« I often find myself meditating on borders as liquid fault lines. Liquids, of course, don’t respect borders. Water finds porousness. »
Good timing for this meditation, leading up to the April/16 #PoetryMatters event on « borders, boundaries, margins » ☺️
Thank you, @robmclennan.bsky.social 💙
For national poetry month…let’s hear from the tell-it-slant arena… #poetry #poetrymatters
![Poetry Matters warmly invites you to "borders, boundaries, margins," an evening of poetry readings featuring Shanice Nicole, Elizabeth Wood, Carlos A. Pittella. The event will take place at the Rocket Science Room (170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204, Montreal, QC) on Thursday, April 16th at 7:00pm.
[bios]
SHANICE NICOLE is a Black feminist educator, facilitator, writer,
(out)spoken word artist, and mother based in Montreal. She is also the curator of free community resources such as Jobs & Things and All Black
Everything Montreal. Her debut children's book, Dear Black Girls, was published in 2021 by Metonymy Press. Shanice Nicole was nominated as Gala Dynastie’s Author of the Year in 2022 and named one of CBC’s Black Changemakers in 2024.
Originally from rural Ontario, ELIZABETH WOOD is a Montreal-based educator, visual artist, art writer, and poet. Her first chapbook Outlaw, Rainy Day was published in 2022 by Turret House Press. She was also a contributor to their collective chapbook XTRACTS Studio #7 (2022). More recently, her chapbook The quiet only knows half of itself was published by Anstruther Press in 2025. Wood’s poems and writing on art have appeared in numerous arts publications, exhibition catalogues, and poetry journals.
CARLOS A. PITTELLA is a Latinx poet and editor and the recipient of a 2022 Frontier Global Poetry Prize. His poetry is haunted by borders and bureaucracies and has appeared in places such as Shō, Jacket2, Glyphöria, & The Capilano Review. His first chapbook in English footnotes after Lorca was published in 2024 by above/ground press, and in 2025 he published Propersitions with Cactus Press. His latest work, the manifesto Dante’s Bureau, will be published by Anstruther Press in 2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vdyucqz7c5gplbzwznd4yeot/bafkreifpb3wkpj2cz7nkbjydhcdyp7g5oxncclacesgcfyuemc7stuyym4)
Poetry Matters warmly invites you to "borders, boundaries, margins," an evening of poetry readings featuring Shanice Nicole, Elizabeth Wood, Carlos A. Pittella. The event will take place at the Rocket Science Room (170 Rue Jean-Talon O #204, Montreal, QC) on Thursday, April 16th at 7:00pm. [bios] SHANICE NICOLE is a Black feminist educator, facilitator, writer, (out)spoken word artist, and mother based in Montreal. She is also the curator of free community resources such as Jobs & Things and All Black Everything Montreal. Her debut children's book, Dear Black Girls, was published in 2021 by Metonymy Press. Shanice Nicole was nominated as Gala Dynastie’s Author of the Year in 2022 and named one of CBC’s Black Changemakers in 2024. Originally from rural Ontario, ELIZABETH WOOD is a Montreal-based educator, visual artist, art writer, and poet. Her first chapbook Outlaw, Rainy Day was published in 2022 by Turret House Press. She was also a contributor to their collective chapbook XTRACTS Studio #7 (2022). More recently, her chapbook The quiet only knows half of itself was published by Anstruther Press in 2025. Wood’s poems and writing on art have appeared in numerous arts publications, exhibition catalogues, and poetry journals. CARLOS A. PITTELLA is a Latinx poet and editor and the recipient of a 2022 Frontier Global Poetry Prize. His poetry is haunted by borders and bureaucracies and has appeared in places such as Shō, Jacket2, Glyphöria, & The Capilano Review. His first chapbook in English footnotes after Lorca was published in 2024 by above/ground press, and in 2025 he published Propersitions with Cactus Press. His latest work, the manifesto Dante’s Bureau, will be published by Anstruther Press in 2026.
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Kindly let it fly & refly...
👉 Thu, April 16 | 7pm
Rocket Science Room (170, rue Jean-Talon O #204)
A #PoetryMatters event with:
Elizabeth Wood, @itsshanicenicole.bsky.social, & @pittella.bsky.social
[Free & open to the public]
Without community, there is no liberation. — Audre Lorde
This April, we’re celebrating National Poetry Month. Throughout the month, the CLC will be spotlighting poets and honoring the power of words to connect, inspire, and uplift.
#NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryMonth #PoetryMatters #LiteracyMatters
Montréal/Tiohtià:ke folks, reading alert❗
« borders, boundaries, margins »
a #PoetryMatters evening of poetry with:
Elizabeth Wood, @itsshanicenicole.bsky.social, & @pittella.bsky.social
Rocket Science Room (170, rue Jean-Talon O #204)
Thu, April 16 | 7pm
Free & open—but kindly register here ⏬
This popped up in a memory from a couple of years ago at a poetry reading in Milford DE. #nationalpoetrymonth I’ll be reading again in Milford on April 19 at LaHacienda Restaurant. #poetrymatters
The Harlem Renaissance was not random brilliance.
