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Susan Robertson
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Borderline Luddite. Sometimes writes.
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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · Jan 7
Gobsmacked, honoured and thrilled to have a Baseline chapbook coming in the spring.
Author photos of five people announcing the 2025 Baseline Press lineup. The authors are Susan Robertson, Dagne Forrest, Jasmine Gui, Salma Husain, and Steve McOrmond.
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"Right now the focus should be on supporting the community in mourning, not weaponizing this event as hate against a vulnerable group at large." expert reporting from the great @melwoods.me
melwoods.me Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 3d
NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

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The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine
Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence
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February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Woo hoo!
February 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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"I have brought you more tea
(& I love you)

I did the dishes
(& I love you)

I wrote you a poem
(& I love you)"

—Helen Robertson

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One Poem by Helen Robertson – beestung
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February 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
snullr.bsky.social
Check out Baseline's 2026 lineup!
A poster announcing Baseline Press' 2026 poets. Photos of the five poets are posted top to bottom along the left side of the poster. Their names are posted on the left: Annick MacAskill, John Barton, Jaeyun Yoo, Susan Gillis, Sophia Cirignano.
January 18, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Who would cut / her home to pieces and row away for that?

Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (2017)
YOU COULD NEVER TAKE A CAR TO GREENLAND, my daughter says. Unless the car could float. Unless by car you mean boat. Unless the ocean turned to ice and promised not to crack. Unless Greenland floated over here, having lifted its anchor. Unless we could row our country there. Our whole continent would have to come along, wouldn't it? Unless we cut ourselves free. What kind of saw could we use for that? What kind of oars could deliver one country to another? She asks, Why is Greenland called Greenland if it's not green? Why is Iceland called Iceland if it's greener than Greenland? Unless it's a trick, a lie: the name Greenland is an ad for Greenland. Who would go promised nothing but ice? Who would cut her home to pieces and row away for that?
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Love me a good love poem (or two, or three...)

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January 9, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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I can't wait!!
nancyhuggett.bsky.social Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social · Jan 7
This Sunday! Motherhood, Faith & Caregiving poetry reading with moi, @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social & @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 7, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Thank you, Vicki, for this and all you do to promote the love of words.
January 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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happy first #smallpoemsunday of 2026! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

in the spirit of new beginnings, here’s one I love by Steve Scafidi~
On the Birth of a Friend’s Child Among the noises of the slaughterhouse everyone is blinking— a calf leaping in the trough.
January 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Salma Hussain : THE MORNING LIGHT
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Salma Hussain : THE MORNING LIGHT
My sister /     the older one         / the one not estranged /    the one who continues to / is the one to deliver the news – / ...
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January 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Bywords.ca invites current & former Ottawa residents, students & workers to submit poems. Deadline of February 2026 issue is January 15, 2026. See guidelines on site. Queries: [email protected]. Please share this call.
Bywords logo. TEXT: poems wanted/guidelines at Bywords.ca. City of Ottawa logo. Photo: a winter scene with iced river, bridge rail and trees
January 1, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Dear sweet God almighty, what a lineup. Tolu Oloruntoba and Karen Solie, one week from today, online!

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Lunch Poems presents Tolu Oloruntoba & Karen Solie (Online)
Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique opportunity to celebrate poetry and is held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I can't be there, but you should if you can.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
snullr.bsky.social
So timely. But it shouldn't have to be timely for these stories to matter. I just registered.
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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What a treat to meet and hear Steve McOrmond and Jeremy Luke Hill.
stevemcormond.bsky.social Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · Oct 29
Thank you to everyone who came out to the poetry reading on Saturday at Little Wren Books in London. What a treat to hear @snullr.bsky.social and Jeremy Luke Hill read from their Baseline Press chapbooks and talk about their work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Come out Friday for poetry and ghosts galore!
nicolavulpe.bsky.social Nicola Vulpe @nicolavulpe.bsky.social · Oct 28
If you're in Ottawa and looking for something to do this Halloween, come to the Happy Goat, 35 Laurel Street. I'll be reading with the excellent Jason Purcell and Margo LaPierre.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Michael Goodfellow's chapbook Cleft is gorgeous.
The front of a beige, tall rectangular chapbook on a dark wood background. The left side features an etching of a snakemouth orchid. The title, Cleft, and the author's name, Michael Goodfellow, are printed in the upper left hand corner. The back of a beige, tall rectangular chapbook on a dark wood background. The right side features an etching of a snakemouth orchid. The title page of a chapbook. A mirrored image of a snakemouth orchid is printed in dark ink on the top of a beige sheet of paper. The title, Cleft, is printed, also in dark ink, in block letters underneath, and under that the author's name, Michael Goodfellow, in italics. The author has initialled the bottom. One page of a long poem printed on beige paper. Three text reads: Cleft stone, then the eel then the room within water it happened before then he used another name a stream bed, stone heaved it happened by rivers places I would never see bog fern, granite, pebbles, dark soil below also meant inside
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Come hear Steve, Jeremy, and me and help celebrate Baseline Press!
stevemcormond.bsky.social Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · Oct 21
Join us this Saturday, October 25 at 4:15 pm at the lovely Little Wren Books in London, ON for a celebration of poetry and Baseline Press. I'll be reading for the first time from my new chapbook "Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City." Hope to see you there!

#poetry #books #CanLit
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Amazing poem by Joy Harjo.
October 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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BYWORDS.CA CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS We publish a monthly online magazine of poetry. Call for unpublished poetry by current and former Ottawa students, residents & workers. Max 250 words and 45 lines, 5 poems. Deadline: 15th of each month for next issue. Payment is $40. E-mail poems as one doc, docx or rtf file to submissions@bywords.ca NO PDFS PLEASE or Google Docs please. More info: amanda@bywords.ca or visit Bywords.ca and click on guidelines.
October 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Read this astonishing work!
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's #smallpoemsunday one from @roblucastaylor.bsky.social 's Weather.
A three line poem that reads screen door-- one hundred sunrises in the baby's palm
October 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Join Poetry@Tech for a Virtual Poetry Craft Talk with Rick Barot: Lavish Syntax. Oct. 25, 2pm ET/11am PT. Register here: gatech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Join us for Poetry@Tech's poetry craft talk with Rick Barot Lavish Syntax The problem at the heart of writing a poem is the problem of dramatization. That is, how do we dramatize in language—a very limited means—the dynamics of thought, sensation,
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October 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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It's not fall without the Small Press Book Fair!
September 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM