Awesome entry point to National Poetry Month with a beautiful piece by Gary Barwin. Carol has rounded up a bunch of prompts if you want to push yourself to do a poem a day for April. It’s International Pwoermd Writing Month too. Here’s an issue on erasure. An article from early March on Patheos on
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Links Round-Up
There’s a new monthly literary journal around: The Steel Chisel with new work by Peter Gibbon, Cameron Anstee, Amanda Earl, Justin Million and Jeremy Hanson-Finger. Not local but interesting for those poets who are at an impasse of meter: Word Lists of Rhythmic Feet with downloadable list of anapests if you’ve got your amphibrachs in […]
Poetry Plume in Ottawa
No Tree tonight. It’s rolled into Versefest with Tree-sponsored readers on Thursday. The Ottawa Citizen has run an article on Versefest. Tonight the festival kicks off at 7 pm with Sir Realist (aka Nathanaël Larochette), Emilie Zoey Baker & Mark Tredinnick from Australia 9 pm Anita Lahey, Rob Winger & Brent Raycroft with the Arc […]
Here and There Poetry Tidbits
A beautiful short film from Australian revolving around Yeats is called Bat Eyes My contribution to Poet Secrets is up at Canadian Poetries Monty Reid is leading a workshop at Ottawa Public Library in March. It’s free and you can get your poems in ahead of time. I’ve joined GoodReads and 49thShelf (Now what?) I […]