VerseFest isn’t until spring. Within the festival there’ll be a thanks to significant local or formerly local community-makers and poetry-makers. 2014 VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour Inductees have been announced. More info at that link but I’ll say this much. Pssst: this time it’s Amanda Earl and Danielle K.L. Gregoire.
Category Archives: PSA, Poetry
Awards, readings and reading rewards
Do you also want Ottawa to have a poet laureate? The City of Ottawa budget was tabled yesterday, and it highlights “an additional $500,000 investment in the Arts, Heritage and Culture Plan”. That plan proposes $25,000 in 2014 for “a renewed municipal poet laureate program that selects a poet whose work displays excellence to serve […]
Support Independent Lit Radio? Win Books
Oct 25th starts the funding drive at CKCU. You can donate any amount, and specify Literary Landscape under Show to Support. The Literary Landscape team is going to give more book for your buck. The highest donations for Literary Landscapes will win a prize package of books. So far, thanks to generosity of these publishers, […]
Fw: Lampman Reading
Finalists for the 2013 Archibald Lampman Award will be reading from their work at Raw Sugar Cafe at 7:30 pm on Thursday, October 17. The annual award, named after Archibald Lampman (1861 1899), one of Canadas finest nineteenth-century poets and an Ottawa resident for much of his life, honours the outstanding book of poetry by […]
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 […]