Vixen’s The Season of the Haunt by Sandra Ridley has a group. 35 voices, interwoven with hers.

The video-poem is now up on YouTube:

Evenings of sharing poetry/soirées de partages poétiques.

This month is the theme of/ ce mois, le thème du : reckoning

hosted by/ avec hôtes : Gillie Griffin, Julie Le Gal

With guest reader /avec poète invitée: Anita Lahey

Thursday, February 6th, 7pm at the Wakefield library. Accessible with level entry.

Poetea series at the Biblio Wakefield Library at 7pm, first Thursday of the month.

February 6th……Anita Lahey

March 6th……….Nina Jane Drystek

April 3rd………….Jamal Amir Akbari

May 1st……………Colin Morton.

Coming in two weeks…two poets I’ve had the privilege of workshopping with in one place.

Lana Crossman’s Pinhole Press launch
Sat., January 18, 2pm at the Sunnyside Branch of Ottawa Public Library. Her launch of Pics or It Didn’t Happen will be with guest readings by fellow Pinhole Press poets Laurie Koensgen and Pearl Pirie

In 2024, I managed a title per day, averaging 118 pages a day. I aimed to review 10% of the number of titles I read, but managed to rview 5% of titles, about 20 reviews in the year, which is almost two a month. Not outrageously terrible.

Two dozen were re-reads, a title per week were read aloud, or were audio books, which was more than i expected even if more or less the same as every year since 2020 when I began tracking it. 

136 titles, that is 37%, were digital, and the remainder, paper.  As I mentioned before, 60% are poetry, but specifically, 5% total were haiku or tanka. A little less than I thought but I did miss the conference so picked up no new titles. It’s harder than find in the wilds. 

I flagged 28 titles as memorable. 68 I rated as 5/5 and only half a dozen I pursued to the bitter end despite feeling it as 1/5. If it’s not for me, better to quit, but stretch reads are building hooks for the future. I have qualms about rating as the cases where one poem or line or scene sent me but the rest okay or blasé. How do I even indicate that except for in my comment field?

Okay, that’s it for now. My instagram post as usual, lists particulars of titles.