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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

so excited & grateful to be able to share that preorders are open for my new chapbook-length long poem, Tired Light, coming soon in October from @thirtywestph.com here’s a small sample from the poem, with thanks to @joshdale.co & the whole Thirty West crew :) 💫 (🔗 below)

Heaven is here

in our rattling
bones, it directs the sailboat of the state

extremely weakly, sending signal birds
& olive leaves

if anything. Love is boring
holes in the house like a woodpecker,

already halfway through
the exterior wall—

can you hear it,
from the eastern side

opposite the sunrise.
Most nights

you sleep a little south of me
and when we let the cats stay they

lay just east of our feet,
together too

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Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New books are making their way into the world. They have flaps!

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Brian Evenson @brianevenson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I have a short book involving demons, substituted identity and general corporate insanity coming out with PM Press next year. If you're interested, I'd encourage you to preorder. I love how it turned out. Plus, there's a picture of me walking the picket line for the Writer's Guild on the cover...

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Brick, A Literary Journal @brickliterary.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A short story by Josiah Nelson from Brick's Winter issue. brickmag.com/this-mysteri...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Not sure I'll read a better book this year, DIVING BOARD by Tomás Downey, translated by Sarah Moses, published last year by @invisibooks.bsky.social It's both realist and irreal. Spare and dense and surreal. Echoes of Julio Cortázar, and Mariana Enríquez but with a unique sensibility and tension.

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Morgen Jahnke @morgenjahnke.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Now that it finally feels like spring in Saskatoon, seems like a good time to share my spring poem from the January 2026 issue of @prairiefiremag.bsky.social.

Homecoming

bury my body in the tall prairie grass—
this ruined house
of rusted cans and porcelain shards,
boards and plaster.
what is true will remain.

what is true will feel the floods of spring—
chimney full of crows,
paper peeling from the walls.
a spindle-backed chair, each rung a rib,
smashed lung of bottle, empty of air.

at dusk coyote creeps to the doorsill,
burs of wild rye on his tail,
eyes glowing in the darkness,
to see what this place once was.

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Sylvie Liebert @sqliebert.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's April! Welcome to Poetry Month! Here's a list of 30 prompts to maybe get your keyboard or pen jumpstarted. I've tried to put together a variety. Happy poem-ing for these next 30 days! #NationalPoetryMonth

APRIL PROMPTS

1. write a poem that begins with an animal watching you
2. something you kept that doesn't belong to you
3. driving through a town you used to know in the dark
4. write a poem addressed to a body of water
5. that time the light changed
6. what she meant when she said "nice"
7. write a poem about a word you stopped using when someone left
8. the etiquette of vanishing
9. women who name their cars
10. "Does this go faster?"
11. the hazards of mercy
12. sometimes I feel human
13. what are you superstitious about? and yes, you are.
14. remember a specific moment. write about the hour or two preceding that event, not the event itself.
15. pinkie promises
16. mourn a particular sunrise. what was lost in the daylight?
17. love poem from inside a parked car
18. write a poem to your worst enemy
19. the contents of a drawer you refuse to clean out
20. aftertaste
21. where does your confidence come from?
22. something gentle that learned to be feral
23. write a poem about the strangest place you've cried. focus on the location more than the reason.
24. "Do one thing that scares you every day until you die."
25. two truths about the same summer
26. "There are wrecking balls inside us."
27. write a poem that ends with a door
28. "better" as a myth
29. a response poem to another poem you've written this month, or earlier
30. peace offering

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Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Absolutely love Natalie Southworth's debut, There's Always More to Say.

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Laurie D. Graham @lauriedgraham.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is Calling It Back to Me’s release day, though the book, stacks of them (or boxes? how are they housed?) have been sitting in a warehouse (where?) for a month, and they've been trickling into this world with me in tow, into this present, this March, this reluctant, catastrophed spring.

A row of book spines, dark in colour, the title Calling It Back to Me in yellow font.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Pam Rehm

Acts of Knowledge

As if a book
were a kind of
voluntary nurse

looking for the wound
inside you

Words and senses
Terror and delicacy

Wisdom

The leaves on the tree
grew

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Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Popping on here to share that I've a new bilingual poetry chapbook out. Verfondre / Wormmelt is an experimental melding of traditional translation with the poème fondu, a poetic form invented by Michelle Grangaud, a member of Oulipo. Out now with Baseline Press. www.baselinepress.ca#/verfondre-w...

Photo of poetry chapbook Verfondre / Wormmelt by Annick MacAskill. The photo shows the cover, inner page, and two pages of bilingual poetry.

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Cannot wait for this event & seeing what arises. All welcome, Take Cover Books event listing here: takecoverbooks.ca/events

takecoverbooks.ca

Take Cover Books

An independent bookstore in Peterborough–Nogojiwanong.

