Anna Veprinska
@annaveprinska.bsky.social
Poet | Prof | Wound Archive, 2026 | Author: Bonememory; Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Sew with Butterflies
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Anna Veprinska
@annaveprinska.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Book publication day! 🎉 My vulnerability has a shape and a spine, and I offer it to you with deep gratitude. Bonememory is now available everywhere and anywhere you buy your books. Link in bio. Thank you, dear friends and readers ❤️
Here I go again, writing about tenderness.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Here I go again, writing about tenderness.
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
rob mclennan's spot light 115 features Anna Veprinska of Bonememory!
Check it out: https://ow.ly/RfBP50Xm0NU
Check it out: https://ow.ly/RfBP50Xm0NU
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
rob mclennan's spot light 115 features Anna Veprinska of Bonememory!
Check it out: https://ow.ly/RfBP50Xm0NU
Check it out: https://ow.ly/RfBP50Xm0NU
From Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
From Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms
A short piece in which I discuss poetry lifting language out of its housecoat. And there’s a newly published winter poem here, too. Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for all you do to support authors in Canada 🙏
Spotlight series #115 : Anna Veprinska / @annaveprinska.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ;
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Spotlight series #115 : Anna Veprinska
Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month.
robmclennan.medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A short piece in which I discuss poetry lifting language out of its housecoat. And there’s a newly published winter poem here, too. Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for all you do to support authors in Canada 🙏
Thank you @fiddlehd.bsky.social for this initiative. Looking forward to this issue!
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thank you @fiddlehd.bsky.social for this initiative. Looking forward to this issue!
“Bite into joy like you bite a radish”
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“Bite into joy like you bite a radish”
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“History will enter here, whistling like train wheels”
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“History will enter here, whistling like train wheels”
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
“you will discover, as I, / that verbs are a tragedy, a bleeding cliffside, explosions”
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“you will discover, as I, / that verbs are a tragedy, a bleeding cliffside, explosions”
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
—Dionne Brand, Ossuaries
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Rest in peace, Ellen Bryant Voigt. You were a force of nature and one of the sharpest people I've ever known. You will be greatly missed.
I am nowhere happier than in poetry.
Woolf’s Voices, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, Sept. 2025
Woolf’s Voices, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, Sept. 2025
October 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I am nowhere happier than in poetry.
Woolf’s Voices, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, Sept. 2025
Woolf’s Voices, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, Sept. 2025
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Rest in Peace, dear Jubi Arriola-Headley
“Earth, my love,
I want that too. Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over”
—Rilke, from Ninth Duino Elegy
I want that too. Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over”
—Rilke, from Ninth Duino Elegy
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“Earth, my love,
I want that too. Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over”
—Rilke, from Ninth Duino Elegy
I want that too. Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over”
—Rilke, from Ninth Duino Elegy
My third book of poems is coming out with Gordon Hill Press in spring 2026! It’s a book of minimalist experimental poetry about the emotional wounds love and illness have the capacity to inflict. And the housing of those wounds in the archive of the body.
Pre-orders now available. Link in my bio 🙏❤️
Pre-orders now available. Link in my bio 🙏❤️
September 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My third book of poems is coming out with Gordon Hill Press in spring 2026! It’s a book of minimalist experimental poetry about the emotional wounds love and illness have the capacity to inflict. And the housing of those wounds in the archive of the body.
Pre-orders now available. Link in my bio 🙏❤️
Pre-orders now available. Link in my bio 🙏❤️
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
Fairy. Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy
Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy
June 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Fairy. Spring 2027 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy
Thank you @aimeeddunn.bsky.social #JimJohnstone #KirbyFairy
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
"I’m on a new medication
that forces my soul out
of my body
like a pine forest felled
to make room
for glass."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
For body with burden by @annaveprinska.bsky.social from Bonememory (2025 @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3mdwnhua & tinyurl.com/mtvt8hs2
that forces my soul out
of my body
like a pine forest felled
to make room
for glass."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
For body with burden by @annaveprinska.bsky.social from Bonememory (2025 @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3mdwnhua & tinyurl.com/mtvt8hs2
"For body with burden" by Anna Veprinska - League of Canadian Poets
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "For body with burden" by Anna Veprinska.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"I’m on a new medication
that forces my soul out
of my body
like a pine forest felled
to make room
for glass."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
For body with burden by @annaveprinska.bsky.social from Bonememory (2025 @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3mdwnhua & tinyurl.com/mtvt8hs2
that forces my soul out
of my body
like a pine forest felled
to make room
for glass."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
For body with burden by @annaveprinska.bsky.social from Bonememory (2025 @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3mdwnhua & tinyurl.com/mtvt8hs2
“The way light
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it”
—Ocean Vuong, “Into the Breach”
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it”
—Ocean Vuong, “Into the Breach”
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
“The way light
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it”
—Ocean Vuong, “Into the Breach”
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it”
—Ocean Vuong, “Into the Breach”
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social
Reading through old writing notes and found this question from my past self, who studied (and still studies) poetry after trauma: “why didn’t I study laughter?”
July 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Reading through old writing notes and found this question from my past self, who studied (and still studies) poetry after trauma: “why didn’t I study laughter?”
“Is routine a kind of prayer?”
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
July 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“Is routine a kind of prayer?”
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
“That old ontological riddle about forests is a trick. If we are listening, everyone can hear every tree that falls in every forest.”
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
July 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“That old ontological riddle about forests is a trick. If we are listening, everyone can hear every tree that falls in every forest.”
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
—Tessa McWatt, The Snag
Jim Johnstone, from The King of Terrors
July 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Jim Johnstone, from The King of Terrors
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
"We felt an ache we realized was happiness, almost unbearable."
From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/9781946482846
#poem #books #writing
From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/9781946482846
#poem #books #writing
June 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"We felt an ache we realized was happiness, almost unbearable."
From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/9781946482846
#poem #books #writing
From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/9781946482846
#poem #books #writing
You know that PhD I defended 7 years ago? I had to defend it again last night in a dream.
July 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
You know that PhD I defended 7 years ago? I had to defend it again last night in a dream.
Reposted by Anna Veprinska
“that swallowed you, inside the terrible ocean. How you made yourself
at home beneath the cathedral ceiling of its ribs. How that felt”
From “Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu” by Bethany Schultz Hurst in ISSUE 26!
at home beneath the cathedral ceiling of its ribs. How that felt”
From “Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu” by Bethany Schultz Hurst in ISSUE 26!
Bethany Schultz Hurst "Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu" — THE SHORE
POETRY
www.theshorepoetry.org
June 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“that swallowed you, inside the terrible ocean. How you made yourself
at home beneath the cathedral ceiling of its ribs. How that felt”
From “Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu” by Bethany Schultz Hurst in ISSUE 26!
at home beneath the cathedral ceiling of its ribs. How that felt”
From “Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu” by Bethany Schultz Hurst in ISSUE 26!