Michael Blouin‘s launching Wore Down Trust (and the Festival’s Spring Edition) on April 27th at the Barley Mow. Wore Down Trust incorporates poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, biography, vodka and the blues in an examination of desperation and perseverance. Utilizing a blues format, the narrative strings through the lives—pre and post death, real and imagined—of American […]
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Currently Reading: Heart-close, Widespread in Place and Time
Marvin Bell’s Lost Horse Press, New Poets Series, New Poets: Short Books: Volume V with Valentine Freeman, Robert Peake, and Jensea Storie (Lost Horse Press, 2011) p. 42, from Robert Peake‘s Small Gestures: Forgive me, rose petals, my fingers could not resist the habit of plucking. Some would call it childish, and those who waggle […]
On Air
TA Carter will be reading from her A Crazy Man Thinks He’s Ernest in Paris (Black Moss Press, 2010) (5 mins?) today on Rita Celli’s Ontario Today (CBC radio, 91.5 in Ottawa) around 12.30 EST.
Sentences
How To Write A Sentence: And How to Read One (Harper Collins, 2011) is a new book by Stanley Fish. Conrad snippeted from it: [Sentences] promise nothing less than lessons and practice in the organization of the world. That is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that […]
VerseFest In Pictures
What images have surfaced from VERSeFest Ottawa 2011… Charles Earl’s photos, great portraits and highlights of days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and the ending event. John Macdonald’s photos of, often backstage, VERSeFest Nathaniel Westley‘s sharp images. Max Middle’s and my pictures so far uploaded. And the video of feedback of attendees and performers