Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

"It was like there
was music going on, like a soundtrack,
but when I focused it was just
the humidifier coughing."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Elegy by Stuart Ross (@razovsky.bsky.social) (2025 Relegation Books)

Kingston! This excellent reading and book launch happens tomorrow (March 18) at Novel Idea! Please join us!

Please join us on Thursday at Novel Idea bookstore in Kingston for the launch of new books by Vera Hadzic and Richard Greene! Special guest Michael e. Casteels. And I'm hosting.

I'd like to see you two trade hair.

Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

Thrilled to have four new poems up on R&R, a really beautiful online literary journal!

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

"His arms and legs are becoming birds"

An excerpt from Hugh Thomas's poem "Razovsky at peace," imposed on a detail from the cover of @razovsky.bsky.social's collection 𝑹𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒗𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆 (2001).

Read Hugh's re-translation of Stuart Ross's poem in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/hu...

Ottawa, Tuesday evening at Lieutenant's Pump! Please join us for a fantastic poetry hat trick to celebrate the launch of Vera Hadzic's debut collection!

A Feed Dog Book/Anvil Press present the Ottawa launch for Vera Hadzic's stunning debut poetry collection! With readings by Vera & special guests Jennifer Baker & Stephen Brockwell. Admission is free and books are for sale! Hosted by A Feed Dog Book editor Stuart Ross.

Kilometrestone, even! Thanks!

Merci!

My first-ever review, 50 years ago (!!!), for The Thing In Exile, published by Books by Kids, now Annick Press. Anyone wanna invite me to give a 50th-anniversary reading?

Dundas! Hamilton! Brantford! And environs! Join Lisa Fishman, Sacha Archer and me at Printed Word Bookshop!

Toronto! Please join us! It'll be Lisa's first-ever reading in Toronto! Her poetry is sublime.

Excited for the stunning fall 2025 entry in my Feed Dog Book imprint from Anvil Press! Vera Hadzic's full-length poetry debut, Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery, is compelling, visceral, often dark, and always magical! @anvilpress.bsky.social @hadzicvera.bsky.social

new from above/ground press: AND THEN THE GENTILE LIT THE CANDLES: Seven Stories, by Stuart Ross AND THEN THE GENTILE LIT THE CANDLES: Seven Stories Stuart Ross $6      Everyone watched from all over the world as Meredith and Craig sat i...

new from above/ground press: AND THEN THE GENTILE LIT THE CANDLES: Seven Stories, by Stuart Ross / @razovsky.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

Looking forward to performing on Saturday at 4 pm at the Hillside Festival in Guelph with my collaborator guitarist Domina Eliahou! @hillsidefestival.bsky.social

1671 - Summer Writing School: Poetry This five-day intensive workshop will help you understand the mechanics, craftsmanship and aesthetics of poetry through discussion and writing exercises. Part of the U of T Summer Writing School, it o...

Excited to teach Poetry in-person at @uoftscs.bsky.social's Summer Writing School in July! We had a great time last year: writing, workshopping, discussion, a poetry walk through downtown Toronto, readings, panels & more! Please join us if this interests you! learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...

Prince Edward County! This workshop is filling up fast! Do you want to join in?

Almost like one of those Bowering "tough guy" duo photos.

Try the Pilot Tavern on Cumberland. About a two-minute walk from Bloor & Yonge. A place with great history.

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com Thank you so so so much for that poignant reading of Ilya Kaminsky's brilliant poem! Admire you even more than ever now!

Writers and lit-fans, especially poetpeople, if you aren't following Jay Miller's Bibelotages blog, well, you oughta check it
out! \\https://bibelotages.com/?ref=bibelotages-newsletter

OK, I'll take up the challenge!

Stuart Ross Surreal-Absurd Sampler — Mercurius Surreal-absurd In 1984 I founded a school of writing I called Demento Primitivo. It really caught on, at least among me. The people and other creatures and objects in my poems and stories often push...

Sure am excited to have a baseball team's worth of new poems up on Mercurius!!!

www.mercurius.one/home/stuart-...

Beautiful new book by Ron Padgett! Exciting to see him in the NYRB series. I devoured the book minutes after I picked it up at the local indie on Saturday, wrote a poem about the experience of reading it, sent the poem to Ron, and he said it was "lovely." A great exchange with a great American!

Post by Canadian physician Isaac Bogoch saying, "To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.

Meanwhile, Canada be like...

Hope you are feeling better, Nikki!!!

It was a pleasure to read with @razovsky.bsky.social and Laurie Ann Fuhr at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social last night to help launch Stuart’s new @coachhousebooks1.bsky.social poetry collection The Sky is a Sky in the Sky.

Congrats @razovsky.bsky.social what a lovely launch this week!

I wish I could! Hopefully sometime this year...