Gregory Betts
@whatisapoem.bsky.social
Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
Reposted by Gregory Betts
Delighted to share this Call for Papers: “the leafless page”: bpNichol and the (true, eventual) Digital Archive.
Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.
Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Delighted to share this Call for Papers: “the leafless page”: bpNichol and the (true, eventual) Digital Archive.
Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.
Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.
The whole play is a video chat
February 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
The whole play is a video chat
Save the date! I will be hosting a one-day bpNichol symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University on Thursday 9 April 2026. Details to follow!!
Possible, tentative name for the event:
"the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca
Possible, tentative name for the event:
"the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca
February 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Save the date! I will be hosting a one-day bpNichol symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University on Thursday 9 April 2026. Details to follow!!
Possible, tentative name for the event:
"the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca
Possible, tentative name for the event:
"the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca
David Aylward. "Crossword." Seripress, 1975.
January 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
David Aylward. "Crossword." Seripress, 1975.
This was the group cheering on the Canadian truckers sounding their blast horns ripping through Ottawa for over three weeks straight, right?
We now have right-wingers demanding that the whistles that anti-ICE protesters and legal observers use in Minnesota be deemed "violent weapons" that are used by domeetic terrorists.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
MAGA influencers want anti-ICE protester whistles to be ‘considered a violent weapon’
‘High IQ people don’t respond well to shrill noises,’ Mike Cernovich tweeted before taking aim at the ‘hearing loss causing machines that terrorists use against ICE.’
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 8:50 PM
This was the group cheering on the Canadian truckers sounding their blast horns ripping through Ottawa for over three weeks straight, right?
Sean Monahan (8Ball) suggests that, maybe, the Mayan prophecy that the world would end in 2012 actually did come true:
that the breakthrough adoption of smartphones and social media in 2012 definitively cut us off from the real world, and we are now moored outside of it.
that the breakthrough adoption of smartphones and social media in 2012 definitively cut us off from the real world, and we are now moored outside of it.
January 25, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Sean Monahan (8Ball) suggests that, maybe, the Mayan prophecy that the world would end in 2012 actually did come true:
that the breakthrough adoption of smartphones and social media in 2012 definitively cut us off from the real world, and we are now moored outside of it.
that the breakthrough adoption of smartphones and social media in 2012 definitively cut us off from the real world, and we are now moored outside of it.
Reposted by Gregory Betts
Which kind of creative writing will be replaced by generative AI? Poet Greg Betts answers this, and reveals how his writing has evolved and why community is so important.
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/poet-gregory-betts-on-literary-community-collaboration-and-the-changing-face-of-writing
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/poet-gregory-betts-on-literary-community-collaboration-and-the-changing-face-of-writing
August 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Which kind of creative writing will be replaced by generative AI? Poet Greg Betts answers this, and reveals how his writing has evolved and why community is so important.
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/poet-gregory-betts-on-literary-community-collaboration-and-the-changing-face-of-writing
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/poet-gregory-betts-on-literary-community-collaboration-and-the-changing-face-of-writing
Reposted by Gregory Betts
Hem Press' editor has been doing an infrequent podcast interviewing leading poets such as @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, Penn Kemp and @whatisapoem.bsky.social among others. Check it out!
m.youtube.com/channel/UCVj...
m.youtube.com/channel/UCVj...
Richard Capener
m.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Hem Press' editor has been doing an infrequent podcast interviewing leading poets such as @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, Penn Kemp and @whatisapoem.bsky.social among others. Check it out!
m.youtube.com/channel/UCVj...
m.youtube.com/channel/UCVj...
AND
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and here and
here
- Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems, 1965
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here
- Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems, 1965
January 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM
AND
here
and here and
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- Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems, 1965
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- Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems, 1965
"The avant-garde is a storehouse of available and cumulative techniques deemed viable and adaptable to the urgencies of the present."
-- Steve McCaffery
-- Steve McCaffery
January 20, 2026 at 5:26 PM
"The avant-garde is a storehouse of available and cumulative techniques deemed viable and adaptable to the urgencies of the present."
-- Steve McCaffery
-- Steve McCaffery
When you read your reviews...
January 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
When you read your reviews...
