Mark your calendars! Arc Poetry is returning to VERSeFest on Wednesday, March 25, for an event that includes Isabella Wang, our 2024 – 2025 Poet-in-Residence T. Liem, and Lucia Farinon. This will be an evening of poetry you won't want to miss!
A thread of @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social shows (there will be more)
newly posted: Stan Rogal : bagne, or, Criteria for Heaven, by rob mclennan / @robmclennan.bsky.social ;
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above/ground press author spotlight #22 : N.W. Lea
, celebrating his seventh title through above/ground press / @invisibooks.bsky.social @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social ;
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The words "VERSeFest Common House - Friday, March 27 - 7:00pm - Happy Goat Laurel - Jennifer Baker, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Vera Hadzic" appear in black text against a gradient background that shades from mint green to sky blue. The text is accompanied by photos of the three poets mentioned in the text.
The words "VERSeFest 2026 - March 24-30 - A World of Poetry in Ottawa - Check out the lineup and get your tickets here" appear in black text above a black QR code that can be used to get you to the VERSeFest 2026 website. The background, again, shades from orange to yellow.
VERSeFest x Common House
Jennifer Baker, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Vera Hadzic
Friday, March 27 - 7:00pm
Happy Goat Laurel
Vendredi, le 27 mars - 19h00
Happy Goat (rue Laurel)
$15 ($25 for both March 27 shows)
15 $ (25 $ pour les deux spectacles du 27 mars)
www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/com...
by the way, this year's VERSeFest is running two poetry workshops: one by Toronto poet/editor Paul Vermeersch, and another by Calgary poet/performer Sheri-D Wilson; see here for further information: verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
ottawa small press book fair spring 2026, Glebe Community Centre, 20260620: vendors wanted smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
March 24-30, 2026: readings + performances in English and French (and Polish)! 2 new Hall of Honour inductees!
workshops by Sheri-D Wilson + Paul Vermeersch! & a free reading at Carleton University by Karen Solie!
check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
SAVE THE DATE! the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2026 edition: June 20, 2026 / @smallpressalmanac.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social ;
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fwd: Ottawa's Unbound Indie Lit Market, March 29 2026 ; vendor registration now open,
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Winter 2026 | Common House Magazine
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fwd: Ottawa's Unbound Indie Lit Market, March 29 2026 ; vendor registration now open,
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part three, : Mahaila Smith + Janice Colman, / @mahailasmith.ca @amandaearl.bsky.social ;
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hey! Katie Ebbitt interviewed me on the book of sentences + above/ground press for Cleveland Review of Books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
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new from above/ground press: TULIP IS AN AXE, by Gary Barwin / @garybarwin.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social ;
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@amandaearl.bsky.social This might be something that Bywords wants to get the word out about.
PAL Place (affordable housing for profession artists 55+) is opening for new residents soon:
palottawa.org/pal-place
winter light with trees, long shadows, Parliament Hill. TEXT: thank you to the City of Ottawa for a 2025 Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers Grant. Logos: City of Ottawa; Amanda Earl (whimsy, exploration, connection in blue, pink and green in a circle.
Thank you to the @cityofottawa for the 2025 Creation and Production Fund for Established Writers grant! I'm working on a collection of poems provoked by a woman's anxiety and winter. The working title is Winter, An Epic.
this week's quotes of the week feature end of the year things. enjoy! amandaearl.substack.com/p/qotw-2025-...
reading in the margins: Stephen Collis / @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
, another fragment of a longer work-in-progress,
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold, and other rowdy tales,
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new from above/ground press: Dark Matter, by Rosío Céron; translated/etranslated by Sonja Greckol
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@robmclennan.bsky.social is always doing the most for all of us & everyone in poetry should be thankful every day! & should buy a few above/ground chapbooks to show it!!
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Yeah I really dont feel like asking you to buy zines
above/ground press soon-titles by Frances Cannon, David Gaffney, Jill Stengel, Buck Downs + Salem Paige; have you thought of subscribing for 2026? our thirty-third year! / @frankyfrancescannon.com @salempaige.bsky.social @jillstengel.bsky.social ;
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