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Jessica Lee McMillan
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Poet, teacher, music nerd, landlubber | Chapbook: 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 via Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2026 | Poems in CV2, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly.
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HBD David Berman
January 4, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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“Plate XXXI, which you may if you please, call a partial View of Immensity, or without much Impropriety perhaps, a finite View of Infinity”.⠀
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More from Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750) here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
January 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Happy Birthday to Caitlin "Cait" O'Riordan, bass player for the Irish punk/folk band the Pogues and later bass player with Elvis Costello, born on this day in 1965, Lagos, Nigeria

Photo by Dean Shaw

#punk #punks #punkrock #ThePogues #womanofpunk #punkrockhistory #otd
January 4, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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My heartfelt thanks to the editors and community organizations I got to work with in 2025. This list is mostly poetry (with some reprints) and does not even include music writing—including 4 interviews. 2025 was abundant.
Work Published in 2025 • 3 poems in Tokyo Poetry Journal, Vol 16,Winter 2025  • 2 poems in Fire from the Heart: Winners from the 2025 Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, Three Ocean Press, November 2025 • 3 poems in Heron Tree, Volume 12, December 2025 • Interview, “The Art of Writing”, talking about strawberries all of the time, October 2025 • “Outpatient”, Pinhole Poetry Volume Three Selected, print edition, Spring 2025 • Excuses to Mark a Day, Stone Circle Review, August 2025 • Pain in the Reverie: What is a good poem and how does it begin? periodicities, July 2025 • “72” Tiny Spoon, Superstition/Issue 13, Spring/Summer 2025 • The Day Shane MacGowan Died, Contemporary Verse 2, Spring 2025 • “Bridging the Gap” RCLAS Cooperative poem, April 2025 • “Mother Lode” Poetry Pause, League of Canadian Poets, April 2025 • “Almanac”, pacificREVIEW 2025, the AFTER:words Issue, May 2025 • The Air Itself Is One Vast Library, ROOM Magazine (online), April 2025 • 5 poems in talking about strawberries all of the time, April 2025 • “Avocado”, Poetry Pause, League of Canadian Poets, March 2025 • “Ambient”, The New Quarterly, Issue 173, January 2025 • “Principally Uncertain”, Lover’s Eye Press, Issue 9, January 2025 • “Time Out”, Kinds of Cool: A Collection of Jazz Poetry, Jerry Jazz Musician Unsolicited Press, January 2025 Readings: • Ode to the Pattullo Art Salon, Saturday, April 12, 2025 at Anvil Centre, New Westminster • SAPP: a poetry zine, Volume 3 launch, September 13, 2025 at Wildfires Bookshop, New West • RCLAS Poetry in the Park Host: July 16 & 23 at Queen’s Park, New West • SAPP Pride Edition, June 25 at Wildfires Bookshop, New West • National Poetry Month Poetry + Art Salon, Saturday, April 12, 2025 at Anvil Centre, New West • “Ambient” for The New Quarterly feature, March 2025
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Winston Lê : Two poems / @winstonle.bsky.social ;
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Winston Lê : Two poems
haitchling   hhhhhhere you are whoosh are you— hoo-win         erratum your tongue’s shadow reattunes estranges from wartorn & exo...
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January 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Q: What is a song over six minutes long that's worth every minute?

A: Deerunter’s “Desire Lines” With Lockett Pundt behind the mic. youtu.be/Lx57to-9mGw #MusicSky #Deerhunter
January 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Got my copy of the Walrus @thewalrus.ca in the mail this bright morning at the very end of 2025, that features this poem. Honoured to be alongside poems by Tom Wayman, Molly Peacock, and @katerilanthier.bsky.social 😍
A poem entitled Speakerphone by Raoul Fernandes. (Msg me if youd like a transcript)
December 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Happy New Year! An amazing find a Relove Records, New Westminster. So damn good. This album has a track stolen and made famous by Rod Stewart. #JorgeBen #Brasil

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January 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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Somehow the science of air fryers is a letdown. There is no failure of magic when we carry a sense of awe. Blackbody radiation is magic to me. www.scienceabc.com/pure-science...
December 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Nardwuar Appointed to the Order of Canada
Nardwuar Appointed to the Order of Canada
Canadian national treasure Nardwuar the Human Serviette has been appointed to the Order of Canada. The celebrity interviewer and punk rock
dlvr.it
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Serendipitously, I got a poem by Grace Kwan @gracekwan.bsky.social on @stonecirclereview.bsky.social in the random poem selector link (below post).

