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Bedside. #current #read
I Confess @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
"I write. I write to liberate what's not-there inside (me) & inside anybody else who happens to be interested"
- Gerry Shikatani
Cameron Anstee on small press culture
“When you’re in that exhausted stage you are out of control. You can’t keep the ordinary social forms. You are forced to break them because there is no way to handle them … A lot of my work is concerned with exhaustion leading to an opening” (Vito Acconci, 1971)
Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)
@amandaearl.bsky.social shares memories of Judith Copithorne on @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/aman...
"In the luminous labyrinth of language, our old friend content shimmers like a chrome relic from a future we’re already living. How fascinating and how frustrating that a single word should map our species’ psychic trajectory so precisely, so inevitably." transmediale.de/en/journal/e...
“history is not bound by time, but it is an inheritance to which successive generations contribute their own meanings”
- Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics avoid travel to the US: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
“[I] hope that anyone who is in the field of publishing, particularly commercial publishing, will find some way of continuing to publish and to argue for poetry. I say this because I firmly believe that poetry is language raised to its highest power”
(bpNichol)
“Now I know what it’s all about is apprenticeship. Masters are an illusion” (bpNichol)
"Brain pan hammered into a pure sound."
Some heartfelt words by Allegra Sloman on poet David Dowker's legacy via @periodicities.bsky.social: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/04/alle...
Happy National Poetry Month! We're back with the next feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek! Preview "The Place You Leave and the Place You Return To" from her debut collection, No One Knows Us There, which is out now! bookhugpress.ca/national-poe...
Saddened to hear that poet David Dowker has died:
Oh dear, so saddened to hear this
Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous
Wait, did everyone notice that THE GATE OF MEMORY: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, edited by Brynn Saito & @brandonshimoda.bsky.social, is 40% off alongside all other poetry titles @haymarketbooks.org for National Poetry Month, oh my🌺
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...
🖊✨Call for Papers! We are accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "Suburb Nation."
Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2025 (PT)
“Your environment is the language in which you live. Words aren’t neutral like magnetic tape. They create the qualities of an experience.”
- Sheila Watson
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker
And see you in Halifax this very week!! I believe I will be on stage talking to Alexander MacLeod for part of this, love it. Look at that title, gosh I love to bang the drum about art and class! But that's what happens when you make a 400 page book about it eventscalendar.smu.ca/smuhalifax/d...
It's been a long time coming!
The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more!
ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...
This was so fun!
Thanks for sharing! 🖤
Hey! @thisisannick.bsky.social & @peterbcounter.com, maybe this is of interest to you!
This weekend in Halifax, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi join us for 2 events:
1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198
2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm
"In Bonememory, the questions I am working with are about how memory is held in our bones and what that means personally, familialy, intergenerationally, collectively" @annaveprinska.bsky.social
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/03/12-o...
I can't speak to enrollments or financial viability. But I echo the concern that cuts seem to be happening without academic & social repercussions being accounted for – and that's a sector-wide problem, not just a York problem. The liberal arts vs STEM paradigm is a political construct.
