Leesa Dean

I don’t take the bus anymore because I live in the middle of nowhere, but I find great joy in knowing that others get to be illuminated by poetry on their commutes! LOVE Poetry in Transit ❤️❤️❤️ @readlocalbc.bsky.social

One year away from this honour and still going strong!

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I love this series, How Does a Poem Begin. This just in from Em Dial: “It is the where that contributes to a poem’s possibility and how it opens up something in the reader. It is the where that decides which side of history the poem lies upon.”

It’s Friday night and I’m definitely taking about poetry 🙌🙌

my favorite topic of conversation is poetry. like, i'm not kidding! i want to talk about poetry on a friday night! i will! also, i love talking about food while eating different food

“We’ll keep them in the ghetto as long as they want” Pierre Eliot Trudeau stated as his 1969 white paper on Indian policy was rejected by First Nations. Canada wants certainty for resource extraction. This is why they’re in a rush to legislate First Nations inherent rights under crown sovereignty.

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

This piece by @meghanor.bsky.social nails the big problem looming for literature and AI, and it isn't any of the problems (copyright, homework, slop, bias, energy) most people spend their time worrying about: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o... A fantastic and well-informed essay.

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

This is precisely correct.

Canisia Lubrin wins the 28th annual Danuta Gleed Award for her short fiction collection Code Noir #CanLit
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The Winner of the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award Has Been Revealed! The winner of the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award is Valérie Bah, author of Subterrane (Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press), as revealed in yet another majestic ...

Congratulations to Valérie Bah (Vehicule Press), winner of the 2025 Amazon First Novel Award, and to Vicky Zhu, winner of the Youth Short Story Award. Check out our full coverage of this majestic evening here!
#AmReading #Novel #CanLit #ShortStory #Prizes
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The name for this essay came to me in a dream, so I followed that dream until I found Wordsworth above Tintern Abbey in the jaws of a goth snake… Intrigued? Thanks for reading! #poetry #essays #writing #canlit #writingcommunity

Some days are random AF: in the past hour I have helped a dude push a 35 foot power pole down a bank into our backyard and edited a poem about the Neptune Equester. Now I feel like I should write a poem about a 35 foot power pole 🤣 #writing #poetry #rurallife

Someone asked me two days ago at an event why I write and I was like, to save myself. I think they were expecting more, but that is the most accurate three-word summary I can think of 🤷‍♀️ #blueskywriters #writingcommunity #writing

A stack of books sits on a concrete ledge in front of a bright green bush. The books are: Ezra's Ghosts by Darcy Tamayose Hiroshima Bomb Money by Terry Watada The Cine Star Salon by Leah Ranada The Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto Diamond Grill by Fred Wah Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee Coconut by Nisha Patel Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock by Jaspreet Singh How to Hold a Pebble by Jaspreet Sing

Celebrate Asian Heritage Month with these NeWest classics!!

#NeWestPress #AsianHeritageMonth #CanLit #CanadianLiterature #Canadian #AlbertaReads

In Zilla Jones' novel, an opera singer gives a voice to the Grenada Revolution | CBC Books Bookends She discussed The World So Wide on Bookends with Mattea Roach

In Zilla Jones' novel, an opera singer gives a voice to the Grenada Revolution #CanLit
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Congratulations to this year's #BertonHouse writers-in-residence!
◢ Jesse Keith Butler
◢ Cody Caetano
◢ Krista Foss
◢ Helen Knott
◢ Angela Long
◢ Rebecca Thomas
Learn more about this year’s residents here: bit.ly/4k3schN
#CanLit #PierreBerton

Deadline: May 30. Poems in dialogue with other poems.
Edited by Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social & @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social
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#canpoetry #canlit

Good god, I thought this was a meme at first! Wtf 😬

“Death steals everything except our stories.”
― Jim Harrison

Bid your hearts out for an important cause and a jazzed up bookshelf!

YES!!! 😍😍

Two recent titles: Natalie Rice's Nightjar and Sean Howard's Overlays

Two most recent spring titles: John Terpstra's A Carpentry of Words and Wood and Sue Goyette's Future Howl

Excerpt: Drinking the Ocean by Saad Omar Khan Excerpted with permission from Wolsak & Wynn Press

We've a wonderful excerpt up from Saad Omar Khan's Drinking the Ocean at the Miramichi Reader:
miramichireader.ca/2025/05/exce...

Feeling very excited about this, yet another gem from the inimitable @danilabotha.bsky.social 😍😃😃

You’re epic, Kirby! Thanks for doing all the things 😘

I was lucky to catch Dale Martin Smith’s reading in Vancouver at SFU a few weeks ago. He was so astonishingly humble about the power of his work. Highly recommend this book; it’s a gem @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

@knifeforkbook.bsky.social should get a prize simply for making the longlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A phenomenal achievement for any press, let alone a young micropress. Get your copy of Dale Martin Smith's stunning "The Size of Paradise" and celebrate #canpoetry on the world stage.
#canlit