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Pieta, 2026 (garden assemblage with pinecones, on basswood)

Sniper Alley, 2025 (garden debris on balsa)

An orange starburst against a blue background. In black text overlaying the image appear the words: "Thank YOU! For making VERSeFest 2026 such a glorious success!" In furthe black script, the words "And thank you as alwasy to our supporters!" appear above a grey band featuring the logos of VERSeFest's funders: Manx Pub, Carleton U, Arc Poetry Magazine, Riverbed Reading Series, City of Ottawa, Canada Council for the Arts, University of Ottawa, League of Canadian Poets, Writer's Uniont of Canada, and Perfect Books.

Thank you all so much for making #VERSeFest2026!
We had full houses every night for our funny, engaging, thoughtful, excellent #poets!

See you at future VERSe Ottawa events, and at VERSeFest 2027! <3 <3 <3

VerseFest Hall of Honour last night.

Counterweight, 2025 (garden assemblage with brown-eyed susan, saskatoon, on balsa)

Thank you so much, #Ottawa, for an excellent opening night!

An extremely blurry photo of a Haitian-Canadian woman reading at a microphone. The words "l'enfant more assassine - MArie-Celie Agnant" appear in white text in the upper-left corner of the image.

A very blurry photo of Sanita Fejzic - a Bosniak lesbian in jeans and a red sweater, whose hair is very short - reading at a music stand. The words "...small and silent as a mouse / grade eleven / a girl throws me into a garbage bin..." (Sanita Fejzic) appear, in white text in the upper-left corner of the image.

Our two live readers at VERSeFest x Riverbed:
Marie-Célie Agnant (L)
Sanita Fejzić (R)

#VERSeFest2026 #ottpoetry #ottpoets #queerpoets #HaitianPoets #ottawa #ottawaevents

The words "VERSeFest Hall of Honour: Monty Reid" appear above a photo of Monty (a balding man wiht a white beard, wearing a suit jacket and a VERSeFest t-shirt) framed with golden laurel leaves.

The words "VERSeFest Hall of Honour: Susan McMaster" appear above a photo of Monty (A white woman with long, grey hair, wearing a purple turtleneck. She has her glasses on her head) framed with golden laurel leaves.

A QR Code that will take you to versefest.ca where you can get tickets to all our events. The words "VERSeFest 2026 - March 24-30 - A world of poetry in ottawa" appear at the top of the frame.

Friends!

We're inducting two new poets into the Hall of Honour this Sunday, March 29!

Our 2026 Inductees are:

MONTY REID
and
SUSAN MCMASTER

Join us for free on Sunday, March 29
4:30pm

In Person - Arts Court Black Box Studio (2 Daly)
Online - versefest.ca

the 16th annual VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival begins tonight (with livestream options as well); & if you pre-purchase tickets, there's less fiddling at the door, yes? lots of exciting readings this week! verseottawa.ca/en/events

folio : Forty-five Ottawa poets : ed. rob mclennan,
, via periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, / @mreid.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @ajdolman.bsky.social @ehjchang.bsky.social @francesboyle19.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #36; VERSeFest special! The Peter F Yacht Club #36 2026 VERSeFest Special lovingly hand-crafted, folded, stapled, edited and carried around in bags of envelopes by ...

new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #36; VERSeFest special!
, @francesboyle19.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @snehaskanta.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @awapointe.bsky.social
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Karen Solie Discovers Leal Rental, 2026, (garden construction with misc plant materials, on basswood). See Karen Solie in Ottawa for VerseFest 2026.

Homage to above/ground press, 2026 (various plant material, maple bark, basswood).

The Factory Reading Series @ VERSeFest: Nada Gordon + Lydia Unsworth, March 29, 2026! The Factory Reading Series as part of the sixteenth annual VERSeFest poetry festival presents:  The Factory Reading Series Lecture Series ; ...

The Factory Reading Series @ VERSeFest: Nada Gordon + Lydia Unsworth, March 29, 2026! / @subpresspoetry.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @knifeforkspoon.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @nadagordon.bsky.social ;
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"In the middle of my life, I found myself in a dark wood...." 2026. (garden assemblage with spirea, pine cones, on stained basswood)

The words "VERSeFest Presents - Friday, March 27 - 8:30pm - Happy Goat Laurel - Paul Vermeersch, Hajer Mirwali, Jérôme Melançon" appear in black text against a gradient background that shades from orange to yellow. The text is accompanied by photos of the three poets mentioned in the text.

The words "VERSeFest 2026 - March 24-30 - A World of Poetry in Ottawa - Check out the lineup and get your tickets here" appear in black text above a black QR code that can be used to get you to the VERSeFest 2026 website. The background, again, shades from orange to yellow.

VERSeFest Presents/présente :
Ft Paul Vermeersch, Hajer Mirwali, Jérôme Melançon

Friday, March 27 - 20:30pm
Happy Goat Laurel

Vendredi, le 27 mars - 20h30
Happy Goat (rue Laurel)

$15 ($25 for both March 27 shows)
15 $ (25 $ pour les deux spectacles du 27 mars)

www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/fri...

by the way, this year's VERSeFest is running two poetry workshops: one by Toronto poet/editor Paul Vermeersch, and another by Calgary poet/slam performer Sheri-D Wilson; see here for further information: verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

Wheelbarrow (for Leonard Woolf) 2025 (assemblage with metal strip, seed pods, raincap). The metal came from an ancient wooden wheelbarrow discovered in an overgrown drainage ditch near Monk's House, the longtime home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Leonard was an energetic gardener.

Very happy to have the very brief poems feeling the Rothko paintings at the Tate Modern. They have a quiet shimmer to them, as does Public Reverie. Many thanks.

New at PublicReverie.com, "Rothko Room" by Monty Reid. These poems are Reid's response to the Rothko paintings at the Tate Modern, nine of which were part of a failed commission for an NYC restaurant.

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#Rothko #TateModern #poetry

Cool, with a note on my Turret House chap, Vertebrata, tagged on. Thx.

Totems, Petrie Island,2025 (miscellaneous plant material)

Canadian Poets! Submit your work! It's that time of the year again, year 8 of Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize. What's Muriel's Journey all about? Find out here PRIZE:First Prize $100First Prize for a poem by a Vancouver Downtown Eastsid...

@mreid.bsky.social Can I invite you to submit here, and/or let others know about this opportunity? Thanks!

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Thank you PLR!

love it!

Our worst assumptions proven.

Futbol elegans, 2025 (garden assemblage with buckthorn, on balsa)

the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;

March 24-30, 2026: check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

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