The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival tweeted this: “Because I’m Italian, you’ll notice my lines are pretty long – I don’t take a breath that often.” -Maria Mazziotti Gillan. How much of poetry is breathing? What you train your body to do, your mind has to work with as materials. Poetry has good bones but […]
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Inspiration Firestarters
Shane Rhodes’ Treaties poems (that link and the next 3 links forward at CanLit Guides) and ones at Numero Cinq Magazine and one set to music, Cordite Poetry Review are coming in his 6th book entitled X coming this spring 2 years after his last collection. It’s good to see a longer cycle of an […]
Neato
Poetry pays, in swag. The Ottawa Public Library ran a contest from April 6-16. I tweeted about it. You can see the winning poetry tweets in English and French by myself, Amanda Earl, Adam Thomlison and JC Sulzenko at the Ottawa Poets A-Twitter Contest page. It was judged by the ever clever and well-read duo […]
A B Series, April 20th: Van Camp, Christakos and Collis
The A B Series had two events back to back on the 20th at the Ottawa Public Library. Richard Van Camp has a glowingly positive energy, on stage and off. He gave a wonderful performance, sharing stories and books. A a proud member of the Tlicho Dene, he is the author of 12 books in […]
Rocking the Page
The BC Learning Network made segments on poets called Rocking the Page where they are reading poems and sharing a secret. I’m not sure if I found them all yet, but there are these: Here’s one by David W. McFadden. Sandra Ridley Stuart Ross Alice Burdick Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang and Wayne Arthurson