Tune in online or on radio to CKCU Literary Landscape tomorrow at 6:30pm to hear an interview with this treasure of a poet, Souvankham Thammavongsa. We talk about the video projects with Kat Burns and Paramita Nath ( You can see the short films based on her poems here.), about the nature of making words […]
Category Archives: PSA, Poetry
Tree Seed Workshops: Overview
Often when a feature reader comes from out of town to present at the Tree Reading Series they remark something along the lines of: that was a fantastic open mic. Usually you have to suffer through those but I got something out of each reader. Back in 2009 Rod Pederson was the director at Tree […]
Managing the Untameable Open Mic
Usually open mics work amazingly well considering the number of people involved. There’s a lot of good will and support for people who take the risk of sharing a bit of their work or themselves. Usually most people stay through the open mic after reading through courtesy even if too nervous to hear anything from […]
Danielle K.L. Gregoire
Did you miss last night’s show? Versefest Hall of Honouree: Danielle K.L. Gregoire on Literary Landscape was talking with me about Versefest, Steve Sauvé, Manitoba legacy, doing comedy vs. poetry, and making a difference where you are.
Lists of Anticipated
There are still books from the last couple years I haven’t bought (like Light by Thammavongsa or Camlot’s What the World Said) or bought and haven’t consumed (too many to say) … and yet, sight unseen, there are some things to look forward to in poetry: Versefest Ottawa, Haiku Canada Weekend in Ottawa (and the […]