I love these so much, Vicki!!!

I'm also reading AC today. 💫

❤️

Photo of a classic banana split dessert.

Poster for poetry reading at Caversham Booksellers in Toronto April 27 at 7 pm with Christina Shah, Robert Colma and Ronna Bloom.

Poster for Author reading @ The Spaniel's Tale in Ottawa April 29 @ 6:45 with Christina Shah, David O'Meara, and Natalie Southworth.

Poster for Poetry Reading @ Argo Bookshop in Montréal April 30th @ 7 pm with Christina Shah, Misha Solomon and Isabella Wang, hosted by Sarah Wolfson.

🌠 TRIPLE THREAT* EASTERN TOUR!!

Three Authors.
Three Nights.
Three Cities.
Pure Literary Deliciousness.

O4/27- TORONTO w/ Ronna Bloom & Robert Colman

04/29- OTTAWA- w/ David O'Meara and Natalie Southworth

04/30- MONTRÉAL w/ Misha Solomon & Isabella Wang

🥳

Yay what journal?

Peter Gizzi

Good luck and keep us posted! 😃

"It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare..."
The Patience of Ordinary Things
-- Pat Schneider

😂

Two poems- for anyone who needs them.

So cool! Thanks for telling me.

oh my gosh, thank you! i'd love to know how you study a poem, any poem, mine even. where do you start? maybe too big a question for a text box.

What a brilliant assignment, Rob. 👏

From IN A RIPTIDE. The last poem in the book.

Celebrated Poet Ronna Bloom Breathes Life into the Poignant Verse of IN A RIPTIDE In a brand new collection of poetry, Ronna Bloom brings her singular wit and emotional acuity to bear in every word and line. In a Riptide (Brick Books) thrives ...

Celebrated poet Ronna Bloom breathes life into the poignant verse of IN A RIPTIDE (Brick Books). Check out this Poets in Profile interview with the author!
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Remember the days?

I was 15 and stoned and dancing on the floor of the Mtl forum, getting mixed up in a blissed out crowd. It was for sure amazing. Like a moment from someone else's life.

1976 Station to Station tour at the Montreal forum.

Elton John
David Bowie
Jane Siberry
Melody Gardot
Neil Young

Include everything

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
~ Edgar Allen Poe

Yesterday's art project

Yes! I had my grad there in the last century. 😃

I'm going to Montreal to launch my new book with Stephanie Bolster and Gillian Sze! Wheeeee! If you're there, come!

(And if you can suggest a quiet restaurant open Sunday night I'll prescribe you a poem.)

To have @robmclennan.bsky.social eyes on one's work is to feel a part of the poetry landscape in a welcome way.

There's something very distilled and calming about this response to my book that i appreciate. Thank you, rob!

Thank you, rob! 🙏❤️

Ronna Bloom, In a Riptide Immeasurable Today a woman of no measurable age stopped me to ask where she could buy some meat, and her eyes filled up with tears when it...

Ronna Bloom, In a Riptide / @ronnabloom.bsky.social ;
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9/27... Poetry by @ronnabloom.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/book... #AmReading 💙📚 #BookSky #poetry

Thank you.