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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand." Maybe, but don't call me Shirley.

Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Delighted to announce my New & Selected Poems, a Bilingual Volume in English and Bengali. Translated by Suresh Ranjan Basak and published by Dibyaprokash in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Suresh is a professor and acclaimed translator; his previous works include Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, etc.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

if a tariff is a tax if a tariff is attacks if a tax is a tariff if a tariff is a tact a tax is a tar is a if is a at is a ack if a are if a axe a tare a tear if a if a if a fare a far a fit

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Make a 🍁 novel smaller: A Year of Girls and Women

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I am officially out of bookshelf space. Buy a new one or purge? (or, more likely, pile)

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

myself and dear spouse hosted that nice Gregory Betts and his brother this fine evening; what a good lad, // @christinemcnair.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Introducing The Wow! Literary Award for Emerging Writers. The Wow! is an initiative from the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of life, intelligence, and consciousness in the universe. www.seti.org/wow-literary...

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Wow Literary Award

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Not satisfied with diseases and famine, with sterility of earth, and tempests of the air, they must have laws and marriages, and kings and tac-gatherers, and wars and fetes, and every variety of artificial misery inconceivable to you. Charles Maturin

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Joaquin Tejon (Quino), "Guernica" (1982).

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It seems to me that we have fallen into paralysis and that the only freedom left to us is language. -- Chateaubriand

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

At the entrance to the arcade, a mailbox: a last opportunity to make some sign to the world one is leaving. Walter Benjamin

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Mariem Abutaleb, "Bold Rhythm", "Gesture of Writing", and "Extended Rhythm" (2026). Such gorgeous work.

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Niagara Falls Poetry Project @niagarapoetry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Just posted a #poem by Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social "The Body" a fascinating depiction of a body's journey down the river and over the falls, a poem to be published in an upcoming volume by Betts niagarapoetry.ca/2026/04/30/b... #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #deathpoetry

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The Body by Gregory Betts - Niagara Falls Poetry Project

Gregory Betts wrote this poem as part of a collection of poems in a forthcoming book. The poem examines a porous body in a river

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A clean sweep of the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist by American authors. Congratulations to them and that country. @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"Find new ways of approach 'the public'" Virginia Woolf, 1938

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Recalling the trip we took to Limerick, and the poem we spun en route.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Fixed Trump's sick genocidal rant. The only possible positive outcome of the day.

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Happening this Thursday (April 9): a one-day symposium on the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive!

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

You are invited and welcome to "The Leafless Page", a one-day symposium at TMU on Thursday 9 April. We will be launching the new bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and collectively beginning to imagine its future use to readers, teachers, students, and poets. Register here: bit.ly/4lO65y6

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It is my great pleasure to open the search for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency at The SETI Institute. This 18-month remote residency comes with a $10,000 US stipend and is open to all writers and poets. Consider sharing with those who might be interested. www.seti.org/news/cosmic-...

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Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency

The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your materials by June 1, 2026 to ensure your application is considered.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

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Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency

The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your materials by June 1, 2026 to ensure your application is considered.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The Reader, an iron sculpture. I couldn't find the name of the artist, but had some fun dialing the saturation up to 11.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

50 years ago, Steve McCaffery published Carnival, The Second Panel, an explosion of words and letters produced by typewriter and stamp. "the message being that we are all poets one and all as long as we have lungs"

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Dear Michael Morris, Love Gary Lee Nova, sent 2 June 1970; a colourful letter on purloined letterhead.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Sarah Tsiang's poem "Dick Picks". Her friend Josephine has been banned by the Calgary Catholic School Board from reciting this poem for the Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie recitation contest. www.youtube.com/shorts/LNY3Y...

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“Dick Pics” by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. I will post another version tomorrow that’s recited elsewhere :)

YouTube video by Isabelle Larose

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive @bpnichol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Delighted to share this Call for Papers: “the leafless page”: bpNichol and the (true, eventual) Digital Archive. Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Still yelling with Johanna Calle's "abecé" from her stunning alphabet book (2012).

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Exoplanetary poetry: an update on SETI Live from the current Artists-in-Residence of the Cosmic Consciousness Residency (I show up towards the end lol). www.youtube.com/live/z3SWPwh...

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Exoplanetary Poetry: AI, Chemistry, and Alien Communication

YouTube video by SETI Institute

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Save the date! I will be hosting a one-day bpNichol symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University on Thursday 9 April 2026. Details to follow!! Possible, tentative name for the event: "the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

David Aylward. "Crossword." Seripress, 1975.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This was the group cheering on the Canadian truckers sounding their blast horns ripping through Ottawa for over three weeks straight, right?

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Sean Monahan (8Ball) suggests that, maybe, the Mayan prophecy that the world would end in 2012 actually did come true: that the breakthrough adoption of smartphones and social media in 2012 definitively cut us off from the real world, and we are now moored outside of it.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

AND here and here and here - Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems, 1965

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"The avant-garde is a storehouse of available and cumulative techniques deemed viable and adaptable to the urgencies of the present." -- Steve McCaffery

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