"Moire Typeface" designed by Jack Gilbe (2009).
Jack wanted to put a positive spin on this printers’ nightmare. The solution requires Moire to succeed – a typeface in which each character comprises two linear blocks. When overprinted, the letterforms appear as Moire interference.
Jack wanted to put a positive spin on this printers’ nightmare. The solution requires Moire to succeed – a typeface in which each character comprises two linear blocks. When overprinted, the letterforms appear as Moire interference.
January 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
"Moire Typeface" designed by Jack Gilbe (2009).
Jack wanted to put a positive spin on this printers’ nightmare. The solution requires Moire to succeed – a typeface in which each character comprises two linear blocks. When overprinted, the letterforms appear as Moire interference.
Jack wanted to put a positive spin on this printers’ nightmare. The solution requires Moire to succeed – a typeface in which each character comprises two linear blocks. When overprinted, the letterforms appear as Moire interference.
"Gone is the word as word, though the word may still be used as sound or shape. Poetry now resides in other elements."
--Bob Cobbing, "The Shape and Sound of Poetry"
--Bob Cobbing, "The Shape and Sound of Poetry"
January 12, 2026 at 2:02 AM
"Gone is the word as word, though the word may still be used as sound or shape. Poetry now resides in other elements."
--Bob Cobbing, "The Shape and Sound of Poetry"
--Bob Cobbing, "The Shape and Sound of Poetry"
"Faring thee well, now, let your life proceed by its own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I am done with mine."
RIP to Bobby Weir, a true psychedelic cowboy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp18...
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I am done with mine."
RIP to Bobby Weir, a true psychedelic cowboy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp18...
January 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
"Faring thee well, now, let your life proceed by its own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I am done with mine."
RIP to Bobby Weir, a true psychedelic cowboy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp18...
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I am done with mine."
RIP to Bobby Weir, a true psychedelic cowboy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp18...
Early Glitch: my poem "When She is With I" with artist Toke Nygaard, published in Born Magazine (1999). Looks like the animated version has been lost to cyberspace.
January 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Early Glitch: my poem "When She is With I" with artist Toke Nygaard, published in Born Magazine (1999). Looks like the animated version has been lost to cyberspace.
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.
The photo is of me immediately after finishing my marking, hence the glazed I-can't-see-my-hand look.
Canadian Poets Series #18 : Gregory Betts / @whatisapoem.bsky.social @downingfield.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ;
peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/01/cana...
peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/01/cana...
Canadian Poets Series #18 : Gregory Betts
Gregory Betts is a poet and professor at Brock University and the author or editor of 25 books, including If Language (BookThug, 2005; 200...
peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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.
The photo is of me immediately after finishing my marking, hence the glazed I-can't-see-my-hand look.
What the hell, Horace?!
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
What the hell, Horace?!
2026, let the games begin
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
2026, let the games begin
Ray Ellenwood reflects on the 100th anniversary of Claude Gauvreau's birth, including a moving procession along Rue Sainte-Catherine with oversized puppets and a brass band to tribute the Automatist poet and playwright. publicreverie.com/celebrating-...
CELEBRATING CLAUDE GAUVREAU | Public Reverie
Claude Gauvreau, a poet and major figure of the avant-garde in Canada, was born in Montréal on August 19, 1925, and died there on July 7, 1971. Notices of his 100th anniversary appeared in the Montréa...
publicreverie.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ray Ellenwood reflects on the 100th anniversary of Claude Gauvreau's birth, including a moving procession along Rue Sainte-Catherine with oversized puppets and a brass band to tribute the Automatist poet and playwright. publicreverie.com/celebrating-...
Reposted by Gregory Betts
"No other writer of our time & place was so diverse, attempted so much, & never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, lovingly edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social & I, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...
December 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"No other writer of our time & place was so diverse, attempted so much, & never lost sight of his intent." – Michael Ondaatje. Purchase SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, lovingly edited by @whatisapoem.bsky.social & I, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...
Susan Connolly, "Christmas Eve" (2019).
Merry merry, to all who celebrate!
Merry merry, to all who celebrate!
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Susan Connolly, "Christmas Eve" (2019).
Merry merry, to all who celebrate!
Merry merry, to all who celebrate!