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Andy Weaver
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Poet, professor of English and Creative Writing. Latest book, The Loom https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773855837/.
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Releasing October 15!
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 12
So honored to have blurbed @robmclennan.bsky.social’s beautiful new the book of sentences from @ucalgarypress.bsky.social! 💙📚

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the book of sentences by rob mclennan, held against whale painting, whale eye looking down from above book is bright blue, and features and orange with an ant on its side rob mclennan is one of the best prose and monostich poets writing today, in part because he works so attentively with the fragment, as a ceramic collage artist works with the smallest shards of porcelain. HAN VANDERHART Highly sophisticated and accomplished. - DENNIS COOLEY Fantastically rooted in the local and in the family, the book of sentences captures small, quiet, and intimate domestic moments with snippets of grammar lightly held to themselves by lineation and punctuation. These poems move quickly, processing the wonder of the everyday with careful observation, speculation, memory, citation, and play. Radically and everywhere metalingual, the book of sentences builds on mclennan's previous meditation on domestic joys-the book of smaller-and the work of other poets while naming its own writing in the vocabulary of linguistics. It proceeds in a family tuned series of adjustments, amendings, resistances, and acceptances, reflecting on parenthood, childhood, family far and near, the past, the present, and the future. With finesse of phrase and thythm, patience and savouring of the moment, and care for nuance and association, rob mclennan shares work that is meditative, witty, humorous, and tender. Conjuring a special sense of immediacy, the book of sentences affirms the wonder and pleasure of everyday life. rob mclennan is an editor, publisher, critic, and the author of more than fifty titles. He lives in Ottawa.
August 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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My new chapbook “Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City” is here and available to preorder from Baseline Press: www.baselinepress.ca#/jacaranda-t...

#poetry #poem #chapbook #CDMX #Mexico
“Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City” (poetry chapbook available to preorder now from Baseline Press)
August 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This one was hard to write. Many thanks to Bren Simmers for accepting my poem for the July issue of The Buzz PEI, A Gift of Island Poetry.

#poem #poems #poetry #PEI #PEIpoetry
July 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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If you satisfy yourself as reader (not just as "self-expressive" writer) you have a reasonable expectation of reaching others too.

Denise Levertov
Every art needs two - one who makes it, and one who needs it," Ernst Barlach, the German sculp. tor and playwright, is reported to have said. If this is taken to mean someone out there who needs it-an audience-the working artist is in immediate danger of externalizing his activity, of distorting his vision to accommodate it to what he knows, or supposes he knows, his audience requires, or to what he thinks it ought to hear. Writing to a student in 1965, I put it this way: ... you will find yourself not saying all you have to say-you will limit yourself according to your sense of his, or her, or their, capacity. In order to do all that one can in any given instance (and nothing less than all is good enough, though the artist, not being of a complacent nature, will never feel sure he has done all) one must develop objec-tivity: at some stage in the writing of a poem you must dismiss from your mind all special knowledge (of what you were intending to say, of private allusions, etc.) and read it with the innocence you bring to a poem by someone unknown to you. If you satisfy yourself as reader (not just as "self-expressive" writer) you have a reasonable expectation of reaching others too. This "reader within one" is identical with Barlach's "one who needs" the work of art. To become aware of him sateguards the artist both from the superficialities resulting from overadaptation to the external, and from miasmic sub-jectivities. My reference above to "self-expression" is closely related to what I believe Ibsen must have meant by "to make clear to himself." A self-expressive act is one which makes the doer feel liberated, "clear" in the act itself. A scream, a shout, a leaping into the air, a clapping of handsor an effusion of words associated for their writer at that moment with an emotion—all these are self-expres-sive. They satisfy their performer momentarily. the poet in the world DENISE LEVERTOV Starting my week off right // book held up in front of living room interior, philodendron revolution rising in the background above hardwood floor
March 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] : forty-sixth issue, / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social ;
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Touch the Donkey : forty-sixth issue,
The forty-sixth issue is now available, with new poems by Kirstin Allio, Kemeny Babineau, Joseph Donato, Beatriz Hausner, Matthew Walsh, N...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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i can't believe i'm only 9,530 away from 10,000 subscribers to my clever substack! robmclennan.substack.com
and you know above/ground press has a substack now also, yes? free updates! abovegroundpress.substack.com
rob mclennan's clever substack | Substack
new fiction + musings on literature, poetry, reading, etcetera ; recent works-in-progress include "the green notebook," "reading in the margins: a writing diary," and "the genealogy book," http://robm...
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July 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A new poem published! Thanks to the Harvard Review Online for publishing this poem in honour of Douglas Barbour, my friend and mentor (and a very noteworthy poet and critic):
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The Enthusiast - Harvard Review
for Douglas Barbour (1940-2021) You are not here. There is no reproving the dark hand that has touched you and no need to prove your strange new cellular shift. There are changes because we are change...
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July 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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John Furnival, 3D Noughts and Crosses, 1963
July 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

