Blue poster with title Chapbook Launch in capitals and a picture of author’s chapbook on the right (a cyanotype of leaves and a dime) and the following text: Royal City Literary Arts Society / Pinhole Poetry CHAPBOOKLAUNCH Jessica Lee McMillan will read from her new chapbook SHINE LIKE A DIME IN THE DIRT UNDER THE MOON at the Anvil Centre Studio 417, 4th floor 777 Columbia St, New Westminster, BC APRIL 24, 2026 6:30 - 8PM with special guests Janet Kvammen, Aidan Chafe, Dale Tracy & Winston Lê Copies will be for sale at the event The organizers acknowledge the League of Canadian Poets, the Canada Council for the Arts & the Department of Canadian Heritage for their financial support. poets.ca

This Friday, April 24, 2026 at Anvil Centre, celebrate my chapbook launch and listen to poems from most awesome poets @janetkvammen.bsky.social @allegorically.bsky.social
@daletracy.bsky.social @winstonle.bsky.social

Poems, on occasion
, On Occasion: Poems for the People, ed. Sina Queyras (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social),
robmclennan.substack.com/p/poems-on-o...

It's time to take action for a climate-stable future. Ahead of Earth Day, RAVEN is asking supporters to pledge an action to show our solidarity with two Wet’suwet’en House groups of the Likhts’amisyu Clan who are leading the way. Make your pledge at raventrust.com/earth-day-2026-pledge/

Blue poster with title Chapbook Launch in capitals and a picture of author’s chapbook on the right (a cyanotype of leaves and a dime) and the following text: Royal City Literary Arts Society / Pinhole Poetry CHAPBOOKLAUNCH Jessica Lee McMillan will read from her new chapbook SHINE LIKE A DIME IN THE DIRT UNDER THE MOON at the Anvil Centre Studio 417, 4th floor 777 Columbia St, New Westminster, BC APRIL 24, 2026 6:30 - 8PM with special guests Janet Kvammen, Aidan Chafe, Dale Tracy & Winston Lê Copies will be for sale at the event The organizers acknowledge the League of Canadian Poets, the Canada Council for the Arts & the Department of Canadian Heritage for their financial support. poets.ca

My chapbook launch is coming April 24, 2026 at Anvil Centre with very special guests @janetkvammen.bsky.social @allegorically.bsky.social @daletracy.bsky.social @winstonle.bsky.social

How wonderful for my chapbook (and scholarly book!) to be on the receiving end of this attentive eye! Thanks @kevinspenst.bsky.social for bringing so much goodness to poets and poetry!

Thanks for sharing, rob!

An exciting special issue inviting proposals on experimental poetry!

TELEPHONE Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.

I'm glad to be connected to more than 1000 artists from 65 countries in this art game! telephonegame.art

Transit Tapestries Movement recently completed a successful community engagement campaign in Surrey, collecting over 300 responses to our survey on the state of transit. We shared the results with the City of Surrey and...

Talking transit and making art in Surrey! This is the kind of event I'm always hoping for. actionnetwork.org/events/trans...

Participating in the Climate Change Theatre Action global festival meant my students could make something happen together, which makes me feel hopeful.
www.climatechangetheatreaction.com/join-us/

Roles of Resistance Game Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers.

I'm so excited about how this book from @btlbooks.com is helping me plan ways for students to practice working together to solve problems.
btlbooks.com/book/roles-o...

I'm grateful for this clear and concise climate mis/disinformation resource from @caadcoalition.bsky.social that I'll use when I'm teaching critical thinking in a first-year writing course.
caad.info/analysis/bri...

EVENT 54/1 is here.

Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue features winning Non-Fiction Contest work (selected by Michelle Cyca), plus new writing from Dennis Cooley, Grace Kwan, Dale Tracy, Liz Stewart & more.

Submissions open July 1: www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/

Jay Miller reviews Dale Tracy's The Mystery of Ornament (2020) Montreal poet, translator and reviewer Jay Miller was good enough to review Dale Tracy's The Mystery of Ornament (2020) over at Bibelotage...

Jay Miller reviews Dale Tracy's The Mystery of Ornament (above/ground press, 2020) / @daletracy.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/jay-...

Can we lullaby our dreams, Barbara Tran makes me wonder--not to make them sleep but to calm their restlessness to follow their rhythms to move well in the surreal world.

🎉 1 month until Bonememory is published! 🎉

This book is all of me. Please consider pre-ordering (link below).

From the publisher: Our memories, and the memories of others, live in our bones. These poems document personal, intergenerational, and collective trauma—and the astonishment of survival.

I can feel this good thinking helping me somehow. "the form of over-doing it"! "the way of refrains"!

Could it have been Numéro Cinq?

A poem signaling its rhetorical situation—I’m excited about this line of thinking. The complexity of occasion, trying to get at the bit of world that elicited the response, when what counts as that bit can keep widening or narrowing. Looking forward to Nebulas’ “infinite and universal contexts”!

“How does a poem begin” is a great question because beginnings seem like they’re only pin-downable when you look right at them.