Thanks to Rob Taylor for this food for thought: In a country where people don’t gather in cafes, at ages where people don’t meet at university, how to meet other poets? The workshop. The workshop answers the need for a cafe. But I called it the institutionalized cafe, and it differs from the Parisian version […]
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Pivot
The MC at Pivot was Sachiko Murakami (of The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008).) Fiorontino’s most recent book of poetry is Indexical Elegies (Coach House Books, 2010). They were much more rich than his previous book. Touching without there being harps and violins. He quipped about his shift westward from Winnipeg angst, wangst, to Montreal angst, […]
Snapshot
Jon Paul Fiorentino, myself and Carolyn Smart at Pivot last night. A good warm crowd of 50 or so. A fun time. A few more pics to come…
Printers With Aspirations of Being Editors
Silly HP printer. It thinks it can improve on Ernst Jandl’s perfektion? P.S. It’ll be good to see those of you who can make it to the Pivot reading tonight.
Currently Reading
(In no particular order from the toppling piles) Copper Canyon Reader: Winter 2010 Toronto: A Literary Guide by Greg Gatenby (McArthur & Company, 1999) correction line by Dennis Cooley (Thistledown Press, 2008) Bhagavad Gita: As it is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada To be at Music: Essays and Talks by Norma Cole (Omnidawn, 2010) Matrix […]