Dessa Bayrock ✌🏻

Yeet others as you wish to be yeeted

@macpherson_a sure is! :)

Hey, that’s @YoDessa

I wrote (another) poem about pie but also about cold toast, taking my cat to the vet, feeling hopeless but writing poems anyway, etc, etc, etc —

Tuesday poem #515 : Dessa Bayrock @YoDessa : Another problem with pie / @VERSeOttawa @CanadianPoets @bywordsdotca @coveneditions @CollusionBooks @GhostCityPress ; dusie.blogspot.com/2023/02/tuesda…

A twin review of #MoldovanHotel and "Beast At Every Threshold" by Natalie Wee is in the latest issue of @arcpoetry magazine. Says @leahhorlick: "@YoDessa, you see my work more clearly than I do and write about it in ways I could only dream of—and in incredible company. 💙💜💙"

It’s not too late to snag a copy of Issue 10! Follow the link to purchase your own & while you’re there, check out our final few contributor interviews with Natalie Lim, Jaeyun Yoo, Hadiyyah Kuma, Cecil Choi, & Devon Rae. ✨💞 canthius.com/issue-10 #LitMag #Poetry #Prose

@_MarkSutcliffe @cmckenney Apologies are great but only when backed up by action. The citizens of Ottawa will be watching to see how you gender @cmckenney in the future and how you react to being called out in real time if and when it happens again. Mayoral candidates need to set a precendent for conduct.

@cmckenney Catherine, it was brought to my attention after the debate that I misgendered you on one of the occasions I referred to you. I sincerely apologize for my mistake. I respect you & fully respect & believe in the right for all individuals to be addressed using pronouns they choose

… and adding a carly rae jepsen epigraph because what ELSE am I put on this earth to do

returning to twitter only to compile a thread of things I google while drafting this year's @CV2magazine 2-day poem contest. enjoy. 🧵

@omegaCarotene haha I friggin love spelunky. Have you tried the sequel yet? hit after hit after hit with these guys

@YoDessa yeah, one finds some delightfully amusing stuff sometimes, and Gandalf rocks! :D and as a funny coincidence, I was playing a bit of "#Spelunky" (a roguelike platformer vid game) just now! • #serendipitous? 🤔

#whatsUndertheCloak? 🤔 #hashTag-searches sometimes produce hilarious (and fossilized) results… 😳 i don’t *need* to imagine how Gandalf goes about answering nature’s call, but inception is unavoidable…! 🤣

Publishing with Collusion was the best experience. Highly recommend.

rob kindly invited me to write a poem for @SiklosiK, and who am I to refuse such a lovely request? The result features knitting, grandmothers, repetition, hair, and hopefully all the admiration I hold for Kate Siklosi.

grateful to have been able to cowrite this article w/ the amazing @YoDessa; many thanks to @EmilyMercery for edits and @WasafiriMag for welcoming & informing me all these years ❤️‍🔥(oh & DM me if you'd like a pdf) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…