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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

newly posted: rob mclennan : 2024 VERSeFest interviews: Klara du Plessis / @versefestottawa.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/03/rob-...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #33 : 2024 VERSeFest Special, / @versefestottawa.bsky.social abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/new-...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

#versefest2024 begins! with a reading by Ottawa poet Anita Lahey, / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The second reader of the second half is nina jane! @textcurious.bsky.social / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The final reader of opening night is MayaSpoken! @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Stephen Brockwell introduces the first reader of our second night of #versefest2024 / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Our final reader of the first set (second night) is Amanda Earl! @amandaearl.bsky.social / @versefestottawa.bsky.social #versefest2024

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

The first reader in tonight’s second set is Ottawa poet Susan McMaster! #versefest2024 / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Our final reader for night two of #versefest2024 is Ottawa poet Shane Rhodes! / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

TONIGHT: @versefestottawa.bsky.social at Redbird: doors 7pm/reading 8pm Jaclyn Piudik, Chris Turnbull, Derek Webster, Stephen Brockwell, Sandra Ridley, David O’Meara, Madeleine Stratford have you picked up your tickets yet via Redbird? online or at the door! www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

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These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Fantastic @versefestottawa.bsky.social events last. Great to see regular contributors @funnyposts.online and Sneha Madhavan-Reese wow a packed house.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Our first reader tonight for night three of our festival is Stephen Brockwell! #versefest2024/ @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

The final reader in the first set of night three of #versefest2024 is Montreal/Toronto poet Derek Webster! / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

The first reader of the second half of tonight’s third evening of #versefest2024 is Ottawa poet and @bookhugpress.bsky.social author Sandra Ridley, / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Our second reader is Madeleine Stratford, reading in both French and English! @versefestottawa.bsky.social

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Not in Ottawa? Ottawa poets in Almonte: millstonenews.com/almonte-read...

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Sunday Mar 24: free! Where: Spark Beer, 702 Somerset Street West, Ottawa 8pm AJ Dolman, Myriam Legault-Beauregard & Nduka Otiono, hosted by Madeleine Stratford 9pm Jason Christie, Klara du Plessis & Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi hosted by rob mclennan details: www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Day 3: Sat, Mar 23 : Redbird, 1165 Bank Street, 8pm $12 for the evening: tickets available via: www.simpletix.com/e/third-nigh... Jaclyn Pudiuk, Chris Turnbull, Mark Goldstein, Derek Webster hosted by rob mclennan Sandra Ridley, David O’Meara, Madeleine Stratford hosted by Zishad Lak

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Third Night, Session 1 and 2 Tickets | Red Bird Live

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Day 2, events 3 and 4: Friday, March 22, 2024 at Happy Goat, 35 Laurel Street, free poetry events: 8pm Amanda Earl, DS Stymiest, IAN MARTIN, and Mary Lee Bragg hosted by Stephen Brockwell and 9pm Susan McMaster, Sneha Madhaven-Reese, and Shane Rhodes hosted by rob mclennan

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Session 2: www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/ope... March 21st, 9pm at Avant-Garde Bar with Daniel Groleau Landry, MayaSpoken, and nina jane drystek.

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Events are up! Are you up for events? Opening night, March 21: Anita Lahey, Laila Malik, Marjorie Silverman and Monty Reid 7pm at Avant-Garde Bar. Free. www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/ope...

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

newly posted: rob mclennan : 2024 VERSeFest interviews: Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi / @versefestottawa.bsky.social periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/03/rob-...

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Thanks to all who contributed. $8,930 CAD raised!

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Denise Deby @denisedeby.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Consider supporting the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser, if you can. Get great perks while supporting poets and Ottawa's international poetry festival. (I'm looking forward to my copies of flo. literary mag!)

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Be aware that there are only THREE DAYS LEFT in the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser! and the schedule for the spring edition of VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival (March 21-24) will be announced soon! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

March 21-24 we'll bring you poetry. Excellent news. We cracked $8000 in our fundraiser. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

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Su Zi @suzi00.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

This is actually the first of a trio of essays centering disabled poetry

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

2/2 Poems published are considered for the 2024 John Newlove Poetry Award judged by Toronto poet, Jim Johnstone. The Award comes with money, editing advice, chapbook publication & a reading at the fall Ottawa International Writers Festival, so it’s a sweet prize. See guidelines on bywords.ca

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Bywords: Poetry and Ottawa Literary Events

Bywords publishes poetry, a Calendar of Literary Events, and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Its aims are to publish emerging and established poets who reside, study or work in Ottawa.

