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Marshall Hryciuk on the poetry collection he launches today in Toronto writes: “I call them “franklie…” because poetry needs to cease whining or apologizing for having no purpose, no purchase in the social, political and mechanical world people without poetry call reality. And if poetry makes nothing happen, symboliste poetry makes even less. Perhaps it’s […]

I’m on a haiku and senryu trip again having read hundreds of the small phrase poetry over the last couple days. The intensity dilutes the effect of stillness and pause, but they’re addictive little micro-narratives. I’ve written 4 dozen or so in the last 12 hours or so (which isn’t to say well-done, or done, […]

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For the the 15th anniversary of above/ground press next week there’ll be a Factory Reading – Thursday Aug 14th featuring Amanda Earl and myself. As a pre-reading reading we’ll be interviewed by Susan Johnson on Friday’s Special Blend tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Listen live at CKCU fm The reading itself: The […]

So looks like the Demenstruative poem series have a forum, and its a go in under 2 weeks. I’ll be performing the poems as part of the 4th Radical Vulvas at Club SAW, 67 Nicholas Street on Sunday Aug 10, 7 p.m. $5-$8 or pay what you can. Started in Halifax at the Dalhousie University […]