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I am trying to read more in translation, more from earlier times, some for poetry research, more from people with different life experiences. I aim to finish up books started months ago. Every day, some reading, some new writing and some editing. Those are the goals. I’ll bold those I’d particularly recommend. The only I […]

Why not organic poetry with artisanal salt? Where does creation and the superstructure of Arts? Canada Council says “Together we bring the arts to life” and in The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Robin Wall Kimmerer says we need to stop modelling from default scarcity and instead to default abundance and a […]

It’s sweet to be invited to read and to read with people you like. What a wonderful room of people came to the launch. It reminds me why I’d ever shared any writing. Warm welcomes, familiar faces, encouraging strangers, and that sub-vocal track of people being with you, hums, changed breathing, chuckles. There’s a sense […]

Tidbits: Andrea Gibson on eye contact. There’s an above/ground poetry chapbook sale. 4 chaps/$20 (postage included), 10 for $40 + shipping, any 24 titles for $80 etc. I’d recommend: mine of course, and Ben Robinson, melissa eleftherion, Ken Norris, Lori Anderson Moseman, Kyle Flemmer, issues of Guest, Jason Heroux, Hugh Thomas, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Monty […]

Vixen’s The Season of the Haunt by Sandra Ridley has a group. 35 voices, interwoven with hers. The video-poem is now up on YouTube: