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Jade Wallace (they/them)
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Poet, novelist, critic, leftist & co-founder of MA|DE. Poetry collection Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (Guernica 23), novel ANOMIA (Palimpsest 24), collaborative poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest 25). 🌈 https://jadewallace.a
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November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My very first time having poems in The Malahat Review!

Pictured here is "Desert Fauna," which features some horses and a rather oblique allegory. Not pictured is "Grape," which I wrote when I was thinking a lot about how I hate the way grapes are used on social media these days...
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
✨Looking forward to being a panelist this coming Wednesday October 13, 2025 at 5:30 pm for Arts Council Windsor & Region's talk on careers in the arts, alongside Nadja Pelkey @telextelex.bsky.social and some guy I've seen around named Mark Laliberte @originobscure.bsky.social.
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Thanks to Conor McDonnell for including ZZOO on a list of books that inspired his work for @49thshelf.bsky.social! And congrats to Conor on his latest poetry collection, What We Know So Far Is, out yesterday from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social!

Read the full list here: 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member...
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Feels very appropriate for our book of animal poetry to appear on HOWL - CIUT 89.5FM! MA|DE recently chatted with @hollay.bsky.social about: what makes a ZZOO different from a zoo; writing for depth rather than clarity; what it's like to work with an editor as a two-person collaborative ...
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🐶🐼There's particular delight in print review & MA|DE was lucky enough to experience that this week thanks to reviewer Matt Boylan, writing for @theampersandreview.bsky.social. Boylan has many insightful & laudatory things to say about ZZOO @palimpsestpress.bsky.social, including:
September 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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It's a quintessential right of passage for small press poetry books to be reviewed by @robmclennan.bsky.social and we're ever so grateful to him for bringing MA|DE's debut collaborative collection into the fold. Rob calls ZZOO "layered, and sharp” and remarks on its “smart and engaged language."
September 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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🪲🐬🦩This Saturday September 13 at 2pm, we'll be reading at the Leamington branch of Essex County Library alongside Daniel Lockhart, Kathryn MacDonald, Carrie Lee Connel & Andreas Connel-Gripp. It’ll be our first time reading in Leamington & ZZOO’s first visit too. Hope to see you at this free event!
September 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Looking forward to this book!
The Unravelling of Ou (by me!) is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press, February 15, 2026, and is available for pre-order now. 🧦 📖

Here is the listing at one of my local bookstores!

tinyurl.com/5an25y7h

This book was made possible through the generous funding of Ontario Arts Council.

#canlit
September 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just in time for Labour Day, the anthology THE BOOK OF JOBS: Poems about Work is out and includes my poem "Word Problems." Sneak peek is in the photo below; the rest of the poem and anthology are available to read for free online: oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...
September 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Literally takes less than a minute & important if you care about things like the Canada Council for the Arts!!
Carney plans to cut 15% to the arts. Here is a letter template to send to politicians to oppose this.

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August 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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What a treat to talk to an interviewer like Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social (& elsewhere), who is equal parts enthusiastic & insightful about books. MA|DE had a great time chatting with Hollay about why we tried to treat each poetry reading on our ZZOO tour like...
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Great (critical) take on AI by Molly Cross-Blanchard in the latest issue of Write from The Writers' Union of Canada.
August 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My review of Samantha Jones' @sjonespoet.bsky.social's wonderful debut poetry collection Attic Rain from @newestpress.bsky.social, which appeared in the Fall 2024 issue of @thismagazine.bsky.social.
August 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'm late but I had a good reason this time! Anways here's my review of Deepa Rajagopalan's stunning debut short fiction collection Peacocks of Instagram from @houseofanansi.bsky.social, which appeared in the Summer 2024 issue of @thismagazine.bsky.social.
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Earlier this week, we had a 15-minute chat scheduled with Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social for episode 455 of his GET LIT podcast, which quickly turned into a 30-minute interview. We discussed where collaboration begins, how two very serious people manage to make playful work ...
August 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Today on GET LIT: Jade Wallace and Mark Laliberte aka MA|DE. We discuss a bunch of things including their latest, ZZOO.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/yc5u7bzj

@nycterosea.bsky.social @marklalib.bsky.social @madeprojects.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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If you happen to be a member of LCP @canadianpoets.bsky.social, you can get 15% off + free shipping on many new and forthcoming Canadian poetry collections, including MA|DE's ZZOO, if you order through @alllitupcanada.bsky.social anytime between now and Saturday August 9! 🐙🐍🦋 alllitup.ca/books/zzoo/
August 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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In the fog that consumed the entire month of March (thanks COVID), we totally lost track of this interview, the ACTUAL first written interview MA|DE ever did about 'ZZOO.' Our very belated thanks to the wonderful @alllitupcanada.bsky.social for chatting with us about how MA|DE came together ...
August 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Bet you didn't think I had MORE to say about book blurbs after my last 1,800-word article on them but here I am! Brockton Writers Series @brocktonwriters.bsky.social was kind enough to invite me to speak on the subject at their latest event, and to do a guest blog post about it.
July 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sarah Marie aka @literalnobody.bsky.social and TMR are among the true angels of the small press lit scene. Thank you to both of them for this interview.
We're proud to present our very first WRITTEN interview about ZZOO! Sarah Marie @literalnobody.bsky.social, for The Miramichi Reader , asked us a range of surprising questions, covering topics from ZZOO's emotional landscapes to practical matters like touring a small press poetry collection.
July 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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happy non-binary day and week, i edit an online micro mag specifically for non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers and artists!

our next issue is coming out on aug 20, and you can catch up here: www.beestungmag.com

you can also follow us on this website at @beestung.bsky.social
beestung – a quarterly micro-magazine of non-binary writers that’s sweet and stings
www.beestungmag.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's been a minute (1.5 years) since I've had a poem out in a mag, and what a mag to be back with: @midnightsunmag.bsky.social has published "Villiform," a deconstructed villanelle whose central conceit is about disability as a kind of poetic constraint for living. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/
July 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM