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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, I too am curious about Ingrid! And thank you!

Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How thoughtful of the Nobel Committee to award the prize to a Canadian poet on my birthday! Congratulations to Anne Carson! (Many of these copies were found at Great Escape bookshop in Toronto, over the years.)

Seven books by Canadian poet and professor Anne Carson, including several first editions. She has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature.

A copy of Short Talks by Anne Carson, with the inscription "Ingrid / from no saint to another / ac."

A copy of Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson, inscribed "to Ingrid / one who is listening / ac."

The title page of a copy of Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson, inscribed "for Maria / respectfully / ac / 2001." I think "Maria" is Maria Jacobs, poet and co-founder of Wolsak and Wyn. Publishers, a Canadian small press.

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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 · 21/09/2026

Great to connect here! Many thanks for re-posting my poem in @thewalrus.ca.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you. I am glad you read my poem and enjoyed it. I didn't do the reading, however. That is auto-generated and provided by The Walrus for accessibility reasons. I have no involvement with the audio.

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The influence of Dylan Thomas, here.

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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 · 06/09/2026

Heard the performance on a BBC Radio broadcast. Magnificent!

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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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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I teach it in my Poetry: Introduction courses for the School of Continuing Studies at U of T. Students fall under its spell, every time.

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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 · 23/03/2026

Are you certain about the date? Looks more like 1964. She did read there in '63-64, when she was quite young. (As did Margaret Atwood.)

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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Glad you looked into it. Not entirely surprising, what you uncovered, given that the original tweet sounds as if it had been generated by ChatGPT.

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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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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Thank you. Yes, a calm day here. Wishing the same for you.

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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

(A pandemic-era photo, which was taken by my late husband.)

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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 · 19/01/2026

Oh, thank you, Vicki! A thrilling surprise! (Great to see on a freezing Monday.)

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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

Thank you so much for your kind words.

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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 · 12/05/2025

Lao Lao Bar, Piano Piano on Harbord St., Koh Lipe on Baldwin, White Lily Diner on Queen St. East, Bloom at Beverley and College or on Yonge near Wellesley. Type Books (every location), Ben McNally Books and Queen Books on Queen St. E.

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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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