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poet. radio host. day jobber. @asquarehouse.bsky.social
new poetry from me and @anotherdavidcurrie.bsky.social about stand-up and sit-coms and crouch-gags chapbook available now from above/ground press
new from above/ground press: This Guy Gets It, by David Currie & IAN MARTIN
This Guy Gets It David Currie & IAN MARTIN $6 Stand Up Poem Sometimes I walk into rooms and there aren’t enough chairs. So, I end up standin...
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i'm p useless when it comes to using social media. but here's a review i wrote recently for the woodlot:
The Wood Lot Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays@the-wood-lot.bsky.social · 5mo ago
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
amazing turnout last night at the vault in nanaimo! shout out to featured readers Masha Zhaksybek + Lee Groen, and big big thanks to everyone who signed up to read at the open mic! see you at the next GRUB STREET reading series 🐛
i want you to put the word out that we're back
a square house@asquarehouse.bsky.social · 7mo agothe next GRUB STREET reading series is coming up april 3rd at the vault #nanaimo! open mic following featured readers Lee Groen + Masha Zhaksybek. + chapbooks and zines available for purchase, door prizes for open mic readers. bring your notebook!
big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!
jesslyn delia@jlyndelia.bsky.social · 7mo agook time to listen to some phil ochs then walk down to the bar to talk about poetry
new work from yrs truly... email us at the press to order a copy!
a square house@asquarehouse.bsky.social · 8mo agonew from the press: cartoon yrself - dalton derkson our first publication is dalton derkson's umpteenth chapbook. "cartoon yrself" is a riff on dennis lee's "riffs" (1993) & in the short collection dalton wrestles with the rarest of poetry's muses: loss, longing & language. info: asquarehouse.ca
big thanks to lauryn @chly.ca for this awesome write-up! get acquainted w/ a square house & get ready for the inaugural GRUB STREET here:
CHLY 101.7FM@chly.ca · 9mo agoLocal poetry press creating space for indie, alternative and local writers. Listen—or read more—at www.chly.ca/news in #Nanaimo. Broadcasting on the Salish Sea.
as someone who lived it, this is the exact advice ppl considering getting their cw mfa need to hear. & in fewer than 300 characters, no less!
Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 9mo agoShould you get a writing degree? Absolutely, if you'd like to study the craft, find community, and earn a degree that will show others you take yourself seriously, which will in turn make them take you seriously, but it's also a scam in a clout pyramid scheme!
our first ever reading series GRUB STREET is happening one week from today at the vault!! featuring Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming, + poetry open mic (with door prizes) to follow. hope we see you there!
the secret to being a small poetry press is that...
periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief 🦎 read/subscribe:
lizard draft.
do you ever feel so intensely known that you realize you’ve been walking around blissful, on the other side somehow of the violence of being perceived, like wandering into a neighbourhood you’ve ne…
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Hi to our 500+ followers. Do literally any of you want to buy CanLit trading cards?
wrote a love letter to saskatchewan (my latest post on leftover drafts):
prairie pieces.
i caught a cold in saskatchewan. there’s something mystifying about the prairies. maybe in the way the fields roll so flat, the way they chase themselves endlessly like they’re this close to catchi…
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i wrote about wanting a front porch, and how much that feeling sucks sometimes. my latest leftover draft, on wanting or not to say hello:
saying hello.
i’m doing that thing again where i keep the fan on low when it should really be on high. which of my delicate senses is better kept protected, which feeling do i love the most today? it takes up to…
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i used to regularly serve tea to margaret atwood at a cafe in toronto except she always made the person she came with pay, order, and carry her drink to the table for her.
Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
BREAKING: Philadelphia Phillies are trading RHP Jordan Romano to the absolute nearest Pizza Nova franchise for a slice of stale Hawaiian & a Bud Prohibition Brew. #RingTheBell
Lowkey really enjoy this logo. Just give me a happy bird. This bird isn’t smug, he isn’t condescending, he just loves the game.
imagine voluntarily tuning in to a cable program every saturday night just to wholeheartedly fill your diaper about it to an audience of none lol.
my wife (@jlyndelia.bsky.social) once again proving newsletters can be literary:
These Days@thesedayszine.bsky.social · last yr.
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you’re so inclined, feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by my friend Jo Ianni (@wtfisapoet on other platforms), from his startlingly good new chapbook FAT LUCK AND FUZZY SONG (Apt 9 Press) 🌎
the collections agency spins 'if i had 1 million dollars' on their hold line radio & i mean, talk about your SALTED KNIFE. talk about your CAUTERIZED BURN. get savvy with @dd6669.bsky.social
bird doggin' classic / savvy
Two poems about being broke and shooting skeet from dalton derkson
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two new poems out today! they among great company on Discordia Review's Fellow Travelers feature. get weird here: discordiareview.substack.com/p/bird-doggi...
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