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Mike Bagwell : Four poems Tomorrow, the Things We Want But In Having, Reject Out of Fear   Just like the ocean, we get by with only the basic information. W...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Mike Bagwell : Four poems
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Jérôme Melançon : Filles de Gore, by Clémence Dumas-Côté Filles de Gore , Clémence Dumas-Côté Les Herbes rouges, 2025       The township of Gore is located in the Laurentides region of Québec. ...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : Filles de Gore, by Clémence Dumas-Côté / @lesherbesrouges.bsky.social ;
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Jake Kennedy : How does a poem begin? How does a poem begin?         I feel some casual magic in this astonishing paragraph from Kay Ryan: Right now I am thinking of so...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jake Kennedy : How does a poem begin?
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Stan Rogal : Mean Free Path: Ben Lerner For the work,                                           the work did nothing but invi...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Stan Rogal : Mean Free Path: Ben Lerner
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Jérôme Melançon : …more songs the radio won’t play…, by Stan Rogal …more songs the radio won’t play… , Stan Rogal ECW Press, 2025       Stan Rogal is very serious about not being serious – even when inte...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : …more songs the radio won’t play…, by Stan Rogal / @ecwpress.bsky.social ;
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Penn Kemp : Left to Levity Humour is what I can write even when overwhelmed with emotion. What surfaces at such extremes is not joking per se but word associat...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Penn Kemp : Left to Levity / @hempressbooks.bsky.social ;
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Chris Turnbull and Nico Vassilakis : 2.3 from a-z/z-a 18-20.             n/ Two brains on a bench broadcast by accident. Wires cross, languages echo writing, static as a form of listening. A...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Chris Turnbull and Nico Vassilakis : 2.3 from a-z/z-a
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Laura Kerr : Experimental Poetry Criticism: Field Notes Recording poems under condition, not meaning. Each entry measures what survives contact with boundary and pressure. What remains is the crit...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr @sedserio.com : Experimental Poetry Criticism: Field Notes
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Just the other day / for example, I fell in love / with distance

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose : Two poems / @poetlady74.bsky.social ;
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Janice Colman : if the creek were a letter its rolling would be continuous R / a conveyor belt of soft Rs. sometimes, as smooth and hip-with-sunglasses-reciting- poetry it...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Janice Colman : if the creek were a letter
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Scott Abbott: Alissandru (Alex) Francesco Caldiero (1949-2026) “I want to go where the sound goes after the bell stops ringing.” “Sonosopher” Alex Caldiero spent a lifetime approaching this plac...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Scott Abbott: Alissandru (Alex) Francesco Caldiero (1949-2026)
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Andy Weaver : Two poems bathtime   time is the actuality of perspective, the lands of low tide are more than myth only if one lives longer than a few hours ...

newly posted: Andy Weaver : Two poems / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ;
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Kim Fahner : what we know so far is… , by Conor Mc Donnell what we know so far is… , Conor Mc Donnell Buckrider, 2025       Parts of Conor Mc Donnell’s what we know so far is… remind me of some...

newly posted: Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : what we know so far is… , by Conor Mc Donnell / @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social ;
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Lydia Unsworth : At Last I Have Been Here Long Enough: some notes on an urban poetics presented on March 29, 2026 as part of The Factory Lecture Series, VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival         My th...

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Process Note #69 : Preeti Vangani : on Fifty Mothers The 'process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for...

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Janice Colman : if the creek were a letter its rolling would be continuous R / a conveyor belt of soft Rs. sometimes, as smooth and hip-with-sunglasses-reciting- poetry it...

newly posted: Janice Colman : if the creek were a letter
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Stan Rogal : REPORT FROM THE DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) in conversation with Stan Rogal                                            The time is right to mix sentence...

newly posted: Stan Rogal : REPORT FROM THE DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY : Richard Brautigan
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Scott Abbott: Alissandru (Alex) Francesco Caldiero (1949-2026) “I want to go where the sound goes after the bell stops ringing.” “Sonosopher” Alex Caldiero spent a lifetime approaching this plac...

newly posted: Scott Abbott: Alissandru (Alex) Francesco Caldiero (1949-2026)
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/scot...

Glenn Bach : on EVAD EVAD is an extended meditation on place, the idea/ideal of home, belonging (or not), and the fleeting grasp of local knowledge and ...

newly posted: Glenn Bach : on EVAD
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Carolina Dávila Díaz : Cutting ties : translated and transfluxed by Ryan Greene Visual description: A gif featuring red text on an ivory cream background, the colors approximating the printed version of Carolin...

newly posted: Carolina Dávila Díaz : Cutting ties : translated and transfluxed by Ryan Greene / #translation
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Laura Kerr : Experimental Poetry Criticism : Ambient Series The comix knows what it holds. These four works move through war, remix, light, and boulevard — each a different pressure, each a differ...

newly posted: Laura Kerr : Experimental Poetry Criticism : Ambient Series / @sedserio.com ;
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Stephanie Bolster : AFTERWORD : BIODÔME: Twentieth Anniversary Edition At one point in the early 2000s, I realized that I could no longer remember when I’d last thought about animals in a meaningful way....

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Christina Wells: on The Unknotter I was in Toronto recently, walking in Leslieville (feeling lost, despite all my apps), when I heard church bells. I looked up for a ...

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Process Note #70 : Lisa Rosenberg : Weeds and Stars: On Seeds, Patterns, and Assemblages The 'process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for...

newly posted: Process Note #70 : Lisa Rosenberg : Weeds and Stars: On Seeds, Patterns, and Assemblages / @mawsheinwin.bsky.social ;
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Stephanie Bolster : AFTERWORD : BIODÔME: Twentieth Anniversary Edition At one point in the early 2000s, I realized that I could no longer remember when I’d last thought about animals in a meaningful way....

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Stephanie Bolster : AFTERWORD : BIODÔME: Twentieth Anniversary Edition / @montrealprize.bsky.social @aelaq.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social ;
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Glenn Bach : on EVAD EVAD is an extended meditation on place, the idea/ideal of home, belonging (or not), and the fleeting grasp of local knowledge and ...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Glenn Bach : on EVAD
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/glen...

Laura Kerr : Experimental Poetry Criticism : Ambient Series The comix knows what it holds. These four works move through war, remix, light, and boulevard — each a different pressure, each a differ...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : Experimental Poetry Criticism : Ambient Series / @sedserio.com ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/laur...