With Susan Johnston: Asking for a Friend on CKCU [Oct 13, 2020] Other interviews and articles since I posted last are: With Periodicities: Residency Report: Sage Hill [Oct 4, 2020] With QWF: Writing Space [July 14, 2020] With TNQ blog: Finding the Form [June 23, 2020] With Ottawa Poetry Newsletter: Virtual Small Press Fair Interview Series [June 11, 2020]
Category archives: CKCU
Poetry for Improving Lives
I know that poetry can go to the good. Fundraising through poetry works as a few years ago we raised enough money from poetry for the Guatemala Stove Project through chapbooks to convert words into the work of 3 stoves for the Maya in the Guatemala highlands. Natalie Hanna of Battleaxe Press got the idea that an […]
Doyali Islam
Coming up on Thursday on Literary Landscape, a conversation with Doyali Islam who is part of the Arc event at VERSeFest. Hear more ahead at her 12 or 20 interview with rob mclennan. That’s be at 6:30pm EST, 3:30pm PST on March 3rd at CKCU. 3 weeks ago I was with Rachel Rose, who is poet […]
Chris Faiers
Coming up today on Literary Landscape, a talk with Chris Faiers who published perhaps the first haiku chapbooks in Canada in the 60s, started Unfinished Monument Press in the 70s, ran the Main Street Library Series in Toronto in the 70s and 80s bringing in 60-70 poets, and Purdyfest in Purdy country in 2000s. He […]
Merry
Hacking of the server blipped this away but we’re back: At the station on the air. Reindeer hat and all, The night before Christmas, all through the nation Not a poet was paid cash, not even at this station. Poet stockings were hung over their sofas with hope, For Nelson Ball or Ann Carson, not […]
LitLand and Literary Upcoming
Did you miss Daniel Zomparelli of CantLit and Poetry is Dead with JM? That’s on playback here. The week previous it was me with Avonlea Fotheringham on workshopping and editing poems. Speaking of which she is leading a Tree workshop on Sept 8 as the new season begins after that with Moritz at 8. Speaking […]
Rita Wong on Literary Landscape
Missed last night’s show? Talk of water and poetry, from the director of Avatar to the tar sands to our capacity to make the world better instead of eroded, Rita Wong on Literary Landscape. Never fear, it’s on playback. Also ready to play again is last week’s show when 3 novelists shared Memories of Jane […]
Literary Landscapes Upcoming
I’m back hosting more poets at Literary Landscape on June 4 with Rachel Eugster who has a fringefest play Whose Aemelia? about medieval poet, Aemelia Lanyer. June 25th is with Bren Simmers of Hastings-Sunrise. July 16th I’m talking with Rita Wong about her new book undercurrent (Nightwood, 2015). Also, we’re rattling the bushes for sound bites of memories of 18 […]