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rob mclennan
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poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press)
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Despite any earlier announcements you may have heard, I wish to report that it is currently not, in fact, raining men.
January 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
working an essay in my usual sportsbar corner, along with a few items, including chapbook titles by Stuart Ross, Noah Ross, Brian Ng, Roberto Harrison, Sandy Berrigan and others, as well as the latest issue of The Capilano Review,
January 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord, be more myself.
; a new interview or three, a review or two, and other important (relatively) updates, / @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/i-shall-he...
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
i don't know how to process such wilful destruction and blatant greed,
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Hint hint Ōtepoti Dunedin—save the date for the first Octagon Collective Poetry Night, because Sonja will be in town!!

Feb 11th!!!!!
January 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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ICYMI: The new book of #Poetry 'pedagogies for the planthroposcene' by #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Orchid Tierney, was published by the above/ground press.

@orchidtierney.bsky.social is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa-New Zealand

abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/new-...
new from above/ground press: pedagogies for the planthroposcene, by Orchid Tierney
pedagogies for the planthroposcene Orchid Tierney $5 it’s amazing     how fires unfurl strange weathers    brown husks carve          ...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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above/ground press author spotlights : substack : Trivedi, Houglum, Tierney, Christie, Gray, Reid, Unsworth, Ballard, O’Reilly, Ladouceur, Sikkema, Siklosi, Norris, Nećakov, Saklikar, Fagan, Earl + Downs /
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/abov...
above/ground press author spotlights : substack : Trivedi, Houglum, Tierney, Christie, Gray, Reid, Unsworth, Ballard, O’Reilly, Ladouceur, Sikkema, Siklosi, Norris, Nećakov, Saklikar, Fagan, Earl + Do...
Since building my above/ground press substack  last spring, I've started posting a series of interviews with above/ground press authors (ne...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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If Joe Biden, Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton had openly threatened to seize the territory of our NATO allies, Jake Tapper & every other CNN anchor would do nothing but point out how wildly illegal this is, how massively it endangers US national security, & how it is grounds for immediate impeachment.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?

MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO

T: So force is on the table?

M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
small one has a dentist appointment, so hoping to move through a couple of things, including Christian Schlegel’s The Blackbird, which landed today,
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Read more about grotesque architecture and my cave obsession:
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for including No One Knows Us There by Jessica Bebenek and women & roosters by Fenn Stewart in this terrific 'best of' list of 2025 Canadian poetry books!
A ‘best of’ list of 2025 Canadian poetry books
dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-be...
January 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord, be more myself.
; a new interview or three, a review or two, and other important (relatively) updates, / @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/i-shall-he...
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
above/ground press author spotlights : substack : Trivedi, Houglum, Tierney, Christie, Gray, Reid, Unsworth, Ballard, O’Reilly, Ladouceur, Sikkema, Siklosi, Norris, Nećakov, Saklikar, Fagan, Earl + Downs /
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/abov...
above/ground press author spotlights : substack : Trivedi, Houglum, Tierney, Christie, Gray, Reid, Unsworth, Ballard, O’Reilly, Ladouceur, Sikkema, Siklosi, Norris, Nećakov, Saklikar, Fagan, Earl + Do...
Since building my above/ground press substack  last spring, I've started posting a series of interviews with above/ground press authors (ne...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Many thanks to Peripety and/or Tronies and @robmclennan.bsky.social for this profile :-)

The photo is of me immediately after finishing my marking, hence the glazed I-can't-see-my-hand look.
January 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM