Reposted by Michael V. SmithCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands. Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province. 19340841347
Reposted by Michael V. SmithSam G 🇨🇦 @itssamg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025It’s funny that all the conservatives who thought Carney shouldn’t be interim PM because he wasn’t elected are okay with Poilievre staying on as the CPC leader even though he literally just LOST an election 912226
Reposted by Michael V. SmithQuill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Poetry-only press Brick Books marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating the “unlikely feat” of publishing nothing but verse for half a century. bit.ly/44CDJAc 0115
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 21/04/2025This was fun. Thanks for the questions, Kathryn Mockler! 072
Reposted by Michael V. SmithSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/04/2025"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."euronews.comPhotographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debutThe Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month. 4848543007
Reposted by Michael V. SmithRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Feel free to recruit me international university even though I am not a scientist. I have other skills. 15119047
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Anyone want to bring me to their town for this fun karaoke + poetry event? 030
Reposted by Michael V. SmithChildhood's End🍁 @childhoodsend.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The rights hypocrisy of blaming social programs that help those in need and saying nothing of the blatant bl Corporate welfare for the rich... www.biv.com/news/canadas...biv.comCanada's oil and gas industry received $29.6B in subsidies in 2024, report findsThe subsidies dwarf the previous years total and come as Ottawa said it would wind down direct financial support for the industry 610150
Reposted by Michael V. SmithAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2025Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames." 25375731870
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It's crazy to be living in such intense times that every day there are multiple news stories of how despicable or heroic humans can be that each feel...legendary. This history is intense in the making. And fast. 040
Reposted by Michael V. SmithErnest @fintechernest.bsky.social · 07/04/2025“Trump has ordered border agents to look through personal devices for any anti-Trump sentiment and has turned away or detained dozens of Canadians vacationing or working in the US - legally.” 🎃🎃🎃 open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...open.substack.comCanada’s New US Travel Warning: Leave Your Phone, Grab a Burner, and Maybe Skip the U.S. AltogetherApril 2, 2025 23022
Reposted by Michael V. SmithKathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Part 3 of My Adventures in Book Publicity - Book Tours "Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."sendmylovetoanyone.substack.comLaunching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating.My Adventures in Book Publicity Part 3 | Book Tours 3327
Reposted by Michael V. SmithNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint. 6638195
Reposted by Michael V. SmithJacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...leiterreports.typepad.comStanley from Yale to TorontoJason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr... 31587403417
Reposted by Michael V. SmithJeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The Signal scandal isn't just about the security breach: it's also a window into Trump's mafia foreign policy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comGroup Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia StateAmerican foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups. 17025
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Queers who lived thru the AIDS crisis know about living through genocide. Joy was a huge part of the struggle. There is no fight without joy. Joy will lift us up. Do not live in despair; that story is no place to build a home. Build your home in joy. 0123
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I found one of my books in this list ffs. 000
Reposted by Michael V. SmithCatherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky 031
Reposted by Michael V. SmithGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp. 973486109217
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025As a genderqueer Canadian who posts about genocide like he cares for all life...I withdrew from my AWP panel and visit. Too dangerous to visit America. Too scary how basic human rights and decency are vanishing. #awp2025 1101
Reposted by Michael V. SmithSarah Slack @sarahjslack.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The AMS vote for a UBC student strike March 24 & 25 is live! Vote here ⤵️ ams.simplyvoting.com?fbclid=PAZXh... 152
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Friends, I'm putting a karaoke launch party together. Let your local festival know if you want a karaoke+poetry event in your town. It's going to be FUN! 070
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Finally finished the memorial zine for Kim Kinakin. Dm me if you love him too and would like a copy. 020
Reposted by Michael V. SmithRowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 05/03/2025This would be a perfect time for Canada to start allowing US trans people into our country as asylum seekers. 30942171
Reposted by Michael V. SmithHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/03/202540% Off Haymarket Books for Women's Liberationhaymarketbooks.org40% Off Haymarket Books for Women's LiberationWe've put together a reading list to celebrate the radical women who make and record our histories, and histories of struggle for feminist and gender liberation. In recognition of Women's... 1258156
Reposted by Michael V. SmithAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items… 20137535920349
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I canceled a conference trip to the US cuz things are way too unstable for people like me. And changing fast. 191
