big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!
big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!
a grizzled vet maneuver right here, folks. ya love to see it 🫡
new work from yrs truly...
email us at the press to order a copy!
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:
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!
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!
Tuesday poem #666 : Ealhwine : Illeism
dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/tues...
the secret to being a small poetry press is that...
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:
ya ya whatever. keep those elbows up big dog lol.
hilarious!! just like saying "elbows up" while shitting on canadian products in lieu of the american equivalent lol. get a clue, bootlicker.
make sure u read milton acorn's "more poems for farters"
haha you really cooked with this one, bro. got 'em!!!!
last 3 grey cup champions were eastern division teams. montreal fans gotta hit the copium asap.
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)
j'accuse...!
if u were followed by a little acct with a house for a pfp today, now you know why!
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:
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?
wrote a love letter to saskatchewan (my latest post on leftover drafts):
it is free to watch on kanopy with your VIRL card 🤓
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:
DIY > AI
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:
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.
Elite matchup to kickoff the CFL season tonight
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
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.
lol aw, hell.
for posterity's sake:
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.