Kevin Spenst (he/him)
@kevinspenst
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Poet, author @AnvilPress, chapbook maker and reviewer @subTerrain, organizer @DeadPoetReading, co-host on Wax Poetic, instructor @TWSSFU
Van/Unceded Coast Salish Trtry
Joined March 2011
RT @EverySongIveEve: “I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone’s decision against silence.” .-….
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Kumo in Japanese (which sounds like a roundish word to me.) Do you know cloud in any other languages?.
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RT @EverySongIveEve: "A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism – you learn this as y….
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As a morning writer, I love the distinction being made in the quoted line (in a gorgeous poem about acceptance and openness) . and the usual early morning stuff.that passes for thought.
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The wonder that can be found on an infant’s face: “twisting their faces / into vast expressions”.
ROO BORSON Night Walk: Selected Poems 1994 @oxfordup Canada keeps supplying me with distinguished oeuvres. “Early” RB retains a subdued 50ish realism charged with transcendent pathos. Tuneful gestalts flow towards a comprehensive picture of life at a specific moment. More to come
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“the future falls out of place”.
The Essential C.D.WRIGHT edd. Gander and Wiegers 2025 @CopperCanyonPrs “Essential” may raise a smirk in our age of suspicion. CDW is that exception. Her cold is hot, erotic. Moon is her self-recognition “without a mirror.” Her difficulty is her adamant ethical coherence.
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RT @DanielCowper: "Kingdom of the Clock is packed with vivid imagery and insightful phrasing. Cowper’s word choices and rhythms chime with….
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RT @roblucastaylor: The University of the Fraser Valley is looking for our 2026 Writer in Residence! The deadline is August 15th. To learn….
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RT @susie_dent: Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducin….
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Over the moon (and a beautiful body of water!) to be reading with these luminaries of language on Galiano Island!.
bill bissett is one of the authors performing at the Gulf Island Poetry Festival! . Watch this space for more details:
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RT @TomDEvelyn: MARIE HOWE Magdalene 2017 @wwnorton This now classic feminist text—an epigraph from the “gnostic gospel” of Thomas introd….
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Sunday afternoon at 3pm at Outsiders and Others! Poetry of the particulars!.
The microcosmos of words shall be explored (as always) tomorrow at the next DPRS! @PancouverMedia @TheTyee @EVENTmags @SFU
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For you on this Friday!.
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RT @SurreyMuse: With @ShaunaPaull tomorrow, a cultural exchange writing workshop. Register at Eventbrite, link in the post below:. https://t….
surreymusewriters.wordpress.com
In this workshop, participants are encouraged to bring heritage languages & practices into the stories, non-fiction & poetry they create.
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RT @ilya_poet: One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach….
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I’m usually not a fan of poems about poems, but this… oh, this is something else!.
Jack Spicer, “Any fool can get into an ocean”. But it takes a Goddess .to get out of one.
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