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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

learn.utoronto.ca/why-continui... Excited to be teaching Poetry: Introduction and Poetry II in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. Classes start in October! Please join us on the downtown campus (and help spread the word!). @uoftscs.bsky.social

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 22/09/2026

Need an afternoon reset? Pause for some poetry and read Kateri Lanthier's “Severed”: thewalrus.ca/severed

On the left: a black and white photo of Kateri set against a turquoise background. On the right: text that reads “Severed. Random wildflowers. An overspill / of daylilies from our (too-busy-to-) garden”

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New on the EVENT Blog 🌸 Read an excerpt of "Because" by Sarah Wolfson SARAH WOLFSON is the author of A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press, 2019), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. www.eventmagazine.ca/2026/09/poet...

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A new poem of mine. Many thanks to The Walrus for publishing this one in the Sept/Oct issue.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

On a walk to Lake Ontario with my family.

Kateri Lanthier standing with two of her young adult children on the boardwalk by Lake Ontario in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto.

In Toronto, Ontario, on the Beaches boardwalk, by Lake Ontario.

A westward view of the east-end Toronto boardwalk and beach by Lake Ontario.

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I'm hoping for reassurance of the shape of things, a glimpse of my old allegiances, but find at best an outline here such as my finger might draw in dust. —Richard Greene, The Blaschka Invertebrates @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-blaschk...

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Presses. Please email me to ask if I want to review a particular title on my Brilliant Women Inc blog. I do this for free, don't review first books, only review books by Canadian women. Otherwise it is just getting popped in my book box. In other news, I survived singing an acapella cat song on CBC!

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Very sorry to hear that the poet J.H. Prynne has died, at the age of 89. Here, from 10 years ago, is my attempt to describe the man and the work

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Jeremy Prynne, prankster poet

The famously obscure poetry of JH Prynne glitters with aphorisms and jokes

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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I fell in love with this poem when I was barely older than its 16-year-old subject. It hits different reading it now as a parent (older than Ondaatje was when he wrote it!)

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Great to hear this interview with my former student, Guy Elston! It was a pleasure to write a blurb for The Character Actor Convention, a book that I recommend you seek out at an independent bookshop, request from your local library, read conspicuously in public, etc.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Delighted to be teaching Poetry: Introduction and Poetry II in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. In-person classes start next week! Join us downtown on the St. George campus. Please help spread the word. learn.utoronto.ca/why-continui...

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

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Issue twenty-three — Bad Lilies

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Pleased to see my poem online now at The Walrus.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Thrilled to see this! Thank you for choosing my poem for your series, Vicki. As well, my thanks to the editors of The Night Heron Barks, who obtained permission to reproduce the Georgia O'Keeffe work. A dream journal.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Honoured that my poem "Harmonics" brought joy in 2025 to Walrus Editor in Chief Carmine Starnino! "5. This opening line in Kateri Lanthier's luminous poem 'Harmonics,' which I immediately accepted: 'Like a private nightclub, this bright ambulance.'"

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I have a new poem in The Walrus, Jan/Feb 2026 issue. It's my first poem in print since losing my husband last year. Our three Gen Z kids said, "So, Mum, it's the sex and death issue." @thewalrus.ca

The first stanza of a poem by Kateri Lanthier in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue of The Walrus.

Harmonics

Like a private nightclub, this bright ambulance.
Modular interior, glitter-futuristic
fitted jewel box kitted out with drugs
(theirs, yours in a bag grabbed from home).
Spa recliner, straps, young paramedics
like DJs, bouncers, sit-down comedians
bantering about traffic.
I stroke your tripping head
while we ride backwards
to the cancer choir,
soprano wail and techno beat.

Second and third stanzas of "Harmonics" by Kateri Lanthier.

Inner zones of ER, curtains like field-tent flaps.
Patients recline, royals enrobed at battle or fete,
unspeaking or bellowing demands.
One trills for absent Tom, a (long-dead?) spouse.
In counterpoint, another laments
feet no longer felt.
All chorus for forbidden sips of water.
Only ice chips, dear,
say courtiers, busy with automata.

Mechanical birds. Yours in garish plumage,
mini private coloratura atop a metal stand,
others punctuating the dim forest beyond.
Chart-topping screeches, forever rehearsing
scales of one to ten in a crescendo of pain.

Final stanza of "Harmonics" by Kateri Lanthier

We're in our own, last, air-conditioned nest.
Your life flashing, I tell you micro stories
all night against your death, while you macro-dose
hydromorphone. My broken love, my storytelling failing...Do you want music?
You say, no, more happiness. Music not happiness.
You say, you're the writer.
Leaving me with all these words.
When you left music, we knew the end.
Head on rough pillow, turned towards me,
you sink out of yourself,
one ear, exquisite, attuned to earth,
the other attuned to air.

The cover of the Jan/Feb 2026 issue of The Walrus. The cover line is: Wait, That Was Sex? How Gen Z made a Boomer question everything they knew about pleasure

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Greatly enjoyed reading new poems and discussing chapbooks, full-length collections, and poetry world with Prof. Richard Greene's class in the MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing, University of Toronto. Many thanks to Rick Greene for the invitation.