Reposted by Michael V. SmithTrish Kelly Chornyj (Gonneville) @trishkellyc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It’s like the Trump administration had a big brainstorm session on the fastest way to end western civilization, and they decided that scapegoating EDI and ignoring the climate crisis would just take way longer than causing World War 3. 031
Reposted by Michael V. SmithPaul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Dr. Seuss cartoons about “America First” from 1941. 0154
Reposted by Michael V. SmithEleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The US is killing itself while it endangers all of us in multiple large scale ways. 052
Reposted by Michael V. SmithGail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Canadian writers, if you haven't already, sign up for the Public Lending Right. Check here to see if you're eligible. publiclendingright.capubliclendingright.caThe Public Lending Right (PLR) ProgramIt pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program 0105
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Thrilled to release the cover of my lyric memoir Soundtrack, about growing up and coming out in the shadow of AIDS. All framed by music albums/songs as mnemonic devices, for "where I was when." Pre-orders are open with @bookhugpress.bsky.social ! 1231
Reposted by Michael V. SmithHeather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Canadian authors: registration for the Public Lending Right #PLR program is open now until May 1, 2025. This awesome program pays royalties to Canadian authors for books in Canadian public libraries. For those already enrolled, payments should be arriving soon. publiclendingright.capubliclendingright.caThe Public Lending Right (PLR) ProgramIt pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program 26652
Reposted by Michael V. Smithscott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 19/02/2025Poetry may not save our bodies but it will save our souls. I read Whitman whenever America gets *particularly* shitty, to remind myself of its promise ❤️themarginalian.orgAudre Lorde on Poetry as an Instrument of Change and Feeling as an Antidote to Fearing“As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas… a safe-house for that … 043
Reposted by Michael V. SmithCarmella Carmella @carmellacarmella.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Armed military police on UBC campus today to protect IOF war criminals invited to compete at sporting events as though they didn’t serve in an army that has killed at minimum a child every 30 minutes for the past 16 months. Monitoring from the rooftops like snipers. 083
Reposted by Michael V. SmithJory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I had a great time discussing a poem from my new book Picturing where I talk about @kelliagodon.bsky.social and @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, the Desert Rat Writers Residency, and the 2020 movie Ammonite among other things. Check it out here: christalcooper.com/435-backstor...christalcooper.com#435 Backstory of the Poem “A husband abandons his wife to the noted female paleontologist in order to continue his tour of the continent” from the poetry collection PICTURING by Jory Mickelson, publi...ABOVE MIDDLE: Jory Mickelson giving a poetry reading. January of 2025. Click on the link to purchase PICTURING from End of Line Press. https://endlinepress.com/Picturing-by-Jory-Mickelson Can you g... 051
Reposted by Michael V. SmithKathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025@staranise99.bsky.social, @sinaqueyras.bsky.social Capilano Review, CanLit Responds, Peter Kropotkin, @booksandlilies.bsky.social, Fariha Róisín, Lisa Robertson, Rachel Gerry, Susan Sanford Blades, K.R. Wilson, @hollay.bsky.social, Aisha’s Story, @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, and more! 2/2 141
Reposted by Michael V. SmithKathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Send My Love to Anyone’s February Gatherings which includes links and recommended readings and viewings! sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/gatherings... Mentioned this month: Liisa Kovala, @itsakirby.bsky.social, Omar El Akkad, @literalnobody.bsky.social... 1/2sendmylovetoanyone.substack.comGatherings - February 2025Speech Dries Here on the Tongue, Plotless Queer Fiction, Planet Earth Poetry, Upcoming Omar El Akkad interview at Words Festival, How to Write a Love Poem, and more! 175
Reposted by Michael V. SmithJes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025TT job in post-1960 lit, Lethbridge U: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...universityaffairs.caSearch Jobs - University Affairs 032
Reposted by Michael V. SmithGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps. 34549891531616
Reposted by Michael V. SmithHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/02/2025For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberationhaymarketbooks.org40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black LiberationBlack History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ... 4758242447
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Maybe it's a good time to share my feel-good doc about being gender-queer. Cuz, you know. We need to increase our gender joy. www.vimeo.com/michaelvsmit... 0114
Reposted by Michael V. SmithKim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity. 631398539200
Reposted by Michael V. SmithTolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca · 29/01/2025My third collection of poems, UNRAVEL, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and the US on March 25. I am both excited and terrified to share it with the world. The cover was designed by Jennifer Griffiths. 1410223
Reposted by Michael V. SmithAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/01/2025This is downright genocidal. Revoking access to HIV meds will cause new infections to skyrocket while current patients deteriorate as HIV goes untreated. 501696547
Reposted by Michael V. Smithscott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 27/01/2025BOOM, there it is 🎯 3547173