So freaking thrilled about this!! And what an honour to share the list with these other fabulous poets.

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

Deeply grateful for this first review and close reading of The Garbage Poems. What a profound gift it is to review poetry - not just a generosity to the author & book but also a building & sustaining of important creative community <3

Thank you so much for this! <3

Anna Swanson, The Garbage Poems (Brick Books, Fall 2025) lovingly reviewed by rob mclennan In Which We ReplaceGarbage With LoveThis place is famous for love, all brands& standards. We who come here know loveis a verb, & we love with open hands.On…

"Swanson’s poems articulate such lovely bricolage, stitching narratives as a collage of subject, accumulation & language, stitching narratives from found materials into reason, logic, story."

From @robmclennan.bsky.social's review of @annajswan.bsky.social's latest.

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Thank you so much for being there!! <3

So delighted to see The Garbage Poems on this preview list from @49thshelf.bsky.social - and especially to share it with so many fabulous poets! I just got to hear Katherena Vermette read from Procession this week at Woody Point and it was extraordinary.

Just to be clear, I don't believe Canada has a "right to exist" either.

Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means. The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians.

The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

Visual art above by Joana Solà

Issue 54: Excerpts from Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn - Riddle Fence

Have you seen the latest Riddle Fence? Poetry by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social, @madopiano.bsky.social, SA Leger, Matthew Gwathmey, Stephen Kampa, Lucas Crawford, Christ Hutchinson, Liz Huntly/Jesch, Eva Haas + great fic/cnf too!

Preview of Amber Dawn's stunning work: riddlefence.com/feature/exce...

Small Things - Riddle Fence

A non-fiction essay of mine was published with Riddle Fence!

It details a year in my life when my ex-husband had a psychotic break. I’m immensely proud of this essay and so grateful to RF for seeing its merit.

CW: psychosis, domestic violence, trauma.

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Me too!! We're doing page proofs now and it feels surreal after all these years!

Anna wrote about writing the Garbage Poems in Impact, our book about #women and #concussion. I’m a big fan of this project. Support Anna if you can! ualbertapress.ca/978177212581....

Thank you so much for the support @other-jane.bsky.social - both for believing in the essay back then and for supporting the new book now! <3

Graphic with a light pink background with a slice of watermelon on top. Text reads “Crips for eSims for Gaza Update 1/7/25, $2.16 million CAD raised ($1.50 US) 18,434 eSims purchased and sent, 4316 eSims activated” On the lower left corner, “Thank you! Jane, Leah, and Alice.” On the lower right corner is a QR code

🍉 Please help us continue to keep the thousands of eSIMs we bought active so Gazans can connect with the outside world

For more: chuffed.org/project/crip...

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Oof. What a title. That could go so many places. I look forward to finding out!

This was such a fantastic event! I can't wait for the book to be out so that I can tell people where to read it!

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Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza .رسالة مفتوحة إلى فريق بلوسكاي بشأن تعاملهم مع الفلسطينيين في غزة Please review the open letter here and include your name below (if you are better known on Bluesky by your handle you could use that or add it to your name.) Thank you so much for caring about this co...

This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:

I think this might just be my current favourite Between The Covers podcast episode & that's saying a lot. It's been a hard time lately, for all the obvious reasons, to think into the future. Listening to this conversation is the most I've been able to in a long time & I'm grateful. This book. Wow.

This is a gorgeous book. Seriously. Go read it. @estmcphee.bsky.social

Awww... thank you Rob! It's been a LONG time in the making. It's kind of thrilling to see the cover and imagine it as a beautiful object out in the world after so many years of it existing as files on a computer and bags of garbage in my basement and car and spread out to transcribe on my desk... 😂

Cover design is by (the incredibly talented) Natalie Olsen of Kisscut Design & she's doing the interior as well! I can't wait to see what she does with April White's illustrations. If you love poetry, you probably already know & love her cover design work: www.kisscutdesign.com/cover-design

Book cover for The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson. Illustrations by April White. Cover art is a painting of a crushed can in dark grey with illegible green, teal, and hot pink text on it against a light grey background. Title text is in mid-green, with author text in hot pink.

Exciting news—my new book has a cover!!! Art by April White. Design by Natalie Olsen. 🩷🩷🩷

And… my publisher has agreed to print the illustrations in full colour! If you can, please support Brick Book’s pre-order campaign to cover the extra costs of colour printing: igg.me/at/garbagepo...

A hand-drawn map of Gaza with the border shown in squiggles that suggest barbed wire, surrounded by colourful trucks and boats on all sides labelled "food." None are crossing in. Title at the top reads "This is a man-made famine." Art by weirdmomart.

Not an accident. Not a natural disaster. Not a humanitarian crisis. Not a tragic or unintended side-effect. Not a famine. (drawing by weirdmomart on IG.)