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You have until the start of June to send in one line of poem involving numbers to the Tickertape Project at Concordia. The line you send rolls around thru the display. At the university, one tickertape will run the usual stocks, the other with words. Spotted ticking along…Sheila E Murphy, Sandra Ridley, Warren Dean Fulton, […]

The weekly poem challenge at one single impression is trembling: * tremble clefts I played his body like an instrument — a tuba to be precise with rasberries blown on his bellybutton ice nose drippy from the cold hits higher notes the tone tuned where skin’s thinner — flared giggles deepened pitch where nuzzles nip […]

Somewhere I got a whole month behind the curve…Austin Keon’s blackout poems have been in print from Harper for a month. [Hat tip to a blog critics review by Miss Bob Etier.] Good on him on getting the way with word play out wider. He takes his content only from the New York Times. Why […]

Need a Writing Retreat? Lilipad is again hosting Rick Taylor’s Annual Write by the Lake: Jumpstart & Develop your short stories, novels, poetry, travel and memoir writing from Sun July 25 – Thurs July 29, 2010. It is held at a quiet lake in Val des Monts, Quebec, only 30 minutes from downtown Ottawa. The […]

Tree (30 years old this month and now with a new revamped site) had an Open Mic and two features on May 11th. People always seem to ask when will it be over so they can plan their energies and evening. (Many poetry events only state start time, which is kind of funny, isn’t it?) […]