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Poetry Month ends for a year but poetry doesn’t. There is poetry at the Fest Sunday, tomorrow. It’s Messagio Galore then I’m on stage in conversation with Gillian Sze and Lorna Crozier and host Sandra Ridley. (Color me dazzled.) 4pm, May 1st, Mayfair Theatre. On Monday, a Robert Pinksy masterclass, a focus on Indian writers, […]

Chromatic Beliefs is about to release! A co-production of Tree Reading Series (Tree Press) and phafours press with poems by ◆ Sylvia Adams ◆ Frances Boyle ◆ Terry Ann Carter ◆ Glenn Kletke ◆ Rod Pederson ◆ Pearl Pirie ◆ Claudia Coutu Radmore ◆ L.M. Rochefort ◆ Guy Simser ◆ Rona Shaffran ◆ Carol A. […]

Mike Blouin in the crammed room opening the writers festival at the Barley Mow with his Wore Down Trust. The book is a triple bill book of Johnny Cash, Alden Nolan and the author. Bluesmen and guitars and histories and their tangles. The working class poor men get their voices. Here’s a sample of one […]

A new anthology, big bright amused, of poets responding to poems of other poets has been posted on the ditch, website. The writers and the works responded to are: Márton Koppány: Marcia Arietta, before the revelation Jamie Bradley: Gary Barwin, Psalm 91 Caleb JW Brasset: Kane X. Faucher, Syncategoremata and: Jamie Bradley, Epithalamion John M. Bennett: Daniel f. Bradley, T=I=D=Y LANGUAGE Mary Kasimor: Nathalie Stephens, We divide […]

This last installment in the Eco-Jest-Us week of poets concludes with erika. We were lucky to get in this busy poet from Montreal for an Ottawa evening event. erika n. white writes, edits, gardens and publishes on the island of montreal. She organizes poetry events, including Twigs & Leaves and Poets, a monthly reading series […]