I’m trying to wrap my head around concrete poetry again. Better head than ankles I suppose. I always try to go too deep, mining for meaning when reading. Thinking too hard. This is a step back and forward at the same time. What’s here? derek beaulieu’s Fractal Economies thru bread bubble. From an afterward after […]
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To Have One's (Pecking) Orders
This was amusing from W.H. Auden and Cecil Day Lewis described inThe Buried Day by C. Day Lewis (Chatto, 1960) we had a complementary repsect for eachother: it was at Appletreewick, I think, that we wrote down the names of all the living English peots we could remember: we then sorted them out into three […]
Jane's Walks
Historical Walking tours are this weekend [heads up via Zoom] in 60 sites around the world. Started in 2007, they are named in honor of Jane Jordon, an urban planner. One of the one hour Jane’s Walks includes The Poet’s Pathway which starts at Pleasant Park Elementary School parking lot, 564 Pleasant Park Road on […]
After Poetry Month
A full list of the reasons to be optimistic about poetry’s future at the Torontoist: http://bit.ly/b4hvqZ A list of the Globe and Mail’s National Poetry Month is here. Poetry launch: Paul Tyler launches his new collection of poems A Short History of Forgetting. May 1 at 7 p.m. at Raw Sugar, 692 Somerset St. West, […]
Anansi Reading at OIWF
Poets signing their books at the OIWF — Suzanne Buffam with The Irrationalist, Steven Heighton with Patient Frame and Michael Lista with Bloom. There was laughter during Buffam’s reading, in the intro, and in the body of poems. She introduced herself by relating that one reader condescended to say that it wasn’t as enjoyable as […]