Gregory Betts
@whatisapoem.bsky.social
Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
Delighted to announce my New & Selected Poems, a Bilingual Volume in English and Bengali. Translated by Suresh Ranjan Basak and published by Dibyaprokash in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Suresh is a professor and acclaimed translator; his previous works include Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, etc.
if a tariff is a tax if a tariff is attacks if a tax is a tariff if a tariff is a tact a tax is a tar is a if is a at is a ack if a are if a axe a tare a tear if a if a if a fare a far a fit
Make a 🍁 novel smaller: A Year of Girls and Women
Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 3w agoMake a 🍁 novel smaller: The Summer Internship of Duddy Kravitz
I am officially out of bookshelf space. Buy a new one or purge? (or, more likely, pile)
myself and dear spouse hosted that nice Gregory Betts and his brother this fine evening; what a good lad, // @christinemcnair.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social
If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan
Introducing The Wow! Literary Award for Emerging Writers. The Wow! is an initiative from the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of life, intelligence, and consciousness in the universe. www.seti.org/wow-literary...
Wow Literary Award
seti.org
Not satisfied with diseases and famine, with sterility of earth, and tempests of the air, they must have laws and marriages, and kings and tac-gatherers, and wars and fetes, and every variety of artificial misery inconceivable to you. Charles Maturin
It seems to me that we have fallen into paralysis and that the only freedom left to us is language. -- Chateaubriand
At the entrance to the arcade, a mailbox: a last opportunity to make some sign to the world one is leaving. Walter Benjamin
Mariem Abutaleb, "Bold Rhythm", "Gesture of Writing", and "Extended Rhythm" (2026). Such gorgeous work.
Just posted a #poem by Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social "The Body" a fascinating depiction of a body's journey down the river and over the falls, a poem to be published in an upcoming volume by Betts niagarapoetry.ca/2026/04/30/b... #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #deathpoetry
The Body by Gregory Betts - Niagara Falls Poetry Project
Gregory Betts wrote this poem as part of a collection of poems in a forthcoming book. The poem examines a porous body in a river
niagarapoetry.ca
A clean sweep of the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist by American authors. Congratulations to them and that country. @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social
"Find new ways of approach 'the public'" Virginia Woolf, 1938
Recalling the trip we took to Limerick, and the poem we spun en route.
Fixed Trump's sick genocidal rant. The only possible positive outcome of the day.
Happening this Thursday (April 9): a one-day symposium on the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive!
Gregory Betts@whatisapoem.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou are invited and welcome to "The Leafless Page", a one-day symposium at TMU on Thursday 9 April. We will be launching the new bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and collectively beginning to imagine its future use to readers, teachers, students, and poets. Register here: bit.ly/4lO65y6
You are invited and welcome to "The Leafless Page", a one-day symposium at TMU on Thursday 9 April. We will be launching the new bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and collectively beginning to imagine its future use to readers, teachers, students, and poets. Register here: bit.ly/4lO65y6
You are invited and welcome to "The Leafless Page", a one-day symposium at TMU on Thursday 9 April. We will be launching the new bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and collectively beginning to imagine its future use to readers, teachers, students, and poets. Register here: bit.ly/4lO65y6
It is my great pleasure to open the search for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency at The SETI Institute. This 18-month remote residency comes with a $10,000 US stipend and is open to all writers and poets. Consider sharing with those who might be interested. www.seti.org/news/cosmic-...
Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency
The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your materials by June 1, 2026 to ensure your application is considered.
seti.org
It is my great pleasure to open the search for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency at The SETI Institute. This 18-month remote residency comes with a $10,000 US stipend and is open to all writers and poets. Consider sharing with those who might be interested. www.seti.org/news/cosmic-...
Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency
The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your materials by June 1, 2026 to ensure your application is considered.
seti.org
The Reader, an iron sculpture. I couldn't find the name of the artist, but had some fun dialing the saturation up to 11.
50 years ago, Steve McCaffery published Carnival, The Second Panel, an explosion of words and letters produced by typewriter and stamp. "the message being that we are all poets one and all as long as we have lungs"
