iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

small one has ukulele lesson, so opening Jordan Abel’s latest; did you know he has a new book out? // @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thanks to Library Journal for the review of Tree of Knowledge. www.libraryjournal.com/revi...

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Poetry in the Pontiac, with @ajdolman.bsky.social! This is a poetry thing happening this Wednesday! Because Shawville demanded it! Or you demanded it. But certainly organizer fellow Tree Reading Series organizer alumni Jennifer Mulligan asked us.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Long Sault : Don McKay’s accumulations, , a long poem layering the rapids, the lost villages, the hydro electric project, robmclennan.substack.com/p/long-sault...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

some above/ground press author activity: Jen Tynes, Laura Farina, Jon Cone, Stephen Brockwell, Lydia Unsworth, Andy Weaver, Jason Christie, Emily Shafer, Kyla Houbolt + Rae Armantrout, / @emilyshaferwrites.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/04/some...

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some author activity: Tynes, Farina, Cone, Brockwell, Unsworth, Weaver, Christie, Shafer, Houbolt + Armantrout,

Jen Tynes , Laura Farina , Jon Cone , Stephen Brockwell (for Jason Christie) , Lydia Unsworth and forthcoming author Emily Shafer all have...

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What a mail day! Thank you to editor Sina Queyras and Coach House Books for including one of my poems in this new anthology, and for making getting the mail a special occasion. #poetry #canlit #poems #on_occasion

On Occasion: Poems for the People edited by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books, 2026)

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UCalgary Press @ucalgarypress.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Releasing October 15!

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My new chapbook “Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City” is here and available to preorder from Baseline Press: www.baselinepress.ca#/jacaranda-t... #poetry #poem #chapbook #CDMX #Mexico

“Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City” (poetry chapbook available to preorder now from Baseline Press)

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This one was hard to write. Many thanks to Bren Simmers for accepting my poem for the July issue of The Buzz PEI, A Gift of Island Poetry. #poem #poems #poetry #PEI #PEIpoetry

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If you satisfy yourself as reader (not just as "self-expressive" writer) you have a reasonable expectation of reaching others too. Denise Levertov

Every art needs two - one who makes it, and one who needs it," Ernst Barlach, the German sculp. tor and playwright, is reported to have said. If this is taken to mean someone out there who needs it-an audience-the working artist is in immediate danger of externalizing his activity, of distorting his vision to accommodate it to what he knows, or supposes he knows, his audience requires, or to what he thinks it ought to hear. Writing to a student in 1965, I put it this way:

... you will find yourself not saying all you have to say-you will limit yourself according to your sense of his, or her, or their, capacity. In order to do all that one can in any given instance (and nothing less than all is good enough, though the artist, not being of a complacent nature, will never feel sure he has done all) one must develop objec-tivity: at some stage in the writing of a poem you must dismiss from your mind all special knowledge (of what you were intending to say, of private allusions, etc.) and read it with the innocence you bring to a poem by someone unknown to you. If you satisfy yourself as reader (not just as "self-expressive" writer) you have a reasonable expectation of reaching others too.

This "reader within one" is identical with Barlach's "one who needs" the work of art. To become aware of him sateguards the artist both from the superficialities resulting from overadaptation to the external, and from miasmic sub-jectivities. My reference above to "self-expression" is closely related to what I believe Ibsen must have meant by "to make clear to himself." A self-expressive act is one which makes the doer feel liberated, "clear" in the act itself.

A scream, a shout, a leaping into the air, a clapping of handsor an effusion of words associated for their writer at that moment with an emotion—all these are self-expres-sive. They satisfy their performer momentarily.

the poet in the world
DENISE LEVERTOV

Starting my week off right // book held up in front of living room interior, philodendron revolution rising in the background above hardwood floor

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

i can't believe i'm only 9,530 away from 10,000 subscribers to my clever substack! robmclennan.substack.com and you know above/ground press has a substack now also, yes? free updates! abovegroundpress.substack.com

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rob mclennan's clever substack | Substack

new fiction + musings on literature, poetry, reading, etcetera ; recent works-in-progress include "the green notebook," "reading in the margins: a writing diary," and "the genealogy book," http://robm...

