periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics

rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon Nada Gordon : Backwards Bio: I live in Brooklyn and work too hard and too much, teaching courses like “Tyranny and the Absurd” and “The...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon / appearing in Ottawa later this month as part of VERSeFest ; @nadagordon.bsky.social @subpresspoetry.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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Amanda Earl : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Isabella Wang Isabella Wang [photo credit: Lj Weisberg] is the author of November, November   (Nightwood 2025), Pebble Swing (Nightwood, 2021),...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Isabella Wang, reading this month at VERSeFest! / @isabellawangbc.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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Amanda Earl : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Isabella Wang Isabella Wang [photo credit: Lj Weisberg] is the author of November, November   (Nightwood 2025), Pebble Swing (Nightwood, 2021),...

newly posted: Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Isabella Wang / @isabellawangbc.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon Nada Gordon : Backwards Bio: I live in Brooklyn and work too hard and too much, teaching courses like “Tyranny and the Absurd” and “The...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon, reading (and lecturing) in Ottawa later this month as part of VERSeFest / @nadagordon.bsky.social @subpresspoetry.bsky.social ;
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rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon Nada Gordon : Backwards Bio: I live in Brooklyn and work too hard and too much, teaching courses like “Tyranny and the Absurd” and “The...

newly posted: rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Nada Gordon / @nadagordon.bsky.social @subpresspoetry.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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Bernie Kruchak : Rooster Town Poetry Shed — Displaying Poetry, Reconciling History My name is Bernie Kruchak. I ’ m a Winnipeg poet and writer. Let me introduce you to Rooster Town Poetry Shed, my personal reconci...

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Laura Kerr : Experimental Poetry Criticism : An interview with Legio Introduction: artist and poet, Legio  Legio writes the hand into system.  not origin but transfer  the mark occurs between the mark a...

newly posted: Laura Kerr @sedserio.com : Experimental Poetry Criticism : An interview with Legio
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Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose : Two poems College Boyfriends “If I had known, would I have still made mistake after mistake?” —Ada Limon, “After Nostalgia”   We were certain...

newly posted: Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose : Two poems / @poetlady74.bsky.social ;
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Against "the civilization of cliché" : Leslie Kaplan, interviewed by David Buuck conducted over email, Sep-Oct 2025       Leslie Kaplan is a French poet, playwright, and novelist. From the beginning of her career, Kapla...

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Announcing our first open call for submissions. The Transformation Review seeks reviews of and essays about poetry in translation for our inaugural issue. Please send us your work!! #PoetryInTranslation #CallForSubmissions #LitMag #Reviews #Essays

Stan Rogal : bagne, or, Criteria for Heaven, by rob mclennan bagne, or, Criteria for Heaven , rob mclennan Broken Jaw Press, 2000                                  “slipping easily to the quick & more...

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Madelaine Caritas Longman: How a Poem Begins How does a poem begin?       Poetry comes to me often—while walking, while cleaning, while riding the metro, while having a coffee, ...

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Anne F. Walker : Five poems the trailer and bringing it home   stark is the bare grass the white from yellow grass above lake baryessa     and the son’s friend ...

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Process Note #68 : Maria Nazos : “How the rule I broke was the one I needed.” The 'process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for...

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Process Note #68 : Maria Nazos : “How the rule I broke was the one I needed.” The 'process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Process Note #68 : Maria Nazos : “How the rule I broke was the one I needed.” / @marianazos.bsky.social @mawsheinwin.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social ;
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Geoffrey Young : Five DATES ASHBERY   It’s four a.m. on Labor Day 2017, and I am surprised to hear as I lie in bed listening to BBC radio, that John Ashbe...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Geoffrey Young : Five DATES
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Laura Kerr : Experimental Poetry Criticism : An interview with Legio Introduction: artist and poet, Legio  Legio writes the hand into system.  not origin but transfer  the mark occurs between the mark a...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr @sedserio.com : Experimental Poetry Criticism : An interview with Legio
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Miranda Mellis : Economics for Whales, a Sonnet The VC structure, I learn from Chris’s dissertation, The Age of   Technical Neglect traces its lineage Back to  Whaling, the ‘w...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Miranda Mellis : Economics for Whales, a Sonnet
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Monroe Lawrence : Silt Suddenly she climbs in the cockpit & has a great facility for the controls: creeping between the dappled concrete structures. ...

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Miranda Mellis : Economics for Whales, a Sonnet The VC structure, I learn from Chris’s dissertation, The Age of   Technical Neglect traces its lineage Back to  Whaling, the ‘w...

newly posted: Miranda Mellis : Economics for Whales, a Sonnet
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Mckenzie Strath : Notes from the Field : Letter from a Dirty Trowel More often than I would like to admit, I find myself headfirst in a dirt hole, toothbrush in hand, wondering what exactly I am doi...

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Sean Howard : Three poems sighting   merlin returns as an app, tell- ing us what birds our phones are look- ing at: s- harp- shinned hawk , there now .     ...

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Tom Jenks : notes from the field : Letter from Manchester Every now and then, a British broadsheet newspaper takes a look at what this poetry business is all about. This is, of course, to be...

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Margo LaPierre : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch A Valley Uncanny in NMCLT : An interview with poet Paul Vermeersch   Paul Vermeersch  [photo credit: Bianca Spence] is a poet, multime...

newly posted: Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Paul Vermeersch / @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
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Tom Jenks : notes from the field : Letter from Manchester Every now and then, a British broadsheet newspaper takes a look at what this poetry business is all about. This is, of course, to be...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social : notes from the field : Letter from Manchester
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/tom-...

Bernie Kruchak : Rooster Town Poetry Shed — Displaying Poetry, Reconciling History My name is Bernie Kruchak. I ’ m a Winnipeg poet and writer. Let me introduce you to Rooster Town Poetry Shed, my personal reconci...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Bernie Kruchak : Rooster Town Poetry Shed — Displaying Poetry, Reconciling History / @mbwritersguild.bsky.social ;
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Against "the civilization of cliché" : Leslie Kaplan, interviewed by David Buuck conducted over email, Sep-Oct 2025       Leslie Kaplan is a French poet, playwright, and novelist. From the beginning of her career, Kapla...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Against "the civilization of cliché" : Leslie Kaplan, interviewed by David Buuck / @akpress.org @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/agai...

New at Periodicities: my interview with Legio — where art, poetry, and music bypass loudness and still stop the scroll.

Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social and @periodicities.bsky.social for featuring my two poems, "College Boyfriends" and "Driving Home the Morning After We Both Said Things"... I hope you enjoy these!

Against "the civilization of cliché" : Leslie Kaplan, interviewed by David Buuck conducted over email, Sep-Oct 2025       Leslie Kaplan is a French poet, playwright, and novelist. From the beginning of her career, Kapla...

newly posted: Against "the civilization of cliché" : Leslie Kaplan, interviewed by David Buuck / @akpress.org @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/agai...