halifax, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi join us for 2 events: 1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198 2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm

"In Bonememory, the questions I am working with are about how memory is held in our bones and what that means personally, familialy, intergenerationally, collectively" @annaveprinska.bsky.social robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-o...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anna Veprinska

Anna Veprinska is the author of Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis . She was a finalist in the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, has...

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I can't speak to enrollments or financial viability. But I echo the concern that cuts seem to be happening without academic & social repercussions being accounted for – and that's a sector-wide problem, not just a York problem. The liberal arts vs STEM paradigm is a political construct.

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"They're turning off the heat before some classes finish": Professor Frances Latchford on York University's dramatic cuts to liberal arts programs - Toronto Life

As York faces a funding crisis, the chair of the department of gender, sexuality and women’s studies talks anti-DEI backlash, Doug Ford’s disdain for...

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Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities. We know that the majority of Canadians don't support political interference in research and education. We need these freedoms. #StopNSBill12: www.ansut.ca/bill-12/

Bill 12

Make Your Voice Heard Send a letter to Premier Houston, Minister Maguire, the Dept of Advanced Education, and your MLA Call Premier Houston, Minister Maguire, the Dept of Advanced Edu…

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Too much to say about this in a single post — IWP’s history and such — but this is indeed another huge loss: lithub.com/the-state-de...

The State Department pulled $1 million in funding for the Iowa International Writing Program.

Photo from the IWP’s webpage. The legendary and beloved International Writing Program was told on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs was …

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The latest issue of Amodern is live: AMODERN 12: COUNTERTYPE Typography, Alternative Print Technologies, and Everyday Ephemera amodern.net/article/amod...