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Dale Tracy

@daletracy.bsky.social
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poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her

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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Delightful little objects in your hands and then you can read them!
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nwclimateactionhub.bsky.social @nwclimateactionhub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Join us tomorrow for the Climate Arts Build from 12:30-3:30 PM at 529 Queens Ave, New West. We will sing, dance, write, play music and paint to prepare for a Flash Mob! Bring your instruments, your friends, and your creativity! RSVP for free now: buff.ly/PxDv7HL
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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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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH FIRES? We have a giant fire ecology/Indigenous fire ecology ep on that: www.alieward.com/ologies/fire... with Dr. @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social & Dr. @amycardinal.bsky.social (follow them!)
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Fire Ecology (WILDFIRES & INDIGENOUS FIRE MANAGEMENT) Mega Encore with Dr. Gavin Jones & Dr. Amy Christianson — alie ward
As wildfires burn across L.A. — and my neighborhood evacuates — we thought it would be a good time to encore these Fire Ecology episodes so I can literally catch my breath. First Dr. Gavin Jones bring...
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My poem delights in its neighbours in the "Occasions of Climate & Nature" section of On Occasion @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
Cover of On Occasion: Poems for the People, Edited by Sina Queyras, on an orange backgroundFire, Fire
After William Blake

Fire, fire, burning bright, 
In the forests in our sight.
What mortal hearts or minds
Could act beyond and re-bend time?

In land, water, air, and sky,
Could we frame our symmetry?
Some have sometimes loved a liar.
But could some hands dare halt the fire?

And what caution, & what care,
Could twist the structures that we bear?
And when our plan begins to beat,
What held hands? & what moved feet?

What the warming? what the storm?
In what furnace were we born?
What the vision? what joy grasped?
Dare we loose its fierceness clasped?

When the fascists leave their forge,
And leave their names in ugly scorch,
Will we love the work we’ve done?
Will we make whole what was gone?

Fire, fire, burning bright, 
In the forests in our sight.
What mortal hearts or minds 
Dare act beyond and re-bend time?
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you're in New Westminster and looking for people working together to solve problems!
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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Looking forward to reading this Wed. at Poetry in the Park with Aidan! @allegorically.bsky.social Thanks Janet! @janetkvammen.bsky.social @rclas.bsky.social ❤️📕
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
An amazing new course being offered by Dr. Dale Tracy at @kwantlenu.bsky.social. ENGL 3362: Environment & Literature Tue, 1-4pm, fall 2026, Surrey campus @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social
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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank you to @robmclennan.bsky.social for posting my piece on Sandy Shreve's work poetry. It was a privilege to write about this fascinating, generous, visionary woman. RIP Sandy.
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How joyful!
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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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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 20/06/2026
Check out our new site: #SAPP #NewWest #CanLit www.sappzine.ca
sappzine.ca
SAPP | a poetry + art zine
In addition to publishing an annual zine, SAPP hosts regular community arts events that give writers and artists the opportunityt to connect in person and build relationships with other creatives.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 21/06/2026
One of my many dad poems. Published in The Malahat Review, Issue 228
ORINOCO
by Jessica Lee McMillan


