Anna Veprinska

Bonememory navigates a lattice of identity with nuance and wordplay.

Anna Veprinska's Bonememory. Reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine. https://ow.ly/yV2y50XmE5U

Reading in Edmonton with @jasonvpurcell.bsky.social in conversation with @liammonaghan.bsky.social

Thank you, @magpiebooks.bsky.social for hosting! ✨

Yes! ✨

Here I go again, writing about tenderness.

The ending reminds me of Paul Celan.

rob mclennan's spot light 115 features Anna Veprinska of Bonememory!

Check it out: https://ow.ly/RfBP50Xm0NU

From Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms

A short piece in which I discuss poetry lifting language out of its housecoat. And there’s a newly published winter poem here, too. Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for all you do to support authors in Canada 🙏

Thank you @fiddlehd.bsky.social for this initiative. Looking forward to this issue!

Yes! Thank you for sharing this. I am now eager to drop a radish into a poem.

“Bite into joy like you bite a radish”
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“History will enter here, whistling like train wheels”
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries

“you will discover, as I, / that verbs are a tragedy, a bleeding cliffside, explosions”
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries

Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.

I am nowhere happier than in poetry.

Woolf’s Voices, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, Sept. 2025

Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley

“Earth, my love,
I want that too. Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over”

—Rilke, from Ninth Duino Elegy

Completely agreed!

So powerful!

My third book of poems is coming out with Gordon Hill Press in spring 2026! It’s a book of minimalist experimental poetry about the emotional wounds love and illness have the capacity to inflict. And the housing of those wounds in the archive of the body.

Pre-orders now available. Link in my bio 🙏❤️

Fairy. Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy

Such wonderful news!!! Congratulations, dear Kirby!

"For body with burden" by Anna Veprinska - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "For body with burden" by Anna Veprinska.

"I’m on a new medication
that forces my soul out
of my body
like a pine forest felled
to make room

for glass."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
For body with burden by @annaveprinska.bsky.social from Bonememory (2025 @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3mdwnhua & tinyurl.com/mtvt8hs2

Thank you so much, Vicki. Honoured to be quoted by you 🙏

“The way light
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it”
—Ocean Vuong, “Into the Breach”

Early Cascade I couldn't have waited. By the time you return it would have rotted on the vine. So I cut the first tomato into eighths, salted the pieces in the dusk and found the flesh not mealy (like last year's) or bitter, even when I swallowed the green crown of the stem that made my throat feel dusty and warm. Pah. I could have gagged on the sweetness. The miser accused by her red sums. Better had I eaten the dirt itself on this the first night in my life when I have not been too busy for my loneliness -- at last, it comes.

Lucia Perillo

Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social

Feeling this as well 🤯

Reading through old writing notes and found this question from my past self, who studied (and still studies) poetry after trauma: “why didn’t I study laughter?”

I’m so sorry for your loss, Lorne.