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Messagio Galore VII was at City Hall in January. rob mclennan’s description gives some background if you’re not familiar. In April there will be Messagio Galore VIII at writers festival, with a different take as each is, some of the same performers, maybe some more as well. Each performance is a unique thing with its […]

An excerpt of Shout of a Bedouin woman by Ella Bat-Tsion on Poetry International Web: We love our land so much If only we could live and die on this land If only, if only, if only How can one live like this? From all sides, closed On one side the border guard On one […]

So you say you’re a writer, so write. Write or Die is a tool for free writing, brainstorming, stream of consciousness, first draft, what have you. You set the time limit (whether 7 minutes or 2 hours) and the penalty (does the screen turn red or make a dogawful racket or start erasing what you […]

The Ottawater 7 launch was a full house on Friday. The annual pdf magazine clocks in at 80-odd pages this issue. (There are pics on Fb if you’re there.) There were readings by a.m. kozak, Amanda Earl, Monique Desnoyers, rob mclennan, Pearl Pirie and Chuqiao (Teresa) Yang. Chuqiao (Teresa) Yang reading at the launch of […]

payday evening comes crashing from bars muffled shouts, articulate cusses thickening up my organ around the organs, what pata-biology would call a conjectured black matter of memory, a sort of static storm in the dark cling of the stomach’s windbreaker. the pliable 1.5mm permeable shell is a sheen around the spleen, a high frequency vibration, […]