Ryan Fitzpatrick

@ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social

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Poet, critic, etc. Author of Ace Theory (2026), No Depression in Heaven (2025), Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.

Promotional slide for the book Ace Theory with text plus an image of the book cover off to the side and the Bookhug logo at the bottom. Test reads: Nonfiction/essay Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments about Asexuality by Ryan Fitzpatrick, available October 27 In this revelatory essay-in-fragments, critically acclaimed poet Ryan Fitzpatrick works through the ways in which they have interfaced with a sexual world as an asexual person. Often defined as the orientation of those who don’t experience sexual attraction, Asexuality is tied to a logic wherein our lives are shaped by sex, by romance, by economic and social pressures that determine what a good life looks like.
Book cover of Chatting with rob mclennan, December 2, 2020. Blue text on a yellow background with a photograph of rob mclennan in the bottom right corner.
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Book cover for Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality by Ryan Fitzpatrick. The cover is minimalist. The title and author name are in the background, muted, and the subtitle runs in a vertical column lightly overlapping the title.
Image of a silhouetted cowboy singer with an illuminated dust cloud overlaid on their chest. Text on top of this image with information for the following poetry readings: No Depression in Heaven tour for ryan fitzpatrick October 21, 2025, at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, a book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, Conor Kerr, and Jason Purcell. Event at 7:00 pm. October 24, 2025, at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall in Vancouver, the Talonbooks fall poetry launch, with readings from ryan fitzpatrick, Rahat Kurd, bill bissett, Scott Jackshaw, and Drew McEwan. Event at 7:00 pm. November 5, 2025, at McNally Robinson Grant Park in Winnipeg, double book launch with ryan fitzpatrick and Cam Scott. Event at 7:00 pm. November 13, 2025, at Flying Books College St in Toronto, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali. Event at 6:30 pm. November 14, 2025, at The City and The City Bookstore in Hamilton, book launch with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, Steacy Easton, and Zane Koss. Event at 7:00 pm. More info at talonbooks.com
A photo of a stack of the book No Depression in Heaven alongside an LP copy of The Famous Carter Family and a trucker hat that reads “Get me to God’s Country”
A small stack of my new chapbook titled “AS LONG AS I’M ALIVE I HAVE INFINITE CHANCES”
White text on burgundy background: jet by Kristen Smith (poems) and Dorothy Jeffries (photographs)
White text on burgundy background: Deriventrancelate by Michael Barnholden
White text on a burgundy background that reads: Toward an Origin Story by Laurie D. Graham.
White text on a burgundy background that reads: Another Boring Canada Day, Ten Micro A to Z Acrostics by Kevin Stebner
The cover of Minnie Pearl’s Christmas at Grinders Switch with an introduction by Tennessee Ernie Ford. The cover features a drawing of Minnie Pearl leaning on a fence
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White text on a burgundy background that reads: Hesitations Tarini Fernando
The BlueSky image celebrating 10 million users that shows when I joined. I am number 71,209, the first 1%, and joined on May 11, 2023
Two copies of the new issue of Touch the Donkey, a poetry magazine. The cover features the mag’s logo with an image of some festive balloons below it.
The cover of You’re Gonna Love This, the new poetry book by Dina Del Bucchia. On the cover is the image of a woman glaring out from a TV set.
Screengrab from Invisible Publishing’s email newsletter from over a year ago that features my book Sunny Ways. A picture of the book accompanied by the following text: Sunny Ways by ryan fitzpatrick Available April 4, 2023 New poetry from ryan fitzpatrick that examines environmental collapse and the denials that underpin extractive capitalism. From the collection: “taking a sip of San Pellegrino through a straw you just banned because a straw is a kind of pipeline you can ban without letting go of something” A pre-order button then the text: “How do we deal with a global crisis when it puts food on the table?”
Panel from the One Piece manga where Monkey D. Luffy is able to resist the love beam of Snake Princess Boa Hancock. Here you see him trying to block a series of heart shapes blasting through him.
It’s a screenshot of my page in Super Mario Maker 2 where my Mii is waving at you and you can see the 4000 likes I’ve gotten on my levels!
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Text that reads: ASAP Journal Heavy-Hand Holding: Dwelling in Contradiction with Danielle LaFrance and Anahita Jamali Rad by Ryan Fitzpatrick and Deanna Fong ASAP Journal John’s Hopkins University Press Volume 8, Number 2, May 2023 Pages 325 to 354
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William Carlos Williams (quoted by Bob Perelman): “Forcing twentieth-century America into a sonnet - gosh, how I hate sonnets - is like putting a crab into a square box. You’ve got to cut his legs off to make him fit.”
Three copies of the chapbook festshrift of my work. Yellow cover with an official looking academic-style logo and my name off to the side.
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Cover page for eke, my novel. White text on grey background that reads: eke, my novel rhoda rosenfeld
The cover of Reverse Sumptuary. Black text on silver background. The text reads: reverse sumptuary xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ryan fitzpatrick
White text on grey background reading: WHAT I WANT anahita jamali rad
An email with the subject line: “Fellow Harvard Graduate” The body of the email reads as follows: Ryan, Just found out you went to Harvard. Awesome! I graduated in 1976. Lived in Kirkland House. Where did you live? I live in Houston. If you ever get here I would love to meet you. Best, [Redacted]
It’s a copy of Nikki Reimer’s new poetry book No Town Called We
Diddy Kong standing victorious over the body of his enemy
Deleuze: “It is said that Spinoza kept his coat with a hole pierced by a knife thrust as a reminder that thought is not always loved by men.”
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A picture from Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom where Link is picking up his reward for finishing all the shrines in the game
‘Field Guide,’ the long poem that makes up the majority of ryan fitzpatrick’s most recent collection, Sunny Ways, begins: If I promised you a guide to life in the twenty-first century I’m sorry I failed you And, oh boy, is this a sign of things to come. Casually self-deprecating, cripplingly deadpan and cynical to the point of despair, fitzpatrick’s writing is a record of fighting the noblest of fights — humanity’s fight for our future — and losing miserably. Extraordinarily perceptive, yet relatable to over-thinkers everywhere, Sunny Ways offers solidarity in a seemingly impossible struggle: to reconcile the banalities of everyday life in Canada with our collective responsibility for the ongoing destruction of our planet.