Two ladies extraordinaire from Voices of Venus, Nadine and Luna. Christine McNair at at versefest, Ottawa, March 9th. It was good to see the spoken word poets, haikuist, rappers, and avante guards all mixing and in this case finger snapping. After the Oneness showcase J. getting a signature from Ivy Lee Deavy at versefest, Ottawa, […]
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Cross-pollinating ideas
Interview between myself and Kevin Spenst: thoughts on the editing process. Marcus McCann mentioned in his poetics talk at versefest last night, you can have dissemination of ideas or control over, not both. And a quote ran across since that on creativity gets to the nub of pressing it forwards and moving on rather than […]
First Edition Readings Series
A new series in out of town — First Edition Reading Series. It’s held at The Factory Grind, 1 Sherbrooke St. in Perth, Ontario AUTHORS & DATES: _________________________________________________________ April 8 @ The Factory Grind Tish Cohen, Rebecca Rosenblum, & Mark Sampson. May 6 @ The Factory Grind Diane Schoemperlen, Mike Blouin, & Jason Heroux. June […]
VERSeFest Opens
Ben Ladouceur gave a spectacular reading. A name to watch for. Michael Dennis gave a great reading as well. Ottawa’s quite lucky for talent. Ian Keteku (World Slam Champion) with mask and some musical accompaniment David McGimpsey was in town and brought his humour rippling thru the room of 100 or so people who made […]
Working Life
Liz Worth thinks about the practicalities of the double life of a writer: To be able to quit my day job, and be sustained by book sales alone, I’d have to sell 7,000 books a year, without working in any variables in making lifestyle changes. Pretty tough to sell 7,000 books in Canada, where a […]