Nicole Brossard, Fred Wah and Dionne Brand fielding questions from the audience while on panel. Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah organized this salon that to present The Political Poem with Nicole Brossard and Dionne Brand, “two of Canada’s most outstanding textual activists. Though the range of their writing is expansive, including novels, essays, collaborations, and […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Apples and Peaches
There’s a plainness, a yearning, a clarity of images but not an over-simplicity. On p. 39, in the poem All I May Ever Know by Brenda Brooks, Blue Light In The Dash, (Polestar, 1994), What I need is a fever of another kind, and a distant cabin to have it in. p. 42-3 Stormy Weather, […]
Amodern
There’s a new journal on the block: Amodern 1: The Future of the Scholarly Journal with articles from “the famous journal Explorations, co-edited by Marshall McLuhan and Edmund Carpenter in the 1950s” to the new ” ecology of scholarship (books, journals, conferences, websites, tweets, etc.), raising the question of how journals should focus their efforts […]
Gwynn Scheltema, with Some Prompting
Sometimes poetry needs a constraint for an excuse to get in shape. Tomorrow at 6:45-7:45 Gwynn Scheltema will be faciliating the Tree Seed Series Workshop on playing with constraints. Gwynn was a founding editor for Lichen, Arts & Letters Preview. Her fiction and poetry have been published in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines. She is […]
Ottawa Public Library Poetry Workshops
Writers are hosting poetry workshops at branches of the Ottawa Public Library: Monty Reid on March 2nd, Peter Richardson on April 6th, Sandra Ridley, April 13th David O’Meara on April 20th, and Stephen Brockwell on April 27th. Workshops are free. One needs to do early registration and get poems in ahead of time. More info […]