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Blue thinks itself within me: Lyric poetry, ecology, and lichenous form
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A blueprint for survival | poems (2024)
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A thin fire runs through me (2023)
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A small quiet voice in the dark: ecocide and lyric poetry (periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics)
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Common raven named finalist at LA-based International Poetry Film Festival!
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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
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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
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Ecopoetry at Poets Corner, Wed. 19th May @7:30pm Pacific via Zoom
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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
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Two days in spring
Tell How It Really Happened: A review of Crow Gulch by Douglas Walbourne-Gough
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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 :)
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Pablo Neruda’s dining room
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Working in the Dark: Homage to John Thompson
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lines on main street
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Biała magia
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‘documentary adequacy’ & poetic form
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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
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‘and I the sound of grief’: on the ghazal pt. 1
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the poem as trace of an event 1
in the margins of Philip Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings
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the poem as artefact that bears traces of its own making
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