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Prairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Our winter issue is on sale now on our website and in stores around the country! Featuring new work like this haunting new poem from Morgen Jahnke. Details: prairiefire.ca/current-issue/

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Honored to have a new poem in The McNeese Review, a journal I absolutely love! Thanks to editor, Michael Robins, and poetry editor, Gwenyth Wheat, for giving “Copyist” such a kind home and for inviting me to speak about my process in crafting it (included in the replies)! Check it out, friends! 💙

Copyist

Susan L. Leary

After we give the animal a writing utensil, what 1s needed next: a mind or a piece of paper? This is not a question
or a riddle but an argument of practicality. The idea of a brother is not a brother. The idea of freedom is made tangible in the hands
of arbitrarily good men. How to invent the after-life? How to absolve oneself of hierarchy while kissing another man's feet?
On the outside, my brother passes me the clippers. He passes the dog a coin & I hide the dog in my purse. If I must remember
for him, must I remember accurately? On the questionnaire, my sister gets shit done. I count the fan blades. I call the public
defender. I leave a message for the 29* time. No one gives a fuck, my brother says—& all I can do is listen. All I can do is thumb
through the pages & continue to learn his whereabouts. Bunk 22.
Bunk 32. Where against the false pretense of sunrise, he dreams from an unidentified bed & I dream in the bed of his language.
If you are someone who is likeable only in comparison to your captor, What are we doing? he says. If we hold the state accountable, do we do it through language or through love? On the outside, my brother
passes. I take his pen & invent the mouth of his archive. I am delegate.
I am yammerer. Of myself, my brother should get the credit.

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Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I'll be doing a reading at St. Peter's Muenster, SK on Feb. 26 at 7pm. Come check it out, either in person, or via Zoom! stpeterscollege.ca/blog/book-pr...

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Reading through Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal’s fine anthology of contemporary Hindi poetry, PERENNIAL, I was stopped cold by Seth Michelson’s razor-sharp translation of Rati Saxena’s devastating “Refugee”—a poem for our time, for all times. “…like kites holding tight / to the ruins…”

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Another perfect poem for February from @joseolivarez.bsky.social. Get the book, Promises of Gold, here: bit.ly/promisesofgold #poem #booksky #writing

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa from Skin Museum #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

News report

The mind's open moment
Sealed with landmines

Have another country
Before l leave

A way out of the misery
As money drips

Where isyour kayak
Where is the end

I promised you

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Morgen Jahnke @morgenjahnke.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Thrilled to have a poem published in this new issue of Prairie Fire!

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Laurie D. Graham @lauriedgraham.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Leaving home as inherited condition. Displacement as engine of industrial ag. Whatever became of my great-grandmothers. What they became when they landed here. What they thought or believed, couldn’t say, couldn’t do. Our present chews holes in shared memory. This will be my fourth book.

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Morgen Jahnke @morgenjahnke.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Kudos to @josiahnelson.bsky.social for his excellent short fiction piece in the new issue of Brick! Clever, alchemical, eerie - a great read. @brickliterary.bsky.social

Cover of Brick: A Literary Journal. Yellow background with an inset photograph of a figure standing in a rocky landscape

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Grateful beyond words that my essay about living in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War was selected for Brick 116, which is now out in the world!

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Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.

This photo shows a small pile of peach and pink cardstock fliers against a black background. The top flier is fully visible. It has black text that reads "Opaat Press SECOND ANNIVERSARY POETRY BASH / Free and open to all / Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall." At the bottom are four black and white logos for the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers' Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.

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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A poem for your Sunday ~Marie Howe Annunciation I thought I'd die from being loved like that...

Annunciation
Even if I don't see it again —nor ever feel it I know it is— and that if once it hailed me it ever does —
And so it is myself I want to turn in that direction not as towards a place, but it was a tilting within myself,
as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where it isn't-I was blinded like that-and swam in what shone at me
only able to endure it by being no one and so specifically myself I thought I'd die from being loved like that.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

From @seanthomasd.bsky.social's book, The Second O of Sorrow. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/9781942683551 #poem #books #writing

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

off to be kissed and changed Tom Clark

POEM

My heart in pieces like the bits
Of traffic lost in the blue
Rain confused I roar off into
To learn how to build a ladder
With air in my lungs again
To be with you in that region
Of speed and altitude where our bodies
Sail off to be kissed and changed
By light that behaves like a hand
Picking us up in one state and putting
Us down in a different one every time

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"Aware of time drifting away, as clouds do, moving overhead, the pewter clouds holding back rain and slowly tarnishing." #TodaysPoem #poetry Search Party by @ianletourneau.bsky.social (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yc3vvnne

Poetry pamphlet Search Party by Ian Letourneau (Opaat Press) sits on a wooden table with a pineapple and an elegant container with two red bergamot flowers

Poem inside poetry pamphlet Search Party by Ian Letourneau, next to a pineapple

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Bill Knott

POEM

A kite in the shape
of a map floats
over the land it depicts,

but at night no one sees
its roads at the end
of which a child feels

his hand tugged upward,
disappearing
in salutations.

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joe positive @joepositive.wtf · 21/06/2025

yes.

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride! From Kay Ryan (U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010), we have "We're Building the Ship as We Sail It," which first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Poetry. It's also in THE BEST OF IT: New & Selected Poems. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

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Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!

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Robert Selby @reselby.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading. freebloodybirds.com

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Ronna Bloom @ronnabloom.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I'm just going to quietly put this here and make some noise later. Poems. September 15. Brick Books 49thshelf.com/Books/I/In-a...

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you feel so inclined, you can post small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by Kess Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social, from their Apt. 9 Press chapbook Gavel sound. Gravel sound. 💫

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

why do you keep writing political poems? something got stuck in my throat: I think it’s Vietnam: millions of tiny little bones

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Ronna Bloom @ronnabloom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I have 3 poems in this brand new beautiful issue of @cv2magazine.bsky.social Thank you, editors! Here's "Medieval Feminism."

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