This Thursday: John Pass, Pearl Pirie & Catherine Brunet. Thursday, May 15th 7:30 PM, May Pressed Café, 750 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa Catherine Brunet was born and raised in Ottawa, but now calls Renfrew County home. Over the last two years, her poems and short stories have been accepted for publication by Arc Poetry Magazine, The […]
Category Archives: PSA, Poetry
Haiku in Kingston
Sat. May 3 from 2-4 – book launch – Kingston downtown library Philomene Kocher: Singing in the Silo Marco Fraticelli: Drifting If you want to hear more from Philomene, she’s on air May 1st with Literary Landscape at CKCUfm.
Putting the Launch in Launch: Factory Series
Glue is dry. Supervisor cat confirms. When supervisor cat wasn’t lying on the instructions. The launch projectiles include a dozen excerpts from each of the poets attached to a mint or chocolate mint candy. If test flings are, er, ah, problematic, the poems will be party favours on the tables. Who reads? You know this, […]
Ottawa Public Library: Poetry on Spines Contest Winners
The top winner Glenn Kletke for the English side of ‘Poetry on Spines’ and the honorable mentions are here with the images of poems made from book spines. The images are in some cases too small to read. Glenn’s poem is this: The clouds should know me by now wrestling with angels at the sky’s […]
Versefest 2014: Sister in Slam
Way back on Day 3 of Versefest there was a woman’s slam performance. Kayla Fraser (left) organized and MCed the event where there was a roller coaster of arc with poets cycling from topic to topic on aspects of being female from dating, to assault or fear of, friendship and love, from politics to motherhood […]