If you want to go to a northern small town excursion of people’e poetry, May 29th – June 1st is the poetry festival in Cobalt Robert Peake has a tender poem at Boston Poetry “The blessings laid by our mothers on our foreheads— let this one live a simple life, uncomplicated” June 30th is the […]
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How to Live and Write
I would tweet this but the tweetdeck is sunk under the whales again…John Mackenzie on how to write a poem. See also “if you will not be not content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin.” Arnold Bennett, How to live on 24 Hours a Day (1910) You probably already […]
Inspiration Firestarters
Shane Rhodes’ Treaties poems (that link and the next 3 links forward at CanLit Guides) and ones at Numero Cinq Magazine and one set to music, Cordite Poetry Review are coming in his 6th book entitled X coming this spring 2 years after his last collection. It’s good to see a longer cycle of an […]
Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day
Put a poem poesy and put it in your pocket. What to pick? There’s a new one of mine up The Week Shall Inherit the Verse today. Disseminate that willy-nilly if you wish. What’s the world out there but something in concert with our breaths? Alice Burdick’s poem is up at The Toronto Quarterly invites […]