Someone on twitter suggested as a prompt: use Wordnik’s Random Word of the Day. Click for the next a few time and see if a few in a sequence don’t spark a poem. Good way to expand vocabulary too.
Don’t miss if you have so far, the Proust Questionnaire with Christine McNair. (One of the better answer sets.) She’s next up to launch her book Conflicts, (BookThug) at Tree next Tuesday.
Lowther Award and Lampert Award are announced: Sue Goyette‘s outskirts (Brick Books) and Yi-Mei Tsiang‘s Sweet Devilry (Oolichan Books) won.
By now you’ve seen theTrillium results. Phil Hall won the book prize for English. The winner for the French-language Trillium Book Award was Michele Vinet for “Jeudi Novembre” (Editions Prise). The winner of the Trillium award for Poetry in French was Sonia Lamontagne for “A tire d’ailes” (Editions Prise de parole). For English-language poetry was Nick Thran for “Earworm” (Nightwood Editions). In that last link is an interview with Jacob mcArthur Mooney who won Arc’s 2012 Poem of the Year.
Two poems by Geoffrey Philp are at World Literature Today. In the paper issue he’d asked how he tells what genre his new writing will take. He says p. 22,
If the speaker begins to compare the experience to something else, it may be a poem. If the speaker is interested in only one thing and only one obstacle stands in her way, it’s short story. But if she faces multiple obstacles, the I know it is a novel.