Tomorrow, October 27 @ 7pm Leigh Kotsilidis with Kimberly Quiogue Andrews & Anita Lahey Hosted by yours truly Perfect Books, Ottawa

Why is it cat tummies are always so damned cute 😭

rob mclennan : an interview with Ellen Chang-Richardson, : Ottawa 200 / @ehjchang.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/10/rob-...

rob mclennan : an interview with Ellen Chang-Richardson, : Ottawa 200

, Ottawa 200       Ellen Chang-Richardson [ photo credit: Nicolai P Gregory ] is the author of Blood Belies  (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) an...

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Y’all need to wake up and read these questions. Then take a good hard look at your own provincial government and determine if they are amongst those “willing” to cooperate with AB. Then act and vote in every election. Sign every petition that matters to you. Raise voices. Shake the air. Stay woke.

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁@cardamomaddict.bsky.social · last wk.

Live referendum results www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Rest as resistance. Love as rebellion.

One of my core literary inspirations 🤩 the news of this today absolutely sustained me.

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 3w ago

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Never thought I’d find myself standing side-by-side the head of the Catholic Church yet here we are:

Today, and any day to be effin’ honest, if I can lift the burden of educating off the shoulders of my Indigenous friends and colleagues, I will - ehjchang.substack.com/p/30-09-2026

30 • 09 • 2026

Slow down with me.

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Calling all #Ottawa / #Gatineau based folks! I will be hosting an English-language collage and ecopoetry writing workshop next Weds Oct 7, 6:30-8:30pm @ A Love Letter Paper Boutique. We currently have 2 registrants. Need 3 more or the workshop will be cancelled. Come get creative + cozy with me!

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

It has been my greatest mistake to develop taste and discernment because it makes it nearly impossible to live in a world populated mainly by people that just don’t give a fuck about anything and resent anybody who does.

I’ll be hosting this chapbook launch and I am stoked about it. Come out Ottawa!

chris johnson@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social · last mo.

have I mentioned here that I will be launching my latest poetry chapbook IN ONE WEEK!? next Sunday, September 20, I'm gonna be in a little forested area near my apartment from 3-4pm reading from my chapbook (not the whole time), and if yer in Ottawa you can come too! www.facebook.com/events/23470...

Sign the Petition - No Bell AI Data Centre in Quinte West - c.org/kKd4TgZGRt

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No Bell AI Data Centre in Quinte West

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MS Teams pings out here giving me PTSD.

The scams have gone so hard that it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore 😭

CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

It is genuinely one of the best feelings in the world when your go to breakfast place knows your breakfast sammich order by heart.

Looking through my past and present, low-key realizing I am genderfluid/genderqueer 🥴 try explaining that at work.

Love it when male-presenting folks spread their legs so wide on public transit that they take over 2/3rds of a two seat section.

Spoke with Rob Schmitz for @npr.org #AllThingsConsidered on the poet Wang Jibing 王計兵, who just won a Lu Xun Prize. I also shared a quick translation of his best-known poem: www.npr.org/2026/08/08/n...

How a delivery driver and poet won one of China's highest honors in literature

Wang Jibing, a writer and delivery driver, has won one of China's most prestigious award for poetry. Professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow of Duke University explains why his work has had such huge impact.

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It’s the virtual [margins.] literary conference this weekend — I love this community & this space & I’m trying to figure out how to clone myself properly so I can attend multiple tandem panels/workshops at once 😭

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We have another fabulous review of Whitney French's gorgeous novel-in-verse, Syncopation, up at the Ampersand Review: theampersandreview.ca/paige-leblan...

Paige LeBlanc Review Syncopation — The Ampersand Review

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I’m a slut for facts.

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Listening on repeat: Headroom, Men I Trust (2015).

How many times do I have to fire into the aether for the algorithm to start circulating my posts?

Running sentiment: “good grief”

If you're a gardener and this resonates with you, you belong in our free regenerative gardening community at LearnDirt.com 🌱

The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 19: Bebenek, carisse, Currie, MARTIN + Saklikar, / @russellcarisse.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @reneesarojini.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-factor...

The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 19: Bebenek, carisse, Currie, MARTIN + Saklikar,

, amid all the excitement of this spring's ottawa small press book fair,

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