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@sickenedsour

poet. radio host. day jobber. @asquarehouse.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/dderkson

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big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!

28.02.2026 21:53 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

a grizzled vet maneuver right here, folks. ya love to see it 🫡

11.02.2026 03:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

new work from yrs truly...

email us at the press to order a copy!

31.01.2026 22:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

big thanks to lauryn @chly.ca for this awesome write-up!

get acquainted w/ a square house & get ready for the inaugural GRUB STREET here:

14.01.2026 01:36 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

as someone who lived it, this is the exact advice ppl considering getting their cw mfa need to hear.

& in fewer than 300 characters, no less!

12.01.2026 21:19 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
image of event poster: coloured newsprint style background. black text on white backing reads: “a square house press presents: GRUB STREET, nanaimo’s newest reading series : featuring Elke Sorensen / Taylor Fleming / + open mic for poems! fiction! yr diary?!? /

jan 16, 6-8 pm
at the vault

five bux (notaflof)

image of event poster: coloured newsprint style background. black text on white backing reads: “a square house press presents: GRUB STREET, nanaimo’s newest reading series : featuring Elke Sorensen / Taylor Fleming / + open mic for poems! fiction! yr diary?!? / jan 16, 6-8 pm at the vault five bux (notaflof)

our first ever reading series GRUB STREET is happening one week from today at the vault!!

featuring Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming, + poetry open mic (with door prizes) to follow. hope we see you there!

09.01.2026 23:38 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Tuesday poem #666 : Ealhwine : Illeism dearth of demonic things in life now: Labubus instead of Tickle Me Elmos receptacles for our placeholder evil until that evil escapes th...

Tuesday poem #666 : Ealhwine : Illeism
dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/tues...

06.01.2026 12:38 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

the secret to being a small poetry press is that...

19.12.2025 18:23 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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lizard draft. do you ever feel so intensely known that you realize you’ve been walking around blissful, on the other side somehow of the violence of being perceived, like wandering into a neighbourhood you’ve ne…

periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief

🦎 read/subscribe:

08.12.2025 20:08 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

ya ya whatever. keep those elbows up big dog lol.

17.11.2025 03:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hilarious!! just like saying "elbows up" while shitting on canadian products in lieu of the american equivalent lol. get a clue, bootlicker.

17.11.2025 02:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

make sure u read milton acorn's "more poems for farters"

17.11.2025 02:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

haha you really cooked with this one, bro. got 'em!!!!

17.11.2025 02:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

last 3 grey cup champions were eastern division teams. montreal fans gotta hit the copium asap.

17.11.2025 01:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

same as the nfl but a single point (a rouge) is awarded for a place kick or punt that exits the field of play in the endzone or if the retriever is downed in the endzone (like a touchback in the nfl)

17.11.2025 01:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

j'accuse...!

17.11.2025 00:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

if u were followed by a little acct with a house for a pfp today, now you know why!

10.11.2025 00:39 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
screenshot of the yahoo fantasy app, congratulating the manager of the team "a confederacy of buntses" (me) on finishing 1st in the league.

screenshot of the yahoo fantasy app, congratulating the manager of the team "a confederacy of buntses" (me) on finishing 1st in the league.

weeks late now but...update:

04.11.2025 01:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colourful CanLit Cards in packs of six with sticks of gum and spare cards arrayed on a cutting board.

Colourful CanLit Cards in packs of six with sticks of gum and spare cards arrayed on a cutting board.

Hi to our 500+ followers. Do literally any of you want to buy CanLit trading cards?

27.10.2025 22:40 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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prairie pieces. i caught a cold in saskatchewan. there’s something mystifying about the prairies. maybe in the way the fields roll so flat, the way they chase themselves endlessly like they’re this close to catchi…

wrote a love letter to saskatchewan (my latest post on leftover drafts):

07.10.2025 17:12 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

it is free to watch on kanopy with your VIRL card 🤓

20.08.2025 20:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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saying hello. i’m doing that thing again where i keep the fan on low when it should really be on high. which of my delicate senses is better kept protected, which feeling do i love the most today? it takes up to…

i wrote about wanting a front porch, and how much that feeling sucks sometimes. my latest leftover draft, on wanting or not to say hello:

03.07.2025 19:44 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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DIY > AI

01.07.2025 02:43 👍 31866 🔁 13173 💬 101 📌 58
a screenshot of a cbc news headline reading: "montreal asking rents up nearly 71% since 2019, says statscan. the article is listed under the heading "business"

a screenshot of a cbc news headline reading: "montreal asking rents up nearly 71% since 2019, says statscan. the article is listed under the heading "business"

on dirait un anglicisme:

26.06.2025 02:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i used to regularly serve tea to margaret atwood at a cafe in toronto except she always made the person she came with pay, order, and carry her drink to the table for her.

13.06.2025 21:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Elite matchup to kickoff the CFL season tonight

06.06.2025 00:46 👍 41 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0

BREAKING: Philadelphia Phillies are trading RHP Jordan Romano to the absolute nearest Pizza Nova franchise for a slice of stale Hawaiian & a Bud Prohibition Brew. #RingTheBell

05.06.2025 16:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Baltimore Orioles bird logo

Baltimore Orioles bird logo

Lowkey really enjoy this logo. Just give me a happy bird. This bird isn’t smug, he isn’t condescending, he just loves the game.

20.05.2025 23:39 👍 4914 🔁 325 💬 180 📌 49
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lol aw, hell.

for posterity's sake:

18.05.2025 05:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

imagine voluntarily tuning in to a cable program every saturday night just to wholeheartedly fill your diaper about it to an audience of none lol.

18.05.2025 05:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0