Submissions open March 1. Send us your strongest poems and be part of the next issue!
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Submissions open March 1. Send us your strongest poems and be part of the next issue!
25.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The winter issue of "The Fiddlehead" resting on the seat of a rocking chair. The seat is covered in black and white pillow ticking. The journal cover shows a vague figure of a person standing in a bus shelter. It appears to be a winter night with snow on the ground and the roof of the shelter.
I received my contributor's copy of the winter issue of "The Fiddlehead." An honour to be included in such an incredible issue. Thank you to the editors.
18.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thrilled and honored to be included. Thank you Phillip and @thefiddlehead@gmail.com.
27.02.2026 21:28 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Susan Robertson After the Flood Trees full-leafed in the wooded lot at the end of the street. Limbs pendant with damp umbrella the path. Drops still fall from the sodden leaves. I can't see the houses. It's May and northern forests are burning. A red-eyed vireo calls and calls.
From our winter issue, a new poem by Susan Robertson
27.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1Congratulations!
27.02.2026 22:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0An interview with poet Polly Clark features in Issue 7 of @madridlitmag.bsky.social. She speaks about her new Bloodaxe retrospective, Afterlife: New & Selected Poems, out today, and shares a poem from the book.
26.02.2026 11:20 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0don't forget that we're running two (Ottawa, in-person) poetry workshops as part of our 16th annual festival next month: by Toronto poet/editor Paul Vermeersch, and by Calgary poet/performer Sheri-D Wilson; spaces still available! see here for further information: verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
25.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Many congratulations!
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It’s publication week for Tales of Health, a book that brings a medical humanities framework to the Romantic genre of the National Tale and its questions of health and citizenship.
26.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
Leila Chatti, Wildness Before Something Sublime / @leilachatti.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ;
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Emma Bolden | Contemporary History The trees spend the last of their coppers. Everyone’s selling their fists and my nose just bleeds and bleeds. In better times we have no idea we’re living in better times. Every blessing settles down in bed next to a curse. Sometimes I look out of my window and think, what’s so great about that? The blinds snap shut. A change in season changes nothing. Neither does my handful of Kleenex, red, red, red. When the first boy broke my heart, I imagined my actual heart, bleached bloodless, unpumping. My Sicilian grandfather offered to send him a black handprint and I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t consider it. I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t sometimes think revenge is a synonym for relief. Late November, and all around me the air conditioner still hums out its chill. It’s easy, if you’re not careful, to hear a threat as a comfort, as a song.
hiiii i'm super excited to have a new poem in the latest issue of @upthestaircase.bsky.social. i hope you'll give the issue a visit: www.upthestaircase.org
20.02.2026 20:28 — 👍 65 🔁 18 💬 7 📌 2
For a whole year, DHS hid that they murdered Ruben, a young man in Texas, after a traffic stop.
Just like they did with Silverio, Renee, Keith, Alex, and Linda, they lied and avoided accountability. How many more people have to be executed before my colleagues realize that reforms are not enough?
My novel, The Unravelling of Ou, is featured in the Foreword Reviews Writers of Color column and I’m delighted. Not just because it’s marvellous review, but because as an “ethnically ambiguous” mixed race individual, it’s wonderful to be seen.
www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...
#bookreview
Inspired by today's incredibly poem on @rattlepoetry.bsky.social
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late-phase imperialism, seen by children—as Conrad said, "not a pretty thing when you look into it too much"
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Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
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Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
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I wish you were here, dear,
in this hemisphere,
as I sit on the porch
sipping a beer.
It’s evening; the sun is setting,
boys shout and gulls are crying.
What’s the point of forgetting
if it’s followed by dying?
- Joseph Brodsky, "A Song"
the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2026 edition: June 20, 2026 / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ;
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Ottawa’s two current poets laureate have curated a very cool reading of eight Ottawa poets (in English and French) writing on visual art, all included in accompanying above/ground press handout chapbook! / @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
24.01.2026 22:35 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A producer in the London bureau is the *only* CBS person quoted in their story about Israel killing its longtime freelance cameramen in Gaza—someone who once filed dispatches for them from an ambulance, while wounded.
Not quoted: The network’s editor in chief.
www.cbsnews.com/news/journal...
Hamilton friends, Sharp Words is coming up fast and the third panel of the day is this great discussion between Brad Smith and Jamie Tennant - we hope you can come down to Bridgeworks and join us! You can find the full details here: www.sharpwords.ca
23.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In memory of Louis Zukofsky, born on 23 January, 1904, here are my Five Love Sonnets with Rhymes Stolen from Louis Zukofsky's "A"–9.
From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social
Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.
Cover of CV2, showing a bulletin board crowded with mailed greetings and festooned with "happy birthday" crepe paper.
Text of a poem named "The Interpretation of Dreams."
@cv2magazine.bsky.social makes such a lovely magazine, and I'm happy to have this poem win a spot there. As a huge fan of The Weakerthans, I feel the proximity to a gem from John K. Samson an added bit of luck.
21.01.2026 21:51 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Poet Karen Solie at the T.S.Eliot awards ceremony. She wears a red dress and stands at a lectern.
Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the @tseliotprize.bsky.social with Wellwater (Picador)!
Watch Young Critic Caleb Simon's video review of the collection at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIJ...
#TSEliotPrize
Karen Solie won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for Wellwater, a collection exploring environmental destruction.
New blurb: 'Tales of Health is one of the best recent examples of medical humanities approaches in literary studies...a rigorous formal exploration of the national tale and a complexly intersecting disability theoretical provocation...’ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
15.01.2026 22:14 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
There are martinis and Chinese noodles, the afterlife at its most relaxed. As to your identity, pearls against a white dress.
PETER SCHIRESON Report from the Afterlife At first, you won't speak the language, so things might feel a bit unstable, but don't worry, the announcer is always in a good mood. And there's no penitential regime, no hard facts, no prudish accounting. Every afternoon, a cocktail combo plays lavender music while people sit under lilacs and simply breathe. Sound drizzles down through the air, the melody modest but polished, and the furnishings glow, lustrous drape of brocade foliage and beasts woven into the folds. There are martinis and Chinese noodles, the afterlife at its most relaxed. As to your identity, pearls against a white dress.
Today, Peter Schireson’s ‘Report from the Afterlife’ is our featured poem from our most recent issue.
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Our 16th issue is here! Head over to pinholepoetry.ca/current-issue-pinhole-poetry/ to read all the amazing poems and check out Wenda Salomon’s beautiful pinhole photographs.
Please share this issue far and wide. We’re very proud and grateful to be able to publish such good work.
