russell carisse

it is upsetting when a human being dabbles in poetry, my parents are still mad

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so much good stuff happening here, even a new title by yours truly!

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hey @mark-carney.bsky.social ; Canada Post should be deemed essential service; every strike affects businesses across the country who rely on it to run smoothly; some of us lose business every time a strike, a shut-down, a delay; im already losing due to US tariff nonsense, we dont need this worse,

Fot Assata New Brunswick Prison, 1977 In this new picture your smile has been to war you are almost obscured by other faces on the pages those shadows are sisters who have not yet spoken your face is in shadow obscured by the half-dark by the thick bars running across your eyes like sentinels all the baby fat has been burned away like a luxury your body let go reluctantly the corners of your mouth turn dowrln I cannot look into your eyes who are all those others behind you the shadows are growing lighter and more confusing I dream of your freedom as my victory and the victory of all dark women who forego the vanities of silence who war and weep sometimes against our selves in each other rather than our enemies falsehoods Assata my sister warrior Joan of Arc and Yaa Asantewa embrace at the back of your cell.

audre lorde
FOR ASSATA

We are still seeking submissions, and are desperately low! Please send!

my next chapbook has been accepted!

watch this space for updates as they come!

but That HEAP, a syfy fantasy proem romp in garbage, with the character limit of Mastodon, is forthcoming from above/ground press (@robmclennan.bsky.social )

so excited for y'all to read it!

#poetry #sff #canlit

A collage for the reading series, featuring Emily Weedon's new novel, Hemo Sapiens, as well as authors Andrew Robertson, Selena Mercuri and Brooke Lockyer. The Caledonian is in Little Portugal, at 856 College St.

Happening tomorrow, Toronto peeps! I'll be reading from RADIOLAND (and signing books) at the next Drunk Fiction reading event at The Caledonian, hosted by Emily Weedon (launching her next novel)! There will be authors aplenty and a wide array of ales and whisky. Hope to see you Tuesday @ 6pm!

i don't have the schematics for your particular machine, but if you look for "The Typewriter Repair Bible," and cross reference for your model, you'll be set. They seem complicated but are rather simple to fix.

have you tightened the main spring, checked the carriage band?

Three poems by Jordan Davis Interrogator neededmust fail to understandthe simplest thingsin a vault of goo —Platitudes generatedby electricityfalling into a sourceit troubles us to considereven once,whispering to solvent afte…

THREE POEMS by Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social

Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

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On behalf of the Government of Canada I am announcing that on the advice of our officials, we have deemed the group Kneecap ineligible to enter our country. Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly.

This is absolutely outrageous. I can tell you that *many* Canadians were outraged that I was denied entry to the US… on exactly the same specious grounds.

Canada is choosing genocide denialism as immigration policy. This country has no moral authority whatsoever.

2025 Ottawa Book Awards shortlist : On Beauty: stories,
, in which i would like to thank the academy, etc. / @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
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p̶e̶a̶c̶e̶ retribution & justice for Trey Reed, found hanging from a tree* yesterday morning on a university campus in mississippi

Oh no, did repealing the carbon tax not cause the price of gas to plummet? I'm shocked and I don't even get my check anymore.

Second week of school. Kids in my house and other kids in my town already sick with fevers and sore throats. This is the SIXTH (sicksth?) school year AFTER the year school had to close due to COVID’s arrival. It is UNACCEPTABLE school IAQ is utterly unchanged 😡 @govnb.bsky.social #nbpoli 😡 😡

nationalise empty units for public housing

Yes, alternatives exist to more fossil gas in New Brunswick NB Power claims the province needs a new fossil ('natural') gas-fired power plant. If built, the new power plant would

Yes, alternatives exist to more fossil gas in New Brunswick

Commentary by Tom McLean
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atlas of the mouth
by Gillian Wigmore

tounge the space
in the holy hall
full of teeth
and gums and spit
honour it:
say us, here, this

#poetry #canlit #microPoetry

here in New Brunswick they just defund the school libraries, and even tho they had to rehire the librarians by court order twice they say they will fire them as soon as legally possible, and these are LIBERALS. . .

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#nbpoli
#newBrunswick
#canpol

throwing watermelons off the back of transport-trailers, we got 100 dollars to split between a crew of 2 or 4, avg 48000lbs/truck

if we ate the landlords there would be no politicians, food and housing, winwin

“The conscious grace of animals
(say horses, cats) composes
their arenas. We, as well,
inscribe our selves upon our space,
interpret. Speech
is our ekphrasis: life
acknowledged, breath by breath.”

— M. Travis Lane, from “Extreme Ekphrasis,” in Ash Steps (Cormorant Books, 2012)

Richard Long. Ten Days Walking and Sleeping on Natural Ground, 1986

Dog bites man headline.

Since 2020 we have literally added a virus that most people now get once or twice per year. Add in that it also often comes with a post-viral condition.

Why is it never mentioned that **of course** people are taking more sick days? Most predictable thing ever.

Auditioning For Poem Atlas by @heyastranaut.bsky.social

#poetry #asemicwriting #vispo

Do you agree?

and when men say it, it is often an infinite deferral intended to keep one motivated/captivated indefinitely because the slim chance of happening dangles so

a stunning essay by one brilliant poet on the work of another brilliant poet,
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