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Jessica Lee McMillan

@jessicaleemcmillan.com
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Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 (Pinhole Poetry) pinholepoetry.ca/product/shine-like…

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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 18h
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation & Orange Shirt Day. As we reflect on the history and ongoing legacy of colonialism and the residential school system, and in support of the journey toward reconciliation, we would like to highlight a few of the Indigenous literature titles (1/8)
A collage of book cover thumbnails against an abstract orange background. Small footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp [dot] com, and in the top-right of the background is their logo mark (a circle with an off-centre jagged cross cut through) in semi-transparent orange. The books featured are as follows: “The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded” by Gord Hill; “Tsqelmucwílc” by Celia Haig-Brown, Randy Fred, Garry Gottfriedson, and the KIRS Survivors; “Finding Otipemisiwak” by Andrea Currie; “Buffalo Is the New Buffalo” by Chelsea Vowel; “a body more tolerable” by jaye simpson; and “Together We Drum, Our Hearts Beat as One” by Willie Poll, illustrated by Chief Lady Bird.
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
24 hours of programming to honour Canada's first official National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. View the schedule on https://www.aptntv.ca
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Living East Van, Writing East Van: A Literary Panel. Join me at the VPL for a lively reading and conversation with @normannawrocki.bsky.social, Evelyn Lau(!), and Nick Marino Oct 24th, 2:30 pm! 📕 Register here: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6a906... #poetry #eastvan #hastings-sunrise
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Living East Van, Writing East Van: A Literary Panel
What does it mean to be an East Van writer? For almost 150 years, East Vancouver has been the predominant home for Vancouver’s immigrant and working-class communities. More than a geographic location...
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life sessions
Previously unreleased material comes as Wonder marks 50th anniversary of album with arena tour
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd
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Milo @miloafc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Sick Man of Europe's The Intermittent Signal is a return to the Joy Division world that was so well crafted by the debut album as an analogue post-punk/krautrock world is created once again: www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/the-...
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The Sick Man of Europe - The Intermittent Signal Review — Still Listening
The Sick Man of Europe draw on Joy Division and Arthur Rimbaud for an album that urges us to disconnect from the online world and find something human in the analogue.
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Big congratulations to the winners of the FOURTH PINHOLE POETRY CHAPBOOK SEARCH: Yvonne Blomer, Lorna Crozier, Zoe Dickinson, Foster Gareau, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Marc Perez, Lee Potts and Erin Vosters.
ANNOUNCING the WINNERS of our 4th PINHOLE POETRY CHAPBOOK SEARCH!
YVONNE BLOMER

LORNA CROZIER
ZOE DICKINSON
FOSTER GAREAU
SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA
MARC PEREZ
LEE POTTS
ERIN VOSTERS
THANKS TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED!
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Harbour Publishing @harbourpublishing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don't miss Russell Thornton at Planet Earth Poetry this Friday evening at Russell Books in Victoria. He will read from his latest collection, Two Songs. 📚✨ Come out for an evening of poetry, conversation, and good company!
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PopMatters @popmatters.com · 22/09/2026
The attention economy is built upon passivity. Yet the Sick Man of Europe's music is a pail of cold water to wake us up in the age of complicity. 'The Intermittent Signal' is out on Friday via @theleaflabel.com
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The Sick Man of Europe Fight Against Digital Passivity » PopMatters
The attention economy is built upon passivity. Yet the Sick Man of Europe's music is a pail of cold water to wake us up in the age of complicity.
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sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We were just looking though our submissions, and as a press in Canada we have not a single submission from Canada SUBMIT: sider0xylon.carrd.co
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sider0xylon press
a new press for experimental writing.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 21/09/2026
Chad VanGaalen is at it again with the 7th (?) EP in 2 years--released today. I hope this means an album is imminent. #ChadVanGaalen chadvangaalen.bandcamp.com/album/full-m...
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full moon bummer 'freedom is love' EP, by Chad VanGaalen
5 track album
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sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We have some nifty chapbooks for $10, by @jessicaleemcmillan.com, @nberlat.bsky.social, @mreid.bsky.social, @jordandavis.bsky.social (Americans can save on shipping by buy multiple) sider0xylon.carrd.co #canlit #poetry
chapbooks
DARK PATTERNS & BATH DREAM

