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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Honoured to have a poem included in this issue among so much great work. You can hear an audio recording of my poem and the other pieces in this issue at the link below. With all gratitude to @phillipcrymble.bsky.social and @fiddlehd.bsky.social team.

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 19/08/2026

Libraries are the last proof that the richest things in life are free.

Photo by Talha Resitoglu. A library reading room seen from the rear. A barrel-vaulted ceiling opens to a long skylight of pale glass. Tiered wooden shelves hold books along two galleries, with a stained glass window, a round clock, and carved lions on marble at the right. Below, people read and work at long tables, laptops and bottles beside them. A white-haired man in a pale shirt sits nearest, turned away. Red and cream patterned carpet covers the floor.

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Minimalist poetry at its finest!✨ Check out our interview with poet Anna Veprinksa about her book, Wound Archive (Gordon Hill Press/The Porcupine’s Quill, 2026) on our blog: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/... @annaveprinska.bsky.social #invisibleillness #poetry

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Lisa Richter reads with Anna Veprinska and Tolu Oloruntoba at Owl's Nest Books in Calgary on Monday, July 20. Hosted by @michelinemaylor.bsky.social. All are welcome! bit.ly/4froYFi @lisarichter.bsky.social @tolu.ca @annaveprinska.bsky.social #books #poetry #YYC #readings

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So grateful and honoured to have Bonememory shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry 🙏

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“And just before the afternoon bell, she made the math equation / look easy. The one that proves that hundreds of questions, // and feeling cold, and all those nights spent looking / for whatever it was you lost, and one person // add up to something.” —Brad Aaron Modlin

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The final entry in Wendy Cope's Collected Poems (2025)

The End

Not yet sans everything.
Thanks to my glasses, hearing aids, dental implant,
walking stick, inhalers, statins,
and carefully rationed painkillers,
I am glad to be alive
as I walk the last mile or two
through the valley of the shadow.

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Shout out to the Calgary #poet Anna Veprinska, pictured here at a recent event in Winnipeg, where she read from her beautifully distilled book, Wound Archive, (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2026). Grab a copy of Wound Archive from wherever books are bought or borrowed. ghp-pql.com/products/wou...

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Caught off guard by the stillness at the heart of this Ray Carver poem

The Window

A storm blew in last night and knocked out
the electricity. When I looked
through the window, the trees were translucent.
Bent and covered with rime. A vast calm
lay over the countryside.
I knew better. But at that moment
I felt I'd never in my life made any
false promises, nor committed
so much as one indecent act. My thoughts
were virtuous. Later on that morning,
of course, electricity was restored.
The sun moved from behind the clouds,
melting the hoarfrost.
And things stood as they had before.

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Neil Surkan @neilsurkan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hi Calgary! I'm launching Empties TOMORROW (Sunday) at 5PM! Location: the WONDERFUL bookstore THE NEXT PAGE! With @ryannekap.bsky.social, @annaveprinska.bsky.social, Mikka Jacobsen, and Blair Palmer Yoxall It'd be such a treat to see you there! 🧜‍♂️

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melanie brannagan frederiksen @melanie-b-f.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

come to @annaveprinska.bsky.social’s launch of her latest collection, Wound Archive. she’ll be reading with @ariel-gordon.bsky.social and me. the event will be held May 29th at Lifesshort Gallery (411 Pembina Hwy) at 7:00 pm

a poster advertising a book launch and poetry reading by Anna Veprinska, Ariel Gordon, and melanie brannagan frederiksen — May 29, 2026 at Lifesshort Gallery (411 Pembina Hwy). the images on the poster are three author photos of, from left to right: Anna Veprinska, melanie brannagan frederiksen, and Ariel Gordon.

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Neil Surkan @neilsurkan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

SO Excited to launch Empties with this incredible lineup! SUNDAY, May 24th, in Calgary at The Next Page. 🧜‍♂️💛

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Looking forward to @neilsurkan.bsky.social ‘s Calgary book launch in just under a week! And looking forward to reading alongside some superb writers, including @ryannekap.bsky.social. Come out if you’re in town!

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

@uumez.bsky.social and I are so grateful to the Calgary literary community for supporting our double book launch Thursday night, with special thanks to @michelinemaylor.bsky.social. We had a full house and full hearts, and we both sold out of books (more available wherever books are sold)!

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

If you’re in Calgary, please join us for the joint launch of our new poetry books, We Survived Until We Could Live by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike and Wound Archive by Anna Veprinska, on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 7 pm at Shelf Life Books @uumez.bsky.social @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Carrie Fountain

TO WHITE NOISE

You are the sound silence
makes in its sleep, air made

visible by smoke, deepest
breath with no breathing,

O my personal ocean, O un-
broken shush of mortality,

O my digital sister, thank
you, thank you for keeping

the children from climbing
over the fence of sleep.

