Garth Martens
@garthmartens.bsky.social
Poet. Palmero. Member of Palabra Flamenco. Producer of Dark Sounds. Author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi, 2014) and Who Else in the Dark Headed There (Biblioasis, 2026). Pronouns: he / him. 🇵🇸 🌈 🍉
Tonight!
Garth Martens@garthmartens.bsky.social · 4d agoHere it is, the last stop on my eight-city tour! Join me on October 29 from 7-9 PM in Hamilton at The Printed Word, where I read alongside Alexander Hollenberg, Tanis MacDonald, @jaclyndesforges.bsky.social, and @farehmalik.bsky.social. This'll be a bell ringer you won't want to miss.
Tomorrow night in Guelph, ON, with Zane Koss and Karen Houle, 6:00-7:30 PM at The Bookshelf! Join us! Also, any recommendations for places to stay? As organized as I was for this tour, I left accommodation to the last minute. Not my smartest move!
Here it is, the last stop on my eight-city tour! Join me on October 29 from 7-9 PM in Hamilton at The Printed Word, where I read alongside Alexander Hollenberg, Tanis MacDonald, @jaclyndesforges.bsky.social, and @farehmalik.bsky.social. This'll be a bell ringer you won't want to miss.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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"DHS, flush with funds and new hires, is now Trump’s primary tool against dissent, with a powerful array of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to bear against everyday Americans organizing... [unseen] since the fed govt’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the 60s/70s anti-war mvmt"
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
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A thousand times this. Thanks @maxfawcett.bsky.social. "We can, and should, ignore their special pleading, their endless search for victimhood and grievance, and go on with the business of living our lives and participating in our democracy." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/26/o...
We don’t have to listen to the separatists any more
Alberta's separatist movement spent months collecting signatures, attracting attention, and rallying their vote — all to end up exactly where they've always been. It's time to stop giving them the att...
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Thank you for reading, Vicki! @bookgaga.bsky.social
Vicki Ziegler@bookgaga.bsky.social · 5d ago"You don’t remember their name, whose reading this book is alleged to mean more or less." #TodaysPoem #poetry After the Day In Question by @garthmartens.bsky.social (2026 High Horse) highhorse.blog/2026/03/20/3...
Tomorrow night in Guelph, ON, with Zane Koss and Karen Houle, 6:00-7:30 PM at The Bookshelf! Join us! Also, any recommendations for places to stay? As organized as I was for this tour, I left accommodation to the last minute. Not my smartest move!
How it worked out…she won!!! Check out my DC Reid Poetry prize winner @melaniesiebert.bsky.social’s book, Signal Infinities, here: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/747324...
Ali Blythe@aliblythe.bsky.social · last yr.I love that my ❤️ Melanie Siebert is shortlisted for the inaugural DC Reid Poetry Prize! The jury calls it an 'extreme act of empathy and a profoundly ethical gesture towards the “unknowable interiority” of others' Cheers to her and for this new #Victoria #poetry award! @melaniesiebert.bsky.social
What a pleasure & privilege to have the first review of my poetry collection, The Work Is Done When We Are Dead, coming Halloween 2026 from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social, be written by Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social, who has read, reviewed, and written so much over the years.
TORONTO — Tonight at 7PM, I read alongside poets Dominique Béchard, @carolynreads.bsky.social, and Jim Johnstone at Type Books. I last read in Toronto in 2014. Don't wait until 2038 to hear me again.
Canadian Poets Series #39 : Laurie D. Graham / @lauriedgraham.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/10/cana...
Canadian Poets Series #39 : Laurie D. Graham
Laurie D. Graham [photo credit: Jason Graham] grew up in Treaty 6 Territory, outside of amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton, Alberta, and she now ...
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British Columbians, please vote tomorrow. It matters.
Windsor! I'm thrilled as heck to be reading from my book alongside poets Leigh Kotsilidis and Dominique Béchard at Biblioasis Bookshop tonight at 7PM. Join us! As my book's published by @biblioasis.bsky.social, this is a homecoming for my work, as I've felt so well supported by my publisher.
good reading tonight! launching my new Caitlin Press title alongside Garth Martens (with his new Biblioasis title), with opening reading by our pal Jennifer Baker; thanks to Perfect Books and David O’Meara for hosting! // @garthmartens.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social
See you tonight, Montréal! Join me, Loch Baillie, and David Hosselin at the Accent Reading Series at Bar Le Record tonight 8-11pm.
Victoria residents, join me at 2pm today. There are a few tickets left, and they're $5. See you soon!
The Malahat Review@malahatreview.bsky.social · 2w agoOur collab panel with Victoria Festival of Authors is on tomorrow Oct. 16 at 2pm! Transformation & Translation features Danielle Geller, Garth Martens, & Yilin Wang, moderated by Iain Higgins. 📍 Langham Court Theatre 🎟️ sliding scale tix from $5-$20 victoriafestivalofauthors.ca/events/trans...
Hey, Victoria! Join me, Danielle Geller, and Yilin Wang at 2 PM today for Transformation and Translation, a reading and discussion of translation and transformation between and across genres, cultures, and languages.
My memoir has been born! Nothing like coming home after teaching the haibun to see a box on your stoop and know it is what you have been working towards for years now. And the cat liked the box too ;) Now to launch it first at Litfest, then at Audreys on Nov 1st. Order at #wolsakandwynn #canlit
Seeing poems on the bus in Vancouver is still kind of startling to me. It's one of the rare places where the thiing I love creating most gets to be out in the wild. Do sign this petition to encourage Translink to continue Poetry in Transit, and do share it around! c.org/prsxWrWhbs
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don't forget! Ottawa book launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens (w Jennifer Baker + Margo LaPierre) : Oct 21, Perfect Books, Ottawa / @caitlinpress.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social @garthmartens.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/book...
I’m taking Who Else in the Dark Headed There, my second poetry collection from @biblioasis.bsky.social, on tour through Quebec and Ontario! Eight readings and a terrific group of writers. Here’s the schedule. 🧵
A prose poem of mine, PALMAS, is a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. The piece comes out of my nineteen-year study of flamenco.
Stoked my poem ‘Learning to Sing: A Bird’s-eye View’ is a finalist for the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Thanks to everyone @montrealprize.bsky.social especially the judges. You can read finalist poems here (www.montrealpoetryprize.com/2026-competi...); warm congrats to all poets ❤️🔥
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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book launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens : Oct 21, Perfect Books, Ottawa / @garthmartens.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social ; , feat. Jennifer Baker and Margo LaPierre, robmclennan.substack.com/p/book-launc...
Ottawa! I'll be out your way later this month.
rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · last mo.book launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens (w Jennifer Baker + Margo LaPierre) : Oct 21, Perfect Books, Ottawa / @caitlinpress.bsky.social @garthmartens.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/10/book...
Poets! Join me tomorrow for this three-hour poetry workshop. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/night-cons... Due to someone's generosity, I can offer a large discount to those for whom cost is a barrier to attending. DM me!
