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Braided Creek, A Conversation in Poetry with Jim Harrison & Ted Kooser has the feeling of renku; each poem a link in a chain. It isn’t marked who said which but then it seems to emulate the groove of conversation where the distinctions and divides dissolve. It’s more the matter of cooperatively amicably choosing to […]

Starting tonight from 6:45-7:45 at the Arts Court, floor 2A is a new session of Pre-Tree workshops. This one, with rob mclennan, runs thru April and May. There will be focal readings and exercises. The emphasis will be on the contemporary. To paraphrase rob…to take a poetry course and learn about 1800s poetry doesn’t seem […]

Kegels for Poets is the most fun I’ve read lately. (Which I inexplicably read @ twitter as kegels for frogs. Oh brain, what am I going to do with you?) Here’s a sample of the Harriet column by Annie Finch, When your meter muscles get regular and varied exercise you will find that it actually […]

Voice and song of the poem that starts, What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone? For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, […]

City of Ottawa for the spring session has a set of Writers in the Community sessions. They have 4 different focuses for the 3 hour workshops this May: Ian Roy, Drawing a Short Story on May 1st Sandra Ridley, From One Poem to Many: Approaches To Developing A Body of Work on May 8th Richard […]