by Jessica Lee McMillan SUMMARIES ARE POSITIVE ON SOME LEVEL 

by Noah Berlatsky OPERATIVES 

by Monty Reid SORRY, GOD

by Jordan Davis
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 18/09/2026
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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Raoul Fernandes @raoulfernandes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This starts in less than a week! Well, if I get a few more students!? 😬 So doing one more push to let you know, and to let your budding (or more blossomed) writer friends know. Feel free to DM me if you have questions
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hari Alluri, Tabako on the Windowsill / @pressassembly.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/hari...
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Hari Alluri, Tabako on the Windowsill
Windowsill Offering for Eric In the crematorium’s service room, taking clumsy, ginger turns around the cardboard holding your body, su...
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Ian LeTourneau @ianletourneau.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When selling at a small press fair, one acquires at a small press fair. A few pick ups. So great to meet @russellcarisse.bsky.social and get the new @sider0xylon.bsky.social by @jessicaleemcmillan.com ! Plus a beautiful letterpress chap from Rabbittown Press!
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sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ANNOUNCING!!! A new title by @jessicaleemcmillan.com Dark Patterns & Bath Dream #canlit #poetry
a white with black and red text chapbook on a black tablecloth
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Vancouver Is Awesome @viawesome.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Family-owned Japanese grocery store celebrates 50 years in Vancouver
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Family-owned Japanese grocery store celebrates 50 years in Vancouver
Fujiya is marking the occasion with special draws and limited-edition stickers.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 08/09/2026
#NowPlaying #ChicoBuarque #Vida
Photo of Chico Buarque album resting atop a Technics turntable dust cover with spinning blue-green vinyl. Album is Vida but only displays artist's name in green with a sepia-filtered portrait of a young Chico Buarque and a white background.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 07/09/2026
"The new math" from Bob Hicok's This Clumsy Living (2007)
The new math

There are these notions of how the world would be better. Shoot all the anti-Semites. Wear only red socks. Hunt truth like the wolf hunts elk, in packs, with relentless teeth. Make language stand up and be something like a house, give it the force of wind, the courage of a storm to destroy itself. What we think of as wild I think of as honest. Doing, not what you think, but what you are. The difference between counting the rings of a tree and finding a place in the sky. A theory toward wolf would be a fine addition to the history of advice. Train the spine to walk on fours. Claim only that which your urine can touch. Find faith in the scent of things. Humans are metaphors. Chagall was a synagogue dreaming of being a man. When his paintings meet, they lick each other like wolves. I go nowhere without alienation, I carry it like a pouch of anvils, not belonging is the way I belong.
This brings us to the strange math of our heads, the impossibility of dividing by zero. If we could solve that equation, we'd be happy. I give you pencil, I give you paper, I wish you luck. Wolf would make a better denominator. Divide any number by wolf, you get wolf.
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Hand Drawn Dracula @handdrawndracula.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🌸🐌 @nojoy.bsky.social brand new EP ‘Big Life, Big Leaf’ is out now on one-time pressing of Rose Pedal 10” vinyl for @bandcamp.com Friday 🔗 handdrawndracula.bandcamp.com w/ @fire-toolz.bsky.social 🔥 Released on @soniccathedral.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇪🇺 and on @handdrawndracula.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇺🇸🌎 everywhere else.
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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Lisa Kahaleole Hall, a commenter on the FB page of a mutual friend, shared a deeply thoughtful statement against #AbusiveTech she and fellow Indigenous faculty at the University of Victoria have developed. Sharing it here with their encouragement.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 28/08/2026
Why are grammar checkers so insistent on adding a comma when a conjunction in a simple, compound sentence is already doing the work!? It is a symptom of regression in understanding the logic of syntax.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 27/08/2026
Tim Curry came into my life via 1986’s The Worst Witch film starring Fairuza Balk, based on Jill Murphy’s series (ripped off a few decades later by a heinous transphobe). Curry was such a huge inspiration to me in terms of self-expression and embracing camp❤️ youtu.be/-FMf8ltkCgM
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Anything Can Happen On Halloween
YouTube video by ImzadiLaren
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 27/08/2026
Stylized poster of Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (in lingerie, glorious curls and luscious red lips) with the text “Don't Dream It, Be It”.
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Chuck D @chuckdpe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every artist or actor i know that ran into and met @DollyParton had great things to say about her niceness and humility. ✌🏾🙏🏿
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🇨🇦 Remembering Montreal-born Colleen Dewhurst, who passed on this day in 1991. For generations of Canadians, she'll always be Marilla Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables and CBC's Road to Avonlea. ❤️ Canadian public broadcasting helps keep performances like hers part of our cultural memory.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 22/08/2026
youtu.be/eLrJzhf7MFc
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Kraftwerk: "Neonlicht" (1978) {2009 Remaster}
YouTube video by Kingdom of Madness
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 19/08/2026
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A handshake 🤝 is worthy
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 17/08/2026
Fond memories were made last night at Jaeyun Yoo’s chapbook launch with Lauren Peat, Robin Susanto, and Christina Shah. The world has more spark after a night of poetry and banter with these folks. @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social @christinashah.bsky.social @robin-susanto.bsky.social
Group of 5 poets smiling with their books in a white cafe with large windows behind. From left to right: Lauren Peat, Christina Shah, Jaeyun Yoo, Robin Susanto, and Jessica Lee McMillan.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 15/08/2026
Join us TODAY! So excited to read with these amazing poets and support Jaeyun’s breathtaking chapbook 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
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Jaeyun Yoo @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TOMORROW! ✨️Chapbook Launch✨️ So excited to read and have a good time :) Can't wait to hear from @jessicaleemcmillan.com @robin-susanto.bsky.social @christinashah.bsky.social and Lauren Peat! www.eventbrite.ca/e/chapbook-l...
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Chapbook Launch- when a country teaches you
Join the chapbook launch for "when a country teaches you" (Baseline Press) by poet Jaeyun Yoo on August 15 (Sat) 5-7:30pm!
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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
THRILLED to be hosting the launch for 🌠Jaeyun Yoo's debut chapbook 'when a country teaches you', from baseline press! Sat. Aug 15th DALINA- 687 Main St, Vancouver Doors @ 5 Reading @ 5:30 w/ ⭐️Jessica Lee McMillan ⭐️Lauren Peat ⭐️Robin Susanto RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/chapbook-l...
Chapbook launch poster featuring Jaeyun Yoo. Light blue, with Asian art featuring several figures together.Chapbook launch with photos of five beautiful poets.Chapbook launch poster for 'when a country teaches you' by Jaeyun Yoo with beautiful Asian artwork and light blue background.
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Jaeyun Yoo @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
1 week away!! Looking forward to a splendid summer evening full of poetry. RSVP for Aug 15 5pm ✨️chapbook launch!✨️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/chapbook-l... @christinashah.bsky.social @jessicaleemcmillan.com @robin-susanto.bsky.social
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Chapbook Launch- when a country teaches you
Join the chapbook launch for "when a country teaches you" (Baseline Press) by poet Jaeyun Yoo on August 15 (Sat) 5-7:30pm!
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 08/08/2026
I hear #Elastica is making new music⚡️❤️⚡️ youtu.be/ilKcXIFi-Rc
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Elastica - Connection (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ElasticaVEVO
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 01/08/2026
Michael e. Casteels has outdone himself with STUMPT Ninth and accompanying treasures. I’m very proud to have a micro-poem within its pages. Order an issue or chap from Puddles of Sky Press and have an anaolg summer. #Chapbooks #Micropress www.puddlesofskypress.com/index.html/
White mailer envelope with many Canadian stamps, a comic book of collages (The Raw Id Kid issue 2, the second issue of his aesemic, cubist Western, hand-collaged by Michael e. Casteels) and hand-made micro-chapbooks (some in small envelopes) with stamped text, an art card with assembled photos  arranged together on a wooden desk.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 01/08/2026
Join us tomorrow @theriffmedia.bsky.social Album Club where @jthepisodes.bsky.social will present Keznamdi’s BLXXD & FYAH. Essential summer listening. All are welcome. Details in article. medium.com/the-riff/the...
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The Riff Album of The Month (August 2026) — Blood and Fire
Join us Sunday, August 2nd, 5 PM EST/2 PM PST
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 01/08/2026
New #BlondeRedhead youtu.be/ixzhSpkAG60
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Blonde Redhead - Blood Spilled (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by Blonde Redhead
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 30/07/2026
Grateful for @kevinspenst.bsky.social's “Chuffed about Chapbooks” in subTerrain💚 In #103, he reviews my chapbook @pinholepoetry.bsky.social as “big concept poetry” that “has its foot in the door of our everyday sensorial reality”. A true aim of mine (and to review more #CanLit)! www.subterrain.ca
Photo of subTerrain, Issue #103. Cover design has light beige background and geometric illustration--centred-- in faded blue, yellow, green, purple, with two abstract faces facing opposite directions.


