Raoul Fernandes
@raoulfernandes.bsky.social
Poet, dad, and library guy | (he/him) | Wrote a book called Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions) | Poetry editor for EVENT Magazine | lives on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ (Vancouver) raoulfernandes.com
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Poetry 1
<p>Poetry is often described as a conversation—with the self, the world, and the work of other writers.</p><p>In this introductory course, you'll gain the tools you need to enter the conversation thro...
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Hey, I'll be running Poetry 1 again this September, an online asynchronous class at SFU. Learn poetic forms and strategies! Give and receive feedback on poems! Immerse yourself in the wild possibilities of language! Check it out, share, and DM me if you want more details
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Aw yeah! Congrats, Bren! 🤩
Bren Simmers wins the $60,000 #LatnerGriffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, supported by The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation and Scott Griffin. Congratulations! #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Aw yeah! Congrats, Bren! 🤩
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Local politics is where change happens. Hundreds of people are speaking up today about the Vancouver budget. This city councillor is acknowledging every single speaker by providing a summary.
My heart is warmed by all this engagement.
My heart is warmed by all this engagement.
Budget hearing continued after short recess. 157: environmental lawyer (?)Reads poem. 158: raised in east van. This is austerity and hasn’t been asked for. I’ve been lucky enough to use public services. Breaks my heart to think they won’t get same quality. Few people asked for this police budget.
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Local politics is where change happens. Hundreds of people are speaking up today about the Vancouver budget. This city councillor is acknowledging every single speaker by providing a summary.
My heart is warmed by all this engagement.
My heart is warmed by all this engagement.
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🏆 The WINNER of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry is ...
✨ WELLWATER by Karen Solie! ✨
🔗 Learn more about WELLWATER here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/wellwater #GGBooks #GGBooks2025
✨ WELLWATER by Karen Solie! ✨
🔗 Learn more about WELLWATER here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/wellwater #GGBooks #GGBooks2025
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🏆 The WINNER of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry is ...
✨ WELLWATER by Karen Solie! ✨
🔗 Learn more about WELLWATER here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/wellwater #GGBooks #GGBooks2025
✨ WELLWATER by Karen Solie! ✨
🔗 Learn more about WELLWATER here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/wellwater #GGBooks #GGBooks2025
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Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
Super thrilled to have Dora's poems in this issue 🤩 I also got to read a draft of her new book and it's sooo good
DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is forthcoming with House of Anansi (April 2027).
Find two of Prieto's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Find two of Prieto's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Super thrilled to have Dora's poems in this issue 🤩 I also got to read a draft of her new book and it's sooo good
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There's a quote by Assata Shakur, one I think of pretty much every day.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There's a quote by Assata Shakur, one I think of pretty much every day.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Truth.
Keep fighting against oppression, as she did all her life.
Just finished Wellwater and it is dazzling. Solie is really one of our best ❤️
"What distinguishes her poetry is the skill with which she deploys her technique, the intelligence behind her offhand observations, and her commitment to hesitation, qualification, and doubt. She is incomparably precise, knowing just how long to let a poem go slack before pulling the line taut."
She Writes about Tractors and Oil Drilling. She’s Also Changing Canadian Poetry | The Walrus
At fifty-eight, Karen Solie is one of our major poets. You might find her on her family farm in Saskatchewan
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September 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just finished Wellwater and it is dazzling. Solie is really one of our best ❤️
Poetry in Voice is open for free poet-in-class requests! It's really one of my most favourite and meaningful things to do as a writer. After several years, I've amassed a number of great ideas and activities that can be tailored to K-12. Check it out!
Poet In Class | Poetry In Voice
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September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Poetry in Voice is open for free poet-in-class requests! It's really one of my most favourite and meaningful things to do as a writer. After several years, I've amassed a number of great ideas and activities that can be tailored to K-12. Check it out!
happy finished a notebook and starting a new one day to me
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
happy finished a notebook and starting a new one day to me
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TONIGHT!! Join Isabella Wang, @isabellawangbc.bsky.social and me for the launch of 'November, November', and 'if: prey, then: huntress!' Hosted by Natalie Lim. 7 pm, Massy Books. 229 E. Georgia St. @massybooks.bsky.social
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#poetry #booklaunch
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#poetry #booklaunch
September 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
TONIGHT!! Join Isabella Wang, @isabellawangbc.bsky.social and me for the launch of 'November, November', and 'if: prey, then: huntress!' Hosted by Natalie Lim. 7 pm, Massy Books. 229 E. Georgia St. @massybooks.bsky.social
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/huntress-i...
#poetry #booklaunch
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/huntress-i...
#poetry #booklaunch
Happy to share the news that I recieved a Canada Council grant to help complete my second book. It was my first time applying for a grant and it feels unreal. I'm so grateful to live in a country that supports the arts in this way, (and hope it continues to)
September 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Happy to share the news that I recieved a Canada Council grant to help complete my second book. It was my first time applying for a grant and it feels unreal. I'm so grateful to live in a country that supports the arts in this way, (and hope it continues to)
Thank you Garth for inviting me to sign this and bear witness to the murders of Palestinian journalists ❤️💔
I co-organized and signed this open letter because silence is complicity.
244 Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israel since the genocide in Palestine began. In response, 244 Canadian writers have added our names to an open letter calling these killings what they are: war crimes.
244 Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israel since the genocide in Palestine began. In response, 244 Canadian writers have added our names to an open letter calling these killings what they are: war crimes.
