Desire, a footnote (4)
Desire, a footnote is a long poem that began when I went back on the dating apps in February, 2025, but quickly turned into a poem-essay on radical love, relationship anarchy, consensual kink, consensual non monogamy and cherished friendships. It will be a poem in six footnotes. This is note 4. You can order here or ask me for a copy in person. Over time, I will publish the rest of the footnotes as separate chapbooks.
Celebrate the end of winter with Eliza Rankin and Amanda Earl
To mark the end of winter, I will read from Winter, Collected: poem sequences that respond to winter’s portrayal in art, literature, film, and music. In these poems, the speaker is both a winter brat and a winter baby. She navigates the long winter of 2026, its joys and anxieties through the healing powers of art. With gratitude to the City of Ottawa for funding the manuscript, the Writers Union of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts for funding the reading.
I will be joined by singer-songwriter extraordinaire Eliza Ranking
The reading will take place on Zoom and last for about an hour. If you’d like the link, please e-mail me at amanda at angelhousepress dot com.
DATE: 2026.04.26.
TIME: 14h Eastern Daylight Time
Desire, a footnote (3)
Desire, a footnote is a long poem that began when I went back on the dating apps in February, 2025, but quickly turned into a poem-essay on radical love, relationship anarchy, consensual kink, consensual non monogamy and cherished friendships. It will be a poem in six footnotes. This is note 3. You can order here or ask me for a copy in person. Over time, I will publish the rest of the footnotes as separate chapbooks.
On November 12, 2025, to mark the 15th anniversary of my survival from my near-death health crisis, I will do a full book-length reading of Beast Body Epic on Zoom at 7pm. If you would like to attend, please e-mail me for the link to Zoom: amanda@angelhousepress.com.
I am thrilled to be doing the second in my throuple series of readings, this time with AJ Dolman and James Moran. Thanks to the Writers Union of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts for sponsoring James and AJ's participation in the reading. It will take place in the Gallery of the Lieutenant's Pump at 361 Elgin on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 2pm. Doors open at 1:30pm. Please RSVP to amanda at angelhousepress.com so we can get an idea of the number of people for the LP, so they know how many staff they require that afternoon. The event is free and will feature poetry and prose. It will be about an hour long. Thanks to Dave O'Heare for providing us with sound tech!
AJ Dolman’s (they/she) debut poetry collection is Crazy / Mad (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). They previously authored Lost Enough: A collection of short stories (MRP, 2017), and three poetry chapbooks, and co-edited Motherhood in Precarious Times (Demeter Press, 2018). Dolman’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A bi/pan+ rights advocate and founder of Bi+ Canada, they live on unceded, unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.
Amanda Earl (she/her) writes, reviews, edits, publishes, facilitates workshops, organizes literary events on the unceded lands of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Peoples. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry and your editor if you’ll have her. Her poetry books include Beast Body Epic, Genesis, Trouble, and Kiki. Her creative missions are whimsy, exploration and connection with kindred misfits. She writes so that fellow misfits don’t feel alone. More info: AmandaEarl.com.
James K. Moran’s fiction collection Fear Itself and horror novel Town & Train were published by Lethe Press. Moran’s poetry and speculative fiction have appeared in Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, Burly Tales: Fairy Tales for the Hirsute and Hefty Gay Man, Bywords, Glitterwolf, On Spec, and elsewhere. He writes across the genres about grief, love, nomadic superheroes and drag-queen warlocks. Moran’s reviews appear in Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude and Strange Horizons.
Desire, a footnote (2)
Desire, a footnote is a long poem that began when I went back on the dating apps in February, 2025, but quickly turned into a poem-essay on radical love, relationship anarchy, consensual kink, consensual non monogamy and cherished friendships. It will be a poem in six footnotes. This is the second footnote. You can order here or ask me for a copy in person. Over time, I will publish the rest of the footnotes as separate chapbooks.