2 new poems are up at The Pi Review. Good to see them landed well as a test for the manuscript. * That’s not nothing. Still I feel a post should be longer. (Too late to bury the lede?) * What else? there’s 40% off poetry books for Poetry Month at Haymarket. * Should I […]
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Poetry links
Open mic as part KaDo at versefest.ca, was 1:30pm Sun Mar 29, Black Box Theatre, Arts Court, Ottawa. I read a few haiku atMinute 52:43. Photos at PearlEssence. If you missed it, theVF channel is still there to see events you missed. or want to have another go at listening to. Like Isabella Wang at […]
Sabrina Benaim
Watch the I Don’t Understand episode with poet and author of “I Love You, Call Me Back” Sabrina Benaim. That’s the slam poet that went viral as a winner of the 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam. She is best known for her poem “Explaining My Depression To My Mother” which was apparently 8 years ago. She gives a wonderful […]
Bhanu Kapil’s famous “12 Questions”
Over at Via Negativa where the Poetry Blogging Network happens there are interviews using Bhanu Kapil’s famous “12 Questions“. Chen Chen uses “12 Questions” for a number of poems in his new book: Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother? What is the shape of your […]
Elsewhere
You can see poems and books I’m reading at my Instagram, support me at Patreon, and see at the eponymous feed at twitter, news on biology, puns, flowers, disability, poetry… And of course in person Saturday afternoon in Ottawa at the small press fair.