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Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A new poem published! Thanks to the Harvard Review Online for publishing this poem in honour of Douglas Barbour, my friend and mentor (and a very noteworthy poet and critic): www.harvardreview.org/content/the-...

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The Enthusiast - Harvard Review

for Douglas Barbour (1940-2021) You are not here. There is no reproving the dark hand that has touched you and no need to prove your strange new cellular shift. There are changes because we are change...

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Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com · 15/07/2025

John Furnival, 3D Noughts and Crosses, 1963

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The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

For the holiday weekend, a little something from the archives. Read the rest of this Kathleen Graber classic here: loom.ly/ay9W8lY

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“Listen, you money-plated bastards. When I shout love, I mean your destruction.” - Milton Acorn

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Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I covered a Paul Dutton poem. After his recent passing, I wanted to acknowledge his influence, and introducing his work to a new audience seemed fitting. youtu.be/QnoLp70AvJE?...

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Paul Dutton reads Reminiscence, a found poem

YouTube video by WordsAloud

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Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Updating my CV and just realized that my dissertation (and my PhD and the computer I wrote it on) is 35 years old. You can listen to it here (it's a musical composition), thanks to Pennsound. media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au...

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Came home to find the latest issue of @canadianlit.bsky.social, in which my poem “Witnessing Names” (excerpted here) appears. You can also find this poem in Bonememory @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. With many thanks to both publishers 🙏

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wherever you are, let out a primal scream for Paul Dutton today: youtu.be/th-pbiwcipI?...

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The Four Horsemen perform sound poetry piece (1982)

YouTube video by Volodymyr Bilyk

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

friends in toronto! make sure to attend the celebration of 60 YEARS OF COACH HOUSE BOOKS on June 12!: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous... (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social )

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Coach House 60th Anniversary Celebration

Join us in celebrating 60 years at Coach House Books and Press.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

fuck this, all of this;

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Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Cameron Anstee on small press culture

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Something holds you here. The full moon rising. The warm petal of your dog's tongue. The pull of the waves. Your child's feet in them. The flounder your love breads and fries, apologizes over. —Han VanderHart

The Lily Crucifix (ca. 1450)

Godshill Parish Church, Isle of Wight

Christ crucified on
his mother's flower.

What is with you
until the end?

The crown of thorns
still visible.

The nimbus
slim as a stamen.

A flower holds Christ there.
Something holds you here.

The full moon rising.
The warm petal of your
dog's tongue.

The pull of the waves.
Your child's feet in them.

The flounder your love breads
and fries, apologizes over.

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The lilies, the petals green
blades around you.

Mary's flower is the most
dramatic in death,
staining the countertop gold.

You have not brought enough
days of Lexapro.

Your head hurts from the light.

Yellow jessamine threads
the yard's live oaks.

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 17/05/2025

good morning, fam lucille clifton THE POET

photo of text poem:

the poet

i beg my bones to be good but
they keep clicking music and
i spin in the center of myself
a foolish frightful woman
moving my skin against the wind and
tap dancing for my life.

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Porch-light poetics 😍🤌

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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Coming by year’s end—

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

rob mclennan's "A halt, which is empty" came out in 2019 but it's worth your time now. (Thanks, rob, for review copy!) Review at reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/rob-mclenn... @robmclennan.bsky.social

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rob mclennan's A halt, which is empty

Commas, making space

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Nightwood Editions @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Amazing! Jes Battis has won the Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski for their book, I Hate Parties! Jes will be reading at Planet Earth Poetry on May 16th--and in Vancouver at Cross & Crows at 2 pm on Sunday May 18th.

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Ian LeTourneau @ianletourneau.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Lots of copies of my new book — Metadata from a Changing Climate— down at Westminster Bookmark! Live the support from my fave local indie bookstore!

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