Dorothy Jeffreys a on behalf of the Ottawa Public Library welcomed people to the reading by the poets who this April are giving the ever popular public library workshops. First up was Chris Jennings. He was a founding editor of filling Station magazine, was assistant editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly and is currently […]
Category archives: Poetry reading write-up
Versefest 2014: Sister in Slam
Way back on Day 3 of Versefest there was a woman’s slam performance. Kayla Fraser (left) organized and MCed the event where there was a roller coaster of arc with poets cycling from topic to topic on aspects of being female from dating, to assault or fear of, friendship and love, from politics to motherhood […]
Live in Studio
4/5 of Messagio Galore’s Quatour Gualuor were in studio this morning. Brian, jw, Rachel and Georgia were on the radio in a Messagio Galore promo for tonight’s show with Susan Johnston’s Special Blend this morning on CKCU. It is archived here for a few weeks: here. It’s about 20 minutes long of conversation and a […]
Textual Artivity
Small town doesn’t mean mall town nothing. At the Human Bean on the main drag of Cobourg all month is an installation of vispo. I took some phone snapshots while we went thru Cobourg. bill bissett on right and consensus was that right is Judith Copithorne. Which is another funny overlap since we just saw […]
Page: Material & Visual Literature
The Page: Material & Literature Grad Conference was 3 days. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to most but caught a little. A couple speakers remarked on how there’s a thread going through all the talks about the challenges and opportunities where digital culture meet print and how that impacts who we are and who we […]
Poetry in Cobourg
The good folks of Cobourg brought poetry to the sidewalks on the weekend. 500 poems were posted around town by poets sending in their own works to be displayed on store windows. Here’s a clip of how it looked. What a fun idea. Watch Mandy Robinson reads a love poem, “like a light” by Pearl […]
Zine Off 4
We finally made it to Pressed Cafe on Gladstone. They are tying into the community with all sorts of events. Bri took a picture from the outside. I haven’t been to quite this kind of thing before. It has something of a small press fair to it, a Ravenswing event with only papery things. Or […]
Factory Series: Francheteau, de Meijer, Jacobs
Arc member Brecken Hancock was the host for the roomful assembled for the Factory Series on November 29th. The series, like above/ground press, is in its 20th year. First up was JM Francheteau . He is a rural transplant based in Ottawa. His writing has appeared in CV2, The Steel Chisel, Bywords and his blog. […]