Linkies

I seem to have fallen off blogging, given that a few people have emailed to ask, basically, is ya dead? Funny thing to happen, when I’m on twitter most days and food blogging daily yet still seem to vanish while doing that much publicly.
Anyhew, tonight is the Tree Reading Series Poetry Workshop, Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave, 6:45pm which would be Pearl Pirie (I’ve met her!) on Radical Revision of poems. I’ll bring examples. People bring something to hack apart. Hopefully.
At 8pm Hot Ottawa Voices; Carol Stephen, Dave Blaikie, Guy Simser, Shai Ben-Shalom & open mic.
Some links:
Take a roadtrip to Purdyfest thru Vimeo. At
0:40 Chris reads Purdy’s In the Cave
5:16: Honey Novik sing’s Milton’s “Proposal for a realistic existentialism”

I’m serious. Everything I do
Is an assertion of what I am,
And if I bewilder you,
It’s because I vary.
Nevertheless I’m a gift
Offered with no conditions
To you. Since I damn well exist
You do too.

That makes sense for a while. The last bit maybe is colored by his Anglicism-circular-logic along the lines of I was there when it happened.
A peek at Messagio Galore take X via rob mclennan. I took a few pictures and hope to get my brain on track for saying something of that myself as well as some notes on what I’m in the midst of reading.
See also his post on above/ground’s 19th anniversary reading.
A 4-page article on the Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection by Irene E Hofmann.