September 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Thank you Garth for inviting me to sign this and bear witness to the murders of Palestinian journalists ❤️💔
Hey, check out this fun "smashed" event where poets read work connected to songs from an album (Siamese Dream!) that a band then plays. I'll be reading with heavyweights Doretta Lau, Jane Munro, Junie Désil and others! Come on out! Oct 9th, at 8:30pm 🎸
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September 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Hey, check out this fun "smashed" event where poets read work connected to songs from an album (Siamese Dream!) that a band then plays. I'll be reading with heavyweights Doretta Lau, Jane Munro, Junie Désil and others! Come on out! Oct 9th, at 8:30pm 🎸
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My online poetry class starts in a week! There's still time to join! 😁❤️
Hey, I'll be running Poetry 1 again this September, an online asynchronous class at SFU. Learn poetic forms and strategies! Give and receive feedback on poems! Immerse yourself in the wild possibilities of language! Check it out, share, and DM me if you want more details
www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
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Poetry 1
<p>Poetry is often described as a conversation—with the self, the world, and the work of other writers.</p><p>In this introductory course, you'll gain the tools you need to enter the conversation thro...
www.sfu.ca
September 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
My online poetry class starts in a week! There's still time to join! 😁❤️
The lovely Arleen Paré is launching her new book this Wednesday at Upstart and Crow! I'll be having a conversation with her after. Should be fun, come on out! upstartandcrow.com/event/encryp...
Encrypted: A Reading with Arleen Paré | Upstart & Crow
Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 6:30 p.m. for an evening reading with award-winning poet Arleen Paré to celebrate her new collection, Encrypted. Encrypted is a tribute to family and youth in a ...re...
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September 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The lovely Arleen Paré is launching her new book this Wednesday at Upstart and Crow! I'll be having a conversation with her after. Should be fun, come on out! upstartandcrow.com/event/encryp...
Especially looking forward to this one. Elena Johnson and our newest member, the lovely Lauren Peat, will be hosting ❤️
Hi all, our next reading is coming up! We're excited to be part of the @wordvancouver.bsky.social festival for this one. The afternoon will feature @roblucastaylor.bsky.social, Hope Lauterbach, @drobnies.bsky.social, and Carleigh Baker! See you at Outsiders and Others at 3pm on September 14th!
September 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Especially looking forward to this one. Elena Johnson and our newest member, the lovely Lauren Peat, will be hosting ❤️
l keep twirling this charm of a poem by @dseuss.bsky.social over and over
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To belong to nothing
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September 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
l keep twirling this charm of a poem by @dseuss.bsky.social over and over
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This was a powerful and heartbreaking reading and talk ❤️💔 www.youtube.com/live/ct8JKK-...
2025 Jim Douglas Lecture: Mosab Abu Toha | Voices from Under the Rubble
YouTube video by SFU Publishing
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September 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This was a powerful and heartbreaking reading and talk ❤️💔 www.youtube.com/live/ct8JKK-...
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Carney plans to cut 15% to the arts. Here is a letter template to send to politicians to oppose this.
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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August 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Carney plans to cut 15% to the arts. Here is a letter template to send to politicians to oppose this.
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whenever I want to tell my sons that what they're doing is irrational and pointless, I have to remind myself that my main passion in life is arranging words so they give rise to strange ghostly feelings
August 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
whenever I want to tell my sons that what they're doing is irrational and pointless, I have to remind myself that my main passion in life is arranging words so they give rise to strange ghostly feelings
After many many years, I've starting sending out poems again! So happy to have a home for this dark little fellow at The Ex-Puritan ❤️ ex-puritan.ca/strike-anywh...
Strike Anywhere
Read Raoul Fernandes's poem "Strike Anywhere" in Issue 70: Summer 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
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August 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
After many many years, I've starting sending out poems again! So happy to have a home for this dark little fellow at The Ex-Puritan ❤️ ex-puritan.ca/strike-anywh...
Hey, I'll be running Poetry 1 again this September, an online asynchronous class at SFU. Learn poetic forms and strategies! Give and receive feedback on poems! Immerse yourself in the wild possibilities of language! Check it out, share, and DM me if you want more details
www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
Poetry 1
<p>Poetry is often described as a conversation—with the self, the world, and the work of other writers.</p><p>In this introductory course, you'll gain the tools you need to enter the conversation thro...
www.sfu.ca
August 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hey, I'll be running Poetry 1 again this September, an online asynchronous class at SFU. Learn poetic forms and strategies! Give and receive feedback on poems! Immerse yourself in the wild possibilities of language! Check it out, share, and DM me if you want more details
www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
My mom took a picture of me reading poems
August 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
My mom took a picture of me reading poems
Hey, here's a thing I'm doing out in Richmond with Catherine Lewis! There's an open mic that you can sign up for if you're around docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
or just come and hang out! I'll be reading a mix of old and new poems
or just come and hang out! I'll be reading a mix of old and new poems
August 7, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Hey, here's a thing I'm doing out in Richmond with Catherine Lewis! There's an open mic that you can sign up for if you're around docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
or just come and hang out! I'll be reading a mix of old and new poems
or just come and hang out! I'll be reading a mix of old and new poems
Always love a post-hangout email from writer friends with links to articles, podcasts, book recommendations, etc. What a lovely way to continue a conversation
July 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Always love a post-hangout email from writer friends with links to articles, podcasts, book recommendations, etc. What a lovely way to continue a conversation