dad cranked it loud enough
for the synthesizer to wrap around
the chassis of our Astrovan
resonating in 4 ribcages
arpeggios I'd try on my Casio SK-1 
like Enya on her Roland Juno-60.
and that day driving to the library event
advertising a hot air balloon
Orinoco Flow lifted us up
like the new car smell. 
it had a tenor, spacious as our hope
and dad, who'd as soon play Neil Young 
or The Cult, was never too cool 
for tunes he liked. 
I could never read his tastes 
by his stern German profile
and the changing genres of his beard
but I caught a glimpse of him
when his voice merged with the chords 
ebbing from the cassette
—sonorous as the word Orinoco—
then out the driver's window
over his one, tanned arm. 
at the last haunt of D sharp,
he cued it up again
despite the van's fated repo ahead.
I couldn't decide 
if I was embarrassed or proud.
arriving late, we never sailed away 
but the ride that day felt like flight.
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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thank you to @roblucastaylor.bsky.social and @readlocalbc.bsky.social for featuring this interview! Rob always asks the good questions!
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm beyond enthused to be part of this anthology, and I'm especially taken with these interviews that frame how the poems live in the world and invite us into living with them. occasionalpoems.ca/interviews/d...
occasionalpoems.ca
Dale Tracy
What is an occasion? An occasion is a recognizable moment or pattern of experience. What is the occasion of your poem? My poem’s occasion is fire season, but I was also thinking of fire season as a…
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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 · 16/04/2026
Poems, on occasion , On Occasion: Poems for the People, ed. Sina Queyras (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), robmclennan.substack.com/p/poems-on-o...
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RAVEN @raventrust.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It's time to take action for a climate-stable future. Ahead of Earth Day, RAVEN is asking supporters to pledge an action to show our solidarity with two Wet’suwet’en House groups of the Likhts’amisyu Clan who are leading the way. Make your pledge at raventrust.com/earth-day-2026-pledge/
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 24/03/2026
My chapbook launch is coming April 24, 2026 at Anvil Centre with very special guests @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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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
How wonderful for my chapbook (and scholarly book!) to be on the receiving end of this attentive eye! Thanks @kevinspenst.bsky.social for bringing so much goodness to poets and poetry!
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
An exciting special issue inviting proposals on experimental poetry!
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I'm glad to be connected to more than 1000 artists from 65 countries in this art game! telephonegame.art
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TELEPHONE
Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Talking transit and making art in Surrey! This is the kind of event I'm always hoping for. actionnetwork.org/events/trans...
actionnetwork.org
Transit Tapestries
Movement recently completed a successful community engagement campaign in Surrey, collecting over 300 responses to our survey on the state of transit. We shared the results with the City of Surrey and...
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Participating in the Climate Change Theatre Action global festival meant my students could make something happen together, which makes me feel hopeful. www.climatechangetheatreaction.com/join-us/
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Get Involved – Climate Change Theatre Action
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I'm so excited about how this book from @btlbooks.com is helping me plan ways for students to practice working together to solve problems. btlbooks.com/book/roles-o...
btlbooks.com
Roles of Resistance
Game Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers.
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'm grateful for this clear and concise climate mis/disinformation resource from @caadcoalition.bsky.social that I'll use when I'm teaching critical thinking in a first-year writing course. caad.info/analysis/bri...
caad.info
Climate Action Against Disinformation | Climate Mis-/Disinformation Backgrounder
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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
EVENT 54/1 is here. Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue features winning Non-Fiction Contest work (selected by Michelle Cyca), plus new writing from Dennis Cooley, Grace Kwan, Dale Tracy, Liz Stewart & more. Submissions open July 1: www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Jay Miller reviews Dale Tracy's The Mystery of Ornament (above/ground press, 2020) / @daletracy.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/jay-...
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Jay Miller reviews Dale Tracy's The Mystery of Ornament (2020)
Montreal poet, translator and reviewer Jay Miller was good enough to review Dale Tracy's The Mystery of Ornament (2020) over at Bibelotage...
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Can we lullaby our dreams, Barbara Tran makes me wonder--not to make them sleep but to calm their restlessness to follow their rhythms to move well in the surreal world.
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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🎉 1 month until Bonememory is published! 🎉 This book is all of me. Please consider pre-ordering (link below). From the publisher: Our memories, and the memories of others, live in our bones. These poems document personal, intergenerational, and collective trauma—and the astonishment of survival.
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I can feel this good thinking helping me somehow. "the form of over-doing it"! "the way of refrains"!
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Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“How does a poem begin” is a great question because beginnings seem like they’re only pin-downable when you look right at them.
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