2 new poems are up at The Pi Review. Good to see them landed well as a test for the manuscript.
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That’s not nothing. Still I feel a post should be longer. (Too late to bury the lede?)
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What else? there’s 40% off poetry books for Poetry Month at Haymarket.
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Should I do a poem read a day for the month? Share a poem written each day in the month? Compose and share the fresh? It’s kinda arbitrary, not as if I don’t do those on the regular.
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I feel like the princess and the pea. There’s a book missing. Where’d it get off to? It’s…orange-yellow?
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Susan Constable died on March 18, 2026, at the age of 83. Read her obituary. Susan began her connection to haiku when she entered the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival’s very first Haiku Invitational in 2006. Way back almost to usenet days, we were on a poetry-w listserv workshop together.
bursting
to tell someone
magnolia
—Susan Constable
More of her haiku at the Living Haiku Anthology at the Haiku Foundation
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The Internet Writing workshop is still going I believe although its news wall is out of date. Joanna Weston listed as active, died Aug 2020. I knew that but sometimes I forget again. Death makes no sense.
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The Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl is back again, April 24-26th! The crawl:
Books on Beechwood, Evermore Books, Love Lyla Books, Mill Street Books (Almonte), Octopus Books, Perfect Books, Singing Pebble Books, The Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore and World of Maps.
Forwarding from Perfect Books:
- Pick up your free passport at a participating store, starting April 24.
- Visit 7 out of 9 participating bookstores.
- Submit your competed passport to any participating store before close of business on April 26 for your chance to win!
Prizes include:
A grand prize of $225 to spend at Ottawa’s indie bookstores;
One of nine secondary prizes of $25 to spend at an indie.
No purchase necessary! Each participating store will also have their own in-store activities and giveaways to celebrate Canadian Independent Bookstore Day.
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