At the last Tree, (perspective: seated about halfway back.) Between 40 and 4 dozen came.
The tribute to the poet of the past was done by Mike Montreille on R.G. Everson of Huntsville, then Montreal Quebec. He was a founding member of the League of Canadian Poets.
The collective mind seemed turned Eastwards by chance. Jeff Blackman sang a Cape Breton ghazal. Sean Dowd had a rowing poem but bought his sachel across the road from the Cape Breton field of scarecrows that Murray Citron’s poem talked about.
The Hot Ottawa voices you can sort of experience a part of: Gillian Wallace read poems from her blog as well as some newer and older, published and not.
To sample the newest of Cameron Anstee, you can get some the chapbook version in the above/ground chapbook Frank St.or from the Emergency Response Unit chapbook, Water Upsets Stone.
Christine McNair also has a chapbook (contact her for that) and a call for another.
Call for Cartwheels: an artist chapbook. Submissions due before November. A samplette from her poem Cartwheel 8 “I write a word to stop a truck”.
To read a pages not quite the same as being there, but it’s also good.
It’s a well-read town. People who are new are still a few serious years into craft and exploring their bliss.