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Jessica Lee McMillan
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Poet, teacher, music nerd | Chapbook: 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 via Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2026 | Poems in CV2, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly.
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Finally have a copy of No Room for Squares. #HankMobley
Now when will Blue Note press Dippin’?
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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We are now offering yearly subscriptions for the 2026 season! Your subscription includes ten handmade chapbooks: VOLUME FOUR SELECTED & work from ARIEL GORDON, YVETTE LECLAIR, JESSICA LEE MCMILLAN, LM ROCHEFORT, ANDREW FRENCH & ROBIN SUSANTO. 3 Fall poets still TBA!

pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/
poetry journal and chapbook press
poetry journal published four times per year / always open for submissions, always free to read / Chapbook Press
pinholepoetry.ca
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM
After 7 years, a new album in March. #TheTwilightSad
youtu.be/kooPFvDf8rI
THE TWILIGHT SAD - DESIGNED TO LOSE
YouTube video by thetwilightsadofficial
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January 24, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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If you live in #yvr your life has been touched by Karen Ward one way or another. Hope more people can support.
@kwardvancouver.bsky.social has become houseless in the past week. she is an incredible and badass human who has given so much life to movements rooted in care especially in the dtes. she could really use some financial support while she’s in this volatile spot.

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January 23, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Four stills from a movie you consider a masterpiece. No title. #FilmSky
January 23, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabaté
Deerhunter
Mos Def (Yasiin Bey)
Fever Ray
Tom Waits
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Diamanda Galas
Beth Gibbons
Beth Orton
Bob Mould
Jawbox

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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Gorillaz
Tegan & Sara
Interpol
Jay Z
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January 22, 2026 at 2:34 AM
We’re accepting submissions for cover art, poetry, art, photography, short form, or hybrid pieces for Vol 4 on the theme “Waterways".

Details at SAPP: sappzine.ca/submit-your-...
January 22, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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Robert Hayden masterpiece:
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Garry Gottfriedson is the winner of the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award. Congratulations to Garry, as well as Kayla Czaga (2nd place) and Barbara Tran (3rd Place)! Deep gratitude to all who entered and especially our esteemed judge Cecily Nicholson. Details: rclas.com/2025-fred-co...
January 20, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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I’m so giddy I’ve had to go lie down at the start of my work day.
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Poetry!
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Can't be a better time for International Clash Day! Coming soon via its birthplace @ KEXP February 6th & around the world. #TheClash #KnowYourRights #KEXP #MusicSky
www.kexp.org/events/kexp-...
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Excited to be reading again with poet laureates Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social and Elee Kraljii Gardiner @eleekg.bsky.social Wed Jan 21 at the Britannia Library in Vancouver! Starts at 6pm, but arrive for a good seat. There will be a few spots on Open Mic

Thanks to Twisted Poets!
January 17, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Life is truly absurd. I call it “Simulacra."
January 17, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Last few days to join this online poetry class I teach, so please consider and/or share with peers that might be interested! The class needs at least one more student to run 🤞
Hey, if you're up for an hearty engagement with poetic forms and strategies in the New Year, do consider Poetry 1, the online, asynchronous class I run at SFU. There'll also be workshopping with a group of peers and potential one-on-one sessions with me. Check it out! www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
Poetry 1
<p>Poetry is often described as a conversation—with the self, the world, and the work of other writers.</p><p>In this introductory course, you'll gain the tools you need to enter the conversation thro...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Pristine thoughts on process & poetry. And the poem!

If you remember anything now, it is the morning and what you see around you—green grass, trees, rocks, rain, at any instant a step away from light—and your life
a courtesy to you halfway between an atom and a star.
bcbooklook.com/songs-of-lif...
Songs of life and death - BC Booklook
An interview with Russell Thornton on Two Songs, exploring lyric intensity, place, travel and the lifelong tension between love and death.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
HBD David Berman
January 4, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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“Plate XXXI, which you may if you please, call a partial View of Immensity, or without much Impropriety perhaps, a finite View of Infinity”.⠀

More from Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750) here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
January 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Happy Birthday to Caitlin "Cait" O'Riordan, bass player for the Irish punk/folk band the Pogues and later bass player with Elvis Costello, born on this day in 1965, Lagos, Nigeria

Photo by Dean Shaw

#punk #punks #punkrock #ThePogues #womanofpunk #punkrockhistory #otd
January 4, 2026 at 6:24 AM
My heartfelt thanks to the editors and community organizations I got to work with in 2025. This list is mostly poetry (with some reprints) and does not even include music writing—including 4 interviews. 2025 was abundant.
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Q: What is a song over six minutes long that's worth every minute?

A: Deerunter’s “Desire Lines” With Lockett Pundt behind the mic. youtu.be/Lx57to-9mGw #MusicSky #Deerhunter
January 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Got my copy of the Walrus @thewalrus.ca in the mail this bright morning at the very end of 2025, that features this poem. Honoured to be alongside poems by Tom Wayman, Molly Peacock, and @katerilanthier.bsky.social 😍
December 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM