ontario pals! i’m launching POST-MAN in ottawa (tuesday nov 4) and toronto (thursday nov 6) this week. hope you can make it out to see me talk about my memoir-in-essays about gender, mental health, rat tails, hockey, religion, friend breakups & desire!
03.11.2025 21:18 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Episode Six of The Poet Laureate Podcast features Drew Lavigne, the Poet Laureate of Moncton, New Brunswick! The episode is generously sponsored by @thefiddleheadca
23.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
very nice! my first ever shortlist for the Ottawa Book Awards, for On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press);
; congrats to Manahil, Nina, Paul and Chuqiao for also shortlisting! / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social ;
ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...
17.09.2025 15:34 — 👍 73 🔁 8 💬 10 📌 0
Dennis Cooley's abecedarium
Salutary weirdness
Let’s talk about the pleasures of reading books we don’t understand! Featuring Dennis Cooley's enjoyably nonsensical poetry collection, abecedarium.
reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/dennis-coo...
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#booksky
24.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
The Factory Reading Series, August 21, 2025: Currin, Heinis, JAAWORD + Pirie,
The Factory Reading Series Presents: readings by: Jen Currin (Vancouver) Shery Alexander Heinis (Ottawa) Jamaal Amir Akbari/JAAWORD (Ottawa)...
The Factory Reading Series, August 21, 2025: Jen Currin, Shery Alexander Heinis, Jamaal Amir Akbari/JAAWORD + Pearl Pirie, / @anvilpress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
06.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird,
celebrating THIRTY-TWO YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly fourteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents...
hey everyone! ive had a couple of dozen folk telling me they're going to this event on thursday, but only 5 tickets have sold, which is prompting the venue to talk about cancelling; if you are planning to go, could you please pre-purchase your ticket? thanks!
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
04.08.2025 00:20 — 👍 28 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
above/ground press author spotlight #6 : Monty Reid
, reading as part of the above/ground press 32nd anniversary event on August 7 in Ottawa, / @mreid.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...
28.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
VERSeOttawa seeks Festival Manager. Deadline to apply: July 26, 2025 www.verseottawa.ca/static/pdf/F...
15.07.2025 15:19 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We're making a @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social mailing list!
If YOU want to get the word about VERSeOttawa shows, workshops, and events plus poetry news, writing prompts, and other goodies, you can sign up by using the qr code in the image OR by following this link:
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23.06.2025 14:27 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Want all the news about VERSeFest @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social and other VERSE Ottawa goings-on (including what Ottawa's Poets Laureate are up to)?
Do sign up for the newsletter - see the link below and the fancy QR code.
23.06.2025 14:44 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It's true! We're making a mailing list!
If YOU want to get the word about VERSeOttawa shows, workshops, and events plus poetry news, writing prompts, and other goodies, you can sign up by using the qr code in the image OR by following this link:
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23.06.2025 14:24 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Listen to Annea Lockwood’s work for this discussion
11.06.2025 16:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join the Ottawa River Keepers for an evening exploring how the river can influence art through poetry!
Poets Laureate David O’Meara + Véronique Sylvain w other Ottawa poets, sharing river-themed poetry in both official languages.
Tickets via the QR code or this link:
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
11.06.2025 16:32 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
And finally, a reading by Canada’s current Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Chimwemwe Undi! // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
10.06.2025 22:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
And now, Ottawa’s French-language Poet Laureate, Véronique Sylvain is reading poems! // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
10.06.2025 22:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Hey! Ottawa’s English-language Poet Laureate David O’Meara is reading poems! // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social
10.06.2025 22:19 — 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
TONIGHT, 6PM at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street! Parliamentary Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi reads with Ottawa Poets Laureate David O'Meara + Véronique Sylvain! you should come!
10.06.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
non-binary writer/editor. author of The New Masculinity (2023), translator of Made-Up (2021), working on Post-Man (2025), editor at AskMen. it's giving nominative determinism. alexmanley.com
(she/her) Poet, editor, finder of lost things, singer of silly songs. Poems in Moist Poetry, Stone Circle Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead & others. Lover of beings that move between worlds. Endearingly uncool. Bestselling poet on a very local level.
Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Black Canadian & white settler. 🪨🌊 Geology, Arctic, carbon cycle, hydrology, geohumanities. ✍🏼 Attic Rain (NeWest) & I'll Get Right On It! (Roseway). Greyhound enthusiast. Coffee, jokes, memes. https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
Communication professional supporting a poetry habit. First book, Lunatic Engine, out from Turnstone Press. PaulPearson.ca
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Poet (Metadata from a Changing Climate, Gaspereau Press, 2025). Managing Editor of The Fiddlehead and SCL. Publisher of poetry chapbooks at Emergency Flash Mob Press. Bibliographer. Fredericton, NB.
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Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Poet, critic, etc. Author of No Depression in Heaven (2025), Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.
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Author, poet, chapbook-maker, teacher, lover of the spectrums, and quite often a person on a bicycle. New chapbook with Anstruther Press out in 2025!
Writer, reader, Edie's human. Horror fiction afficinado. The movies are too scary for me.
