No Tree tonight. It’s rolled into Versefest with Tree-sponsored readers on Thursday. The Ottawa Citizen has run an article on Versefest. Tonight the festival kicks off at 7 pm with Sir Realist (aka Nathanaël Larochette), Emilie Zoey Baker & Mark Tredinnick from Australia 9 pm Anita Lahey, Rob Winger & Brent Raycroft with the Arc […]
Category Archives: PSA, Poetry
Gwynn Scheltema, with Some Prompting
Sometimes poetry needs a constraint for an excuse to get in shape. Tomorrow at 6:45-7:45 Gwynn Scheltema will be faciliating the Tree Seed Series Workshop on playing with constraints. Gwynn was a founding editor for Lichen, Arts & Letters Preview. Her fiction and poetry have been published in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines. She is […]
Ottawa Public Library Poetry Workshops
Writers are hosting poetry workshops at branches of the Ottawa Public Library: Monty Reid on March 2nd, Peter Richardson on April 6th, Sandra Ridley, April 13th David O’Meara on April 20th, and Stephen Brockwell on April 27th. Workshops are free. One needs to do early registration and get poems in ahead of time. More info […]
Custom ordered poems as gifts
Want a personalized poem for you or as a gift? donate $10 to VERSeFest and I’ll do it. I’ll make a personalized poem of an acrostic of your name. This offer expires in 7 days.
fw: Layton Reloaded Conference
Registration is now open for “Whatever Else”: An Irving Layton Symposium, May 3-5, 2013. You are cordially invited to attend “Whatever Else”: An Irving Layton Symposium, the 41st instalment of the annual Canadian Literature Symposium hosted by the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. This will be 3-day gathering featuring paper presentations by […]