Eric Folsom is the Poet Laureate of Kingston. On finding your way to a new poem he advises, “To start, you want to look for a poem-shaped hole. Choosing a subject, looking for inspiration, doing piles of research, that’s all well and good. But what you aim for is the poem and the poem is […]
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Talking to Myself: Poetics Statements
11 questions of the how and why of poeming. What do the poems teach? I hope poetry, along with conversations, blogging, getting to know particular people better, that it keeps my brain in tune to become more aware, astute, observant, knowing how to sidestep bias or discern patterns. They all teach me how to be […]
Tonight on Literary Landscape
Coming up at 6:30pm on 93.1fm: Mia Morgan. “Mia is a voracious reader and writer, and is currently completing her degree in English Literature and Philosophy. She’s got a place in her heart for Modern poetry, small press, and fancy sandwiches. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Arts Review, and former host of […]
In Translation
This poem is now in translation to Arabic in Jordan. Ali Znaidi of Tunisia. It was published on December 9, 2014 in a respectable electronic cultural newspaper based in Jordan. It is called, in Arabic, Qaba Qaosayn (The name of the newspaper is translated into English as At Two Bow’s Length). The poem is here […]
95books for 2014: List 15: Coming Down to the Line
Reading from October and November… Kenneth Patchen’s Hallellujah Anyway Based on people’s raving of how fundamental to poetry Patchen is, I found a book. It wasn’t anything like I expected since the quote were put in tidy stacks of textual ideas whereas he drew and handwrote around and within his drawings, mostly legibly. What is […]