Planning to go to many events is like chasing fireflies. You may not catch them all but you might a couple. In the MRI seeing your favourite poems again is more an act of recollection than active reading; Poetry in the brain Damon Hunzeker said, “Just once, I’d like to see a movie with a […]
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What’s Chris Lott’s Favorite Punctuation? Story on Heather McHugh Good quote from writer’s fest panel: "I thought I had pretty good titles up until this book…[but] nothing sells like murder" @CharlotteJGray explains #truecrime @Writersfest — Ottawa Writers Fest (@Writersfest) October 29, 2013 Magma Magazine does a round up of 25 rules for editing poems. The […]
Formalism, Tours, Awards and Thinking Poetics
Micheline Maylor at Canadian Poetries says this better than it is usually said: it is a shame that New Formalism was thought of as a movement rather than a requirement of the skill set of a poet. Poetry is an interesting thing because it has to do with emotions. People feel something and then assume […]
Volta VisPo
The Evening Will Come issue of Volta is a VisPo anthology of women in Visual Poetry. Technique ranges from embroidered-cloth-text to video, from collage to painted scrabble tiles to ink. Questioning words to observing species to how shall we say, thinking ideas in space, considering the physicality of letters or playing in properties of lines […]
Ottawa and Everywhere Poets
6 years of experimental poets who are women in ditch, poetry. On Friday above/ground celebrates 20 years Tickets are $8, doors open at 7 pm and the reading starts at 7:30 pm. who? what? Monty Reid from Moan Coach, Gary Barwin from Seedpod, Microfiche, Marthe Reed from After Swann, Wanda O’Connor from damascene road passaggio, […]