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#BlackHistory365 #CounteeCullen #HarlemRenaissance #OnThisDay #BlackExcellence #PoetryMatters #LiteraryLegacy #NewYorkUniversity
Black Excellist: 10 Things to Know About Countee Cullen (Harlem Renaissance Poet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUgXTDu4Jw
#BlackHistory365 #CounteeCullen #HarlemRenaissance #OnThisDay #BlackExcellence #PoetryMatters #LiteraryLegacy #NewYorkUniversity #PhiBetaKappa
Countee Cullen vs. Claude McKay: Legibility, Radicalism & Legacy
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#BlackHistory365 #CounteeCullen #HarlemRenaissance #OnThisDay #BlackExcellence #PoetryMatters #LiteraryLegacy #NYU
📜✨ On World Poetry Day, take time to write a poem today. You may be surprised by what emerges when you give your thoughts and feelings a voice. 🖊️🌿
#WorldPoetryDay #WriteAPoem #CreativeExpression #PoetryMatters
Image of poetry books written by poet Geraldine Monk of varying sizes and colours stood upright on a shelf.
Happy #WorldPoetryDay everyone! 🥳
Today we celebrate all things poetry, not just the writing and reading of it, but also the publishing and teaching of poetry.
We are going to highlight some of the fantastic poetry collections we hold @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social 👀
#WPD26 #PoetryMatters
Nice!
#AWP2026 #LatinxPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingAwards #CantoMundo #PoetryMatters #LiteraryRecognition #LatinxWriters
Love Ryan’s work. Haven’t heard from in a while. Had pleasure of getting to know her about 15 years ago. #poetrymatters www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Be sure to catch Lawrence O’Donnell’s Last Word from yesterday. So much poetic worthy stuff in testimony of ICE survivors & victims bearing witness. Devil & dandelion—devil (evil and live and vile) are such a potent mix with lion (dead and lies ) found in the letters of the two words. #poetrymatters
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Die grandiose Elsa Koester vom FREITAG @elsakoe.bsky.social hat eine prächtige Widerrede geschrieben.
Merci beaucoup.
@freitag.de
#innererKompass
#poetryMatters
Love Susan’s poem. Amazing it is published and out when we need it so much. #RIPAlexPretti #poetry #poetrymatters Broken Sonnet by Susan Rich oneartpoetry.com/2026/01/27/b...
Just got a copy of “A House Called Tomorrow.” It’s a great collected book of poems from Copper Canyon Press edited by Michael Wiegers. #poetrymatters. Some of my favorite poems and poets!
A screenshot of an email from the Academy of American Poets, received on January 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM. The body of the email starts with “in memoriam” and contains an excerpt of a poem: life is merely/to ovum and sperm/and where those two meet/and how often and how well/and what dies there. It ends with “In memoriam, Renee Nicole Macklin.” Renee Nicole more recently went by the last name, Good. She won a 2020 Academy of American Poets College Prize for “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” from which the excerpt was taken.
You know how you follow a tragic event through usual sources, then suddenly get sideswiped by it in an unexpected place? That happened when I opened a pedestrian message from AAP this afternoon. I cried when I saw the poet’s name. #reneegood #aap #poetrymatters
Unleash the power of your voice, poets. Your truth is a masterpiece waiting to be penned. Let your words dance on the page and illuminate the world with your unique perspective. 🌟✍️ #WriteYourTruth #PoetryMatters
Looking for one if Kooser’s #poems online rather than trying to find which of my bookshelves his works might be on, I ran across these. #poetrymatters poetryarchive.org/poet/ted-koo...
Loved the flag action during the poetry reading at ceremony today. Was so inspiring on so many levels. #poetrymatters
And in #poetrymatters… love this. I have #poetry writing group today. We began writing together after workshop with Marge Piercy. “Names” is topic I’ve been working on & included is a favorite subject. My workshop #ekphrastic poem is inspired by poem by Anna Akhmatova. allpoetry.com/Anna-Akhmatova
“Ash of Belief”
This poem isn’t about faith.
It’s about what happens when belief hardens into certainty and certainty excuses violence.
Poetry doesn’t fix the world, but it can refuse to lie about it.
#PoetryCommunity #PoetryMatters #Booksky
#solstice #poetrycommunity #poetrymatters #poetrylover
A Solstice Tale, now on Sonnet:visioN.
youtu.be/diIG2XLFkIk
Love this Piercy #poem had the pleasure of studying with her on Cape Cod in 2021. Her class actually saved my life or I should say Woodie’s mid-week bonfire. #poetrymatters #tobeofuse www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/...
We holding a #Delaware #poetryreading to help wirh Delaware Food Bank this year if you’re near Milford, hope you can attend #versesofhope 11/20/25 6-8 PM #poetrymatters app.betterunite.com/foodbankofde...
#ChorltonSpokenWord #ManchesterPoetryScene #ChorltonOpenMic #MCRSpokenWord #SouthManchesterPoets #ChorltonCreatives #MCRWriters #ChorltonArts #ManchesterOpenMic #MCRLivePoetry #PoetryCollective #PoetryLovers #PoetryMatters #SupportLocalPoets
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