Great to hear this interview with my former student, Guy Elston! It was a pleasure to write a blurb for The Character Actor Convention, a book that I recommend you seek out at an independent bookshop, request from your local library, read conspicuously in public, etc.
Delighted to be teaching Poetry: Introduction and Poetry II in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. In-person classes start next week! Join us downtown on the St. George campus. Please help spread the word.
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Thank you. Yes, a calm day here. Wishing the same for you.
OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three
Keats as Canadian comedian.
Thank you, Heather.
(A pandemic-era photo, which was taken by my late husband.)
Pleased to see my poem online now at The Walrus.
Thrilled to see this! Thank you for choosing my poem for your series, Vicki. As well, my thanks to the editors of The Night Heron Barks, who obtained permission to reproduce the Georgia O'Keeffe work. A dream journal.
Oh, thank you, Vicki! A thrilling surprise! (Great to see on a freezing Monday.)
Honoured that my poem "Harmonics" brought joy in 2025 to Walrus Editor in Chief Carmine Starnino! "5. This opening line in Kateri Lanthier's luminous poem 'Harmonics,' which I immediately accepted: 'Like a private nightclub, this bright ambulance.'"
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann announces Sean Borodale as new Poet in Residence.
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Thank you, Sarah.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
The first stanza of a poem by Kateri Lanthier in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue of The Walrus. Harmonics Like a private nightclub, this bright ambulance. Modular interior, glitter-futuristic fitted jewel box kitted out with drugs (theirs, yours in a bag grabbed from home). Spa recliner, straps, young paramedics like DJs, bouncers, sit-down comedians bantering about traffic. I stroke your tripping head while we ride backwards to the cancer choir, soprano wail and techno beat.
Second and third stanzas of "Harmonics" by Kateri Lanthier. Inner zones of ER, curtains like field-tent flaps. Patients recline, royals enrobed at battle or fete, unspeaking or bellowing demands. One trills for absent Tom, a (long-dead?) spouse. In counterpoint, another laments feet no longer felt. All chorus for forbidden sips of water. Only ice chips, dear, say courtiers, busy with automata. Mechanical birds. Yours in garish plumage, mini private coloratura atop a metal stand, others punctuating the dim forest beyond. Chart-topping screeches, forever rehearsing scales of one to ten in a crescendo of pain.
Final stanza of "Harmonics" by Kateri Lanthier We're in our own, last, air-conditioned nest. Your life flashing, I tell you micro stories all night against your death, while you macro-dose hydromorphone. My broken love, my storytelling failing...Do you want music? You say, no, more happiness. Music not happiness. You say, you're the writer. Leaving me with all these words. When you left music, we knew the end. Head on rough pillow, turned towards me, you sink out of yourself, one ear, exquisite, attuned to earth, the other attuned to air.
The cover of the Jan/Feb 2026 issue of The Walrus. The cover line is: Wait, That Was Sex? How Gen Z made a Boomer question everything they knew about pleasure
I have a new poem in The Walrus, Jan/Feb 2026 issue. It's my first poem in print since losing my husband last year.
Our three Gen Z kids said, "So, Mum, it's the sex and death issue." @thewalrus.ca
Writer and teacher Kateri Lanthier in the offices of the Department of English, Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto. Photo by Prof. Richard Greene, taken after Kateri's visit on Sept. 30 to his class in the MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing, U of T.
Greatly enjoyed reading new poems and discussing chapbooks, full-length collections, and poetry world with Prof. Richard Greene's class in the MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing, University of Toronto. Many thanks to Rick Greene for the invitation.
Looking forward to this debut! Guy Elston was one of my students in @uoftscs.bsky.social. A brilliant poet. Highly recommended!
Revitalized Kingston WritersFest to return
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"Where I was born / and born backwards again out of my mouth / into haze and sweet airs."
This stunning ecopoem interfacing the more-than- human world.
From INMATES by Sean Borodale.
#NationalPoetryMonth Day 26 ❤️
#ecopoetry #poetry #morethanhuman #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Oh! Thanks for the update.
Lao Lao Bar, Piano Piano on Harbord St., Koh Lipe on Baldwin, White Lily Diner on Queen St. East, Bloom at Beverley and College or on Yonge near Wellesley. Type Books (every location), Ben McNally Books and Queen Books on Queen St. E.
Poet, editor, and creative writing instructor Kateri Lanthier with blossoming cherry trees near Robarts Library on the campus of the University of Toronto.
Visited the cherry blossoms at Robarts Library, University of Toronto. Twice in one week! Ahhhhh...Getting ready to teach Poetry II for @uoftscs.bsky.social next week! #cherryblossoms #poetry
Congratulations, Barbara!
The storefront of The Great Escape Bookstore on Kingston Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A copy of The Size of Paradise, a poetry collection by Dale Martin Smith, published by Knife Fork Book, a Canadian-based small press, along with a needlepoint rabbit cushion.
The back cover blurb of The Size of Paradise by Dale Martin Smith. Blurb by Peter Gizzi.
Shelf displays at The Great Escape Bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Always happy to visit my local, The Great Escape. Picked up The Size of Paradise by Dale Martin Smith, published by Canadian small press @knifeforkbook.bsky.social, helmed by @itsakirby.bsky.social! #independentbookstoreday #poetry
Canada’s most unique poetry prize: 4 prize winners & 4 honorable mentions will be published in a chapbook. 2 readings in the fall. Please repost!
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Sending you kudos, condolences...and coffee!
We’re back! @badlilies.bsky.social returns. We’ve delights for you.
Writer and teacher Kateri Lanthier at B Cafe in the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
I met my daughter, an undergrad at U of T, for coffee at the Royal Conservatory before teaching the first class of Poetry II (winter) in the School of Continuing Studies, U of T. After the class, a student said, "You're so passionate about poetry! It's great to be taught by someone so passionate."
Always popular in my Poetry: Intro class (we discussed it on Tuesday)!
My reading of Michael Longley's 'Harmonica' for the new Poems on the Underground in his memory is just below the text on this link. Michael said it was his favourite among his own poems:
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