Tonight’s the last of Sandra Ridley’s workshops for the Tree Reading Series, held at 6:45 to 7:45, Floor 2A of the Arts Court on Daly Ave. Topic: On silence and risk. And reading works by Borges and Michelle Desbarats. People may bring their own poems to be looked at by the group. Upcoming Tree writing […]
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Density vs. Clarity
Too much baldly straightforward creates its own kind of noise at all that is being left out. A lot going on allows more to come from the page and less from the reader? What is going on in the process of processing? Given more data, the organic patterns can lift out of the subset chosen […]
Prose and Poetry and Line Breaks
Of course, effectively, uptake matters, or pleasure of the partaking, not the label but, but but. What makes the difference between poetry and prose? One series I’m working on is peculiarly plot-driven. It hooks forward in a genre-fiction way. It has distinct voices and parts are not poetic even tho in form. It’s an odd […]
Women and Gendered Writing
That ramble I made on women and literature is in a slightly modified form as the newest essay up at AngelHouse Press.
New ditch, anthology
“ditch, anthology 2 (canadian women) (innovative poets)” was launched on the ditch, website (www.ditchpoetry.com) on February 1, 2010: ditch anthology 2 People in the anthology: Marine Gadd, Nathalie Simpson, Erín Moure, Chris Turnbull, a. rawlings, Nathalie Stephens, Margaret Christakos, Amy Dennis, J. Mae Barizo, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Christine McNair, Lynn Crosbie, Liz Worth, Alice Burdick, M. […]