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Anna Veprinska

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Poet | Prof | Wound Archive, 2026 | Author: Bonememory; Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Sew with Butterflies https://utpdistribution.com/9781773856117/bonememory/ https://theporcupinesquill.com/collections/new-titles/products/wound-archive

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Apr 16

Book publication day! 🎉 My vulnerability has a shape and a spine, and I offer it to you with deep gratitude. Bonememory is now available everywhere and anywhere you buy your books. Link in bio. Thank you, dear friends and readers ❤️

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 18d

Completely agreed!

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 19d

So powerful!

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · 19d

My third book of poems is coming out with Gordon Hill Press in spring 2026! It’s a book of minimalist experimental poetry about the emotional wounds love and illness have the capacity to inflict. And the housing of those wounds in the archive of the body.

Pre-orders now available. Link in my bio 🙏❤️

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · Jun 16

Fairy. Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Aug 28

Such wonderful news!!! Congratulations, dear Kirby!

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Aug 27

"I’m on a new medication
that forces my soul out
of my body
like a pine forest felled
to make room

for glass."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
For body with burden by @annaveprinska.bsky.social from Bonememory (2025 @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3mdwnhua & tinyurl.com/mtvt8hs2

"For body with burden" by Anna Veprinska - League of Canadian Poets

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "For body with burden" by Anna Veprinska.

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you so much, Vicki. Honoured to be quoted by you 🙏

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Aug 27

“The way light
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it”
—Ocean Vuong, “Into the Breach”

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · Aug 26

Lucia Perillo

Early Cascade

I couldn't have waited. By the time you return
it would have rotted on the vine.
So I cut the first tomato into eighths,
salted the pieces in the dusk
and found the flesh not mealy (like last year's)
or bitter,
even when I swallowed the green crown of the stem
that made my throat feel dusty and warm.

Pah. I could have gagged on the sweetness.
The miser accused by her red sums.
Better had I eaten the dirt itself
on this the first night in my life
when I have not been too busy for my loneliness --
at last, it comes.

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Aug 8

Feeling this as well 🤯

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jul 27

Reading through old writing notes and found this question from my past self, who studied (and still studies) poetry after trauma: “why didn’t I study laughter?”

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m so sorry for your loss, Lorne.

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jul 22

“Is routine a kind of prayer?”
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jul 17

“That old ontological riddle about forests is a trick. If we are listening, everyone can hear every tree that falls in every forest.”
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jul 2

Jim Johnstone, from The King of Terrors

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Jun 26

"We felt an ache we realized was happiness, almost unbearable."

From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines.

Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/9781946482846

#poem #books #writing

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hahaha. That would make two of us in dreamworld.

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jul 1

You know that PhD I defended 7 years ago? I had to defend it again last night in a dream.

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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · Jun 30

“that swallowed you, inside the terrible ocean. How you made yourself
at home beneath the cathedral ceiling of its ribs. How that felt”

From “Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu” by Bethany Schultz Hurst in ISSUE 26!

Bethany Schultz Hurst "Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu" — THE SHORE

POETRY

www.theshorepoetry.org

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jun 9

“That just as it has always been possible to look away, it is always possible to stop looking away. None of this evil was ever necessary. Some carriages are gilded and others lacquered in blood, but the same engine pulls us all.”

—Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · Jun 6

Came home to find the latest issue of @canadianlit.bsky.social, in which my poem “Witnessing Names” (excerpted here) appears. You can also find this poem in Bonememory @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. With many thanks to both publishers 🙏

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Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · May 29

“The weather gets in my words
and I want them dry.”

—John Newlove, “Weather”

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · May 25

Toronto launch and reading next weekend alongside these fantastic poets. If you’re around, come out!

Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social · May 17

“Is there a centre to me? Is there a centre to you? Or are we just a matrix of instances?”
— Ocean Vuong (The Interview, The New York Times)