Ben Ladouceur

the difference between dexter of lab and dexter of dexter is that dexter of lab has read bell hooks

A screenshot of a text box from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Kathryn Janeway: Follow them! We'll get Tuvok's lungs back.

This is what gaming is all about

I followed the game purely via my work chat and from what i understand it did not work out for canada

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the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! March 24-30, 2026: readings and performances in English and French (and Polish!) by Marie-Célie Agnant, Olivia Tapiero, Sanita Fejzic, Melis...

the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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testing something about bluesky vids (here's a cute video of my dog realizing there's a man in the skylight)

“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur - EVENT Ben Ladouceur is an author living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation (Ottawa). His first book, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for ...

"The important thing is to tell the truth—and often 'what happened' is only the beginning of that."
@helloiamben.bsky.social, author of I Remember Lights, chats with Jasper Fleming for @eventmags.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4hxftct7

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2026 is for the homosexuals

Really feels like in the last year AI boosters have given up the pretense that LLMs will enable any kind of new much less radical literature and the pitch now is solely "it lets you cut corners and spend less time on writing, and you have to use it because everyone else will be cutting corners."

A poem called “The Mind Recalls Her Skinny Lovers” by Peter Harley.

Astonishing study in metaphor.

(Peter Harley, in 31 Newfoundland Poets, Breakwater Books, 1979)

said what i said

Drawing in white on black background using stylized cartoonish figures to depict the Nativity, with angels and a star above, the three kings at left, baby and two adults in a small structure, and crawling babies below

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

5 perfect movies

Secrets and Lies
Party Girl
Elle
The Muppet Movie
Great Freedom

Our Top Fiction of 2025 · Blog Post · 49th Shelf The fiction that rocked the year that was. 

Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo and I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social are selected as top fiction books of 2025 by @49thshelf.bsky.social! ✨
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very cool! THE BEST! the absolute best,

Brett Josef Grubisic selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social for inclusion in Quill and Quire's Notable Books 2025 round-up.

The Miramichi Reader’s Best Fiction of 2025 It's the end of 2025 already, and so the "Best of" lists are surfacing! Here are some of TMR's Best fiction of the year, chosen by our dedicated team of contributors.

The Miramichi Reader selects I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social as a Best Fiction Book of 2025!
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Still paying off the youthquake-resistant basement foundation work

if you didn't know, I was recently a writer-in-residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-frame. after the fact I wrote almost 2000 words about the highs and lows of living and writing in that cottage for 4 weeks and now @robmclennan.bsky.social graciously published these words on periodicities. thanks!

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

A good one, by Ben Ladouceur, over at NewPoetry.ca!

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

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My criterion collection moment in the @bookhugpress.bsky.social archives.

Poetry Launch - Compulsory Figures by John Barton | The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Hintonburg's independendent bookstore, and Ottawa's proudest indie.

Tmrw in Ottawa, I'm reading w Canlit legend John Barton at a lovely bookstore! Come see! thespanielstale.ca/events/37534...

🐋: Bachelorette (bjork) and Tsuxiit (islands)
🦓: Zebra (beach house)
🐿️: little acorns (white stripes)
(This is just me scrolling my itunes for easy answers, which was fun!)

"That's a funny-looking strike." (Moe when they form a bowling team and a teammate, possibly Otto, does not score a strike.) To me there are like 100 layers to why this is funny, like Moe is just bursting with hate for all people; that is so not how you motivate people; Moe didn't strike either, etc