russellcarisse

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*currently typing with L.C.Smith 1929*

poet. settler. queer. dirt-farmer. they/him.

living on unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi'kmaq territory

Chapbooks:
NOMOGRAPHY (sideroxylon press 2020)
BRICKWORKS (Frog Hollow Press 2021)
English Garden Bondage (above/ground press, 2022)
IN THE MARGINS. . . (above/ground press,2024)
poetry and labour is concrete (above/ground press forthcoming!!!)

Contactrussellcarisse.carrd.com
a reminder of my ‘best of’ list of 2025 Canadian poetry books, posted a while back via dusie:
https://dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-best-of-list-of-2025-canadian-poetry.html
A ‘best of’ list of 2025 Canadian poetry books

Once more, I offer my annual list of the seemingly-arbitrary “worth repeating” (given ‘best’ is such an inconclusive, imprecise designation)...

"In that second, it is a single syllable
ushering in all the greenness of the planet,
and as soon gone, leaving all syllables, all words,
all wanting to be that single syllable again."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Hummingbird in That Second by Russell Thornton from Two Songs - Selected Poems 2000-2025 (2026 Harbour Publishing) https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/russell-thornton/products/9781998526574
originally from The White Light of Tomorrow (2023 Harbour Publishing) https://harbourpublishing.com/products/9781990776533

Call for Submissions: CHAOS — Ottawa Design Club Zine #9

Ottawa Design Club is currently accepting submissions for CHAOS, the ninth edition of its community zine. Each issue brings together essays, visual work, photography, and experimental formats from creatives around the world.

For this edition, we’re inviting interpretations of chaos in all its forms. Creative process, personal stories, messy systems, unexpected materials, or moments where things fall apart before something new emerges.

Submissions are open worldwide and across disciplines.

Deadline: March 21, 2026
Submit here: http://ottdesign.club/zine0009.html

Tuesday poem #675 : Susan Robertson : I BEGIN THE POEM WITH A LIE
https://dusie.blogspot.com/2026/03/tuesday-poem-675-susan-robertson-i.html
Tuesday poem #675 : Susan Robertson : I BEGIN THE POEM WITH A LIE

    Red bird in a dark wood,  a silhouette—   you, the tree—  your red  the only colour in the green.       Susan Robertson ...

newly posted at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics : Jay Miller : Porto, Portugal and Dad is Dying
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/jay-miller-porto-portugal-and-dad-is.html
Jay Miller : Porto, Portugal and Dad is Dying

      I realize now that I must have downloaded The Vinyl Café at the most opportune time because it appears to have been scraped off the ...

Lecture for an Empty Room
, fragments of a work-in-progress;
https://robmclennan.substack.com/p/lecture-for-an-empty-room-e21
newly posted at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics : Catherine Owen : Sandy Shreve (1950 – 2026)
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/catherine-owen-sandy-shreve-1950-2026.html
Catherine Owen : Sandy Shreve (1950 – 2026)

      First, some randomly assembled facts of her life as a Canadian maker. Sandy Shreve wrote, edited and/or co-edited eight books and f...

above/ground press author spotlights : substack,

Since building my above/ground press substack  last spring, I've started posting a series of interviews with above/ground press authors (ne...

newly posted at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics : Michael Russell : the water-logged hard drive
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/michael-russell-water-logged-hard-drive.html
Michael Russell : the water-logged hard drive

    my only friends are porn stars whose soggy spines line the files on my water-logged hard drive       shame       i’ll never know t...

newly posted at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics : Claire Marie Stancek : Four poems from Double Life
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/claire-marie-stancek-four-poems-from.html
Claire Marie Stancek : Four poems from Double Life

    suddenly the flowers   // Soft whistle window                      draft // YES reads a merry yellow sign // Posted on a             ...