A clean sweep of the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist by American authors. Congratulations to them and that country. @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social

"Find new ways of approach 'the public'"
Virginia Woolf, 1938

Michæl Orzechowski, 2026

Recalling the trip we took to Limerick, and the poem we spun en route.

Fixed Trump's sick genocidal rant. The only possible positive outcome of the day.

Happening this Thursday (April 9): a one-day symposium on the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive!

You are invited and welcome to "The Leafless Page", a one-day symposium at TMU on Thursday 9 April. We will be launching the new bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and collectively beginning to imagine its future use to readers, teachers, students, and poets.
Register here: bit.ly/4lO65y6

If Avi can get the "ballot question" to be about the environment, he has a chance of making real gains. If it is about the war or the economy, he won't. Canadians overwhelmingly support Carney's stance on both. I'm optimistic, though, because the Liberals are vulnerable on the environment.

You are invited and welcome to "The Leafless Page", a one-day symposium at TMU on Thursday 9 April. We will be launching the new bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and collectively beginning to imagine its future use to readers, teachers, students, and poets.
Register here: bit.ly/4lO65y6

Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your materials by June 1, 2026 to ensure your application is considered.

It is my great pleasure to open the search for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency at The SETI Institute.

This 18-month remote residency comes with a $10,000 US stipend and is open to all writers and poets. Consider sharing with those who might be interested.

www.seti.org/news/cosmic-...

Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your materials by June 1, 2026 to ensure your application is considered.

It is my great pleasure to open the search for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency at The SETI Institute.

This 18-month remote residency comes with a $10,000 US stipend and is open to all writers and poets. Consider sharing with those who might be interested.

www.seti.org/news/cosmic-...

The Reader, an iron sculpture. I couldn't find the name of the artist, but had some fun dialing the saturation up to 11.

50 years ago, Steve McCaffery published Carnival, The Second Panel, an explosion of words and letters produced by typewriter and stamp.

"the message being that we are all poets one and all as long as we have lungs"

Dear Michael Morris, Love Gary Lee Nova, sent 2 June 1970; a colourful letter on purloined letterhead.

I fall prey to warmly in the cold dead of winter

“Dick Pics” by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. I will post another version tomorrow that’s recited elsewhere :) YouTube video by Isabelle Larose

Sarah Tsiang's poem "Dick Picks". Her friend Josephine has been banned by the Calgary Catholic School Board from reciting this poem for the Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie recitation contest.
www.youtube.com/shorts/LNY3Y...

Delighted to share this Call for Papers: “the leafless page”: bpNichol and the (true, eventual) Digital Archive.

Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.

Still yelling with Johanna Calle's "abecé" from her stunning alphabet book (2012).

Exoplanetary Poetry: AI, Chemistry, and Alien Communication YouTube video by SETI Institute

Exoplanetary poetry: an update on SETI Live from the current Artists-in-Residence of the Cosmic Consciousness Residency (I show up towards the end lol). www.youtube.com/live/z3SWPwh...

The whole play is a video chat

Save the date! I will be hosting a one-day bpNichol symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University on Thursday 9 April 2026. Details to follow!!

Possible, tentative name for the event:
"the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca

David Aylward. "Crossword." Seripress, 1975.

Gorgeous

This was the group cheering on the Canadian truckers sounding their blast horns ripping through Ottawa for over three weeks straight, right?

Which is itself a nod to the last words of Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "A way a lone a last a loved a long the""

A spot of warmth on a cold, bleak day! cheers

The Eremocene (The Abyss of Silence) Gregory Betts   let us, you and I, rename ourselves loneliness for loneliness looks at loneliness and loses itself in loneliness struggling to say and speak loneliness in loneliness loneliness…

There's NewPoetry today from Gregory Betts.

newpoetry.ca/2026/01/26/t...

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