Poster featuring chapbook cover and judges' citation for five from hem, a poetry chapbook by Annick MacAskill. The citation reads, “Within the span of five poems, Annick MacAskill’s five from hem manages a feat few achieve even in a full-length work: the articulation of a personal poetics. Laying classical translation against vibrantly contemporary re-imaginings, and forming them along the lines of her own distinctive shorthand, MacAskill creates a snowglobe cosmos that transcends millenia.”

Poster with collage background, reading "the 2025 SHORT LIST" in cut-out letters. Poster also features the logo for the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

Absolutely thrilled to have five from hem, a chapbook I published with Gap Riot Press, shortlisted for this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award. five from hem features poems written in the voice of women from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many gratias to Gap Riot, the judges, and the Meet the Presses Collective.

Thrilled to share my chapbook failed (after)lives w The Blasted Tree has been shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award!!! Very very grateful and excited!

I just fell to my knees

“don’t ask me again for 30 days” why does multifactor authentication even offer that option when they FULLY INTEND TO ASK ME AGAIN JUST ONE DAY LATER like pls i just want to log into my student centre let me be 😭😭😭

real/fake is an unhelpful binary for adoptive/biological parents!!! Only note on an otherwise fun movie

leaned over after watching Superman and whispered “everything is adoption studies”

Things I have done to get my students to wrap up their discussion:

1) increasingly loud HELLOs
2) air horn noise, followed by threat to get a tiny air horn
3) a strange little jig (most successful by far; comes with bemused whispers of “oh she’s dancing”)

THE BESTIE AND I GOT SSHRC IT’S TIME FOR MATCHING JUMPSUITS @inkstainedwreck.ca

thank you!! I hope to finish it soon!

it literally ended 25 years after I was adopted… truly couldn’t have asked for a more satisfying timespan. the numbers guy in me is rlly pleased by this

documenting this bc I feel knocked out by the timing. the novel is an archive bc it’s about looking back and trying to sort out some meaning. but looking back & knowing that adoption from China is *over* feels beyond strange

while working on my thesis about adoption, I’ve had super relevant and random encounters (ie discovering a stranger in the dog park had an incredible adoption story) and just as I’ve decided this novel is an archive of adoption I found out that China closed overseas adoption last year

whoaa thank you for putting this on my radar I love her work so much I must read!!!

Canada’s most unique poetry prize – deadline extended. 5 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings readings in the fall! Please repost!
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the age of men is over. the time of the fool has come

nice

help

Metafiction, deconstruction, and jazzing around

Q: hey, what are you into?

A:

Super excited to announce that my second poetry collection is now available for preorder! Supergiants is forthcoming from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social in April, and just look at the glorious cover they cooked up 🌞 Preorder a copy from them or an indie bookstore or request it at your local library!

Everyone interacts with content notes differently but I just want to very explicitly say that I thought I had braced sufficiently for this & I am still regulating my very physical reactions to it. It's sickening; it's harrowing; it's excruciatingly well reported. But you don't *have* to read it.

Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, of the Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, GA. Shows cypress trees, the dark tannic water, and lily pads with blooms.

"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. " ~ Barbar Hurd, “Stirring the Mud" #SwampSunday #WitchSky

my partner & I have decided to start a collection of children’s books bc they’re so charming & wholesome & it’s all starting with Little Shrew (he will always be famous to me)

YAY A GAME!

I’m all over the place bc I’m reading fiction just for fun:

-The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social
-Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
-Held by Anne Michaels

Tagging @kercoby.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social

me: it’s a five minute drive here and the other one is across from my house I know that’s not a lot but I’m lazy

her: it’s okay I get it

me: maybe I’ll check out the vibes of the Safeway pharmacy first I bet the vibes here are better

her: 😇🥰

was feeling guilty about switching pharmacies bc my current pharmacist is so nice I was like stop it’s fine they don’t care but then she said “I wish you could stay” like does she love me or is it just annoying for them to do a transfer do they benefit from my presence monetarily or just emotionally

OFFICIALLY A PHD CANDIDATE!!!!!!!!! 🎷🦖

every time I email someone and ask my question directly instead of prefacing it with “I was just wondering” an angel gets their wings

The Garden Read Conyer Clayton's short story "The Garden" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo

ex-puritan.ca/the-garden

Yes yes yes — very thrilled to have two brand new ekphrastic poems in the SCHISM issue of the Ex-Puritan. Read them here: ex-puritan.ca/ratchet-up-t...

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To My First Mother - The Rumpus It would be nice to look in the mirror and see you.

I have a letter to my first/birth mother in @therumpus.net for Adoption Awareness Month! This is a dream pub in so many ways; I’m so grateful to be part of this series and I feel so encouraged to keep writing about the messy grief and strange joy of being adopted 🤍 therumpus.net/2024/11/21/t...