--Carrie Fountain

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My third collection of poems, Wound Archive, was published today 😍! I haven’t yet received my copies, so it doesn’t feel quite real. Please consider ordering a copy (link in bio). Endless appreciation for all who have supported this work 🙏 @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ever grateful to @teagerbeza.bsky.social for this beautiful, touching blurb about Wound Archive. Wound Archive will be published in just over 2 weeks!

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.” —Walter de La Mare, “The Listeners”

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thank you for including Wound Archive, forthcoming May 1, on this list!

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Honoured and grateful to @tolu.ca for this beautiful blurb about Wound Archive. Silence and waiting are roots for this book - thank you for seeing them, Tolu. If you’d like a review copy of this minimalist collection of poems before it publishes May 1, contact me or @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

From Victoria Chang’s With My Back to the World. Such a beautiful book 🥹

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A new brief lullaby of a poem up at NewPoetry, with many thanks to @bookninja.bsky.social

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

💫 Coming soon! 💫 Wound Archive, the new poetry collection by Anna Veprinska, arriving May 1, 2026 with GHP/PQ. DM us to request a review copy! Or just drop a comment. @annaveprinska.bsky.social #poetry

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“And I wonder why we / are always on our hind legs, to see what?” - Victoria Chang, “Today” @victoriachang.bsky.social

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“After history the everyday” —Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Billy Collins, born on this day in 1941

Petunias

According to the wisdom brewing at the seminar table,
a poem that begins with petunias
should find a way to get away from petunias.

It should deviate from its path,
break the flower-chain of content
transcending botanical considerations altogether.

But sometimes a poem shows
no interest in executing a sudden turn,
swerving off in some unexpected direction

much to the reader's surprise and delight.
Instead, the poem continues happily on its way,
plowing straight down the page

and ends up ending with nothing but petunias,
a row of them along a brick path,
a trowel dropped in the dark soil,

or a vase of them by a window,
the stems bent in the glassy water, why not
a poem with petunias growing from its mouth and ears.

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Our amazing intern, Michael Schmidt, drops by our blog to tell us about the books he’s excited about this spring — and thinks you should add to your 2026 reading challenge. www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/... #canlit

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Great to see Anna Veprinska on this list. Look for new work from Anna this summer in our Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue.

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Honoured and grateful to have a poem on this shortlist 🙏

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Joy Harjo's BASIC RULES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT POETS

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

First blurb for my forthcoming poetry book, Wound Archive, is in! Thank you so much to Cameron Anstee for reading this book with attention and generosity. It may be the honour of my life to have this book in the same breath as Paul Celan and Phyllis Webb 🙏. Publication in April. Pre-orders available

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

March / ripped out of February, a raw thing. Marianne Boruch

CAR COVERED WITH SNOW

Before I clear the windows, I sometimes sit inside. And the stillness is such that I lose how the day works.
It soaks up
all the steely details: March
ripped out of February, a raw thing. Sometimes my son has patience. And we sit a few minutes like this in the weird half-light. He says: we're in a closed fist, Mama.
Or, it's like the car's eye is closed. We're deep in the brain then, seeing as the blind see, all listening. Outside, the cardinal tinks tinks his alarm call,
his scared call. I hear it: the snow so terribly white.
And he is brilliant,
conspicuous.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Victoria Chang

How It Happens

I want to staple
myself to a passing cloud,
so I am blameless for war.

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Edits submitted! Third collection of poems forthcoming in April. It was hard to return to many of the poem-fragments that make up this book, because they speak to a wounded time. Pre-orders available at the link in my bio. Thank you for your support, always 🙏

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

What, you may ask, does a forgotten poem by a foreign-born Hollywood extra have to tell us now? All I can say is that Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED has been a source of comfort for me over the past few years—a sympathetic voice reaching across decades. “Been there,” he nods…

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Robert Bloomfield @lunebread.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

-22 in Kiev today. Another poem from Bonememory by @annaveprinska.bsky.social

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.” —Louise Glück, “The Red Poppy”

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Thank you for this deeply moving poem - psalm - for our times, @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social

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Robert Bloomfield @lunebread.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Poets – in their boundless-absurd desire to fly – / flock their verse with birds, babbling / and babbling and calling it birdsong. Loving BONEMEMORY by @annaveprinska.bsky.social

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Honoured to have Bonememory as an Alberta bestseller in December. Books seem to come and go so quickly these days. Thank you for continuing to read this one 🙏

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UCalgary Press @ucalgarypress.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Our literary series forwards bold and lively voices that entertain and engage. Discover Brave & Brilliant poetry. ow.ly/fOzG50XNrhE

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

“history used the back verandah to negotiate its terms and collect its dues” —Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." —Louis Adamic

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awkwardspiritanimals @awkspiritanimal.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

it's that time again, folks

Instructions on Not Giving Up
Ada Limón
1976 –
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

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Artsyreader 🇨🇦 @artsyreader.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Probably “Demon Copperhead” for prose & “Bonememory” for poetry. @annaveprinska.bsky.social

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

“At first I was lonely, but then I was / curious.” —Ada Limón, “The Endlessness”

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