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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 02/10/2026

Hear more from @sannawani.bsky.social when she joins us on Thursday October 22 with guests Hannah Green and Chimwemwe Undi! www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18950/...

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A good reminder for today 🐸

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks to rob for posing this beautiful question!

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-and...

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

with thanks to the Ottawa International Writers Festival, Club Saw, the City of Ottawa. & followed by two great events: @arcpoetry.bsky.social 's Archibald Lampman Award & book launches by @conyerclayton.bsky.social @sannawani.bsky.social .

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Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards

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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In exactly 1 month, @sannawani.bsky.social and I are co-launching our books in Ottawa in conversation with bestie @manahil.bsky.social and we would love love love for you to be there! 🌼 Oct 15th, 8 pm, Club Saw, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa 🌱 Presented by the Ottawa International Writers Festival

Dried salvia flowers and ginkgo on the edges of a poster that reads in handwritten calligraphy: "Oct 15 Book Launch Conyer Clayton + Sanna Wani, hosted by Manahil Bandukwala, Club Saw 67 Nicholas St 8 pm, presented by the Ottawa Writers Festival"

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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 04/09/2026

An unsurprisingly reflective and thoughtful look at Lantern, the latest collection by @sannawani.bsky.social from @robmclennan.bsky.social. Join us for the book's Winnipeg launch on Thursday October 22 at 7pm! @houseofanansi.bsky.social

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very thoughtful, thorough, touching review!

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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 01/09/2026

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: On Thursday October 22 at 7pm, Trillium Award-winning poet Sanna Wani visits Winnipeg to celebrate her new collection, Lantern. Featuring special guests Hannah Green and Chimwemwe Undi. www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18950/... @sannawani.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social

The cover of Lantern by Sanna Wani appears on the left. On the right is an image of the author herself, resting her chin on her open palm while smiling at the camera.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

for #smallpoemsunday, a visual poem from Hotel Almighty. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

erasure poem using yellow colored pencil, with collage elements of a Chinese map, a pine twig, a building and an upside-down astronaut

text:
for a long time
I think about
isolated things like
neighbors
like a small
house
and the wind
somewhere
checking
how many people could there be

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Day 14 of #thesealeychallenge • Our featured poet is Bunkong Tuon (@bunkong.bsky.social), whose work appeared in Shō Poetry Journal (@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social). For the whole month of August, we'd like to put a spotlight on individual poets as well as some of our favourite lit mags.

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Lantern: Poems by @sannawani.bsky.social, @houseofanansi.bsky.social & Baby Face / Face de bébé by Sallie Fullerton, @invisibooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Book covers for 1. Baby Face / Face de bébé by Sallie Fullerton, Invisible Publishing: Constructed with the tools of poetic and documentary convention—fragmentation, oral history, rhythmic and imagistic leaps—Baby Face / Face de bébé weaves a portrait of Denise Cassidy, known as Baby Face, the first woman to own a lesbian bar in Montréal. Iconoclastic and authoritative, revered and feared, Baby Face’s story remains nevertheless largely undocumented. Yet for those in the know, the Montréal queer scene is nearly impossible to recount without her. The story of Baby Face is, too, the story of a formative time and place in North American lesbian culture and a testament to those who have worked to preserve her history. https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/baby-face/ and 2. Lantern: Poems by Sanna Wani, House of Anansi Press: A love letter to Toronto, Lantern is grounded in subway stations and city parks yet textured like watercolour and linen. Meditating on the beauty of an ordinary life, Sanna Wani’s second poetry collection, Lantern, explores how we fall in love and make a home. What does it mean to belong to a city, or to truly enter adulthood? Imbued with a quiet queerness, this book is a guide for living in the aftermath of familial rifts, crises of faith, political struggle, and intergenerational grief—all while remaining devoted to an idea of goodness. https://houseofanansi.com/collections/bipoc-voices/products/lantern

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

middle daughter has an appointment, so moving through new poetry titles by Sanna Wani and maria nazos / @sannawani.bsky.social @marianazos.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social

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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"My little sister asks me" from my forthcoming third poetry collection, the lake-shaped excuse (Buckrider Books, @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), after @sannawani.bsky.social's "Lately I Am Trying." 💛 Pre-order now 🌅 Check out Wolsak and Wynn's full fall 2026 catalogue here: tinyurl.com/423tf48z

My little sister asks me

after Sanna Wani

if I remember when I realized I could die and I don’t, but I wish I did. Did I even think as a child? Do I even think now? So much of my world develops like a photograph, in the dark room way back and is fully formed before I realize it has been there floating in chemicals I assembly-line walk by. If I think in words, I don’t know them. If I knew I could die, I was okay with it. I tell my sister I feel like I have no memory sometimes – I spit shine my own eyes so they’ll see something. The snow I forgot was falling. The ice I walked on weeks too early. If I realized I could die, I don’t remember it. It’s not my death that worries me. It’s yours. If my lake isn’t solid, maybe yours is. Yours is. Yours is. No one else can die because the ice is just a photograph I took in high school. I made you sit on a pool noodle in the middle of the street while I crouched to get an artsy angle. Your skirt was striped and black and white. I think I need to go home.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

People / are just too attractive! Heather Christle (@heatherchristle.bsky.social)

PEOPLE ARE A LIVING STRUCTURE
LIKE A CORAL REEF

People love to clean their ears and I love people
very much They are everywhere! Every single
thing I love I love for windows only and if
one window reflects another then friends
for me it’s all over And in the windows are trees
and in the windows are people What are they even doing
with their hunger and in their new shirts They are
taking care of themselves and they are taking each other out
for lunch Oh even the rain has to love them People
are just too attractive! and the rain places itself
on the window in order to be closer to the people
the ones who are eating The ones who are
busting out vigor Oh people You have to love
people They are so much like ourselves

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Molly Brodak

Most of this
is How To.

