Want to take a poetry workshop with the Ottawa Public Library? There are 4 over the month. The first one is with Pearl Pirie (hey, that’s me) is A Notch Up: Sat, April 5th, 2014, 2-4pm Poetry Workshop: A Notch Up: How to push your poetry another notch? A poem from each participant will get […]
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Remix Poetry Workshop/CAA
I’ll be giving a workshop soon… Tues, April 8th, 2014, 7-9pm Canadian Author Association, Ottawa Remixing your poetic material workshop at Canadian Authors Association Remix culture is presented as characteristic of our age but poetry’s toolbox has long been taking pieces from here and there and synthesizing elements to new effect. Partly hands on, partly […]
On fragments
Jennifer K Dick’s fragment project got an addition of mulling from rob mclennan, The fragment allows for the distractions of easy narrative and straightforward patterns to be abandoned for the sake of the collage or even collision of lines, phrases, stanzas and even poems to shape into something that couldn’t easily be explained, but somehow […]
On the radar
For those who don’t follow me at twitter or who get swamped in the deluge that is twitter, here’s some poetry things I found interesting lately, A comic guy made a guide for setting up a book table! Great for any small press fair. Buy a Versefest festival pass by March 23 and be in […]
New Chapbook!
Look what arrived at my door! Copies of Vertigoheel for the Dilly. The chapbook elf brought it. 🙂 Here’s a sample from the poem sequence that are bastardized bastardized ghazals. parents only meant to make us look decent. normal. no, or mal? mal orno. bad stove. the poem takes the sidewalk chalk “welcome home dad” […]