The songs on the my band Natural Sympathies forthcoming ’Romance Novel’ album are inspired by stories gathered from the community through an anonymous survey about love. (a thread about a new song)

New poem out now in @cv2magazine.bsky.social The Summer Issue! If you enjoy this sonnet, join the online reading this coming Tuesday to hear me read it (along with some other poems) 👠👠

I’ll be reading new poems! Join us xo

CV2 Magazine@cv2magazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Summer Issue launch! The new issue is here and she is 🌼VIBRANT🌼 Our online poem party carries zero risk of sunburn and will feature readings from some of this issue's fantastic contributors! Tuesday, Aug 11th at 7pm CDT on Zoom. Free to attend. Get your invite: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The QCIB conversation with Natural Sympathies and our fact-adjacent contributions to their Love Survey are now available on Youtube. youtu.be/R7qgC7swato #yqrcc

QCIB May 28 2026 - Natural Sympathies & Their Wolves

YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene

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Tonight on the Queen City Improvement Bureau, we have local art-pop actualizer Natural Sympathies talking about new album. And I think we're taking a… "love quiz"???? Ok. 7pm on 91.3FM CJTR @accessnowradio.ca #yqrcc

Good news

Cult MTL@cultmtl.com · 5mo ago

Montreal police will no longer handle noise complaints against Plateau venues under new bylaw “This is a significant step forward in preventing the closure of cultural venues due to abusive noise complaints — a major issue in Montreal for several years.” #polmtl cultmtl.com/2026/04/mont...

On speakerphone, two lives hum at opposite ends of the line, suspended in time by sound. In this new poem, Raoul Fernandes captures the quiet intimacy of a phone call: https://thewalrus.ca/speakerphone/

Announcing the contributors of our next issue, Pinhole Poetry’s 16th issue! It’s going to be full of amazing poems, pinhole photography and a couple of chapbook love letters! Can’t wait for you to read it soon!

Pleased to share my poem Rattlesnakes, which I read and recorded for the short film Fissures (2025) by @keykode.bsky.social with a soundtrack by Andrea-Jane Cornell. The film is currently at various festivals

Dear pals, my Saskatchewan-based band, Natural Sympathies, is playing at POP Montreal next Saturday. Huzzah! Hope to see you there, Amber (+ Dana + Darcy + Tanner) popmontreal.com/events/bye-p...

Dear pals, my Saskatchewan-based band, Natural Sympathies, is playing at @popmontreal.bsky.social Montreal this month. Huzzah! Hope to see you there, Amber 💋💋💋

equal parts proud and embarrassed by this one. by far the best thing i've written, but also the most unhinged

peril@paulapalooza.bsky.social · last yr.

"post-nut clarity, or, i paid $500 to jerk off into this cup and all i got was a crushing sense of despair" by me in the latest issue of defunkt magazine

Spring looking towards summer ⬇️ 1. Very excited to be accepted into the Sage Hill Poetry Course this summer, led by poet Michael Trussler. I’ll be working on editing existing poems and writing some new ones to complete a chapbook manuscript. ✨

someone in rural sk looking to trade a $10k+ modular synth for a small tractor or mini excavator sometimes it's good here

Authors for eSims — an online book auction raising funds to supply eSIMs to Palestinians in Gaza — is open for one more week. 120 Canadian writers have donated autographed books or special editions for the cause. thestar.com/entertainment/…

Today for free and easy! Get a light buzz while listening to poetry 💋

Amber Goodwyn@ambergoodwyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Very relaxed poetry + beer afternoon coming up soon. I’m thrilled to sip legendary brew from Regina’s OG craft brewery while listening to poetry! Saturday, May 3rd from 3-4:30pm. Presented by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brew Pub. FREE. (beer = not free lol) 💋 xo

Thanks to Nikko Snyder for including me as a guest on the first season of her new podcast @parentingcreative.bsky.social 💞 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...

Amber Goodwyn on Releasing Perfect Conditions

Podcast Episode · Parenting Creative · 2025-04-24 · 58m

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Dear Saskatchewan neighbours, please vote strategically xoxo info below! #musicvotescanada #stoppierrepoilievre #cooperateforcanadam

My poem on a wall! Last night I attended the ‘Celebrate Poetry Month’ event presented by the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild at Government House, which also celebrated the opening of the Family+ exhibition. 🌸

Very relaxed poetry + beer afternoon coming up soon. I’m thrilled to sip legendary brew from Regina’s OG craft brewery while listening to poetry! Saturday, May 3rd from 3-4:30pm. Presented by the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brew Pub. FREE. (beer = not free lol) 💋 xo

National Poetry Month via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social day thirteen! with a new poem by Courtney Bates-Hardy, / @poetcourtney.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...

National Poetry Month : Courtney Bates-Hardy,

Breath of Life   For every hug I could not ask for from my mother,           my lover embraces me over and over, moored in dreams,...

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International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

The Heating and Cooling Plant by architect Clifford Wiens, U of R campus “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” - Rainer Maria Rilke Photo by @keykode.bsky.social

Taking refuge in comedy, poetry, wit and overall communal joy as much as possible these days. Came across this Jeff Nuttall clip... archive.org/details/twit...

BBC Archive - #OnThisDay 1970: Look North interviewed Jeff Nuttall, while trying not to be engulfed by a giant inflatable cube. : BBC Archive : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

#OnThisDay 1970: Look North interviewed Jeff Nuttall, while trying not to be engulfed by a giant inflatable cube. https://t.co/5rR32za57X Source:...

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Studiously ignoring unwanted attention from an older white man in this cafe I’m in by practicing a new performance art piece I like to call ‘You Do Not Exist’

For artists seeking honest, wise, and practical advice about maintaining an art practice, I suggest listening to Teresita Fernández’s keynote speech to a graduating class, entitled “On Amnesia, Broken Pottery, and the Inside of a Form”: soundcloud.com/user23168225...

Teresita Fernandez Commencement Speech

Teresita Fernandez Commencement Speech, delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, May 11, 2013

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I’m honoured to share that my poem ‘Switchback’ is part of an upcoming exhibition of poetry, called Family+ , organized by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and Government House in time for National Poetry Month (April): skwriter.com/about-swg/ne...

Our Premier is still delaying on joining the National School Food Program and potentially losing out on millions of dollars if it chooses not to sign on to the program #Saskatchewan #Canada #education www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sask. risking millions in funding if it doesn't sign on to National School Food Program: expert | CBC News

One expert says that if the deal is anywhere similar to Manitoba's agreement with Ottawa, Saskatchewan could potentially lose out on $17 million over three years.

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There should be a tribute to David Lynch, where they just show 60 seconds of a static shot of a steam filled underground corridor, with a flickering fluorescent light backed with ominous washing and a distant scream