Micheline Maylor at Canadian Poetries says this better than it is usually said: it is a shame that New Formalism was thought of as a movement rather than a requirement of the skill set of a poet. Poetry is an interesting thing because it has to do with emotions. People feel something and then assume […]
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Volta VisPo
The Evening Will Come issue of Volta is a VisPo anthology of women in Visual Poetry. Technique ranges from embroidered-cloth-text to video, from collage to painted scrabble tiles to ink. Questioning words to observing species to how shall we say, thinking ideas in space, considering the physicality of letters or playing in properties of lines […]
Ottawa and Everywhere Poets
6 years of experimental poets who are women in ditch, poetry. On Friday above/ground celebrates 20 years Tickets are $8, doors open at 7 pm and the reading starts at 7:30 pm. who? what? Monty Reid from Moan Coach, Gary Barwin from Seedpod, Microfiche, Marthe Reed from After Swann, Wanda O’Connor from damascene road passaggio, […]
Worth More than a Chance Glance
If you want to go to a northern small town excursion of people’e poetry, May 29th – June 1st is the poetry festival in Cobalt Robert Peake has a tender poem at Boston Poetry “The blessings laid by our mothers on our foreheads— let this one live a simple life, uncomplicated” June 30th is the […]
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