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Its best not to watch individual rain drops in wind. Or contemplate how many millions of lives are unfolding with at least the same complexity and depth as yours. Or the remarkable number of presses that live for years in parallel to what is known yet thru mini book expo another two Tightrope Books and […]

from NEA’s useful rules for writers this one pinged my funny bone: > 7. Go for broke. Odds are you’ll be broke anyway, so you may as well go for it. Craig Poile being interviewed by Nigel Beale about running Collected Works Bookstore. Poetry Editing Chart Liked the tugs of Kostelanetz’s poem ghosts of words […]

Luminita Suse was one of the readers at Chapters Rideau at the Bywords Quarterly Journal summer issue launch. The music of Mike Yates and the Candidates played between sets. Another & other & ther Lit Link: derek beaulieu (most recently of chains) was recently interviewed at Lemon Hound on small press. Direct Poetics, issue 2 […]

Quote: “The constellation, the word-group, replaces the verse. Instead of syntax it is sufficient to allow two, three or more words to achieve their full effect. They seem on the surface without interrelation and sprinkled at random by careless hand, but looked at more closely, they become the center of a field of force and […]

It takes a composed mind to make a composed image and since we were reading the feature set as Hot Ottawa Voices (as upcoming poets without a trade collection), nerves meant I wasn’t taking any photos. This week Mike Blouin read from his intriguing new series on the life of Johnny Cash and two other […]