happy mother's day to all the many gendered mothers, wherever you might be,
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From todayβs adventure ββthere are some in every crowdβ (Natalie Hanna, in lisan alβasfour, ARP Books 2022) - thank you to @battleaxepress.bsky.social for joining us today to explore #Ottawa in Verse, with many thanks also to @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social; #AwesomeOttawa; #WriteOttawa
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submissions
periodicities is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays. Please send submissions as .d...
a reminder that periodicities is perpetually open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related book/chapbook reviews, interviews, essays + translation. Please send submissions as .doc with author biography to periodicityjournal@gmail.com ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...
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National Poetry Month : Julie Paul,
Lacrimal Report, 2025 Β Lodged in my chest like a paid-for Mirage Bar, my tears wonβt leave the machine They grow wings, legs, a...
National Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books day seven! with a new poem by (now) Montreal-based poet Julie Paul, / @juliepaulwrites.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ;
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...
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save the date(s): VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival! March 25-29, 2025 : Eileen Myles! Chelene Knight! Pamela Mosher! Oana Avasilichioaei! etc (with more information to come) www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
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As 2025 kicks into gear, VERSe Ottawa is grateful for all who contributed to VERSeFestβs rebuilding year in 2024. The 40 poets who graced our stages and the wonderful audience all had a hand in keeping VERSeFest a going concern. 1/2
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January/February 2025
I didnβt fully realize the power of this journal until everyone thought it was gone for good.
The beautiful new issue of Literary Mama is up and ready for you to read!
Poetry, fiction, CNF, and more exploring the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual experiences of #motherhood.
literarymama.com/issues/janua...
#litmag @literarymama.bsky.social @ajfields.bsky.social
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Elisabeth Harvor (1936-2024) | The Fiddlehead
There will be an Ottawa memorial to celebrate the life and writing of writer Elisabeth Harvor (1936-2024) on Sunday, February 2nd, from 12:30 to 4 pm in the multipurpose room at the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue. All are welcome. thefiddlehead.ca/content/elis...
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Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic π * she/her
https://linktr.ee/rholanderpoet
Poet & Scholar | Trans & Queer Academic | Books: Since I Moved In (Chax 2019), Arrive on Wave (Chax 2016), Troubling the Line (Nightboat 2013), & a new book forthcoming from Saturnalia in 2025 | Editor of @eoagh.bsky.social | She/her
tracepeterson.com
MΓ©tis writer/artist in amiskwaciy-wΓ’skahikan (Edmonton). Winner of the 1st Prairie Grindstone Prize. My book The Beauty of Vultures (poetry) w photography by Danny Miles out now. Board member NeWest Press. #prairiegothic #writerwholovesbirds
Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
poet. nerd. performer. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury.
located in Εtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Philly poet // aging against the machine
Home of Northeastern Illinois Universityβs Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee β23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
A luminous space for listening
Each month: one poet, one moment
Hosted by Kyeren Regehr
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria
www.kyerenregehr.ca/poetlaureatepodcast
Recorded at Haus of Owl on lΙkΜΚ·ΙΕΙn homelands (Victoria BC)
New to this platform!
Literary Poet (author of Cult Life)
www.kyerenregehr.ca
Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry
www.planetearthpoetry.com
Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast
@poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
Founded in 1997, Perugia is a nonprofit feminist press celebrating & supporting women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, in print & beyond.
https://linktr.ee/perugiapress
Author of novel "I Remember Lights" (2025) and 2 poetry books π³οΈβππ¨π¦
philly based poet // author of GILT & summonings // gujju beti // i will ask to pet your dog
Flight Problems: Amelia Earhart Poems (Pinhole Poetry)
Flip Turn (Mansfield Press)
Vedic Astrologer
New New Brunswick person
Small Press and Literary Journal. Winner of 2 Lambda Literary Awards and a National Jewish Book Award.
eoagh.com
Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poΓ©sie dβOttawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / lβadministration du Programme des poΓ¨tes laurΓ©ats dβOttawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
Woman owned, independent, and committed to making the world a better place.
116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
octopusbooks.ca
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Poet and CWRT instructor, editor, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of πish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
poet. avid pedestrian. collage artist. following the path of tiny cuts and misplaced adhesive.
