Mark your calendars! Arc Poetry is returning to VERSeFest on Wednesday, March 25, for an event that includes Isabella Wang, our 2024 – 2025 Poet-in-Residence T. Liem, and Lucia Farinon. This will be an evening of poetry you won't want to miss!

catch Canadian poet Karen Solie reading this month in Ottawa at VERSeFest! on March 29th as part of festival, and the following day, a free event at Carleton University: further information and tickets at: verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

happy international women's day

Amanda Earl on michèle provost For many years I have adored michèle provost. She is my kindred in whimsy, imagination, play and versatility. In her artistic statement, G...

i write about dear friend and amazing artist michèle provost. thanks to rob mclennan for publishing my note on Many Gendered Mothers: themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.com/2024/03/aman...

a reminder that many gendered mothers has a Patreon page, all of which goes towards paying contributors,
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happy mother's day to all the many gendered mothers, wherever you might be,

From today’s adventure —“there are some in every crowd” (Natalie Hanna, in lisan al’asfour, ARP Books 2022) - thank you to @battleaxepress.bsky.social for joining us today to explore #Ottawa in Verse, with many thanks also to @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social; #AwesomeOttawa; #WriteOttawa

a reminder that periodicities is perpetually open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related book/chapbook reviews, interviews, essays + translation. Please send submissions as .doc with author biography to periodicityjournal@gmail.com ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/subm...

National Poetry Month : Salem Paige, poet as a software engineer     I made God in my processor saw his face in my graphics card he fried my CPU, left my motherboard...

National Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books day five! with a new poem by Salem Paige, / @salempaige.bsky.social ;
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National Poetry Month : Julie Paul, Lacrimal Report, 2025   Lodged in my chest like a paid-for Mirage Bar, my tears won’t leave the machine They grow wings, legs, a...

National Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books day seven! with a new poem by (now) Montreal-based poet Julie Paul, / @juliepaulwrites.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ;
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National Poetry Month : Jaclyn Desforges, LETTER HOME FROM A NOWHERE MOON Mother, your work is not important Mother, your planet’s aura is orange and getting orange-er Have y...

National Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books begins! with a new poem by Jaclyn Desforges, @jaclyndesforges.bsky.social ;
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Jen Jakob : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Salem Paige Salem Paige (they/them) is a transgender poet and designer based on Algonquin Anishinaabe territory (so-called Ottawa, Ontario). Their ...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jen Jakob : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Salem Paige / @salempaige.bsky.social @flolitmag.bsky.social ;
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Amanda Earl : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Jessica Hiemstra Jessica Hiemstra [photo credit: Cory Lavender] is an award-winning artist, writer, and designer. Her writing has appeared in chap...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Amanda Earl : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Jessica Hiemstra / @gooselane.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social ;
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nina jane drystek : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Oana Avasilichioaei Oana Avasilichioaei interweaves sound, poetry, performance, and translation to expand and trouble ideas of language, histories, p...

newly posted: nina jane drystek @textcurious.bsky.social : 2025 VERSeFest interviews: Oana Avasilichioaei / @talonbooks.bsky.social ;
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new from above/ground press: Teenage Whales, by Eileen Myles Eileen Myles Teenage Whales $5 the birds push the diamonds the reddish weave of my knee Honey’s heh heh that shakes her belly & her back it ...

new from above/ground press: Teenage Whales, by Eileen Myles
, produced for their appearance next week at VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival,
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/new-...

above/ground press as part of the Riverbed Year-End Fundraiser! above/ground press has donated a whole stack of chapbook titles for the sake of a fundraiser that Riverbed Reading Series , an Ottawa-based ...

above/ground press as part of the Riverbed Year-End Fundraiser! / @textcurious.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/abov...

Emily Izsak on Mina Loy The first time I met Victor Coleman, poet and founding editor of Coach House Press (who would later become my mentor, editor, and frien...

from the archives: Emily Izsak on Mina Loy themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.com/2017/02/emil...

save the date(s): VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival! March 25-29, 2025 : Eileen Myles! Chelene Knight! Pamela Mosher! Oana Avasilichioaei! etc (with more information to come) www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

As 2025 kicks into gear, VERSe Ottawa is grateful for all who contributed to VERSeFest’s rebuilding year in 2024. The 40 poets who graced our stages and the wonderful audience all had a hand in keeping VERSeFest a going concern. 1/2

January/February 2025 I didn’t fully realize the power of this journal until everyone thought it was gone for good.

The beautiful new issue of Literary Mama is up and ready for you to read!

Poetry, fiction, CNF, and more exploring the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual experiences of #motherhood.

literarymama.com/issues/janua...

#litmag @literarymama.bsky.social @ajfields.bsky.social

Claudia F. Saleeby Savage on Alice Notley I met Alice Notley by accident. I’d applied to the Atlantic Center for the Arts artist residency but got the year wrong. When I looked ...

from the archives: Claudia F. Saleeby Savage on Alice Notley themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.com/2019/11/clau...

Toxemia 2024: reviews & interviews & mentions I’m a few months into the launch of Toxemia, my hybrid poetic memoir with Book*hug Press and feel lucky to have had a few readings and reviews along with some private messages and corresponde…

Random stuff around Toxemia in 2024 —summaries and events and nice stuff. A couple links to online readings, and some upcoming events. christinemcnair.com/2025/01/11/t...

Tuesday poem #615 : Maria Hardin : Devotion IV be your own pony your own mother birth a world without fathers lose yourself in the holy ghost the cosmos is withdrawing but we just...

Tuesday poem #615 : Maria Hardin : Devotion IV
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There will be an Ottawa memorial to celebrate the life and writing of writer Elisabeth Harvor (1936-2024) on Sunday, February 2nd, from 12:30 to 4 pm in the multipurpose room at the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue. All are welcome. thefiddlehead.ca/content/elis...

new from above/ground press: from What If I Sang “Flower of Scotland”?, by Catriona Strang from What If I Sang “Flower of Scotland”? Catriona Strang $5 Crash-tackle Descendant of the last man in the scrum, I would not act alone alo...

new from above/ground press: from What If I Sang “Flower of Scotland”?, by Catriona Strang / @talonbooks.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-...

Eaton Hamilton on Ntozake Shange Booth Theatre. A January 1977 matinee when I was attending plays like a fiend because I was leaving NY, moving myself out to San Francisc...

from the archives: Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social on Ntozake Shange themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.com/2017/03/jane...

Claudia F. Saleeby Savage on Alice Notley I met Alice Notley by accident. I’d applied to the Atlantic Center for the Arts artist residency but got the year wrong. When I looked ...

from the archives: Claudia F. Saleeby Savage on Alice Notley themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.com/2019/11/clau...

Emily Izsak on Mina Loy The first time I met Victor Coleman, poet and founding editor of Coach House Press (who would later become my mentor, editor, and frien...

from the archives: Emily Izsak on Mina Loy themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.com/2017/02/emil...

Eaton Hamilton on Ntozake Shange Booth Theatre. A January 1977 matinee when I was attending plays like a fiend because I was leaving NY, moving myself out to San Francisc...

from the archives: Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social on Ntozake Shange themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.com/2017/03/jane...

Tuesday poem #612 : Charlie Petch : The Anatomy of the Cecil Hotel To be performed as the voice of the hotel. Make loop pedal builds of elevator sounds and murmuring and any other hotel sounds that see...

Tuesday poem #612 : Charlie Petch : The Anatomy of the Cecil Hotel
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