The results are in and it’s a tie. Billy says And yes, I did call the election a few hours early but with these 2 great poets locked in a photo finish and me with a real day job to go to early in the morning… Well, I made the rules and I can bend […]
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Talent: Winner of Think Ink Contest
A picture taken just before the April 26th OIWF poetry night reading. Here is the first-prize winner of the Bywords/Think Ink Secondary School poetry contest: Christine Klippenstein, Grade 12, Canterbury High School. She wrote a poem about cooling tea, inspired by Stephanie Bolster’s Two Bowls of Milk. It shows promise beyond her years according to […]
Time for Tickering About
Are you twitter-practiced? Want to add a thought of that length to Concordia’s Tickertape Project? [Aaaaaand, I forgot to press post yesterday. Even with this retro-posting I missed 3 poetry month days entirely. Ah, rules and their breaking.] What else? Quarc, no quirks? Art and Science call issue. Have you voted for Sina Queyras as […]
Ah, Fun
The self-imposed challenge of a thought on poems a day for April has faltered but there’s this which spurts fun I wouldn’t want to miss mention of: TLHOB-QO’ JA’-QO’ A Contemporary Klingon Lyric in Traditional Form by Hugh Tribbey. And hopes for write ups of poet-y things still when my energy rallies after fest.
Writing Where and How
Do you compose in snippets? Or need a flat-out stretch of time? Only when alone? Need noise around? I was recently pondering how one functions best in whatever one is habituated to. If one is used to living a narrow grid with corrective buzzers and cutoffs and constraints, one learns a thought habit compatible with […]