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You can vote for Arc Poetry Magazine’s reader’s choice poem of the year until April 5th. There are just a couple dozen poems to choose from among. And at Alberta’s reader’s choice you can vote for Buying Cigarettes for the Dog for another couple weeks. [sample story on youtube]

Battling nerves is a common enough problem among people who present. Sometimes we can present someone else’s words no problem, but when it comes to our own poems, it’s a different story. There’s a workshop coming led by Marnie Woodrow. There are two streams on two days at $5 each. Arts Court, Floor 2A Saturday […]

Haiku Canada is in Montreal May 21st weekend. Early bird rate is ending soon. I’ll be there. Yay.

Those of you in America know that March is Small Press Month in the U.S. A publicity for it uses this: “Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as Great” – Kay Ryan. Conventional wisdom crows the superiority of the small. A large organization risks losing […]

Marion Weiss spoke as part of the Architecture forum lecture March 22. In the Q&A she talked about how one draws. The fingers draw lines, furniture. Drawing from the wrist and its range of motion makes another set of forms possible. The elbow and the shoulder each have their own gestural capacities and inherent body […]