Claudia announcing the winner of the Tree Press chapbook contest. Judge Matt Tierney felt it was tight enough to also give mention to Lesley Strutt’s Elbow Grease as runner up. The winner was “Winter Music” marked by restraint and tenderness, a tension between inner tranquillity and the outer chaos. That winning chapbook was by MaryLee […]
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fw: Daughters Anthology
What? The Ottawa Launch of Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s (edited by Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Guernica Editions) When? 5-7 pm on Wednesday April 24, 2013 Where? at MUGSHOTS in the Ottawa Jail Hostel, lower level 75 Nicholas Street. Who? Confirmed readers include former Halifax poet laureate Lorri Neilsen Glenn (who edited […]
Process(ing)
So I wrote a poem. It doesn’t matter what. It was 62 words long. It was terse and seemed to have the energy of sitting on a nerve. I tweeted that “it’s one thing to use poetry as therapy. it’s another to not stop there & keep yourself impaired, rhinestoned in words & applause.” I […]
A Poetry Looking at Its Torso
At The Boston Review there’s The Poetesses: An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar, Aracelis Girmay, and Daisy Fried by B.K. Fischer It raises a lot of interesting things to consider, partly ruminating on the significance of VIDA numbers. Here are bits I found interesting. B.K. Fischer ask to reframe the dialogue at the start of […]
Erasing and Print Presence
Let’s see. What links haven’t I mentioned here? Daily haiku Cornell Library haiku by Rick Black. Erasure Issue of Evening Will Come has Solmaz Sharif’s essay. Example, purpose of erasure, Expose author’s authority and, therefore, role as culpable participant (e.g. “…the very fact of mutilating the text broke the spell the complete text has on […]