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The Lampert and Lowther shortlists.

Gustave Morin‘s talk on concrete, typewriter and visual poems at the AB Series was absorbing. The 2 hours until break was 20 years of retrospective on career. It passed like 10 minutes. I think the whole thing clocked in at over 3 hours. One of the best literary things I’ve seen in years. It got […]

Someone may be reading Jay MillAr’s the small blue. btw, have you seen 30 ways to celebrate poetry month in Ottawa?

Another place to get your poem dose: The League of Canadian Poets have set up a LCP National Poetry Month blog and are putting up a poem or a few per day. So far, Dennis Cooley, rob mclennan and Linda Lee Crosfield.

Aha, that puts the finger on the problem with the whine, but I can’t write. I don’t have any ideas. If I waited to know “who I was” or “what I was about” before I started “being creative”, well, I’d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my […]