some author activity: Mellis, Munson, Christie, Brockwell, Niespodziany + Levy, Miranda Mellis is interviewed over at Tricycle ; Jed Munson has new work up at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month , as does ...

some above/ground author activity: Miranda Mellis, Jed Munson, Jason Christie, Stephen Brockwell, Benjamin Niespodziany + John Levy, / @jasonchristie.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/04/some...

National Poetry Month : Han VanderHart, Ars Poetica as Arctic Explorer I point my boat into the silent cold. We all make choices towards and away from each other.   The Farth...

National Poetry Month : Han VanderHart, / @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @ohiounivpress.bsky.social ;
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tracy Zeman Writing at the intersection of ecology and culture, habitat and habitation, Tracy Zeman’s work traverses environmental crises, documents di...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tracy Zeman / @parlorpress.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/12-o...

National Poetry Month : Stephen Brockwell, Desert Signals for Jason Christie 1—Oasis The northern winter taught me to forget the scent of water. These palms teach me to in...

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Stephen Brockwell,
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

Tuesday poem #681 : Sarah Wolfson : THE PLANTING One bean grew down instead of up. Perhaps I planted it wrong. For weeks, nothing. Then the soil moulded over with white fuzz indisting...

Tuesday poem #681 : Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social : THE PLANTING / @greenwriterspress.bsky.social ;
dusie.blogspot.com/2026/04/tues...

this weekend! Ottawa's current French-language poet laureate, and at least one former! // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;

So happy to have a poem up at Dusie, The Tuesday Poem. How many bean poems is too many? Don’t answer that. I don’t think I’m at five yet. Anyway, it’s about a lot of things.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tracy Zeman Writing at the intersection of ecology and culture, habitat and habitation, Tracy Zeman’s work traverses environmental crises, documents di...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tracy Zeman / @parlorpress.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/12-o...

Tuesday poem #681 : Sarah Wolfson : THE PLANTING One bean grew down instead of up. Perhaps I planted it wrong. For weeks, nothing. Then the soil moulded over with white fuzz indisting...

Tuesday poem #681 : Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social : THE PLANTING / @greenwriterspress.bsky.social ;
dusie.blogspot.com/2026/04/tues...

The Poet Laureate Podcast LIVE with smallpress tian & champion of poetry @robmclennan.bsky.social

Join our live studio audience. Tickets FREE on Eventbrite.

Saturday, April 25
5:30–7:30 PM
Doors open at 5:15 PM (for a small 15 min window)
Haus of Owl Creation Lab
780 Blanshard St, 4th Floor

some author activity: Sandhu, Sawyer, Vitkauskas, Weaver, Marlatt, Pirie, Logan + Shirley, Mandy Sandhu has some poems up at talking about strawberries all of the time , as do Larry Sawyer and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas ;  Andy Weaver...

some above/ground press author activity: Mandy Sandhu, Larry Sawyer, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Andy Weaver, Daphne Marlatt, Pearl Pirie, Nate Logan + Vik Shirley, / @vikshirley.bsky.social @airbudhockey.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/04/some...

rob mclennan in Victoria, BC: April 24 + 25,
, two readings (including w Anna Yin + Phoebe Wang) and a podcast-on-stage, interviewing Kyeren Regehr, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/rob-mclenn...

National Poetry Month : Rahat Kurd, The Harrowing Hour   By the pen   –  By the anniversary pen he gave you last night, and the dishes he left in the sink this mornin...

National Poetry Month : Rahat Kurd, / @rahat.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social ;
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

National Poetry Month : Han VanderHart, Ars Poetica as Arctic Explorer I point my boat into the silent cold. We all make choices towards and away from each other.   The Farth...

Put on this coat of goose feather.
These sealskin boots. Wipe tallow on your lips.
We may see a gam of whales today.

When we return, our loves may still love us…

Han VanderHart #poetry #NaPoMo #NationalPoetryMonth 📚💙

Rob Taylor, call for you on line three; @roblucastaylor.bsky.social, call on line three;

National Poetry Month : Han VanderHart, Ars Poetica as Arctic Explorer I point my boat into the silent cold. We all make choices towards and away from each other.   The Farth...

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Han VanderHart, / @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @ohiounivpress.bsky.social ;
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

This 19th day of National Poetry Month, Chaudiere Books shares "The Harrowing Hour", a poem I wrote in 2005, when my son was ~18 months old, in stark contrast to last week, when he expressed professional dismay at my attempt to trim my own bangs, (seen here in alarming close-up).

Poems, on occasion , On Occasion: Poems for the People, ed. Sina Queyras (Coach House Books),

"... these are poems that refuse to remain still. If you know someone who wishes to begin with poetry, or has begun and not gone far, this might be the perfect volume."

@robmclennan.bsky.social re: On Occasion, ed. Sina Queyras (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social) robmclennan.substack.com/p/poems-on-o...

Many thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for publishing this new poem of mine @chaudierebooks.bsky.social for National Poetry Month! 📚💙

my usual sportsbar corner, with the latest issue of Grain, and new titles by Serena Chopra, Therese Estacion, Edie Reaney Chunn, etc // @bookhugpress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social

rob mclennan in Victoria, BC: April 24 + 25,
, two readings (including w Anna Yin + Phoebe Wang) and a podcast-on-stage, interviewing Kyeren Regehr, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/rob-mclenn...

Spotlight series #120 : Carlos A. Pittella The one hundred and twentieth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or tw...

Spotlight series #120 : Carlos A. Pittella
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/spot...

small one returns to ukulele lessons, so working the ends of this essay on Don McKay’s 1975 long poem, Long Sault,

National Poetry Month : Nancy Huggett, Hieroglyphs   Yesterday. It was cold. Again. Snow crusted field stiff with wetness, wind. Tamaracks storm- shaken, small bits of branc...

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Nancy Huggett, / @nancyhuggett.bsky.social ;
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

National Poetry Month : Lydia Unsworth, BRESCIA     He walked down his valley into the modern city and said— though whose valley is it and for how long do you, in order   t...

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ;
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

National Poetry Month : Rahat Kurd, The Harrowing Hour   By the pen   –  By the anniversary pen he gave you last night, and the dishes he left in the sink this mornin...

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Rahat Kurd, / @rahat.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social ;
chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nadia de Vries Nadia de Vries is a poet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her selected works of poetry All My Dead Jesters , edited by Dominic Jaeckle, jus...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nadia de Vries / @nadiadevries.bsky.social @tenement-press.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/12-o...

small one returns to ukulele lessons, so working the ends of this essay on Don McKay’s 1975 long poem, Long Sault,

This! Just up thanks to an invite from @robmclennan.bsky.social . Photo for fun! Part of a manuscript I am working on thanks to support from an Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant & Palimpsest Books.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nadia de Vries Nadia de Vries is a poet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her selected works of poetry All My Dead Jesters , edited by Dominic Jaeckle, jus...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nadia de Vries / @nadiadevries.bsky.social @tenement-press.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/12-o...