Reading all of these now engage in asking what to bring forward into tomorrow’s present? I suppose all poetry is about what not to throw out. If something doesn’t matter to you, why bring it up or tart it up in font? People have the majority of their lives already comprised of minutiae that doesn’t […]
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95books in 2015, list 4: What Is and Isn't Black and White
By way of CWILA self-monitoring update: 38% female, 45% male and 17% multiple or non-binary. I think it’s important to notice because blithering along, defaults run disproportional to who is around. Not that one needs parity and equilibrium with the world, or else I’d be watching misogynist Hollywood not reading, let alone reading poetry. Here, […]
95books in 2015, list 3: Geography is Social
I’ve fallen behind in notes on #95books since April when I mentioned book 30. I’m at book 67 now. As with such things, backlog is a stressor. I’ve been reading but not posting here, only on twitter while doing readings, renos, getting spring press titles out and garden in. I had the notion of chunking […]
3 new poems
3 new poems of mine hit the screen over the course of the week. A haibun about Prose in the Park at Kitchissippi Times a sequence called “romantic painster, louder, I can’t even hear you bleed” up at Flat Singles Press What Was Settled up at One Sentence Poems. One more in another style should […]
Best Canadian Poetry in English 2015
The 50 poets are announced here. Edited by Jacob McArthur Mooney, it’s going to be another good issue.