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 via @maudlinhouse.

RT @MLobkowicz: Last new #poetry book to announce:.Indie Rock.By Joe Bishop."Bishop's lyrics chronicle sexual explo….

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

So I hear people are watching this superb owl. It must be a hoot!.

At the mall today & my partner asks why so many adults Bird-Box their way through life!? LMFAO.

If there's one memoir you read in 2023 make it @HarrisonMooney's Invisible Boy.

Poets, I need poems and/or collections that address toxic masculinity. Suggestions!!?.

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!”.

Enjoying my time back on the Rock! Been too long. Yes b’y!

There are no enemies.

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.

RT @AyaNaderM: and the best headline award goes to @TheTyee

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!.

RT @GCLongform: 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….

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.

RT @DailyHiveVan: Joe Rogan likely cancelling sold-out Vancouver show due to vaccine mandates

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.

Right now, public school teaching feels like the film Titanic when everyone's drowning and I'm supposed to be the calm one playing an instrument.