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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
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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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having a hard time getting it to load on bluesky. If you let me know your email (via messenger) I can send it that way.

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ah, the hospital poem... will get to it tomorrow...spending a lot of time in the garden these days

do you mean the El Big Zoo poems, or something else?

cupcakes for Frances' birthday, more raspberries

I usually make pesto, but don't get very much - I only have a few dozen garlic plants in my garden. Thought I'd try something different this year. There are a variety of recipes online but they all involve scapes and some form (usually coarse) of salt.

fresh garlic salt from today's scapes!

god only knows what all grows in my garden, but no, I do not think so!

ordered some skirret seed!

Raspberries from the garden every day this week!

Again, just a general call for essays by Canadian poets. They can be personal, poetic, something in-between, from established older writers or MFA students, whatever the case may be. Send queries to query@the-wood-lot.ca and I am sure we can work something out.

End-Song
by Fanny Howe

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

~ George Orwell, 1984