Various people on twitter are ringing in when they finish another for the 95books challenge. I’ve been doing currently reading lists here irregularly since 2007 but that’s more a pop quiz of what I have open. Some I zip thru and never record having read. Some books I abandon. Some I peck away at for […]
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fw: Backbeat Books & First Edition Reading Series
The lovely man Johnny Pigeau has made the announcement. His sweet Perth reading series and his bookstore are coming to an end. *sigh* Dear Friends and Loyal Customers, Sad news but due to health reasons, we have to cancel the First Edition Reading Series and sell Backbeat Books, Music & Gifts. It’s a charming and […]
Steffler at Tree
John Steffler was the feature reader at Tree Feb 12th. He read from poem 27 years ago to new poems still being edited. You know the sensation when someone read something and… they just sold a book? how well do you know yourself? the various people waiting inside? heroes, hysterics, killers who push to the […]
Crowd Funding
A few things, poetry-wise…penny-wise, Arc is looking for $10,000 in donations to put a poetry youth issue of the magazine in classrooms across the country. They’re about $2,500 in so far. If you want to give words towards poetry, you can throw some to Sachiko Murakami who is crowd-sourcing stories and fragments from airports for […]
Descant
On Wednesday, February 20, Descant will be celebrating the memory of Winston Collins, writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto, by announcing the winner of the 2013 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. The finalists are (in no particular order): Richard Scarsbrook: “Fortune” Laura Lamont: “Night Vision” […]