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If you lay in juxtaposed observations or imaginings, there’s more room to move around ideas than when an idea lays its groundwork for a tower of final couplet. What is the glue of gratification in things like ghazals? The gratification has to come in the curious mix of pings between what all is curated, or […]

This year’s NationalPoetryMonth.ca celebrates visual poetry from collage, asemic writing, comics, concrete, crotcheted poems, to found poems, poems based on imaginary quilting patterns and more. Poets from Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Hungary, and the USA. contributed to NationalPoetryMonth.ca this year, reminding us that poetry transcends all boundaries, including geographic. I hope you enjoy this month’s tribute to […]

Eco-Jest-Us will have performances by youth, improv, musicians, bands, poets and craft workshops by groups and art and eco-products on display. There are a couple spots left. Let me know if you want to read or perform poetry or send poetry to be read on your behalf.

A performance, talk & presentation of visual poetry by gustave morin at The AB Series, the most comprehensive presentation of his work yet. Some info gustave morin (or gus, as everyone calls him), has been sniffing the keyholes of our cultural, political and sociological margins for over 20 years, publishing, exhibiting and performing his varied […]

My upcoming readings include: May 1st, Poetry Cabaret at the Ottawa International Writers Festival with Gillian Sze of Anatomy of Clay (ECW), Lorna Crozier of Small Beneath the Sky (Greystone Books) and Pearl Pirie of been shed bore (Chaudiere Press), at 4 pm at the Mayfair Theatre. And on May 22nd, Sasquatch Reading Series, Royal […]