Julia Polyck-O’Neill : on a typical day (after ryan fitzpatrick’s “Tactical Adulthood”)

from Report from the fitzpatrick Society, Vol. 1 No. 1

 

 

 

we begin

we pick

we pick

we begin

we plan

we plan

we will

i will

i will

i will

i will

i will

i will

we will

we will

we will

we point

i crushed

i built

 

 

 

 

Julia Polyck-O’Neill is an artist, curator, critic, poet, and writer. She is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Visual Art and Art History and the Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology and a Research Associate at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University (Toronto, Ontario), where she studies digital, feminist, and decolonial approaches to interdisciplinary artists’ archives.

 

ryan fitzpatrick: My New Work

from Report from the Reimer Society, Vol. 1 No. 1

 

after Nikki Reimer

 

Sincerity requires sarcasm.

You know, for clout.

And, hey, I’d like to know what’s inside the cardboard horse too!

Oil to the left of us, oil to the right of us.

Listen, Fitzpatrick! I’m trying to be a person rather than that “Oh No” internet comic strip.

Institutional cuts for institutional ruts.

Just a mid-afternoon nap of a neighbourhood.

Social Costco.

Eat all this beef for some gender euphoria.

I muted the word “men” on Twitter about a month ago.

Defamiliarization for the people.

Malls before swine.

Just what this town needs: a Zeller’s Boutique Pop-Up.

I set out to throw my landlord in the ocean and all I got was this stupid inflation spike.

“Galen Weston should be shot in the street” is not a thing I believe *wink*.

Institutional buts? Butts?

Pose poetry.

More like, the open-faced sandwich of contemporary writing.

Welcome to Sprawl City.

When you’re joking, but also.

 

 

 

 

ryan fitzpatrick is the author of four books of poetry, including the recent Sunny Ways (Invisible, 2023) and Coast Mountain Foot (Talonbooks, 2021). His first non-fiction book Ace Theory, a book-length essay in fragments about asexuality, will be published by Book*Hug Press in 2025.

Aaron Tucker : Amarillo by Morning (for ryan fitzpatrick

from Report from the fitzpatrick Society, Vol. 1 No. 1

 

 

For Ryan Fitzpatrick, strait from the heart

 

 

It’s #True! Last weekend was one for the books!

Get ready for a good time in Kansas City

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! [heart emoji]

Celebrate #NationalGuitarDay

Tag who you’re spending #ValentinesDay with! #CrossMyHeart #PureCountry

This weekend! Who’s ready?

You can find us Beyond the Blue Neon today. Anyone up for a game of pool?

Three words: write this down

Ready to be back

Cowboy hat [checkmark emoji] Four wheeler [checkmark emoji] Dog [checkmark emoji]

Wide open spaces [checkmark emoji] Sounds like the ingredients for a perfect Texas day.

#ThrowbackThursday to roping in 2011

“There’s an old love in his heart, that he can’t lose / He’s try forgettin’, but he knows it’s no use.” #FoolHeartedMemory

A day in the studio [microphone emoji] 

“Well the truth about a mirror / is that a damn old mirror / don’t really tell the whole truth.” #Troubadour

What’s going on in your world?

She understood the assignment.

Have a blessed New Year, everyone!

When you hear those #ChristmasCookies going in the oven

“Anything can happen, so imagine it’ll never end.” #GiveItAllWeGotTonight

It’s time to celebrate our trusty steeds. Happy #NationalHorseDay!

Howdy.

 

 

 

 

Aaron Tucker is the author of two novels, three books of poetry and two film studies monographs. His latest novel, Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys (Coach House Books) was named one of the best books of 2023 so far by The Toronto Star. His doctoral dissertation “The Flexible Face: Uniting the Protocols of Facial Recognition Technologies” (March 2023), and was nominated for the York University Dissertation Prize; his graduate work at York’s Cinema and Media Arts department won the Governor General's Gold Medal. In addition, he is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto where he is recreating the history of AI in Canada as a technonational project. He grew up on the Sylix Territory in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, and currently lives and works in Tkaronto on the lands covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant.

Daniel Zomparelli : That’s Hollywood, Baby! (for Nikki Reimer

from Report from the Reimer Society, Vol. 1 No. 1

 

 

 

One of the few things I brought from
Vancouver to LA
was the plush cake
you bought me for Christmas
the stuffed one
with the pennies inside.
I put pennies in my shoes
to weigh me down because
LA has made me spacey dude
I’m all finger guns
and besties with executives
doomscrolling my Tesla
on Ambien. JK.
Some guy once wouldn’t leave me
alone, said he knew I was famous
knew me from somewhere
he finally moved on
when I told him I was a poet,
the pennies in my shoes
rattling as I walked away.
Pennies aren’t worth anything
anymore, inflation is hot hot hot!
An Instagram reel taught me
to shellac the floors with my leftover
pennies, I’ll build a road with them
to Santa Monica pier. If you visit
I know a nice place nearby
where we can talk poems, heckle
the ghost of Bukowski
throw the last of our pennies
in the La Brea tar pit.

 

 

 

 

Daniel Zomparelli is the author of Davie Street Translations, and Rom Com co-written with Dina Del Bucchia. His collection Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and won the ReLit Short Fiction Award. He co-edited Queer Little Nightmares with David Ly. His latest book of poetry Jump Scare will be published spring of 2024.