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The Writers Festival of Ideas is coming in a month or so. The schedule is starting to go up. It begins April 22 and has a new venue: the Mayfair Theatre in Old Ottawa South (1074 Bank Street at Sunnyside). So far, changing how we eat — foodies, 100-milers, urbanites, farmers, gardeners and chefs Jane […]

Looking for other photos from Montreal or Toronto launches of Rogue Stimulus I found: Kinda close… The snowmen salute Parliament. According to CPAC The Speech from the Throne is almost always delivered mid-afternoon. But the October 2007 address was held at 6:35pm ET. Amidst heightened election speculation, critics accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the […]

“Does anything we say ever leave us?”, Rodney Hall writes about the body as the space/house for the voice. [via Leigh Warren] Laurie MacFayden has this Spatherdab poetry blog that knocked me back on my heels. Perhaps part of that is medium; I get used to speed over refinement in the internet press for current […]

This season we are featuring: Susan McMaster – Autobiographical Poetry (March 28) Patrick Gauthier – Play Writing (May 23) Marie Bilodeau – Fantasy Writing (June 27) All workshops will take place @ Sushi 88 (690 Somerset St. W) Join all three workshops for $30! Tickets go up to $15/workshop after March 29. Seating is limited, […]

OSI, Insomnia prompt in Somnia’s Song the Sheepish look at superstition, a pug’s glare at it: don’t you fail me. I have my lucky sock on. sleep is inevitable. the outcomes are all ad hoc. waking proves sleep like death proved you lived once. nah. the hammered thumb of rule: try and you fail. fail […]