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December 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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"this fish
from the air of so many so many untangles
& 10 thousand years later there are trees

glistening sunlight & listening rain & white streets
& houses & people walkin bout & talkn to each other on the water & across
its blue echo…"

#KamauBrathwaite
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Bermudas
dreaming and the ribs of water’s colour are the gills of the first fish breathing the first land the first eye -lann until there is what shd not be here on the water white footsteps of sand from the b...
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December 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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🔥 No Joy @nojoy.bsky.social BUGLAND on @rollingstone.com Best Music of 2025: Staff Picks (w/ @fire-toolz.bsky.social)

🔥 “A formidable contender for best shoegaze record of this decade”

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Best Music of 2025: Staff Picks
Rolling Stone staffers pick their favorite albums of 2025, from Bad Bunny to Clipse to Rosalia to Taylor Swift to Wednesday to Geese to Lady Gaga
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December 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
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December 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️
Print featuring a homestead in snow by a large central tree under a clear blue and cold night sky
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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✨Happy Solstice!🕯️

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Louis Armstrong - Cool Yule (Lyric Video) ft. The Commanders
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December 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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there’s now a petition for the canadian government to overturn the recent legislation in AB and SK designed to strip trans youth of their rights. please sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
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December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Happy Holidays, Folks! Had fun listening to this track @theriffmedia.bsky.social earlier this month. Elvis nails that sense of Christmas yearning.

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Elvis Christmas Album cover resting atop dustcover of Technics turntable in motion. Album cover has a blue background and Elvis’s portrait in the middle framed by red ribbons.
December 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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One of my favourite pieces we've ever commissioned for the Fraser Valley Writers Festival, "Spies" by Russell Thornton, is now up to read over at the FVWF Festival Magazine:
Spies | Fvwritersfest
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December 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Really lucky to be spinning this much-coveted Cindy Lee double LP—thanks to a good friend❤️ This made my whole month.
Cindy Lee album Diamond Jubilee cover resting atop dustcover of Technics turntable in motion. Album cover has forlorn female cartoon figure collaged on top of a moving Canada rail train with Alberta grain silos in the background.
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Wait, what? 🫨
bookcritics.bsky.social National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 22d
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Poetry
national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST POETRY After You Were, I Am, by Camille Ralphs (McSweeney's) Chronicle of Drifting, by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon) Death of the First Idea, by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf) Into the Hush, by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon) Night Watch, by Kevin Young (Knopf) The Other Love, by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Salvage, by Hedgie Choi (University of Wisconsin) small lives, by Gary Jackson (University of New Mexico) Stay Dead, by Natalie Shapero (Copper Canyon) Unravel, by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart) national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST POETRY After You Were, I Am, by Camille Ralphs (McSweeney's) Chronicle of Drifting, by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon) Death of the First Idea, by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf) Into the Hush, by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon) Night Watch, by Kevin Young (Knopf) The Other Love, by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Salvage, by Hedgie Choi (University of Wisconsin) small lives, by Gary Jackson (University of New Mexico) Stay Dead, by Natalie Shapero (Copper Canyon) Unravel, by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart)
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Here’s where you can pick up the first Freshet newspaper in New West:

Zesty Lemon Clothing
Yum Donuts
New West City Hall
Queensborough CC
təməsew̓txʷ CC
Moody Park Arena
New West Public Library
Tourism New West
Goodway’s Specialty Foods
Groove Cat Books and Records
Greens and Beans Deli

#newwest
December 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Mark Strand, with the Hanukkah content we all need right now.
THE COMING OF LIGHT Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow's dust flares into breath.
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM