Gradually photos are surfacing from the weekend. Here are 118 of my photos. Anyone who attended who is on Flickr is welcome to add their photos to the Haiku Canada Group. Like you? Liana Voia uploaded videos of some events and interviews including the launch of a new magazine of Canadian Punjabi haiku named Wah. […]
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Poems: Rod Pederson
This now exists, with copies still being folded and cut. To come out fully at the phafours table at the Ottawa Small Press Fair, upstairs at Jack Purcell by Elgin St. June 7th. The 6 wonderful little potent poems by Rod Pederson includes this one: bent into untimely sorrow knowing someday he’ll die and I […]
Poems: Catherine Brunet
New chapbook by Catherine Brunet at the reading tonight. 7:30pm, Pressed Café. I’ll bring 20 copies so get it while you can. Here’s a sample poem from it: John Coltrane Redux Avant-guard jazz on my ride home: saxophone incursions deep into John Deere clang and guitar twang of country-western territory. Coltrane would get punched in […]
RailRoad … a pop up-up poetry series
This Thursday: John Pass, Pearl Pirie & Catherine Brunet. Thursday, May 15th 7:30 PM, May Pressed Café, 750 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa Catherine Brunet was born and raised in Ottawa, but now calls Renfrew County home. Over the last two years, her poems and short stories have been accepted for publication by Arc Poetry Magazine, The […]
Haiku in Kingston
Sat. May 3 from 2-4 – book launch – Kingston downtown library Philomene Kocher: Singing in the Silo Marco Fraticelli: Drifting If you want to hear more from Philomene, she’s on air May 1st with Literary Landscape at CKCUfm.