STARLING: music with birds Over the past year or two, I’ve been driven to create work relating to birds.

A duet with starlings. I imagine the inside of my mouth is the shape of a songbird.
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#shortpoemsunday

Vancouver Transit Shelter Installation - VerseVancouver The City of Vancouver invited poet laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner to design images for transit shelters around Vancouver for National Poetry Month. The posters are installed in ten different transit s...

Very cool project Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner has created and that I had the great pleasure to participate in. A series of transit shelters with poetry/visual poetry/sound that asks how sound, image, and place interact with poetry.
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Bees, stars, community, poetry

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after a prompt by @neonpajamas.bsky.social based on an Olivia Cronk poem (here: neonpajamas.substack.com/p/067-poem-p...)

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a 71 word unreleased poem (with a free writing prompt) from Olivia Cronk is now live

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Three Poems I feel great! I just read three poems!

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to post small poems you’ve written, or ones you love by other poets :)

here’s one by my friend @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social, published this week in Michigan City Review of Books~

#shortpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Bpnichol.ca is up and live! Browse, search, and explore hundreds of links, downloadable ads, theses and dissertations -- its a clearinghouse of poetic/prosaic awesome: bpnichol.ca

#shortpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

some above/ground press author activity: Gary Barwin + Lillian Nećakov, Shelly Harder, Katie Ebbitt, Zane Koss, Carrie Olivia Adams + Pearl Pirie, / @cybersubrosa.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social ;
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Glad you were there!

A man with long grey hair and glasses reads from notes on a bar stage, beside him is a framed square photo of a young bearded man in profile

@garybarwin.bsky.social reading a tribute to the late Paul Dutton last night. So many good stories, and amazing performances.

Tonight!

Making art in many media: how studying with bpNichol was a model for many of us.
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Playing a tree like a saxophone I’ve had a large bifurcated branch lying on our guest room bed for months, attached to an IV.

Watch a video where I attempt to play a tree like a saxophone

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Social media in dangerous times: "kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight." On incessant art posting and resisting paint-by-numbers petrocapitalist hegemonic violence. garybarwin.substack.com/p/on-incessa...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 13 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @dominicrivron.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 13 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

Odes to mushrooms, the greenness of grief & more with @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @lisamariebasile.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social
2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

I listen with small bones
to birds

#smallpoemsunday
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Harmiumm

thank you!! Just listening to this now open.spotify.com/track/2ozs1L...

Thanks! The prompts are a revivifying delight on a dark Sunday evening and I'm really grateful to you for doing them.

Typewriter and bird's nest. Music with a barn swallow, soprano saxophone and electronics.

done!

Two poems after prompts from @neonpajamas.bsky.social great substack of prompts. (Mine are from #4 and #65)

“I/ joked that I had found a sweet spot. I could/ write a poem that was too broken for the lyric/ poets and too lyric for everyone else.//A poem, I understood.”!!!!

1/4 In my forthcoming novel, Aether and Ego, they leave Earth in 1821 and because they didn't have the technology at the time to be absolutely air-tight, Charles Babbage invents the "airator."

#PrideAndPrejudice #JaneAusten #AetherAndEgo #Austenite #Austenesque #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky

He says this so well -- Irish empathy, sorrow, and resistance. And refusal to surrender to dehumanization but to value the human.