Stephen Cain

Toronto friends, join editors Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik, along with contributors Lily Cho, Robert Zacharias, and Sophie Feng, for the launch of SHELTER IN TEXT on Nov 12.
Food! Drinks! Books for purchase!

Centre for Creativity, U of T, 5 - 7 pm ET.
Info: https://bit.ly/48JlXNT

#TorontoLitUp

CBC Books names Walking & Stealing by Stephen Cain one of 15 books about baseball to celebrate the #BlueJays in the World Series! ⚾🧢

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#wantitall #worldseries

15 books about baseball to celebrate the Blue Jays in the World Series | CBC Books Batter up! With the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series and an entire country cheering them on, CBC Books has put together this reading list of baseball-themed books by Canadian authors.

Walking & Stealing @bookhugpress.bsky.social makes the cut!: www.cbc.ca/books/15-boo...

Ford just put every renter in Ontario into an even more precarious position. This is a clear and present danger to the 1.7 million renters in Ontario.

Kate Siklosi : Four poems from household: meadow The doorway   The outermost whorl of a flower that encloses the bud is known as a calyx. The ground was dry but the river was ev...

newly posted: Kate Siklosi : Four poems from household: meadow / @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
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New from me at TVO, getting quite cranky about our grocery overlords and their whining about beer and wine empties. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Pinhole Poetry supports unions and postal workers. Please expect delays when placing mail orders while the strike is ongoing.

Further to that …

Demilitarize the Toronto Air Show - World BEYOND War The Toronto air show is blatant advertising for militarism, war, and violence, it re-traumatizes victims of war, and its ear-splitting noise disturbs residents across the city over the Labour Day long...

Every year I hope people will stop supporting this f*cking stupid, waste of time, planet-killing, soul-destroying, celebration of militarism & war, and every year...I hope people will stop supporting this f*cking stupid, waste of time, planet-killing, soul-destroying...

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It was drawn to my attention today by a CBC reporter that Sylvia Jones has apparently issued a statement claiming that there has been a 41% decrease in overdose deaths since the safe consumption sites were closed. I found this hard to believe, so I looked at the figures from the Chief Coroner.

Paul Dutton: Biography and Introdution to his Work from his Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton

I wish that there were some small errors in the following text so that Paul could call me up and correct me. I know I’m going to sorely miss those calls.

This is from the biography and introductory essay about his work that I wrote for his selected & new poems.

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Eric Schmaltz: on Judith Copithorne (1939-2025) When I first encountered the visual texts of the spirited “intermedia worker” Judith Copithorne, my understanding of what poetry a...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Eric Schmaltz: on Judith Copithorne (1939-2025) / @talonbooks.bsky.social
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Some years ago, I had the honour of writing about and speaking with Judith Copithorne about her work

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Congrats to Pope Leo: El Elope!
@bpnichol.bsky.social

some author activity: Barwin, Nećakov, Cain, mclennan, Smith + Davis, Gary Barwin and Lillian Nećakov have some collaborative work up in the Tuesday poem series ; Book*hug Press features Stephen Cain as part of...

some above/ground press author activity: Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social , Lillian Nećakov, Stephen Cain, rob mclennan, Mahaila Smith @mahaila.bsky.social + Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social ,
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National Poetry Month Spotlight: Stephen Cain | Book*hug Press We’re back with the final feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. We are closing things out with Stephen Cain! Stephen is one our oldest friends in the literary community, having ...

We’re back with the final feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. We are closing things out with Stephen Cain!

Without further ado, please enjoy “Christie Pits (2017/05/12)” from Walking and Stealing.

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Canadian Poets Series #3 : Kate Siklosi Kate Siklosi lives in Tkaronto / Dish With One Spoon Territory. Her work includes Selvage (Invisible Publishing, 2023) [ see my review of ...

Canadian Poets Series #3 : Kate Siklosi / @invisibooks.bsky.social @timglaseteditions.bsky.social ;
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rob mclennan and Andy Weaver connect with a 2025 VERSeFest interview at periodicities.

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The Convoy has always tried to portray itself as a spontaneous group of patriotic Canadians. In truth, while not a fine tuned operation, it has always been the result of a network of far-right grifters and influences that tried multiple times to get an operation like the ‘22 event off the ground.

Jesus, although he will ride beside you, will never buy any smokes

Poilievre keeps saying he's going to cut to "bring down inflation," but inflation has been at the target for over six months. It's currently below two percent.
Nobody ever mentions this. #PnPCBC

Guess he’s right.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. 🥴

Saving the CBC is really about saving Canada Pierre Poilievre reportedly has plans to slash the CBC's budget. That would be a disaster for national unity.

Saving the CBC isn't just about protecting your favourite program or personality. It's about preserving national unity -- and preventing Canada from being subject to a hostile foreign takeover. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/19/o...

CFP Special Issue of Canada Literature: Suburb Nation. "This special journal issue will examine literary approaches to suburban life in Canada across a range of mediums, genres, and periods." Deadline Aug 15! canlit.ca/call-for-pap...

Doug Ford's love affair with Trump and Musk shows he can't be trusted Let’s skip the delicate language and ask the question any sensible person must be thinking: How stupid do you have to be to support a man who’s threatening to destroy your country? What kind of judgme...

“There are countless examples of Ford making bad calls, but two recent cases illustrate this, let’s say, lack of discernment, better than any other could: his support for Donald Trump and his Starlink deal with Elon Musk.”

@davidmoscrop.com writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/05/o...

Book*hug Press is proud to be an independently owned & operated Canadian company. We're also proud to be part of Canada's vital indie publishing community. Like our indie publishing colleagues, we champion Canadian voices & stories and produce & print our books in Canada. 🇨🇦

Congratulations to Andrea Davis & Leslie Sanders on the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature. An excellent volume!

Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford hasn’t needed a mandate to make major changes in Toronto. So why does he need one for Donald Trump? By framing his election call in terms of needing a mandate, Premier Doug Ford invites us to look back on all that he’s done to the city without such a mandate.

Ford didn’t have a “mandate” to announce his US booze ban, so why is he saying the election is to give him one? His translucent excuse offers us a way to look back on his six years of doing dubious things without a “mandate”.
My @thestar.com column.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Tomorrow! The Brooklyn Rail presents Publishing in Transit, ft. our co-publisher Jay MillAr & poets @cainstephen.bsky.social (Walking & Stealing) & @lizworth.bsky.social (Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea) in conversation w/Cole Swensen.
Wed, Jan. 29, 1pm ET, online. brooklynrail.org/event/2025/0...

Publishing-in-Transit: Book*hug Press | The Brooklyn Rail Author Stephen Cain, Book*hug Press Co-Publisher Jay Millar, and poet Liz Worth join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation.

I'll be participating in a talk at the Brooklyn Rail with @bookhugpress.bsky.social press people @lizworth.bsky.social and Jay Millar. Link/ registration here:
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