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Steve McOrmond

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Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · Aug 15

My new chapbook “Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City” is here and available to preorder from Baseline Press: www.baselinepress.ca#/jacaranda-t...

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“Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City” (poetry chapbook available to preorder now from Baseline Press)

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 2h

Morning in the Graveyard

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 2d

Ladybug

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn in Toronto

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 3d

Dumpster Diaries (4 October 2025)

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 4d

Catching Some Rays

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 4d

Autumn

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 9d

Rust

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 10d

On the Inside

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 11d

Birdbath in Black and White

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 16d

The Triggering Town was a game changer for me when I was starting out. This is the passage I always point out to beginners.

Young poets find it difficult to free themselves from the initiating subject. The poet puts down the title: "Autumn Rain." He finds two or three good lines about Autumn Rain. Then things start to break down. He cannot find anything more to say about Autumn Rain so he starts making up things, he strains, he goes abstract, he starts telling us the meaning of what he has already said. The mistake he is making, of course, is that he feels obligated to go on talking about Autumn Rain, because that, he feels, is the subject. Well, it isn't the subject. You don't know what the subject is, and the moment you run out of things to say about Autumn Rain start talking about something else. In fact, it's a good idea to talk about some- thing else before you run out of things to say about Autumn Rain.

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 17d

Looking forward to reading in London, ON at Little Wren Books on Saturday, October 25th at 4:15 PM. Hope you can join Susan Robertson (@snullr.bsky.social), Jeremy Luke Hill, and me for some late afternoon poetry compliments of Baseline Press.

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 17d

Street Abstract (19 September 2025)

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 19d

Yonge Street

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 21d

Boot Lake, Nova Scotia

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 23d

Leaf Studies (September 2025)

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 23d

Stephen Dunn

Little Good Song

It's good to sneak up from behind
to the front, good to sit
for a while in the best seats.
When the rich show up it's good
to explain how they're mistaken,
and cite the small, unreadable print.
The meek are ready, you tell them it says,
the meek have come to take their seats.

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 24d

Hangers

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 25d

Street Abstract (13 September 2025)

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 25d

Late Summer

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 27d

Rust

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 28d

Contrails

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 28d

"When she was younger, no one ever asked
to take her picture. Now she can't go five minutes
without some tourist sticking a camera in her face."

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from Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City by @stevemcormond.bsky.social (2025 Baseline Press) www.baselinepress.ca#/jacaranda-t...

My hand holding poetry chapbook Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City by Steve McOrmond (Baseline Press) with a notebook with an ornate gold cover and a black pen, in front of a garden of blackeyed susans and other flowers

Handwritten transcription of a section from the poetry chapbook Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City by Steve McOrmond

Close-up of handwritten transcription of a section from the poetry chapbook Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City by Steve McOrmond, also showing chapbook bookmark

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 29d

Rust

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · Sep 7

Rust

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Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · Sep 7

Rust

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