Writer and teacher Kateri Lanthier in the offices of the Department of English, Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto. Photo by Prof. Richard Greene, taken after Kateri's visit on Sept. 30 to his class in the MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing, U of T.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Looking forward to this debut! Guy Elston was one of my students in @uoftscs.bsky.social. A brilliant poet. Highly recommended!

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"Where I was born / and born backwards again out of my mouth / into haze and sweet airs." This stunning ecopoem interfacing the more-than- human world. From INMATES by Sean Borodale. #NationalPoetryMonth Day 26 ❤️ #ecopoetry #poetry #morethanhuman #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Visited the cherry blossoms at Robarts Library, University of Toronto. Twice in one week! Ahhhhh...Getting ready to teach Poetry II for @uoftscs.bsky.social next week! #cherryblossoms #poetry

Poet, editor, and creative writing instructor Kateri Lanthier with blossoming cherry trees near Robarts Library on the campus of the University of Toronto.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Always happy to visit my local, The Great Escape. Picked up The Size of Paradise by Dale Martin Smith, published by Canadian small press @knifeforkbook.bsky.social, helmed by @itsakirby.bsky.social! #independentbookstoreday #poetry

The storefront of The Great Escape Bookstore on Kingston Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

A copy of The Size of Paradise, a poetry collection by Dale Martin Smith, published by Knife Fork Book, a Canadian-based small press, along with a needlepoint rabbit cushion.

The back cover blurb of The Size of Paradise by Dale Martin Smith. Blurb by Peter Gizzi.

Shelf displays at The Great Escape Bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We’re back! @badlilies.bsky.social returns. We’ve delights for you.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I met my daughter, an undergrad at U of T, for coffee at the Royal Conservatory before teaching the first class of Poetry II (winter) in the School of Continuing Studies, U of T. After the class, a student said, "You're so passionate about poetry! It's great to be taught by someone so passionate."

Writer and teacher Kateri Lanthier at B Cafe in the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My reading of Michael Longley's 'Harmonica' for the new Poems on the Underground in his memory is just below the text on this link. Michael said it was his favourite among his own poems: poemsontheunderground.org/february-202...

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February 2025

Michael Longley RIP Harmonica by Michael Longley read by Ian Duhig Our February poems open with three elegiac, deeply moving poems by the great Irish poet Michael Longley, who died last month. We a…

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"We all stood around not knowing. We stood around not knowing but trying, trying to get into art school. Trying to ignore the pains in the various parts of all of us." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Pill by @SarahWolfson.bsky.social (2023 @yalereview.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/rrkm59ru

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Sarah Wolfson: "The Pill"

A poem by Sarah Wolfson: "I am offered a pill. My grandmother was not / offered a pill."

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

And a one, and a two, and a three...Delighted to be teaching Poetry: Introduction, Poetry II, and Poetry III this winter for the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. Classes start soon! Please help spread the word.

Kateri Lanthier's photo and part of her professional bio for the Creative Writing program in the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto.

Part of Kateri Lanthier's bio and a list of courses she has taught and/or is currently teaching for the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. The courses are Creative Writing: Introduction, Poetry: Introduction, Poetry II, and Poetry III.

The landing page for the Poetry: Introduction course (1687), School of Continuing Studies, U of T.

The landing page for the Poetry II course (1688) in the School of Continuing Studies, U of T.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Friends in London, please take note! (Wish I could attend!)

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Feeling heartache over the loss of brilliant Andrew Pyper. My condolences to his family and our mutual friends. He had a great working relationship with my late husband, Gregory Sinclair, who commissioned and produced Oracle for Audible Canada. A career highlight for Greg, an international success.

Andrew Pyper and Gregory Sinclair standing in front of a transit poster promoting Audible Canada's production of Oracle II: The Dreamland Murders, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2022.

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Robert Pinsky @rpinsky.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Friendship as good fortune. Mark Strand was at my house when author/editor's copies of the anthology HISTORY OF HEARTBREAK arrived. In one copy, all the pages were blank. Make it an album of friends, Mark said, and made the first entry in a book I've come to treasure.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thanks (again!) to Vicki Ziegler. I was delighted to see this when logging back in here after an absence of many months. Do follow @bookgaga.bsky.social for poetry posts!

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Had a lovely evening at the National Ballet of Canada's performance of Body of Work (choreographed and performed by Guillaume Cote), Sir Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody, and Silent Screen (choreographed by Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot). Siphesihle November and Tirion Law were magnificent!

Kateri Lanthier standing outside the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario. The sign on the theatre announces The National Ballet of Canada's performance of Body of Work, Rhapsody, and Silent Screen.

Kateri Lanthier on the second floor of the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto.

National Ballet of Canada Principal Dancers Tirion Law and Siphesihle November, with members of the company, in the curtain call for Rhapsody at the Four Seasons Centre.

National Ballet of Canada dancers Christopher Gerty, Ben Rudison, and Hannah Galway, with other members of the company, in the curtain call for Silent Screen.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I am grateful to Billy Mills for his review (and for his post)!

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A fine piece to read on your next break.

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Here is a Canadian Poets Starter Pack! 🪶💐🩷 If you're a Canadian poet and I've missed you, comment below, and I'll add. (Also, if I made a mistake in adding you to the list, let me know, and I'll remove you!) Please share so folks coming to Bluesky can find their people! go.bsky.app/JbjXoTN

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