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Blue thinks itself within me: Lyric poetry, ecology, and lichenous form
Seeds (A series of poetry films)
A blueprint for survival | poems (2024)
walk quietly / ts’ekw’unshun kws qututhun
A thin fire runs through me (2023)
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Ledi (2018)
Ledi (poetry film) : 5 instalments
Wrenched from the cold earth
Integument
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Blue across this land that looks like sea
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Karyotype (2015)
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A small quiet voice in the dark: ecocide and lyric poetry (periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics)
Poetry by the River: Environmental Stewardship through the Arts
Common raven named finalist at LA-based International Poetry Film Festival!
sculpt raw materials that can receive the light: a review of Kim Trainor’s A blueprint for survival (Guernica Editions, 2024)
arrest stories / lyric crow
KIM TRAINOR: A PLANET EARTH POETRY INTERVIEW (November 2nd, 2024)
rob mclennan’s “best of” list of 2024 Canadian poetry :D
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A small quiet voice in the dark: ecocide and lyric poetry (periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics)
Poetry by the River: Environmental Stewardship through the Arts
Common raven named finalist at LA-based International Poetry Film Festival!
sculpt raw materials that can receive the light: a review of Kim Trainor’s A blueprint for survival (Guernica Editions, 2024)
arrest stories / lyric crow
KIM TRAINOR: A PLANET EARTH POETRY INTERVIEW (November 2nd, 2024)
rob mclennan’s “best of” list of 2024 Canadian poetry :D
Planet Earth Poetry, 15 November!
a review of A blueprint for survival on rob mclennan’s blog!
Review of A blueprint for survival (Guernica Editions 2024) in the Toronto Star, 4 April 2024
Kim Trainor’s New Poetry Collection Gives Readers a Blueprint For Survival
A blueprint for survival — arrived from the printer! Guernica 2024 :)
Screening of “Hwlhits’um | signs” at ASLE Spotlight, “Watery Ecologies”
walk quietly / ts’ekw’unshun kws qututhun
Wax Poetic / Coop Radio, CFRO Vancouver Interview!
A thin fire runs through me — first print copies! (icehouse press / Goose Lane Editions, 2023)
“Everything Flows”: Seed 11 Pacific Salmon, in Dark Mountain 21
SARS-CoV-2 at the Cadence Video Poetry Festival
We will feed the seeds of tomorrow
Fairy Creek, Fall 2021
Seeds of Change: DCFA Climate Emergency Speaker Series #2
Excerpt from “Seeds” published in Ecozone
First performance of Ledi for the Assembly exhibit, New Media Gallery, New Westminster
Rehearsal for Assembly response performance of Ledi at the New Media Gallery, New Westminster
First gig at New Media Gallery — Performance of Ledi
SFU Lunch Poems: David Ly + Kim Trainor
“Ecopoetry”: Reading @ Poets Corner, May 2021
9th International Video Poetry Festival | Ghost
“Tardigrade”: One Minute Poem @ Poets Corner
Ecopoetry at Poets Corner, Wed. 19th May @7:30pm Pacific via Zoom
A review of Francine Cunningham’s on/me
Tact, Distance, Excavation: McGill’s Poetry Matters — Audio Visual Archive
Cold Mountain Review, Special Issue on the Undiscovered, Fall/Winter 2020, Vol.49, No.1
Ecocene, Vol.1, Issue 2
“Ghost” selected for the 9th International Video Film Festival in Athens, Greece
Fire Season (book, 2020)
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing
Integument–Official Selection for the 2020 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
“Black Mud” + “Tardigrade”
Sonnet Fever
Poems to Hold Worlds: A Review of annie ross, Pots and Other Living Beings and M. Travis Lane, A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl
Tact, Distance, Excavation: An Evening with Jason Camlot, Avleen K. Mokha, and Kim Trainor
Tiny House Warriors–Legal Defence Fund
ᚁ, k’i, betula
Poetry & Resilience: Lung, Muscle, Archive, Beautiful Cell
Two days in spring
Tell How It Really Happened: A review of Crow Gulch by Douglas Walbourne-Gough
3 Reviews of Ledi
Poetry Night at Joy Kogawa House, 24 January 2020
The Radio People by Sleeping Ducks
2019 cbc poetry prize longlist
Review of Elaine Woo, Put Your Hand In Mine (Signature Editions, 2019)
“An Interview with Kim Trainor” (“Paper Birch” wins the Gustafson Prize)
Ledi Shortlisted for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award, League of Canadian Poets
Ledi longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award :)
Poetry Mini Interviews…
Lucky Seven Interview about Ledi On Open Book
The Excavation of Memory (Book*hug Blog, 10 October 2018)
Ledi (Book*hug, 2018) Publication Day!
Book*hug Fall Launch Party: November 1
“Ghazal is obsessive (did I say that yet?). Ghazal is obsessive”: on the ghazal, pt. 5
The Missing Field, Jennifer Zilm
1972
“radio active”: nuclear-free vancouver on citr radio, 101.9 fm, circa 1989
Ledi, excerpt–“Ghost”
Zehra Doğan
Syrian notebook
poetic DNA
war diary of Edward Thomas
notebook (gondal poems)
the disciplinary censoring of lyric poetry
erasures: Room 9 (“In the museum of memory”)
Liu Xia, “Dark Night”
“IS executes Syrian poet Mohammad Bashir al-Aani”
notes on a northern reading tour
Karyotype, first copies!
Building the Apollo: Guest blog, AMS Bike Co-op
poetry & politics: lenses
Apollo, god of truth, healing, plague, light, music, poetry
Pablo Neruda’s dining room
shimano deore rear derailleur, circa 1980-83
Working in the Dark: Homage to John Thompson
the green window: women poets of Ming-Qing China
lines on main street
opsis (doodle)
Biała magia
scattershot notes on lyric and dna
leaves of grass
‘documentary adequacy’ & poetic form
notes on summer ghazals
language, flesh, clay: miscellany 4
Tadeusz Różewicz, 1921-2014
the death of queen jane
“desire that remains desire”: on the ghazal pt.5
‘Every existence speaks a language of its own’: on the ghazal pt. 4
stray notes on the ghazal (pt. 3)
‘my loves are dying’: on the ghazal pt. 2
‘and I the sound of grief’: on the ghazal pt. 1
Tiktaalik
melos, opsis, root: miscellany 3
“no poet ever aspired to become ‘President of the Earth’”: miscellany 2
“poetry was to be found everywhere”: miscellany 1
“a new shape of knowing”: poetry and the virtual witness
Seamus Heaney, 1939 — 2013
“Who mourns one woman in a holocaust?”
“death of the book à la russe”
poem as risk to national security pt. 2: the Small Zone
poem as risk to national security/as terrorist act pt. 1: Guantánamo Bay
“the idyllic era of cushions was at an end”: 20th century lyric genres
poem as cloth
poems and things
lyric/epic modes and the recognition of persons
poems and other domestic objects
Thomas Wyatt’s heart
falling in love with a poet: a brief history of Elizabeth Smart and George Barker
Miklós Radnóti’s Bor Notebook
chronology of the last days of Miklós Radnóti
the poem as trace of an event 2
the poem as trace of an event 1
in the margins of Philip Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings
the poem as participating in the ongoing human project of making the world
note on Oulipo constraints & DNA poetry (a genomic poem)
the DNA of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
the poem as artefact that bears traces of its own making
on making a chapbook 2
on making a chapbook 1
Emily Brontë: The Gondal and Honresfeld Notebooks
Emily Dickinson’s ‘fasicules’
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