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I’m reading slowly, flipping between… Greek Passages by Peter Riley (Shearsman, 2009) (p. 76, re-reading) Another monastery, 17th century crucifixes with minutely detailed wood carvings speaking of immense skill […] The speech that actually speaks, in words, pitches, arms, numbers, thing. In minutely carved olive-wood. / A road-side stall selling honey at a remote corner […]

I’d read and liked Concrete and Wild Carrot and a few reviews [won’t link to Globe & Mail since it loads pop over content ads] of Listening: last poems. I’d also heard a most emphatic panning of it that aroused my curiosity, as condemnations tend to bring moths. And then as a thank you for […]

Oana Avasilichioaei and Erin Moure entertaining with their reading from their collaborative book Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, 2009). They were playing in and with translations and each other in theatrical ways. Think its accurate to say that they engaged everyone. What if you make up a poem claiming it is translated but it never […]

Phil Hall has an essay up at AngelHouse Press in which he says on p. 3 of 14 something I find refreshing…this distinction between habit of revealing rawness/emotionalism and just a particular way of doing verbal theatre. When Layton says (in the last line of ―The Bull Calf‖), I turned away and wept, he is […]

WOLF-FEST AT THE RAVEN’S NEST: The Beer Ceremony (Oct 16/17/18 2009) by Jim Larwill The ceremonial fire was lit Friday night and Jeremy our Fire Lord tended it through out the fest. Many “medium-sized sticks” blazed all night. Embers still glowed on Monday, long after the revellers had left. Ali generously drove those who needed […]