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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’?
Hank Mobley LP cover resting on reflective turntable (in motion). LP cover is yellow & black and features Mobley smoking.
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!

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poetry journal published four times per year / always open for submissions, always free to read / Chapbook Press
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January 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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After 7 years, a new album in March. #TheTwilightSad
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THE TWILIGHT SAD - DESIGNED TO LOSE
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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.
leftie-diskaurs.bsky.social 💖 surrey girl 💖 @leftie-diskaurs.bsky.social · 9d
@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
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Four stills from a movie you consider a masterpiece. No title. #FilmSky
Blue-green, translucent forest spirit growing above the treeline. Princess Mononoke on giant white wolf in battle. Lady Eboshi in red hat leading a firing squad dressed in ancient Japanese attire. Kodama (small white forest spirits) in the mossy pockets of a giant tree.
January 23, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabaté
Deerhunter
Mos Def (Yasiin Bey)
Fever Ray
Tom Waits
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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
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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-...
SAPP zone poster with undulating lines and a green-blue watery background. Text and additional details: Happy 2026 everyone! With the new year, we’re happy to announce that submissions are officially open for SAPP volume 04! 🎉 Our theme for volume 04 is “waterways.” As water wends its way across the landscape, its flow lends vibrancy to the places and beings it touches. Tell us about the stuff of life, the connections you treasure and the things that bring vibrancy to your life and your community. We’re looking forward to receiving your art, photography, and writing that captures what “waterways” means in your world! Subs open from today (January 5th) to March 31, 2026. We’re accepting submissions for cover art, poetry, art, photography, short form, or hybrid pieces for our third volume. Selected contributors will be paid for their work: $30 per piece and $100 for cover art! SAPP is run entirely by volunteers, so please allow 3-4 months for response time. All funds raised from sales of SAPP go directly towards funding in-person arts events and zine production. Submissions can be sent to editor@sappzine.ca, and you can visit the 🔗 in our bio for more submission details. We can’t wait to see what you have in store for us!
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...
Poster with purple background announcing winners with images of books next to headshots. Text: RCLAS 12th Annual Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence in Poetry Winners Announcement 1st Place Garry Gottfriedson - THE FLESH OF ICE Caitlin Press 2nd Place Kayla Czaga MIDWAY House of Anansi Press 3rd Place Barbara Tran PRECEDENTED PARROTING Anstruther Books| Palimpsest Press
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.
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Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Poetry!
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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There is NewPoetry today from Jessica Lee McMillan.

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Compact Disc
Jessica Lee McMillan   you held one of the first CDs and said this is the future and the mirrored finish caught our faces through a veil of shifting rainbows, light bouncing from billions of u…
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January 19, 2026 at 1:44 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
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KEXP poster art from 2017 for International Clash Day. Clash logo takes up half the poster in red lettering over baby blue background. Central image is a comic-style rendering of a guitar smashed into the windshield of a ‘70s police cruiser.
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
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Life is truly absurd. I call it “Simulacra."
Photo of white Crocs with mulitcolour Crocs inserted as charms on the Crocs.
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 🤞
raoulfernandes.bsky.social Raoul Fernandes @raoulfernandes.bsky.social · Dec 5
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
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Labyrinth (1986) - David Bowie's Magic Dance | Movieclips
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January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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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.
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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
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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”.⠀
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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
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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.
Work Published in 2025 • 3 poems in Tokyo Poetry Journal, Vol 16,Winter 2025  • 2 poems in Fire from the Heart: Winners from the 2025 Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, Three Ocean Press, November 2025 • 3 poems in Heron Tree, Volume 12, December 2025 • Interview, “The Art of Writing”, talking about strawberries all of the time, October 2025 • “Outpatient”, Pinhole Poetry Volume Three Selected, print edition, Spring 2025 • Excuses to Mark a Day, Stone Circle Review, August 2025 • Pain in the Reverie: What is a good poem and how does it begin? periodicities, July 2025 • “72” Tiny Spoon, Superstition/Issue 13, Spring/Summer 2025 • The Day Shane MacGowan Died, Contemporary Verse 2, Spring 2025 • “Bridging the Gap” RCLAS Cooperative poem, April 2025 • “Mother Lode” Poetry Pause, League of Canadian Poets, April 2025 • “Almanac”, pacificREVIEW 2025, the AFTER:words Issue, May 2025 • The Air Itself Is One Vast Library, ROOM Magazine (online), April 2025 • 5 poems in talking about strawberries all of the time, April 2025 • “Avocado”, Poetry Pause, League of Canadian Poets, March 2025 • “Ambient”, The New Quarterly, Issue 173, January 2025 • “Principally Uncertain”, Lover’s Eye Press, Issue 9, January 2025 • “Time Out”, Kinds of Cool: A Collection of Jazz Poetry, Jerry Jazz Musician Unsolicited Press, January 2025 Readings: • Ode to the Pattullo Art Salon, Saturday, April 12, 2025 at Anvil Centre, New Westminster • SAPP: a poetry zine, Volume 3 launch, September 13, 2025 at Wildfires Bookshop, New West • RCLAS Poetry in the Park Host: July 16 & 23 at Queen’s Park, New West • SAPP Pride Edition, June 25 at Wildfires Bookshop, New West • National Poetry Month Poetry + Art Salon, Saturday, April 12, 2025 at Anvil Centre, New West • “Ambient” for The New Quarterly feature, March 2025
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Winston Lê : Two poems / @winstonle.bsky.social ;
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Winston Lê : Two poems
haitchling   hhhhhhere you are whoosh are you— hoo-win         erratum your tongue’s shadow reattunes estranges from wartorn & exo...
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January 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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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 😍
A poem entitled Speakerphone by Raoul Fernandes. (Msg me if youd like a transcript)
December 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM