On Thursday Gerry Shikitani read in Ottawa again for the first time in 20 years with the AB Series on Thursday. Here’s a small clip: A resonant voice and comfortable stage presence, he’s been performing poetry for a few decades. He shifted it around with different styles, some like this using a recording he interacts […]
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Everyone Loves Excitement
The scene described as Karen Solie takes home the Griffin.
Reading List (as a Cento)
endless cups of tea and friends heard tone of voice although no words rivet gateways of wind where touch masses. so many claims to fame. so many ordinary men turned into flowering If this were a stutter a selection of hammers blood-tube and bone. It is brutish like fragrant pity — or you believe me. […]
The Tyranny of the Specifics
A certain amount of any communication is holding the floor, phatic exchange like meercats making are you there contact growls. Do we write whether we perceive anything new or not? Do we write by habit or by impulse when there is something to uncork? Is it stultifying or clarifying? Are we getting it right or […]
Where Haiku Has Been
Part of the strength of a lot of people coming together with one shared passion is seeing the diversity in evolution in one one place. Some haiku aims for literary. Some aims away. Some don’t put haiku as a subset of poetry but a parallel track, perhaps comparable to how biology and chemistry are not […]