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Aidan Chafe

@allegorically.bsky.social
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Teacher & poet. Author of the collections GOSPEL DRUNK (University of Alberta Press) and SHORT HISTORIES OF LIGHT (McGill-Queen's University Press).

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😂 Praying is just talking to yourself - lol
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
😂
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Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with ten acts you’ve seen live: Counting Crows Dashboard Confessional Sarah Harmer Silverchair Beyonce Paul Simon The Weakerthans Damian Rice Lauryn Hill Common
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Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
June 22, join us in Queen's Park (Centennial Lodge) for an incredible night of poetry with host Marlo Browne and features @allegorically.bsky.social and @christinashah.bsky.social!
Aquamarine event poster with feature poets and host in circular portraits on and text with community partner logos on right.

Text:

POETRY IN THE PARK
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 6:30PM - 8:30PM
@ CENTENNIAL
LODGE

Featured Poets:
Aidan Chafe & Christina Shah
Hosted by:
Marlo Browne

RCLAS
City of New Westminster
Arts New West
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Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Yup! That’s the beauty of good art!!!
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 27/06/2026
Andrew French will launch their Pinhole Poetry chapbook TONIGHT at Cross & Crows Books (on The Drive) in Vancouver with guests Aidan Chafe, Lauren Peat and Natalie Lim! @allegorically.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social
Event poster with ivory background, curvilinear border with simple flower illustrations on each side of chapbook cover. Chapbook, “Fists You’ve Called Home” is image of beaten-up sideboards of hockey rink.

TEXT:

CHAPBOOK LAUNCH
"FISTS YOU'VE CALLED HOME"
BY ANDREW FRENCH

FEATURING GUEST READERS
AIDAN CHAFE, LAUREN PEAT, AND NATALIE LIM

7PM, JUNE 27TH
CROSS & CROWS BOOKS
2836 COMMERCIAL DRIVE, VANCOUVER
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Tom Vanderslice @jtv3.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
LOL
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 19/04/2026
This Friday, April 24, 2026 at Anvil Centre, celebrate my chapbook launch and listen to poems from most awesome poets @janetkvammen.bsky.social @allegorically.bsky.social @daletracy.bsky.social @winstonle.bsky.social
Blue poster with title Chapbook Launch in capitals and a picture of author’s chapbook on the right (a cyanotype of leaves and a dime) and the following text:

Royal City Literary Arts Society / Pinhole Poetry

CHAPBOOKLAUNCH

Jessica Lee McMillan
will read from her new chapbook

SHINE LIKE A DIME
IN THE DIRT
UNDER THE MOON

at the Anvil Centre Studio 417, 4th floor
777 Columbia St,
New Westminster, BC
APRIL 24, 2026 6:30 - 8PM

with special guests Janet Kvammen,
Aidan Chafe, Dale Tracy & Winston Lê

Copies will be for sale at the event

The organizers acknowledge the League of Canadian Poets, the Canada Council for the Arts & the Department of Canadian Heritage for their financial support. poets.ca
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Touch the Donkey supplement #290 : seven questions for Aidan Chafe / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttd-...
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TtD supplement #290 : seven questions for Aidan Chafe
Aidan Chafe is the author of the poetry collections Gospel Drunk (University of Alberta Press) and Short Histories of Light (McGill-Queen...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/12/2025
Hockey Players Blast ‘Heated Rivalry’ For Unrealistic Depiction Of Anal Sex
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Hockey Players Blast ‘Heated Rivalry’ For Unrealistic Depiction Of Anal Sex
TORONTO—Accusing the HBO drama of egregiously misrepresenting their experiences off the ice, the National Hockey League Players’ Association blasted Heated Rivalry Friday for what it described as incr...
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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
WOW! Congrats Aidan! @allegorically.bsky.social
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/10/2025
Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing
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Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing
MONTECITO, CA—Signaling a new chapter in her career, pop star Katy Perry released a new single Monday about the superiority of Canadian manufacturing. “When I learned about the strength of Canadian au...
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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver). Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Spotlight series #113 : Christina Shah / @christinashah.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; robmclennan.medium.com/spotlight-se...
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Spotlight series #113 : Christina Shah
Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month.
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Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
ONLY POEMS feature!!!
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Poetry of Aidan Chafe — ONLY POEMS
New poems from Aidan Chafe
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Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Thrilled to have been selected as the ONLY POEMS 2025 Poet of the Year! @onlypoemsmag.bsky. www.onlypoems.net/contest/poet...
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2024 ONLY POEMS Prize Winners: Sydney Mayes, xochi quetzali cartland, Nome Emeka Patrick — ONLY POEMS
Discover the 2024 ONLY POEMS Prize winners! Sydney Mayes is Poet of the Year, with runners-up xochi quetzali cartland and Nome Emeka Patrick, and honorable mentions Tara Mesalik MacMahon and Tom Snars...
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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Cover reveal! I'm beyond excited to share that CLOUDWATCHER, winner of the inaugrual Stern Prize from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & forthcoming from Copper Canyon, has a cover and is now available to pre-order (link in the replies)! 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
There are few greater honours than this (and all the moreso when the poem is this good). Thank you, Jessica!
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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Aidan Chafe's @allegorically.bsky.social poem "Cowboy Archetype Survival Guide" is live in Issue 68 of The Ex-Puritan. Read here: ex-puritan.ca/cowboy-arche...
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Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
had one of those listening to Sarah Marshall’s “Birmingham” and singing through the roof of the car after realizing the lyrics are about a woman breaking free of an abusive relationship!
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Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I asked the class what they do with their insecurities and the boy who missed my preamble about generations of men who won’t talk about their emotions says, “I just push it down, like a man. There’s no point talking about it.” And, he got the last word in before the bell. Amen, it’s Friday.
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Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
A Gr. 11 student wrote, “Some people with the brightest light cast the darkest shadows.” One of the best lines I’ve read this year.
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