"...hanging like shrines for the sun to beatify..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #CanLit #nature #writingcommunity

So thrilled to be included in Issue 29 of @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social . Honored to share space with such a fantastic group of writers!

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Solarpunk Magazine Issue 29 is out now and features stories by Sayani De, M. Frost, and Uzma Kadri, poems by JM Kehoe and Jade Montoute, essays by Aya Al-Hattab, Michael J. DeLuca, Babs Clayton, and Geoffrey Hart, art by Anselmo J. Alliegro. Get a copy at solarpunkmagazine.com/product-cate...

So delighted to have a piece included in Issue 10 of @rabblereview.bsky.social alongside so many wonderful writers (not to mention amazing cover art)! You can read the new issue here: https://f.mtr.cool/gy2u9nh6v4 #poetry #writingcommunity

RABBLE REVIEW ISSUE No.10 | RABBLE REVIEW

We are excited to bring you a new issue of RABBLE REVIEW later this summer. Our tenth issue is an exploration of this current moment in time. It will also explore the hunger and yearning that is beginning to sprout within ourselves as we respond to this moment..

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"... the wettest leaves catch fire in the dying day..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #sunset #trees #canada

A great blue heron keeping watch while the willows rehearsed the wind. 📸: my own #trees #canada #bird #heron #nature

"...passing gingerly by bare walls, tired furniture.." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #lightandshadow #plants #canada

"...summer’s cooling squalls ricochet off Rideau..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #river #clouds #storm #canada

woodland reliquary 📸: my own #photography #nature #canada

"why is resilience so quiet?"  (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #flowers #nature #canada

"... a drop of light shapes the dark"  (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #leaves #trees #shadows #canada

"some perspectives of beauty can be wounded" (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #flower #rain #canada

"...the songs of the Red-winged Blackbird taken for granted..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #blackbird #bird #canada

"...as jays sash the hot air ..." (from one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #bird #bluejay #Ottawa #nature #canada

"All days would be today, I thought but even that day didn’t last." — from "Wild Strawberries" (published in Anomaly https://f.mtr.cool/pvyphwyoit 📸: my own #poetry #poem #spring #naturephotography

A final post for #nationalpoetrymonth : #EmilyDickinson   "A WORD. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day." -Emily Dickinson #npm2026 #poetrylovers #poem #poetry

Another post for National Poetry Month:  "The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough,  may last." -- Louise Glück #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026 #quotes #quotesoftheday #poetrylovers #LouiseGlück #poem

In light of April being poetry month: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026

These geopolitical days has me thinking of my poem "Has the West Always Been Uncivilized?" published last year in @poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social last year (https://f.mtr.cool/jfvfxpfrmw)  #peaceful #coexistence

So grateful to be in included in the inaugural issue of "Only Human: English Language Senryu" ! @onlyhumansenryu.bsky.social  Many thanks to AJ Wentz and David Oates for including 2 of my poems. #senryu

Only Human: English Language Senryu

Read Issue 1.1 Welcome to Only Human Only Human is a new journal of English-language senryu, kyoka, and other Japanese forms with an emphasis on humanity.Our inagural issue is now live! You can read Issue 1.1 here. While you’re visiting, you can also check out our guidelines and meet the editors.

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"islands: / gardens / of wintry dust" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #snow

"the soft blue light, a shoreline against the sky" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #mist

"a parting from all that accumulated weight embraced through time" (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #mist #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"a tender release from expectation like a skin of frost scrapping air" (from on of my untitled poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #frost #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"Missteps as I learned to father and to husband" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #birds

"Every wave a new line; every wag a punctuation of joy." (a little more of a tongue-in-cheek piece - Happy Birthday Rosie) 📸: my own #poetry #Atlantic #CapeBreton #Ocean #Dog #dogsofbluesky

These words are... insufficient. Miss you dad.  📸: my own #nature #art #photography #naturephotography

"We are built of the spaces we no longer fill." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude

"How do you wound a memory? " (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #memory

"If silence had texture, it would feel like this" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude #ottawa

"I’d be the physics of no edges,  of haze from afar and clarity up close" #poetry #fog #nature #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own