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Susan Robertson
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Borderline Luddite. Sometimes writes.
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Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social · Jan 7
Gobsmacked, honoured and thrilled to have a Baseline chapbook coming in the spring.
Author photos of five people announcing the 2025 Baseline Press lineup. The authors are Susan Robertson, Dagne Forrest, Jasmine Gui, Salma Husain, and Steve McOrmond.
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Dear sweet God almighty, what a lineup. Tolu Oloruntoba and Karen Solie, one week from today, online!

www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-poem...
Lunch Poems presents Tolu Oloruntoba & Karen Solie (Online)
Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique opportunity to celebrate poetry and is held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
snullr.bsky.social
I can't be there, but you should if you can.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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So timely. But it shouldn't have to be timely for these stories to matter. I just registered.
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Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).

Register here: t.ly/HT233
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
snullr.bsky.social
What a treat to meet and hear Steve McOrmond and Jeremy Luke Hill.
stevemcormond.bsky.social Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 14d
Thank you to everyone who came out to the poetry reading on Saturday at Little Wren Books in London. What a treat to hear @snullr.bsky.social and Jeremy Luke Hill read from their Baseline Press chapbooks and talk about their work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
snullr.bsky.social
Come out Friday for poetry and ghosts galore!
nicolavulpe.bsky.social Nicola Vulpe @nicolavulpe.bsky.social · 15d
If you're in Ottawa and looking for something to do this Halloween, come to the Happy Goat, 35 Laurel Street. I'll be reading with the excellent Jason Purcell and Margo LaPierre.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Michael Goodfellow's chapbook Cleft is gorgeous.
The front of a beige, tall rectangular chapbook on a dark wood background. The left side features an etching of a snakemouth orchid. The title, Cleft, and the author's name, Michael Goodfellow, are printed in the upper left hand corner. The back of a beige, tall rectangular chapbook on a dark wood background. The right side features an etching of a snakemouth orchid. The title page of a chapbook. A mirrored image of a snakemouth orchid is printed in dark ink on the top of a beige sheet of paper. The title, Cleft, is printed, also in dark ink, in block letters underneath, and under that the author's name, Michael Goodfellow, in italics. The author has initialled the bottom. One page of a long poem printed on beige paper. Three text reads: Cleft stone, then the eel then the room within water it happened before then he used another name a stream bed, stone heaved it happened by rivers places I would never see bog fern, granite, pebbles, dark soil below also meant inside
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Come hear Steve, Jeremy, and me and help celebrate Baseline Press!
stevemcormond.bsky.social Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social · 22d
Join us this Saturday, October 25 at 4:15 pm at the lovely Little Wren Books in London, ON for a celebration of poetry and Baseline Press. I'll be reading for the first time from my new chapbook "Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City." Hope to see you there!

#poetry #books #CanLit
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Amazing poem by Joy Harjo.
October 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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BYWORDS.CA CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS We publish a monthly online magazine of poetry. Call for unpublished poetry by current and former Ottawa students, residents & workers. Max 250 words and 45 lines, 5 poems. Deadline: 15th of each month for next issue. Payment is $40. E-mail poems as one doc, docx or rtf file to submissions@bywords.ca NO PDFS PLEASE or Google Docs please. More info: amanda@bywords.ca or visit Bywords.ca and click on guidelines.
October 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Read this astonishing work!
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's #smallpoemsunday one from @roblucastaylor.bsky.social 's Weather.
A three line poem that reads screen door-- one hundred sunrises in the baby's palm
October 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Join Poetry@Tech for a Virtual Poetry Craft Talk with Rick Barot: Lavish Syntax. Oct. 25, 2pm ET/11am PT. Register here: gatech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Poetry@Tech Rick Barot Virtual Craft Talk on Syntax. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for Poetry@Tech's poetry craft talk with Rick Barot Lavish Syntax The problem at the heart of writing a poem is the problem of dramatization. That is, how do we dramatize in language—a very limited means—the dynamics of thought, sensation,
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October 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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It's not fall without the Small Press Book Fair!
September 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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One of my favourites by Jean Valentine #smallpoemsunday
The image of a poem by Jean Valentine that reads Mare and Newborn Foal When you die there will be bales of hay heaped high in space mean while with my tongue I draw the black straw out of you mean while with your tongue you draw the black straw out of me
September 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Come help Dagne Forrest and me celebrate our Baseline Press chapbooks along with special guest @nancyhuggett.bsky.social. Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa.
A poster announcing a Baseline Press chapbook launch on Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa. The top third of the poster contains the location and time information in white letters against a teal field. The bottom third contains headshots of the authors arranged in horizontal row: Dagne Forrest first, then guest reader Nancy Huggett, and Susan Robertson. The authors’ names are printed above their photos.
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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In Ottawa November 14!
biidaasamose.bsky.social Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · Sep 9
i made a new record & in november we're going on a tour to play it. grateful to boyhood & zoon for support & @youvechanged.bsky.social
list of tour dates over a figure with a rest fist and "no god mo boss no husband no state" on their back.
September 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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One month only. Submit now: scrivenerreview.com/submit
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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This poem. Why does this season I love so much make me sad?
September 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Heather Christle online! I'm signing up now!
weslpress.bsky.social Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · Aug 27
Join Heather Christle remotely with:
🦩 Memoiring: Sept. 2 at 6:30 p.m. EDT
🦩 Poet Lore and The Writer's Center: Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. EDT

#Zoom #Poetry
September 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Two poems for #smallpoemsunday, one by Charles Simic (the master!) and one from my Baseline Press chapbook.

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A poem by Charles Simic titled Poem: Every morning I forget how it is. I watch smoke mount In great strides above the city. I belong to no one. Then, I remember my shoes, How I have to put them on, How bending over to tie then up I will look into the earth. A poem by me titled 6:00 A M The cat mewls outside the bedroom. A robin-- or is it a cardinal?--won't stop calling. You once asked your mother if life had a purpose. The cat's paw darts under the door.
August 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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If you're in or near Ottawa, don't miss this!
nancyhuggett.bsky.social Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social · Aug 27
Saturday September 20, poetry chap launch with Dagne Forrest & @snullr.bsky.social (& guest reader moi!)
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Come help Dagne Forrest and me celebrate our Baseline Press chapbooks along with special guest @nancyhuggett.bsky.social. Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa.
A poster announcing a Baseline Press chapbook launch on Saturday, September 20, 2:00 p.m. at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa. The top third of the poster contains the location and time information in white letters against a teal field. The bottom third contains headshots of the authors arranged in horizontal row: Dagne Forrest first, then guest reader Nancy Huggett, and Susan Robertson. The authors’ names are printed above their photos.
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Reading about neuroscience leads me to reconfirm that a fundamental quality I value in poetry is its ability to
"perturb those restless proactive seas." Poetry loves to get in the way.
The largest contributor to ongoing neural response is the ceaseless anticipatory buzz of downwards-flowing neural prediction that drives perception and action in a circular causal flow. Incoming sensory information is just one further factor perturbing those restless pro-active seas.
August 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM