latinx poet haunted by borders ⦁ he/him ⦁ researcher @assistedlab.bsky.social
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Dante's Bureau (Anstruther, '26)
propersitions (Cactus, '25)
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Carlos A. Pittella
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Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
I do not struggle with the poem,
but with my own attentions.
—@robmclennan.bsky.social
Was surprised by this memo to be honest.
Made a peach dutch baby with raspberry coulis for breakfast &, yes, it tasted like a poem ☺️
Thrilled to celebrate @mishasolomon.bsky.social's debut collection alongside another alchemical friend, @effervescentvoid.bsky.social 🥁
If you're zooming in/near/thru Calgary/Mohkínstsis, come land in our poetry's nest❗
Jun/18 | 7PM
Owl's Nest (815A 49th Ave SW)
👉 owlsnestbooks.com/events/51798...
Stunning piece by Steff Sirois!
& the vertiginous 13-line last sentence is like watching that Birdman uninterrupted take for the first time:
"Because you turn your back for two seconds and the 7-11 vanishes to make way for a parking lot for some grey office building... ... ... " ❤️🔥
“If you can’t say alien, you can say creature-who-is-not-human or person-who-is-not-from-here. Aliens work in the backs of restaurants and in orchards brimming ripe with fruit.” ❤️🔥
"the poems of Biodôme don’t mine the difference between life & imagination, they fuse life with imagination, allowing life & imagination to, if you’ll allow me, shit at one another. These are poems of beauty without beautification"
—from Misha Solomon's amazing intro to Stephanie Bolster's biochap❤️🔥
We haven´t received many submissions yet and would love to read more of your beautiful work! www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/... Two more weeks to go.
I've written about the famous Martha Sepúlveda interview @noticiascaracol.bsky.social.
The controversy spurred by Sepúlveda's interview reveals a lot about our prejudices regarding assisted dying & the expected performance of suffering...
#MAiD @assistedlab.bsky.social
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Sídhe Press
Writing this introduction was the greatest honour of my “career”!
Misha Solomon
LOVE this one today from Steff Sirois, and we think you should love it with us!
"Eventually, we’ll watch a wrecking ball smash through the curved glass of the sunroom like it never mattered. The last time I was in there, you still had a body..."
https://www.havehashad.com/egup9
We`re looking forward to reading your work! www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/...
On the day it happens, a small crowd of us will watch from the smoke shop parking lot across the street in camping chairs. We’ll watch the workers get in their giant machines and bark orders at each…
A viral 2021 interview with Colombian Martha Sepúlveda, who did not have a terminal prognosis but wanted a legal euthanasia, shows her seemingly unworried attitude and Catholic faith.
Analysis by @pittella.bsky.social 👇
assistedlab.ch/visual/notic...
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Sídhe Press
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When it was confirmed that Stephanie Bolster was to be my thesis supervisor for my poetry MA, I wrote to rob mclennan to a...
was just reminded of this @toddkaneko.bsky.social shortie, the first thing we pubbed (post launching w/ something by myself) and wow it's still so so good
"My mother was an alien once, until she was naturalized, from Canada and not allowed to come to America because her grandmother was from China."
Assisted Lab
Another word for father is worry.
—Li-Young Lee, “Words for Worry”
In the late 70s, Mars Men was a candy made in Canada, soft sweet-and-sour gummies shaped like alien beings. If you can’t say...
