mreid@bsky.social

savannahs are hot-weather biomes

parkland
as in the transition between short-grass prairie and bush

will get that book!

too bad you're so far away - we could swap

Tilt 2025: garden assemblage (goldenrod with galls, tongue depressor)

yay Ms Feeney!

try the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre

Launch,2025, garden assemblage (burr, saskatoon, on balsa)

in a Leonard Cohen universe

no, it goes like this: the fourth the fifth, the minor for the major lift...

soft parts?? Please confirm in the literature.

new book coming, not exactly soon.

Frost last night does in the tomatoes, even tho covered!

more focus on the youth!

War on the Past Love is just a clue. If we win the world can come back to the world, speechless aligned, cell within cell You must put the objects down on the table and walk casually from the room you cannot re-enter until we get it right.

Another early poem by Cole Swensen. Can't get this one out of my head.

Issue 4.3 is here! Featuring poems & photographs by 18 poets, 3 pinhole photographers & 4 new members of our Chapbook Love Letter Club; we’re so excited to see all this creative work out in the world. Please read & share!

pinholepoetry.ca/current-issue-pinhole-poetry/

some sweetness from the Just Food Community Farm this am!

One of my disappointments when I ran VerseFest was not being able to draw Marie Howe to the festival. Mostly it was a matter of money, and sometimes of schedule. She was someone I certainly wanted to hear

Heard of it, but never seen it. And won't in the current regime.

I used to have a friend who celebrated Guy Fawkes Day every year on his farm. It always included bonfires and fireworks, but every now and then we burnt an old car.

Buck Downs, exit style nothing left to refund       did you ever try        to fix yourself             and find out        that doesn’t work a purchase that loo...

Buck Downs, exit style
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/buck...

thx

who is Malena Morling? Is that from a book?

some author activity: Chang-Richardson, Hausner, Niespodziany, Shirley, Barwin + Reid, Ellen Chang-Richardson is featured in the "Canadian Poets Series" via Peripety and/or Tronies ; Beatriz Hausner is interviewed over at Touch...

some above/ground press author activity: Ellen Chang-Richardson, Beatriz Hausner, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vik Shirley, Gary Barwin + Monty Reid, / @mreid.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/some...

catch the event at Redbird on Aug 7th!

launches Aug 7!!

the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird, celebrating THIRTY-TWO YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly fourteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents...

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