Step one: Acknowledge the person and site that involved you in the blog tour: Ryan Pratt’s blog tour tap Step two: Answer the 4 questions below about your writing process: 1) What am I working on? As of March 30- April 9 when I’m writing this: There’s a phrase that bothers me as wrong in […]
Category archives: Poetics
On fragments
Jennifer K Dick’s fragment project got an addition of mulling from rob mclennan, The fragment allows for the distractions of easy narrative and straightforward patterns to be abandoned for the sake of the collage or even collision of lines, phrases, stanzas and even poems to shape into something that couldn’t easily be explained, but somehow […]
Attributing Source; What, Once Public, is Owned?
And then on the other side of the coin of the thinking around centos: If my words are worth nothing, why are you stealing them? makes the plagiarism-is-bad-because-work-went-into-things argument. Which asks for the respect of attribution. Part of that is courtesy of living in a system with others. But part of that is about ownership. […]
Cento and Self-Expression
A cento is a poem form where you also don’t use any of your own words. You have stacks of books that get passed around and perhaps on a 5 minute or 15 minute timer you grab and transcribe on your page. The object is to pull what stands out verbatim and move to the […]
Making Sense Your Own
“you have seen already that the word barbaric has two bars in it. My kind of talk in a poem will strum the two bars in a word like barbaric, acknowledging it visually as well as referentially. Making sense turns out to be very limiting. There is more to be said than that.” Phil Hall […]
News Roundups
Tonight on Literary Landscape: Rory McIvor, a 3rd year student from the University of Edinburgh, will be talking about Robbie Burns. It’s Robbie Burns Day on the 25th. McIvor’s studying History and Politics at Carleton as part of the International Exchange Programme. Originally from Northern Ireland, McIvor has developed an understanding and appreciation of Scottish […]
Interviews with Ottawa-area writers
Pearl Pirie where I talk about projects and armageddon. Amanda Earl talking about influences and sample her poetry. Claudia Coutu Radmore, politics and art. Kimberley Dawkins and her visual art. Adam Thomlison from the beginning. Thanks Liana! There are more videos of artist and writer interviews done by Liana Voia here including half hour with […]
Garden: November Unit
I was happy to do the design on Monty Reid‘s Garden: November Unit (Sidereal Press, 2013). It’s an edition of 100 which you can get from him. Here’s one of the dozen poems in there: 1. November Presence is the ghost of snow. The dog of frost chews its bone. On an old black walnut […]