Paul Vermeersch

The latest addition to the "In the Third Sleep" ekphrastic poem project is Catherine Graham. You can read it, and the other poems, right here: inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

NEW PAINTING!

"Cartographic Structure"

22.5" x 30", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

The latest addition to the "In the Third Sleep" ekphrastic poem project is by Kate Cayley! It's a stunner, and it joins a growing list of exciting poems already on the site. Check it out here: inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

Margo LaPierre : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch A Valley Uncanny in NMCLT : An interview with poet Paul Vermeersch   Paul Vermeersch  [photo credit: Bianca Spence] is a poet, multime...

newly posted: Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch / @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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Bouba and Kiki walk into a bar....

Another painting is off to a new home. "Solar Forest Structure" is sold.
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THE SECRET OF THE YELLOW ROOM Sloth's best. Lolling on a sofa In a Chinese dressing gown With the windows open in the heat, The breeze rousing the leaves. The flies dozing on the ceiling. The silky hush of a summer afternoon, Like floating on one's back With eyes closed in some pond Clogged with water lilies, Inhaling their scent as they nuzzle close. The light and shade dillydallying, The leaves sighing again. Afterward, not even that. Majestic stupor. Stirring only at midnight To click on the yellow table lamp.

Charles Simic, for your late-winter blues

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

AI art will continue to be ineligible for copyright after SCOTUS refuses to hear the case brought by the same man whose previous appeal for patents was also rejected.

Monday morning brain workout with the latest @paulvermeersch.bsky.social crossword. Have you completed yours yet?

NEW PAINTING!

"Orbital Structure"

22.5" x 30", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

Poet @paulvermeersch.bsky.social kindly invited us to participate in his latest ekphrastic curatorial project. Each participant is writing a response to Kay Sage's painting "In the Third Sleep." We intended to collaborate as MA|DE, but found that the painting spoke to both of us in different ways.

Flight Pattern Trailer | The National Ballet of Canada YouTube video by The National Ballet of Canada

We saw Crystal Pite's "Flight Pattern" last night at The National Ballet of Canada. A beautiful piece. Pite is one of Canada's most brilliant artists right now.

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The latest addition the "In the Third Sleep" ekphrastic project is @Ellen Chang-Richardson @ellenwapo.bsky.social! I am curating poetic responses to Kay Sage's 1944 painting "In the Third Sleep." Check it out here: inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

Thanks so much, Ali!

Thanks, Ingrid!

They arrived at my door today. NMLCT is officially in its third printing. This is a career first for me. Thanks to everyone who has supported this book! And thanks so much to @ecwpress.bsky.social!

NEW PAINTING!

"Distant Structure"

22.5" x 30", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

The latest addition to the "In the Third Sleep" ekphrastic project is none other than Jade Wallace ( follow @nycterosea.bsky.social )! You can read Jade's poem, and all the others, right here: inthethirdsleep.blogspot.com

‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read

I have a lot of love for this format. My prediction is that very soon, this will return as a prestige format, with a similar tactile nostalgia to music on vinyl.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

NEW PAINTING!

"Solar Forest Structure"

22" x 30", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

Both?

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

"Every fascism has its subhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans." -- Kelly Hayes

"The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world..."

— Wallace Stevens, "Esthétique du Mal"

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NEW PAINTING!

"Sleep Structure"

22" x 30", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

www.paulvermeersch.ca/p/art.html

CV Dazzle CV Dazzle is a computer vision camouflage strategy developed in 2010. Unlike disruptive-pattern material, CV Dazzle is bright and bold, and evades detection by breaking weaknesses in automated pattern...

"CV Dazzle" is the term for make-up/fashion that camouflage's the wearer from "computer vision." As digital surveillance becomes more pervasive, this might be the style necessity of the future.

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Thanks! I have been looking for a way to do this.

NEW PAINTING!

"Elevated Structure"

22" x 30", acrylic, graphite and coloured pencils on paper.

Gradually figuring out this next phase.

"Fuckery" by Ayomide Bayowa - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Fuckery" by Ayomide Bayowa.

A poem by @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social author Ayomide Bayowa to start your week!

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