Over at the Onion, article on poet who makes over $150 a year.

Ottawa small press fair is this Saturday, Nov 18th noon to 5pm. Tom Brown Arena, not the usual place. I’ll be there with never-seen chapbooks and maybe-you-missed-them chapbooks. Brownies if I feel particularly ambitious, which seems an outside chance at this point.

https://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-ottawa-small-press-book-fair-autumn.html

Psst, there’s a group of us who make stuff in and around Ottawa and a blog for it. If you’re a maker, you too coulf get involved.

error is character

to try to widen down into 
joy’s great escape

doubt is bad if it forces upon us     the silence of closure.
fold within green fold my doubt

I am lost    my only anchor / dither  dither as dubious power
nope — malarkey — enoughhere goes

to have had to be 60 to say in a poem the abuser’s name

let us proceed   Friend     with a reckless    invite
& making fun   of both of us

I am overcome & rejuvenated by imbalance – complexity
it blocks out the constant nitter-natter, and is oddly calming

or watch a chipmunk pack its cheeks

a cento: error is character: https://www.cbc.ca/books/phil-hall-on-literary-house-parties-and-his-fantasy-job-1.4050195, sample poems at http://www.treereadingseries.ca/readers/phil-hall , The Unsaid (Brick Books, 1992), https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-phil-hall-chats-with-wanda-praamsma-about-his-latest-collection-conjugation/, White Porcupine (Book*hug, 2007), The Small Nouns Crying Faith (BookThug, 2013), 
http://jacketmagazine.com/37/hall-phil.shtml, 2009, X (Thee Hellbox Press of Kingston, 2013), Alternative Girders (a/g 2018), An Egregore (Apt. 9 Press, 2017), Poetry in Voice anthology https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/thin-plea, http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2014/01/08/tearing-the-sacred-book-apart-poems-interview-phil-hall-ann-ireland/, and File Cards, 2021.

Available whenever/wherever you find me.