Joni Mitchell, Jazz Artist? A look at the 'Joni’s Jazz' box set. Plus: the best jazz releases of the month.

My latest column for @stereogum.bsky.social is up; I wrote about the new jazz-oriented Joni Mitchell box with help from @annkpowers.bsky.social, @themountaingoats.bsky.social and Linda May Han Oh, and reviewed a bunch of great new releases as well:
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Thanks for reading, Vicki!

"And the wildflowers are canary yellow
Turnip violet and bone china white
Because they hate us that much"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from Labour Day by @james-lindsay.bsky.social (2021 Dusie)

Friendly reminder.

Road safety campaigns must speak directly to and target those that perpetrate the greatest harm.

Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Keith Ridgway's DOONEEN | Fitzcarraldo Editions Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights excluding Canada, with exclusivity in Europe, to Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen from Laurence Laluyaux at RCW. Ridg...

Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

“I wrote a story for a school assignment about a girl named Wimple. I could have called her Jane or Betsy, but even then I didn’t give my characters usual names. I don’t know exactly why not.” —Lydia Davis
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I got the reference!

Knife Fork Book Poetry. Well-served.

Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10
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Bike lanes win as Ford and Smith waste time on a losing battle The battle against bike lanes has never been evidence-based. It’s all about politics and the divide between interests of voters living in city centres, who are less likely to vote for Ford or Smith, a...

Now that the courts have smacked Ford upside the head for trying to remove bike lanes in Toronto, Ford and his Alberta counterpart Danielle Smith should surrender and move on to more important matters, @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes.

"Launch me into the atmosphere and eventually
I'll want to return

to the field
where I was born

despite the fact that it’s burning."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Heaven by Jim Johnstone (2025 Poetry Magazine) tinyurl.com/3d2fn644

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Thanks to you, we're halfway there!

This #KFB10 season. The poets. Their works. So good, we simply could not not do this. KFB-style. All of it!

Please join us in support of a GRAND 10TH! #PPTTM
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Pictured: @bengymen.bsky.social "A Sensitive Man" #mains

YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Song: The Subway!

The city is not scary, and when it occasionally is, you learn how to deal with it.

One thing that's striking about Ozzy Osborne's death is how difficult it is to imagine the music industry producing another figure like him. The barriers to working class people are so great, and there's a related attitude to culture that is neutered as a result.

Really happy to have another chapbook coming out with @knifeforkbook.bsky.social! And humbled to be in such company.

Our July/August Fundraising Goal is doable. To raise our Patreon from 34 current paid members to 100 at $10/month.

All $120 patrons ($10/monthly) will be listed (opt) on our website, #Pick6 chapbooks from our #KFB10 Season & early access to #4ERTILE #PPTTM

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I thought “wife guy” was low key humblebrag. Who considers it pejorative? Incels?

I ask myself this all the time.

I ask myself this all the time.

Going to start publicly calling sliders hors d'oeuvres burgers because onomatopoeia.

It’s really nice to read something so fun by someone who wants you to have fun with it.

"I don’t believe we can save our civilization;
I do, I do believe it.
I don’t want this poem to be beautiful. I do.
I have no skills; I have no hope; I don’t want
any hope. I simply want to sit here, in this
calm."

- Alice Notley, I WENT DOWN THERE

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R.I.P., Alice Notley Here are some quotes from the superb writer’s oeuvre:   “Writing is not therapy. That’s the last thing it is. I still have my grief.”   “I think I try with my poems to c…

R.I.P., Alice Notley.

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1989 compilation of Brazilian music curated by David Byrne with notes from Arto Lindsay. I made a little eeeee sound when I found this.

If you’re not going to eat your rice pudding can I have it?

Trouble in the Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative of Toronto’s Punk History 1976 - 1980 Trouble in the Camera Club features over 300 photographs by Don Pyle and another 200 images of related ephemera from the earliest days of Toronto’s punk music

Oh, heyy was looking around and was reminded that my first book, Trouble In The Camera Club, is still for sale at ECW Press’s website. @ecwpress.bsky.social

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"I thought it was about the poetry." "I was wrong." Kirby, on what we quibble over.

I'm thrilled for Dale, the press. It’s an amazing story. A Canadian poet (born in Texas, immigrated here with his family to teach writing) Canadian designer, printed at Coach House. And is KFB the first (and only) Canadian poetry micro-press nominated?
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‘James’ Won the Pulitzer, but Not Without Complications

"But it turns out that 'James' was not the top pick among the Pulitzer’s five fiction jury members. It wasn’t even in the top three, according to three people with knowledge of the process, who were not authorized to speak about the confidential deliberations."

Working on a new poem that going to be a little something like this.

Closing out #NationalPoetryMonth with a BANG!

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Really leaning into my 40s and staring to collect Dead records.