House of Anansi Poetry Bash: David O’Meara hosted Adam Dickinson, Sara Peters and Michael Crummey on April 27, 2013 with these 3 books: Adam Dickinson’s The Polymers that I’d heard so much about, Sara Peters‘ 1996 which seems to be attracting some attention, and Michael Crummey’s Under the Keel which was a big crowd pleaser […]
Category Archives: Poetry reading write-up
A B Series, April 20th: Van Camp, Christakos and Collis
The A B Series had two events back to back on the 20th at the Ottawa Public Library. Richard Van Camp has a glowingly positive energy, on stage and off. He gave a wonderful performance, sharing stories and books. A a proud member of the Tlicho Dene, he is the author of 12 books in […]
Press
The current issue of Kitchissippi Times gives press to the small press – the March 28 Factory Reading Series.
VERSeFest: Dutch Showcase
And back to the VERSeFest stage. Anita Dolman reading her poems. One of these was around the legacy of the past. For example, shoes that will never fit due to childhood war and being bound into too small shoes. The misshapen small-toe-details will never fit the post-war world. above/ground had a new chapbook which was […]
VERSeFest: Plan 99 Presents
Barbara Langhorst, Stephen Price and Susan Glickman read at VERSeFest March 16th under the exotic dazzle of purple gel lights. Barbara Langhorst is considered in the experimental poetry camp. In her preamble she admitted that she used to about goth subjects like dead animals and didn’t key into what they wanted to say. They pointed […]