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Margo LaPierre

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Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction grad. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Mad & queer. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆShe/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com. πŸ”— Linktr.ee/margolapierre

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Are you ready @margolapierre.bsky.social?❀️🀩

05.03.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Margo LaPierre : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch A Valley Uncanny in NMCLT : An interview with poet Paul Vermeersch Β  Paul Vermeersch Β [photo credit: Bianca Spence] isΒ a poet, multime...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch / @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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04.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICYMI: Poets Guy Elston and Margo LaPierre are on the most recent episode of Sharon Israel’s Planet Poet show.

Tune in!

www.sharonisraelpoet.com/blog/guy-els...

#poetry #canlit

@margolapierre.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

03.02.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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TOMORROW NIGHT! @CIUT895FM 10pm - 11pm host @valentinoaaaa.bsky.social talks to Lindsay Wong β€œVillain Hitting For Vicious Little Nobodies” (Penguin Random House) & @hollay.bsky.social talks to @margolapierre.bsky.social for her book β€œAjar” @guernicaeditions.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!

02.02.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gooooo @margolapierre.bsky.social! ✨❀️🀩🀩

02.02.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThis novel is a delicious titration of acts of betrayal and care. I’ve never read anything like it before and yet it felt familiar in hard-to-reach places of the soul.”

β€”Margo LaPierre, author of Ajar

More about our books:

palimpsestpress.ca/books/the-un...

guernicaeditions.com/products/ajar

18.01.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Salon of the Refused Poster: December 15, 7-9 pm, Bytown Museum, Ottawa

Salon of the Refused Poster: December 15, 7-9 pm, Bytown Museum, Ottawa

Tonight in Ottawa, 7-9 pm at the Bytown Museum

15.12.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Love this interview with Suzanne Craig-Whytock. We discuss my process in writing Ajar and why I wrote this book of bipolar poetry in the first place.

If you're my mom and want to skip ahead to my part, it's at 36:00. Go see the link in my profile to listen to the interview on my link.tree.

13.12.2025 04:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading! lovingly hosted by rob mclennan, The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading at Anina’s CafΓ© , 280 Joffre-BΓ©langer Way, O...

The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading! / @amandaearl.bsky.social @francesboyle19.bsky.social @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social @christinemcnair.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @conyerclayton.bsky.social @ajdolman.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

11.12.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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9 December 2025: @guernicaeditions.bsky.social #Ottawa launch at Avant-garde Bar, 135 1Γ©2 Besserer Street, Ottawa.
@margolapierre.bsky.social @anncavlovic.bsky.social @akessaris.bsky.social

28.11.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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November 15-16, 2025 (Zoom): Fall Poetry Intensive - League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets is pleased to offer two-day online conference dedicated to exploring and improving the craft of poetry.

I'm presenting a poetry webinar at noon this Saturday, November 15, with LCP’s Fall Poetry Intensive. It's about how to write poetry using the visual artsβ€”more specifically, how to apply the elements and principles of design to our poetry.

Find out more or sign up at poets.ca/intensivefall2025.

10.11.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

✨Don't miss poet @margolapierre.bsky.social discuss her new collection AJAR with @alllitupcanada.bsky.social πŸ™πŸ€©

10.11.2025 15:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for this interview!

08.11.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Montreal, are you free this Thursday?

Tamara Jong and I are launching at Argo Bookshop at 7 p.m. November 6.

Tamara's memoir Worldly Girls was CBC's top pick for nonfiction this fall, so don't miss out!

Register for this free event here: www.ticketsource.com/argo-bookshop.

02.11.2025 23:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts & The Writers’ Union of Canada for the National Public Readings program funding.

See you Ottawa poetry folks tonight! At our spookiest!

31.10.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for shining the spotlight & sitting w my poems, rob!

09.10.2025 04:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One day left to apply for the Augur Editor role! You'd get to collaborate with an awesome team on putting our future issues together, for both Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social. Apps on our site!

26.09.2025 00:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my heart thank you

21.09.2025 19:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tour dates!

If anyone has suggestions for reading series in Canada (or virtual) I can ask if they'd like to have me to read from Ajar and/or talk about editing poetry, I'd love to hear them.

Next up:

Oct 3 πŸ‘» Gatineau: Nuit Blanche
Oct 14 πŸ‘» Ottawa International Writers Festival
Oct 31 πŸ‘»Ottawa

21.09.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ajar is finally in print, and I wanted to do an unboxing video that would reflect my life in its fullness at the moment.

Postpartum proofreading,
dog walks & doctor’s visits,
precious conversations,
late nights,
diaper changes,
a little alone time,
a lot of family time,
and exciting mail.

16.09.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œA devotion to poetry is a way to make friends, while devotion to specificity is a way to make poems.”

Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for the chance to share some of my thoughts on poetry ✨

08.06.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tune in tonight at 10 pm EST / 7 pm PST ✨

22.04.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I strongly suspect that god/God is a category error for reality.

12.04.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Teeth, Guts, and Growths: A Review of Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn

""Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in [Buzzkill Clamshell], Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates and intensifies." This review means everything; thanks @margolapierre.bsky.social

prismmagazine.ca/2025/04/04/t...

05.04.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This poetry collection is spec-tac-ular & is going to spark all the best conversations #BuzzkillClamshell

01.04.2025 03:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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01.04.2025 03:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Banff Centre's 25/26 Lit Arts offerings: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS (w/ Madden, Som, Hart), DEEP WINTER WRITERS (w/ Pester, Hussain, Victor), SPRING WRITERS (w/ Robinson, Sealey, Ravinthiran), EARLY CAREER YA & CHILDREN"S BOOKS (w/ Scott, Boteju, Ferguson) & more!!: www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts

15.11.2024 02:37 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Here is a Canadian Poets Starter Pack! πŸͺΆπŸ’πŸ©·

If you're a Canadian poet and I've missed you, comment below, and I'll add.

(Also, if I made a mistake in adding you to the list, let me know, and I'll remove you!)

Please share so folks coming to Bluesky can find their people!
go.bsky.app/JbjXoTN

11.11.2024 18:56 πŸ‘ 159 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 11

Okay, I have done it! I have made a Canadian BIPOC Poets Starter Pack. I'm definitely missing folks, so feel free to share! ✨️🌻
go.bsky.app/Jugnv9d

10.11.2024 16:17 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 3

Thanks so much for doing this starter pack, Terese, you’re the best! πŸ’œ

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