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Fall leaves in Gatineau Park Originally uploaded by Brian Pirie Two weeks ago, we were surrounded by them. Fall leaves already are stripped to the ground. As a second turnabout Hubby was the one taking and the picture and I was in it. We are always in the midst of change but not always aware […]

Have you seen the a as in dog anipoems by Marko Niemi & Dan Waber? What creativity in spin and humor. e as in ladybug oohed and M as in zebra wowed. l as in eagle and C as in inchworm made me chuckle. O made me laugh. It’s sort of like a macro what-is-it […]

Stephanie Bolster‘s writing group is launching The Wellington Street Anthology tonight, 7 p.m. room 156. It’s back at the National Library and Archives. Oblique Strokes has more info on this.

Time flies. Totally Optional Prompts is in week 3 already. It is structured with is a poem by someone else as a leap point in any way you see fit. The current is The Horse by Ted Kooser. Before that, a Tang Dynasty poet, Liu’ Chang-ch’ing. The first was a Kenneth Rexroth translation of a […]

If poetry is a religion, is publishing the place of worship? If something can be hunted up even if people have no inclination to do so, does it still count as being on record? How many people reading means something is read? When can it be said that a writing has an audience? “For where […]