The problem of selling poetry to poets by Helen Nelson is brilliant. The most accurate overall picture of “poetry market” or the “poetry business” I’ve seen. It starts… Let’s say you’re running a cake shop. It’s a really lovely shop: everything is baked on the premises. To begin with there are just rock cakes and […]
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Tidbits
An interview with Mother Tongue Books at Apt 613. Sunday afternoon Bywords has the quarterly reading at 2pm at Collected Works, Dusty Owl is at 3pm at Elmdale Tavern with the wedding show, and that night In/words launches Conduit magazine and Ben-Shalom’s chapbook at the Clocktower. It’s called “Martians Among Us” which reminds me of […]
Mother Tongue Poets
Poetry Reading Fundraiser for Mother Tongue Books: Friday July 6th, 7:00 p.m at 1067 Bank St. Its doors for good on July 21. There’ll be a poetry reading by “the other tongues” & friends and a musical performance by Gareth Auden-Hole of traditional folk with a wakeful heart. The substantial line-up of poets includes: Susan […]
Motivationally Speaking
The last Tree Seed Workshop was facilitated by Roland Provost who led a round table on why we write. What are the motivations and goals? He gave 3 pages of quotes of people of various poets from Wordsworth’s “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”, Eliot’s “escape from personality” to contemporaries such as Rhonda Douglas who said […]
ottawa small press fair
June 30th ends then no more but the usual small press activities of readings and so on until November. One thing about the fair is the chance to have all the advantages of a conference, without the time-sink of a schedule of seminars. People with tables compared notes on what’s new but people coming in […]