Kirsh (she/her)
@kirshwords.bsky.social
Writer, bookseller, publishing professional, former young.
A co-host of Wax Poetic on CFRO 100.5.
A co-host of Wax Poetic on CFRO 100.5.
The paywalls I keep hitting on all news outlets are giving me a real crawling-up-the-walls, cabin fever energy.
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The paywalls I keep hitting on all news outlets are giving me a real crawling-up-the-walls, cabin fever energy.
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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Toronto! Are you ready for the launch of tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social tomorrow? So are we! Head to the the amazing @anotherstoryto.bsky.social and prepare to tour!
Attendance is free, RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/tours-vari...
#Booksky💙📚 #Poetry #BookLaunch
Attendance is free, RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/tours-vari...
#Booksky💙📚 #Poetry #BookLaunch
tours, variously - Drew McEwan (with A. Light Zachary)
Join us for the Toronto launch of Drew McEwan's tours, variously! With guest reader A. Light Zachary.
www.eventbrite.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Toronto! Are you ready for the launch of tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social tomorrow? So are we! Head to the the amazing @anotherstoryto.bsky.social and prepare to tour!
Attendance is free, RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/tours-vari...
#Booksky💙📚 #Poetry #BookLaunch
Attendance is free, RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/tours-vari...
#Booksky💙📚 #Poetry #BookLaunch
Is Wicked the most commercially successful work of fanfiction of all time?
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Is Wicked the most commercially successful work of fanfiction of all time?
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We couldn't be happier to share that Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon and translated by Jessica Moore has won the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation!
A huge congratulations to Joséphine, Jessica, and to all of this year's winners!
ggbooks.ca#winners
A huge congratulations to Joséphine, Jessica, and to all of this year's winners!
ggbooks.ca#winners
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We couldn't be happier to share that Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon and translated by Jessica Moore has won the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation!
A huge congratulations to Joséphine, Jessica, and to all of this year's winners!
ggbooks.ca#winners
A huge congratulations to Joséphine, Jessica, and to all of this year's winners!
ggbooks.ca#winners
Are we ready to cease squeezing the used-up juice from the dry rind of the word "feral"?
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Are we ready to cease squeezing the used-up juice from the dry rind of the word "feral"?
Led Zeppelin + baseball + house slippers + toothpicks
am I someone's Dad spiritually at this point?
am I someone's Dad spiritually at this point?
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Led Zeppelin + baseball + house slippers + toothpicks
am I someone's Dad spiritually at this point?
am I someone's Dad spiritually at this point?
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TOMORROW!!
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
TOMORROW!!
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.
The @prisminternational.bsky.social launch was fantastic.
October 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The @prisminternational.bsky.social launch was fantastic.
I was unaware there were books that straighted the vampire. Can't wait to check out the books on this dope list.
A vampire walks into a gay bar…… okay now somebody come up with a punchline please
8 Books That Queer the Vampire - Electric Literature
These authors find creativity and liberation in hunger, desire, and depravity.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I was unaware there were books that straighted the vampire. Can't wait to check out the books on this dope list.
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Three-card monte is rigged against the person playing it. Whether it's fun or not is irrelevant. It's designed to make you lose. That's why you are stupid if you play.
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?
Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy
www.newstatesman.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Three-card monte is rigged against the person playing it. Whether it's fun or not is irrelevant. It's designed to make you lose. That's why you are stupid if you play.
Do grown men ever get told that they have an attitude?
October 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Do grown men ever get told that they have an attitude?
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ex-puritan.ca/unit-100
Thank you @sannawani.bsky.social and @ex-puritan.bsky.social for including “Unit 100” in the Animalia special issue. So honoured to among these other creaturely works.
Thank you @sannawani.bsky.social and @ex-puritan.bsky.social for including “Unit 100” in the Animalia special issue. So honoured to among these other creaturely works.
Unit 100
Read Jane Shi's poem "Unit 100" in The Ex-Puritan’s special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
ex-puritan.ca
October 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
ex-puritan.ca/unit-100
Thank you @sannawani.bsky.social and @ex-puritan.bsky.social for including “Unit 100” in the Animalia special issue. So honoured to among these other creaturely works.
Thank you @sannawani.bsky.social and @ex-puritan.bsky.social for including “Unit 100” in the Animalia special issue. So honoured to among these other creaturely works.
Fuck there's not a single thing better than getting home from a show and finding out you still have cold pizza in the fridge.
October 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Fuck there's not a single thing better than getting home from a show and finding out you still have cold pizza in the fridge.
Taylor Swift is Thom Yorke for pop girlies.
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Taylor Swift is Thom Yorke for pop girlies.
Thinking about the time when I worked in an office and my boss came by my minimally decorated cubicle, pointed to my photo of Mel Brooks, and asked "is this your grandfather?" and I said "yes."
October 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thinking about the time when I worked in an office and my boss came by my minimally decorated cubicle, pointed to my photo of Mel Brooks, and asked "is this your grandfather?" and I said "yes."
October 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
✨🍎 Shana Tova, friends! 🍎✨
September 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
✨🍎 Shana Tova, friends! 🍎✨
✌️schleppy not preppy✌️
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
✌️schleppy not preppy✌️
It's Zizi's 13th birthday :)
September 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It's Zizi's 13th birthday :)
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You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free!
Get all the details here: talonbooks.com/events/talon...
Get all the details here: talonbooks.com/events/talon...
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free!
Get all the details here: talonbooks.com/events/talon...
Get all the details here: talonbooks.com/events/talon...
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
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Having a bad day? Have you tried Too Much Pasta™? Solve none of your problems and feel uncomfortably full with Too Much Pasta™!
August 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Having a bad day? Have you tried Too Much Pasta™? Solve none of your problems and feel uncomfortably full with Too Much Pasta™!