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Fall makes up for the laxer times of summer. It’s good to have some more literary things to anticipate like Luna Allison (Ottawa, Montreal), Jill Battson (New Mexico, Toronto), Sandra Alland (Edinburgh, Toronto) and Adeena Karasick (NYC) tonight and the AB series with Penn Kemp and Nobuo Kubota next week, Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival in […]

“Even showboating technical virtuosity can be worthy of interest but merely vain people can’t bring themselves to care enough about the craft to attain virtuosity. You have to love the thing itself. […] If you never get beyond nurturing the writer self-image, it’s an irredeemable wankathon.” ~ Daily G

Thurs Sept. 23 is a special Voices of Venus for 2 reasons — it’s not in scheduling conflict with Tree so I can go, and it’s a line-up of 4 people who I’ve wanted to hear read or read again. They’re bringing in Vox Femina: half of a troup of internationally known poets and activists. […]

Me with the sculpture by Lynda Cronin + Jean Jewer + Pearl Pirie + Maureen Sandrock Looking thru the bleu. Guest book. The vernissage last night went well. Somewhere around 2 dozen filtered in and out. Gillian Wallace, LM Rochfort and I read at the opening. Poems are posted on the walls and chalk on […]

Karen Connolly signing copies of her novel at Tree Sept 14, 2010. Done with Burma and, for now, novels. Her previous books were about being away and this one is about being with both feet firmly in Canada, trying to parse politics and history, personal and public, power and gender relations. It’s about family and […]