Here’s a book:
Your Life
is Going Off.

Here’s a book:
Wake the Fuck Up.

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

hey bsky! this is a really important legal fundraiser for 44 peaceful pro-palestinian protestors wrongfully detained at a scotiabank in montreal last year. please share widely and donate if you can 🩷 gofund.me/09cb0b812

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New episode, which is really just the audio-version of the latest substack! I love repetition 🩷 happy spring poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I started a Substack! I guess it was only a matter of time. Read "Starlings in Winter" and subscribe if you feel like it: sannawani.substack.com/p/starlings-...

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Okay. How to proceed David Dodd Lee

Village After This One

I love you, world, despite my incommensurate
lack of confidence in your keeping on:
the street blowing with spits of snow
turns like a page I might doom
to darkness after reading it, forever,
or until I reopen the book. Then:
there it is, sun filtering
through the air
like faerie dust
raining down as I turn out of the dark isthmus
laid down by a basswood.
Okay. How to proceed
from here: I open the book
and see a thousand black shapes
like birds slowly coming into focus
over a marsh on a windy fall day.
I close the book, or look
away. Happiness, you are only memory
sometimes. But you will die full
of the light that troubles your precious
sadness. Be glad for once.

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

forgot this account existed...happy new year! i'd love to be more connected w/ folks on here. if u see this, maybe drop me a reply about what you're reading // feeling about the "new" "year" (greg's time is fake...)

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

my book is out in 50 days ‼️ hostpublications.com/products/the...

The same screenshot of Dean and Castiel sitting in a car from 5.14 of Supernatural repeated. The top text says "where is your hunger, dean?" The bottom text reads "Where is your copy of The Hungering Years, Dean?" with the new words and letters crudely added in pink.

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!

A poster for the Toronto book launch for As The Earth Dreams:
Thursday November 13
Doors at 6, Event at 7
745 Queen St West
Featuring: Zalika Reid-Benta, Chinelo Onwualu, Trynne Delaney, Terese Mason Pierre and DJ Myles

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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

"Poets love birds." So says @sannawani.bsky.social's editor's note ("Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note") for our 2025 special issue, Animalia. Did the poets (and the fiction writers and essayists) prove her right? Find out now— the issue is live: ex-puritan.ca/animalia

A cover image for The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, featuring brown, antique-looking text over vintage scientific drawings of animals.

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Today’s poem is selected by Sanna Wani (@sannawani.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “This Isn't The Life” appeared in The Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful, published by McClelland & Stewart, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The Ex-Puritan is proud to introduce our new Poetry Editor, Sanna Wani (@sannawani.bsky.social)! Sanna Wani is a Kashmiri writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022), winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry.

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Poet Talk about Trees featuring @farahghafoor.bsky.social! Tune in for talk about trees, snails, time and more. Available where you listen to podcasts: poettalk.buzzsprout.com/2362005/epis...

a yellow background with an orange tree; and then TREES and a few other phrases in dark green and black

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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"Did she strive toward success, the way any artist does, only to accidentally strive too far, primed by her personal privilege and positionality?" asks @sannawani.bsky.social in this thought-provoking piece about Chappell Roan, fame, race, and gender. this.org/2024/12/10/s...

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Star power

My friend Lou is visiting from Australia. We do silly things together, like watch Love Island and listen to music. Lou shows me the video for Chappell Roan’s “Casual,” which follows a girl and a merma...

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES FOR THE HUNGERING YEARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ INTERVIEWERS/REVIEWERS/BOOKFLUENCERS/BOOKSELLERS/ETC. PLEASE READ MY POETRY BOOK

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

You gave me your heart Laura Gilpin

The Apple

You gave me your heart
like a polished apple
and being young
I bit into it

letting my teeth
pierce the tight skin
deep into the flesh
while the juices
ran down between
my fingers.

But now I’m not sure
what fruit it is
that I’ve eaten
or from what tree

or why suddenly
neither one of us
is quite as young.

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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This is the first Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 we're celebrating on Bluesky, so we *have* to share this excellent story from our Winter 2024 issue here. @sannawani.bsky.social discusses white privilege, the pressure of fame, and Chappell Roan—and we're still so obsessed with this article! this.org/2024/12/10/s...

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Star power

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

this is what they (the normans) took from you

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I am loving Remedios Varo paintings lately (as always) — on the left, Born Again / on the right, Star Maker

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

my cats. my mom. rachel tanner atchley (@rickit.bsky.social)

“sometimes survival is a list”

three pink roses out front. my cats. my mom.
the beach. midnight drives across town, alone.
catching up with old friends. the final season
of my favorite show. strawberry banana milkshakes.
reading poetry. writing poetry, slipping into bed
after washing my sheets. the pillow i took from a hotel.
hot showers, getting dressed up. staying dressed down.
chicken broth. dragon quest builders 2.
the possibility of an nsync reunion. the possibility
of someday feeling better.

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛 chuffed.org/project/1299...

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