Slow Reading Project 2025-07-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking line comes to us from @robmclennan.bsky.social

#poem #poetry #poetrysky 💙📚
July 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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today is the thirty-second anniversary of above/ground press,
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today is the thirty-second anniversary of above/ground press,
happy 32nd anniversary to above/ground press! with nearly (so close) fourteen hundred publications to date! i've been making an absolute ton...
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July 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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You're not you when you're reading poetry in translation.

In this issue of "Poetry" for the first time, I came across poetry translated from a language that should have been a large part of my life but that wasn't.
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Twenty-Four, “Poetry Magazine” July/August 2023
Sometimes if you're lucky, you'll run across a poem that is so engaging, challenging, novel, mesmerizing, that you will spend days thinking about it. Kim Hyesoon's poem "Inside-Bird and Outside-Bird" is for me one of those poems. I really wish I knew how to read Korean so I could follow the translation first-hand and see the magic of both the original and the translation by Don Mee Choi.
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July 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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We live, as punctuation.

Slow Reading Project 2025-07-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

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#poem #poetry #poetrysky 💙📚
July 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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For the holiday weekend, a little something from the archives. Read the rest of this Kathleen Graber classic here: loom.ly/ay9W8lY
July 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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“Listen, you money-plated bastards. When I shout love, I mean your destruction.”
- Milton Acorn
June 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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congratulations to Jake Byrne for winning the Trillium Book Award! here's the interview we did, back when Jake was newly shortlisted:
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rob mclennan : 2025 Trillium Book Award shortlist interviews: Jake Byrne
DADDY , Jake Byrne Brick Books, 2024 2025 Trillium Book Awards • Poetry Shortlist interviewed by rob mclennan The 2025 Trillium Book Awar...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Nice to have my latest book included in this fatherhood/Father's Day list:
www.cbc.ca/books/24-can...

(Appropriately, I was too busy parenting to post this yesterday)
24 Canadian books that represent fatherhood for Father's Day 2025 | CBC Books
This Father’s Day (June 15), check out 24 Canadian books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more that share the stories of fathers and father-like figures.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I covered a Paul Dutton poem. After his recent passing, I wanted to acknowledge his influence, and introducing his work to a new audience seemed fitting.

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Paul Dutton reads Reminiscence, a found poem
YouTube video by WordsAloud
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June 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Updating my CV and just realized that my dissertation (and my PhD and the computer I wrote it on) is 35 years old.

You can listen to it here (it's a musical composition), thanks to Pennsound.

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June 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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hey! i have two new poems up at blood+honey! / @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social ;
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two poems — Blood+Honey
by rob mclennan “Sleep, into. The objects one might soothe. Emerge, if you can. If you will. Irregular, a single centre.”
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June 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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You slap me after the kiss, and two sounds
ring up around the steeple […]

—Nathan Fako @nfako.bsky.social
“Capacity” by Nathan Fako
for David You slap me after the kiss, and two soundsring up around the steeple:the rippled hush-clap of rock dovestaking sudden, startled flight—it is August, eightish— and the clear ping of the ba…
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June 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Revolutionary Letter #96, poem at dawn Empire is its own undoing Diane di Prima
June 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Came home to find the latest issue of @canadianlit.bsky.social, in which my poem “Witnessing Names” (excerpted here) appears. You can also find this poem in Bonememory @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. With many thanks to both publishers 🙏
June 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Wherever you are, let out a primal scream for Paul Dutton today:

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May 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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friends in toronto! make sure to attend the celebration of 60 YEARS OF COACH HOUSE BOOKS on June 12!: www.eventbrite.ca/e/coach-hous... (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social )
Coach House 60th Anniversary Celebration
Join us in celebrating 60 years at Coach House Books and Press.
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May 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM