Author of GOSPEL DRUNK and SHORT HISTORIES OF LIGHT.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined March 2009
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Blew my 🧦s off in 2023:
1. Alternator by Chris Banks
2. Safety Razor by Emily Osbourne @emilyasbjorn
3. Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery @Hollay2
4. The End Is in the Middle by Daniel Scott Tysdal
5. Entre Reve and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier @DBernierCormier
Grateful to the editors @TheFiddlehd to have included this sad sonnet for their Spring volume. In fine company too!
Bankers, Crows & Brandon Lee maudlinhouse.net/bankers-cro… via @maudlinhouse
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Last new #poetry book to announce:
Indie Rock
By Joe Bishop
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"Bishop's lyrics chronicle sexual exploration amidst Newfoundland music and folklore. Indie Rock has the volume jacked, and these poems pulsate and blister long after the show's over." Aidan Chafe
5 things you might find in a poem of mine:
1. Depressing stuff
2. Religion bashing
3. My dad
4. An attempt at cleverness
5. Toxic masculinity
@emilyasbjorn @DanielCowper @KyleMcKillop @AlderReview
If there's one memoir you read in 2023 make it @HarrisonMooney's Invisible Boy.
Labour Day for teachers is
the day before an alien invasion. I re-watched Independence Day to get into the appropriate headspace. “We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on! We will survive!”
Love when I can get into a conversation about the "lameness of the tortured artist trope" with a student who's a huge fan of Nirvana and Sylvia Plath.
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and the best headline award goes to @TheTyee thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/04/…
Odd solicitation, but is there anyone in the Van City area that’s a Sarah Harmer fan!? I’ve got an extra ticket for Thursday’s show at the Vogue!
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PIECE OF THE WEEK: Hockey is a way of life in many Canadian towns. But what if you secretly dream of hanging up your skates to tap dance instead? buff.ly/3LEpdMA (@maisonneuvemag @curtiswleblanc)
Best poetry I read last year: The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba, The Bad Wife by Micheline Maylor, Strangers by Rob Taylor, Deepfake Serenade by Chris Banks, The Past by Wendy Xu, frank:sonnets by Dianne Seuss, and Water I Won’t Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
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Joe Rogan likely cancelling sold-out Vancouver show due to vaccine mandates dailyhive.com/vancouver/joe-…
Re-reading gender theory/studies (Beauvoir, hooks, Butler) to work into my course as my class is angry that I only teach white, Christian, Western European philosophers. If anyone knows any female philosophy during the medieval and early-modern eras, I'm all ears.