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

1/2 Please send unpublished poems for Bywords.ca’s April issue. Deadline is March 15, 2024. If you’re a current or former Ottawa resident, student or worker, you are eligible to send us poems. Send a bio, your connection to Ottawa, if you don’t have a current Ottawa address, and up to five poems.

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Bywords: Poetry and Ottawa Literary Events

Bywords publishes poetry, a Calendar of Literary Events, and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Its aims are to publish emerging and established poets who reside, study or work in Ottawa.

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

You get books, we get means to pay poets. Win-win. Newly added: After Beowulf by Nicole Markotić, Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris. Still available: editing packages to make your work shine brighter. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

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Our rebuilding year : Notre année de reconstruction

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

One week left for our fundraiser and perks still available. So far, thank you for bringing $7,435 CAD towards paying poets.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

I care like a cat cares that it's Wednesday. [Es art mikh vi di kats fun mitvokh] tinyurl.com/39txj2ht #SundaySentence found in Dark and Lilac Fairies by Danila Botha in Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness (2024 Guernica Editions) tinyurl.com/2bsw27rx

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Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness

Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness is Danila Botha’s third collection of short fiction. In these brilliant stories she observes with her signature vulnerability and humour what it’s like to...

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

my editor: this poem is two poems me: respectfully I disagree the poem:

a wooden shed that has another wooden shed embedded into it

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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Today on the interview series, Jamie O’Halloran shares her poem ‘Lunch Note,’ what she’s read lately that has her inspired, and how reading poetry every day is an important part of her routine. Read the full interview: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview... @jamieohalloran108.bsky.social

On reading as inspiration:
Annemarie Ní Churreáin has been working on incorporating archival
material from
Irish workhouses and
mother and baby homes in her poems.
In her chapbook Ghost Girl, Ní Churreáin, uses folkdance instructions as a scaffold to tell the story of a teenage girl's journey from a village dance into a mother and baby home. I am fascinated and in awe of how a poet can breathe life and contemporary recognition into a clerk's entry in a ledger.

JAMIE O'HALLORAN
Lunch Note
By noon, steam abandoned its way of being water.
Lentils curled in the gills of mushroom shells, rapt in their dreams to be pearls.
I saw how tastefully the rain had strung
the garden baroque with oranges of the future.
I was taught to tell seasons by their fruit
and the gatherings of wool under the citrus moon.
Later, I learnt to begin with the smallest pot.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

don't forget that @periodicities.bsky.social seeks submissions for its #FirstRealPoets series! and maybe even some further reviews of contemporary poetry titles? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

some above/ground press author activity: russell carisse, Rae Armantrout, Mark Scroggins, Nate Logan + Monty Reid, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/02/some...

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Need someone to look at your WIP this spring/summer? We got 6 poets left who will donate their time to VF as a perk for you. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

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Our rebuilding year : Notre année de reconstruction

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Get the Nightwood Editions trio for $45 Canadian. The Big Melt (2022) by Emily Riddle, Old Gods: Poems (2023) by Conor Kerr, and SHAPESHIFTERS (2022) by Délani Valin. No shelves left? Send $25 of heartfelt support. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Invisible poetry bundle added for those who like your perks

Surfaces, Typewriter Poems, Habour grids, Sunny Ways and Selvage

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

New perks donated by Véhicule Press! What We Carry (2019) by Susan Glickman, Mother Muse (2022) by Lorna Goodison, Quicker Than The Eye (2023) by Joe Fiorito, and States of Emergency (2023) by Yoyo Camay

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

We are getting near our goal. Over $7000 donated already! Added perks: book trio (SIGNAL/Véhicule, 2023) by Anita Lahey, Vixen (Book*hug, 2023) by Sandra Ridley, Heating the Outdoors (Book*hug, 2023) by Marie-Andrée Gill (trans. Kristen Renee Miller Donated by Véhicule Press and Book*hug Press

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Thank you. We have 44 backers so far! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...?

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Spencer Gordon @spencergordon.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Are u looking for work? I've held a *similar* role at HEQCO for 2+ years. If you're an editor/writer, enjoy helping others cultivate skills, etc., & are familiar w/ developing research reports & w/ Ontario's higher ed. landscape (policy), apply! Feel free to DM me. heqco.ca/about-us/car...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

there are now manuscript consultations with me as part of the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser! and consultations remain w Okot Bitek, Stratford, Melançon, Collis and fitzpatrick! and spaces remain in Stephen Brockwell’s in-person poetry workshop! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Passed $2500. yay! Apt 9 Press: Wm Hawkins Bundle added and new option for workshopping with rob mclennan!

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