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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 6h

new from above/ground press: household: meadow, by Kate Siklosi / @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
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new from above/ground press: household: meadow, by Kate Siklosi

household: meadow Kate Siklosi $6 The yard hers, unsilenced, hers, bright. uttered. unafraid of syntax, little fire, lit and sparking. open-...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 8h

Spotlight series #114 : Geoffrey Young
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Spotlight series #114 : Geoffrey Young

The one hundred and fourteenth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or t...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 2d

above/ground press author spotlight #11 : Michael Sikkema / @michael-sikkema.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social ;
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 4h

don't forget im launching the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025) in Ottawa next week at Plan 99 w Stephanie Bolster + Zane Koss, also launching new books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social
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the book of sentences

, notes on my new poetry title, available from University of Calgary Press,

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 6h

new from above/ground press: household: meadow, by Kate Siklosi / @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

new from above/ground press: household: meadow, by Kate Siklosi

household: meadow Kate Siklosi $6 The yard hers, unsilenced, hers, bright. uttered. unafraid of syntax, little fire, lit and sparking. open-...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 8h

Spotlight series #114 : Geoffrey Young
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Spotlight series #114 : Geoffrey Young

The one hundred and fourteenth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or t...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 18h

S*BSTACK ALERT: The thirty thousand crows of Innes Road,
, a short story about a nearby murder (so to speak,
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 18h

S*BSTACK ALERT: The thirty thousand crows of Innes Road,
, a short story about a nearby murder (so to speak,
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-thirty...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 7d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : antibody, by Rebecca Salazar ;
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Kim Fahner : antibody, by Rebecca Salazar

antibody , Rebecca Salazar McClelland and Stewart, 2025 In Rebecca Salazar’s antibody , the collection that follows on her equally...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 7d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jon Cone @joncone.bsky.social : Thoughts Prompted by the Publication of AGAINST PERFECTIONISM & OTHER POEMS
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Jon Cone : Thoughts Prompted by the Publication of AGAINST PERFECTIONISM & OTHER POEMS

It is nearly impossible for me to write poetry without an awareness of my reading of poetry. I am hopeless. I read poetry constant...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 7d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Miranda Mellis : Coincidence is Poetry
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Miranda Mellis : Coincidence is Poetry

For Denise Newman we three are assigned to signs, second attention sees co/incidence deities woven throughout the web of creat...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 6d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Ryan Greene : on EL REY MURCIÉLAGO // THE BAT KING, by Yaxkin Melchy Ramos
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Ryan Greene : on EL REY MURCIÉLAGO // THE BAT KING, by Yaxkin Melchy Ramos

Visual description: A gif featuring images of small square pieces of paper (some blue, some light brown, some white notebook pap...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday poem #653 : Chris Johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social : screaming kids / @arcpoetry.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ;
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Tuesday poem #653 : Chris Johnson : screaming kids

after John Thompson’s “IX” from Stilt Jack Milton Acorn. Earle Birney. Louis Dudek. Irving Layton. Al Purdy. Too many men have been pu...

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 3d

newly posted: Marc Perez : Some Notes on Goodness
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Marc Perez : Some Notes on Goodness

How does a poem begin? Difficult questions, rob. To answer them, I sought clarity from texts by my man, Walter Benjamin. N...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

Touch the Donkey : new interviews with Kirstin Allio, Joseph Donato, Beatriz Hausner, Nicole Markotić, Lisa Pasold + Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ;
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Touch the Donkey : new interviews with Allio, Donato, Hausner, Markotić, Pasold + Vitkauskas,

Anticipating the release next week of the forty-seventh issue of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] , why not check out the interview...

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Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 1d

“The traditional model of creation → completion has, in many cases, given way to something more fluid, recursive, and continuous. The endurance of the idea… its refusal to conclude… is the work itself. Social media provides a stage for this endlessness, allowing the performance to loop…loop…loop…”

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
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Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation

A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

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Longtail News @longtail.news · 5d

Feed: "rob mclennan's blog"
By: [email protected] (rob mclennan) on Thursday, October 2, 2025

new from above/ground press: Sharpe, Saklikar, Heroux, Cone, Ladouceur, Ramos (trans. Greene), eckhoff, Sikkema, Browne, Gordon + Ross,

Premières Poésies by Eudore Évanturel (1878) , Jamie Sharpe $6 ; Voices from Planet X ~ speculative verse from the THOTJBAP series , Renée S...

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 1d

Laura Kerr: "A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists and persists. The traditional model of creation → completion has, in many cases, given way to something more fluid, recursive, and continuous."

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/laur...

Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation

A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/laur...

Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation

A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Eric Tompkins : The Brush (for Barry)
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Eric Tompkins : The Brush (for Barry)

Lightly holding the brush caressing the ride cymbal the other hand stirring the snare drum The blue light ...

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chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social · 1d

I've got a new poem on DUSIE thanks to the tireless @robmclennan.bsky.social! in this poem, "Someone has bastardized the best lines, / and I have taken all the credit" as per usual. (the "someone" is me 🤫) please give it a read!

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday poem #653 : Chris Johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social : screaming kids / @arcpoetry.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ;
dusie.blogspot.com/2025/10/tues...

Tuesday poem #653 : Chris Johnson : screaming kids

after John Thompson’s “IX” from Stilt Jack Milton Acorn. Earle Birney. Louis Dudek. Irving Layton. Al Purdy. Too many men have been pu...

dusie.blogspot.com

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

Touch the Donkey : new interviews with Kirstin Allio, Joseph Donato, Beatriz Hausner, Nicole Markotić, Lisa Pasold + Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/touc...

Touch the Donkey : new interviews with Allio, Donato, Hausner, Markotić, Pasold + Vitkauskas,

Anticipating the release next week of the forty-seventh issue of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] , why not check out the interview...

robmclennan.blogspot.com

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday poem #653 : Chris Johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social : screaming kids / @arcpoetry.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ;
dusie.blogspot.com/2025/10/tues...

Tuesday poem #653 : Chris Johnson : screaming kids

after John Thompson’s “IX” from Stilt Jack Milton Acorn. Earle Birney. Louis Dudek. Irving Layton. Al Purdy. Too many men have been pu...

dusie.blogspot.com

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 2d

newly posted: Kate Siklosi : Four poems from household: meadow / @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
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Kate Siklosi : Four poems from household: meadow

The doorway The outermost whorl of a flower that encloses the bud is known as a calyx. The ground was dry but the river was ev...

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