subTerrain Magazine link: https://www.subterrain.ca/
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 28/07/2026
This Wednesday!
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Jaeyun Yoo @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thrilled about my chapbook launch on Aug 15 (Sat) 5pm @ Dalina Main St! Sip a latte while listening to poetry ❤️ Join me and amazing guest readers: @jessicaleemcmillan.com @robin-susanto.bsky.social and Lauren Peat. Hosted by @christinashah.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ca/e/chapbook-l...
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 26/07/2026
3 events in 2 weeks! Looking forward to seeing you before fall hibernation. jessicaleemcmillan.com/upcoming/
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U p c o m i n g  P o e m s: – Poem in Pinhole Poetry Issue 5.2, July – Poem in Canadian Literature – Micro-chapbook via sider0xylon press -Poem in STUMPT issue nine, Puddles of Sk…
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 26/07/2026
Join us for the launch of Jaeyun Yoo's @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social chapbook “when a country teaches you” along with Robin Susanto @robin-susanto.bsky.social, Lauren Peat and host Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social August 15 (Sat) 5pm @ DALINA 687 Main St. Vancouver
Event poster with pale blue, grey & cobalt hues and central, monochromatic illustration of women crouched in a meadow.

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HOSTED BY: Christina Shah
GUEST READERS: Jessica Lee McMillan, Lauren Peat, Robin Susanto


August 15 (Sat) 5pm
DALINA Main St.
687 Main St
Vancouver

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Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 19/07/2026
“In It” from Jeff Blackman’s chapbook In The Briny via Puddles of Sky Press for #smallpoemsunday @jeffblackman.bsky.social www.puddlesofskypress.com/index.html/
In It

Honestly
I want less to do 
with my body

but the body 
has a poem
I want

(poem is rubber stamped on beige, toothy paper).
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 18/07/2026
4 more sleeps until I see the 25th Anniversary show at The Rio Vancouver and meet JCM⚡️❤️⚡️
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