Can I peg a poet as written or spoken from a headshot? The performance with body on stage poet is more apt to get studio lighting, performance capture with expressive face and microphone. There’s more dynamic angles. The written poet disproportionally is outside, with grass, trees. Written poets are more likely to conceal their face […]
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VERSeFest Volunteering
Calling all past and prospective VERSeFest volunteers! To honour our incredible volunteers of poetry past and future, VERSeFest invites you to come out for a night of poetry, complimentary drinks, fabulous raffle prizes, and karaoke at Bar Robo on February 13, 7pm. Featuring readings by: JEFF BLACKMAN JESSLYN DELIA SMITH ÉRIC CHARLEBOIS Followed by Karaoke […]
Current English Ottawa Poets
A Adams, Miller (Sylvia) Akinlolu, Segun Akpata, John Akse, Tiah Alcofribas Nasier II Alexander Heinis, Shery Aljied, Roua aka ‘Philosi-Fire’ Allison, Luna Al-Mansouri, M.T. Andrews, Dana Carly Anstee, Cameron Apollo the Child aka Khaleefa Hamdan Arar, Barâa Armstrong, Allison Artelle, Stephen Atkinson, Susan J. Auclair, Marie-Andrée B Baker, Jennifer Bandukwala, Manahil Bansfield, Anthony Bayrock, Dessa […]
2017 Books Read
1. Silence by Nora Parker Cox, illus., Anna Bongiovanni (Hucklenut Press, 2016) – breathtaking. It has a refrain of “This is a biography in silence.” It doesn’t grow redundant but forceful of pushback. Cowed into, gaslighted into, correctness cornered into the silence which will not, does not stand. It feels like a coming of (feminist) age […]
New Short Forms Workshops Coming In April
April 3-May 8, 2017, weekly on Mondays for 6 weeks. Haiku and other short forms: Haiku, senryu, short lyric, tanka, minimalism, one word poems, erasure poetry. Online, and in-person thru Studio Nouveau in Ottawa if there’s 6 people in person. The best of participant poems go into a phafours press chapbook. $200 for 12 hours. I […]