Category Archives: PSA, Poetry

When: Friday April 11th at 8pm Where: Gallery 101, 51B Young St. Ottawa. What: an adventure in segéëtude via John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing. Sound poetry, somewhere between music and poetry framed inside John Cage’s Lecture on nothing a reading of things from concrete poetry to visual poetry to song. A lot of the pieces […]

I was happy to meet this good folks of the Canadian Author’s Association last night thinking about remixing poetry and source materials. Fun was had all around. (A few people out of shot.) The Canadian Authors Association of National Capital Region will hold its 1st Annual Book Fest this Saturday — April 12, 2014. That’s […]

OPL’s first ever ‘Poetry on spines’ contest takes place April 7-11 The Ottawa Public Library is running a 5-day contest contest called ‘Poetry on spines / Poésie sur dos’ to celebrate National Poetry Month. How to play? The subject of the photo should be book spines. Align them in a creative way to make poetry […]

The League of Canadian Poets (LCP) is pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2014 Raymond Souster, Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards. Congratulations to all of the authors for their fine work, and many thanks to the jurors for their dedication to this year’s awards. Winners of these awards will be announced during a […]

Have you heard of The Journal Project yet? Versefest is helping to promote the program to get people to donate unused journals to women in maternity support homes, domestic violence shelters and other such community organizations. Their story. Becky Halton & Arwen Faulkner are helping this non-profit get new journals, bound notebooks and hardcover scrapbooks […]