Margo LaPierre
@margolapierre.bsky.social
Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction grad. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Mad & queer. 🏳️🌈She/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com. 🔗 Linktr.ee/margolapierre
Hamilton friends! Check out Living Room Lit on June 25 featuring Lisa Richter with @lizworth.bsky.social, @jaclyndesforges.bsky.social, and @margolapierre.bsky.social at The Wallflower. It's going to be great fun. https://bit.ly/4vbkwjr @lisarichter.bsky.social
Thank you Melanie Marttila and @periodicities.bsky.social! (@margolapierre.bsky.social)
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics@periodicities.bsky.social · 4mo agonewly posted: Melanie Marttila : Ajar, by Margo LaPierre / @margolapierre.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/mela...
Thursday!!! Insta Live conversation with @margolapierre.bsky.social 7:00pm ET @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
Are you ready @margolapierre.bsky.social?❤️🤩
JUNCTION READS@junctionreads.bsky.social · 8mo agoCalendars out. March is looking fine! March 9: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia (on Zoom…link at EventBrite) March 12: Margo LaPierre (Insta Live) March 19: David Bergen (March 19) @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch / @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/marg...
Margo LaPierre : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch
A Valley Uncanny in NMCLT : An interview with poet Paul Vermeersch Paul Vermeersch [photo credit: Bianca Spence] is a poet, multime...
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ICYMI: Poets Guy Elston and Margo LaPierre are on the most recent episode of Sharon Israel’s Planet Poet show. Tune in! www.sharonisraelpoet.com/blog/guy-els... #poetry #canlit @margolapierre.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social
TOMORROW NIGHT! @CIUT895FM 10pm - 11pm host @valentinoaaaa.bsky.social talks to Lindsay Wong “Villain Hitting For Vicious Little Nobodies” (Penguin Random House) & @hollay.bsky.social talks to @margolapierre.bsky.social for her book “Ajar” @guernicaeditions.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!
“This novel is a delicious titration of acts of betrayal and care. I’ve never read anything like it before and yet it felt familiar in hard-to-reach places of the soul.” —Margo LaPierre, author of Ajar More about our books: palimpsestpress.ca/books/the-un... guernicaeditions.com/products/ajar
Love this interview with Suzanne Craig-Whytock. We discuss my process in writing Ajar and why I wrote this book of bipolar poetry in the first place. If you're my mom and want to skip ahead to my part, it's at 36:00. Go see the link in my profile to listen to the interview on my link.tree.
The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading! / @amandaearl.bsky.social @francesboyle19.bsky.social @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social @christinemcnair.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @conyerclayton.bsky.social @ajdolman.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading!
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan, The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading at Anina’s Café , 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way, O...
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9 December 2025: @guernicaeditions.bsky.social #Ottawa launch at Avant-garde Bar, 135 1é2 Besserer Street, Ottawa. @margolapierre.bsky.social @anncavlovic.bsky.social @akessaris.bsky.social
I'm presenting a poetry webinar at noon this Saturday, November 15, with LCP’s Fall Poetry Intensive. It's about how to write poetry using the visual arts—more specifically, how to apply the elements and principles of design to our poetry. Find out more or sign up at poets.ca/intensivefall2025.
November 15-16, 2025 (Zoom): Fall Poetry Intensive - League of Canadian Poets
The League of Canadian Poets is pleased to offer two-day online conference dedicated to exploring and improving the craft of poetry.
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✨Don't miss poet @margolapierre.bsky.social discuss her new collection AJAR with @alllitupcanada.bsky.social 🙏🤩
All Lit Up@alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 11mo ago"“We can return to the poem, but we don’t live there.” We chat with @margolapierre.bsky.social about her new book AJAR (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social), a collection exploring the intersections of womanhood, bipolar psychosis, and gendered trauma. alllitup.ca/we-can-retur...
Thanks @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for this interview!
All Lit Up@alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 11mo ago"“We can return to the poem, but we don’t live there.” We chat with @margolapierre.bsky.social about her new book AJAR (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social), a collection exploring the intersections of womanhood, bipolar psychosis, and gendered trauma. alllitup.ca/we-can-retur...
Montreal, are you free this Thursday? Tamara Jong and I are launching at Argo Bookshop at 7 p.m. November 6. Tamara's memoir Worldly Girls was CBC's top pick for nonfiction this fall, so don't miss out! Register for this free event here: www.ticketsource.com/argo-bookshop.
Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts & The Writers’ Union of Canada for the National Public Readings program funding. See you Ottawa poetry folks tonight! At our spookiest!
Nicola Vulpe@nicolavulpe.bsky.social · 12mo agoIf you're in Ottawa and looking for something to do this Halloween, come to the Happy Goat, 35 Laurel Street. I'll be reading with the excellent Jason Purcell and Margo LaPierre. @margolapierre.bsky.social @jasonvpurcell.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social
Thank you for shining the spotlight & sitting w my poems, rob!
rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · last yr.a mid-week ringette practice for small one (skipping guides tonight because of it), so an opportunity to sit with Margo LaPierre’s Ajar, // @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social
One day left to apply for the Augur Editor role! You'd get to collaborate with an awesome team on putting our future issues together, for both Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social. Apps on our site!
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · last yr.✨ Augur Editor update ✨ The application deadline has been extended to SEPT 26th! 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to apply!
Tour dates! If anyone has suggestions for reading series in Canada (or virtual) I can ask if they'd like to have me to read from Ajar and/or talk about editing poetry, I'd love to hear them. Next up: Oct 3 👻 Gatineau: Nuit Blanche Oct 14 👻 Ottawa International Writers Festival Oct 31 👻Ottawa
Ajar is finally in print, and I wanted to do an unboxing video that would reflect my life in its fullness at the moment. Postpartum proofreading, dog walks & doctor’s visits, precious conversations, late nights, diaper changes, a little alone time, a lot of family time, and exciting mail.
“A devotion to poetry is a way to make friends, while devotion to specificity is a way to make poems.” Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for the chance to share some of my thoughts on poetry ✨
rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · last yr.Spotlight series #110 : Margo LaPierre / @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.medium.com/spotlight-se...
Tune in tonight at 10 pm EST / 7 pm PST ✨
Howl@howl895fm.bsky.social · last yr.TONIGHT! CIUT 89.5FM 10pm - 11pm Hollay Ghadery talks to @margolapierre.bsky.social about “In Violet” (Anstruther Press) & upcoming “Ajar” (Guernica Editions). Also on the show Alex Gurtis “When The Ocean Comes To Me” (Bottlecap Press) TUNE IN TONIGHT! #NationalPoetryMonth
I strongly suspect that god/God is a category error for reality.
""Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in [Buzzkill Clamshell], Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates and intensifies." This review means everything; thanks @margolapierre.bsky.social prismmagazine.ca/2025/04/04/t...
Teeth, Guts, and Growths: A Review of Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn
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This poetry collection is spec-tac-ular & is going to spark all the best conversations #BuzzkillClamshell
Amber Dawn is bent@amberdawnwrites.bsky.social · 2y agoSo, @margolapierre.bsky.social asks the greatest questions. This interview with @arcpoetry.bsky.social online newsletter is the most fun I've had talking about my work in my 25 years of publishing. mailchi.mp/fa5f77dae6f1...
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