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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 5d

Dear @theglobeandmail.com Please bring back poetry reviews that reflect the complexity and deep engagement of our thriving CanPo world! We need discussion, critique, and space not mini synopses, and coverage of primarily non Canadian writers.

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 5d

WHOLE CLOTH READING:Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen reads Roughly for the North from start to finish!
Nov 5, 5-7pm,Green College UBC & livestreamed!
Carrie is an Inupiat writer from the Ugiuvamiut tribe whose poems of the Bering Strait are beautiful. Join us! wholecloth.substack.com/p/carrie-aya...

Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen Reads ROUGHLY FOR THE NORTH, November 5, 2025

an evening of poetry and companionship at Green College in Vancouver and via Livestream

wholecloth.substack.com

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 10d

We met yesterday and decided not to talk too much about writing (though it was tempting!) because we want to surprise each other! Lots of fun energy there!

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 10d

Know a writer of exceptional promise with a manuscript in progress, who has faced significant barriers to fulfilling that promise? Yosef Wosk VMI Fellowship applications are open until November 10, 2025!

Apply at www.vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com @vmiprogram.bsky.social

navy poster with yellow text: The Yosef Wosk VMI Fellowship is for a writer of exceptional promise with a manuscript in progress, who has faced significant barriers to fulfilling that promise. This competitive Fellowship includes a full scholarship to the Six-Month Intensive 2026 program to work with one of our award-winning authors. Deadline November 10, 2025

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 10d

Oct 25, 1:30pm @writersfest.bc.ca I chat with Dennis Lee about Wrestling with Cadence. He's the author of 40 books, including Alligator Pie, the beloved children's classic-but did you know he also cowrote the story to the movie Labyrinth (starring David Bowie)? writersfest.bc.ca/festival-aut...

Dennis Lee | Vancouver Writers Fest

writersfest.bc.ca

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 11d

I can’t believe the NBA has stronger guidelines concerning integrity than the US Govt. They hold their players to a stricter standard than the govt considers for the president.

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 17d

We loved hearing you read all of With My Back to the World from start to finish! The lines, like Agnes Martin's, are clear and packed with intensity-it was wonderful to see the images while relaxing into your sustained read. @bronwentate.bsky.social and I were happy to host you!

Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks to University of British Columbia and Green College, and The Whole Cloth Reading Series for welcoming me so warmly. Pictured here: Bronwen Tate, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Alix Ohlin, Neil Aitken.

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 19d

Thrilled to have Victoria Chang reading her entire book for our reading series, the Whole Cloth! She'll share visuals of Agnes Martin's paintings as she reads. Join us in person or via livestream. If you come we have cookies and copies for the community! wholecloth.substack.com/p/today-vict...

Today! Victoria Chang at Green College, UBC (and via Livestream)

4:30 pm tea and cookies, 5 pm reading

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · Oct 1

W. S. Merwin

Invocation

The day hanging by its feet with a hole
In its voice
And the light running into the sand

Here I am once again with my dry mouth
At the fountain of thistles
Preparing to sing.

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Read Local BC @readlocalbc.bsky.social · Sep 18

Join us THIS SATURDAY from 2-3:30 PM at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for readings from this year's Poets! Hosted by Vancouver's poet laureate @eleekg.bsky.social and followed by discussion and Q&A.

#ReadLocalBC #WordVancouver #PoetryInTransit

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · Aug 30

This was wonderful. Thank you!

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · Aug 19

Come ON, @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. Are you going to cover workers' right at all in the #AirCanadaStrike, esp rights of underpaid women workers? Or are you just going to bang on about stranded passengers day after day after day? Why not ask callers what they think of unfair labour practices?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 17

We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens <all> the time over & over again 👇

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · Aug 14

behold the poetry of this testimony!

America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Ottawa Public Health @ottawapublichealth.ca · Aug 12

We are reminding residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites. Routine mosquito trapping and testing for West Nile Virus have confirmed a positive mosquito pool in Ottawa.

Please read the PSA here: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

First mosquitoes test positive for West Nile virus this season | City of Ottawa

ottawa.ca

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Aug 12

🚨 If you were on the BC Ferries 10:15am sailing August 9 Duke Point to Tsawwassen please check your vehicles, trailers or boats for Luigi, a black and white tuxedo #cat wearing a blue harness.

Luigi slipped out of a small window opening of his owner's vehicle and disappeared on the lower car deck.

Screenshot from the BC Ferries Facebook with two photos of a black and white cat in a car with a dog.

Caption: “Help bring Luigi home. If you see him or know where he may be, call 250-720-9999 immediately. Please share to help reunite Luigi with his family.”

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Aug 10

Ohio managed to get thousands of people to hold hands and link arms in a human chain that stretched 8 miles to stand against ICE.

8 miles of humans linked together.

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · Aug 9

Very happy to point people towards interesting poetry!

Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of three books, including the poetry books Trauma Head and Sometimes, Forest. She recommends Hajer Mirwali's poetry collection Revolutions.

With: @eleekg.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social #Booksky

More below 👇

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · Aug 4

Pacific Northwest aflame

BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · Aug 4

#CameronLake #WesleyRidgeWildfire #Wildfires

BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · Aug 4

“Firefighters continue to battle the Wesley Ridge wildfire near Cameron Lake, with 142 BC Wildfire Service personnel hard at work, supported by local fire departments.” www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/vancouv... - Vancouver Island Free Daily

#BCWildfire cc: #Nanaimo #Parksville #QualicumBeach

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Jul 25

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago.
Thread says
"How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED
Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box.
A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search.
Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following:
Name: AI Free Web
Shortcut: @web
URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14
You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines.
Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default.
From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

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Rodney DeCroo @rodneydecroo.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm the featured poet this Wednesday for the Poetry in the Park series at Emery Barnes Park 2-4 pm. I'll be reading poems from my new book Night Moves @anvilpress.bsky.social. After the reading I'll be giving a writing prompt so bring notebooks and pens!
#poetry

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · Jul 21

abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-ai...

Alaska Airlines requests all flights to be grounded: FAA

Alaska Airlines has requested a ground stop for all of its flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · Jul 17

What does a poet laureate actually *do*, you ask? They offer informal summer listening to the amphibian chorus, of course.

Go listen to frogs with @eleekg.bsky.social!

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · Jul 9

FRIDAY NIGHT FROGS: Come listen to REAL frogs! No agenda, no plan, no time constraint. We will gently gather around 9:30pm at the water feature at Mundell Park at UBC Wesbrook Village and enjoy the chorus. Stay 5 mins or 500, it’s up to you! More info at versevancouver.ca!

cassette tape of Arnold Lobel's Days with Frog and Toad out of the case lying near a cassette cover of Voices of the Night with an image of a frog on it. all on green polka dot fabric background with text reading Friday Night Frogs, when: July 18th, 2025, 9:30pm onwards, Where: Mundell park 6038 Birney Ave, UBC Wesbrook Village, Informal summer listening to the amphibian chorus with Vancouver poet laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner

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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · Jul 8

I wish every single person these cruel and sadistic Christians know and interact with would proclaim they are gay and completely sandbag this kind of incitement.

bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · Jul 8

www.rawstory.com/trump-and-ev...

#cult #trump #evangelicals #ethniccleansing #nazis

Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans

An Indiana church is urging the Trump administration to "execute" members of the LGBTQ community because "the Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death," according to WISH-TV 8 in Indianapol...

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