I had the pleasure of being on library shift with Wakefield’s Village poet emeritus, Phil Cohen. Phil started in New York City, went to MIT in engineering, and somehow ended up Quebec by 1984. {…] real people here too on the other side of the man made wall.Odd isn’t it,That whenever I slow downI find […]
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Canadian Literary Publishers
Need a Canadian Literary Publisher? The LPG has a list of members of the Literary Press Group — all professional independently-owned literary publishers located across Canada.
Bob Hogg
Word went out Thursday that he was moving to palliative. By now you’ve probably heard of the quick decline of Robert Hogg and our loss of him on Sunday. I never did the math that he was 80. He was busy in the 60s with that zeitgeist of poetic excitement. He had a young energy. […]
Drevniok prize for haiku
The Haiku Canada prize for English haiku opens today! Limit 3 poems. No fee. Submit at Haiku Canada.
Locals Read
For One Night and One Night Only: 5 Ottawa poets who launched earlier during the pandemic: Susan Atkinson, Jacqueline Bourque, Conyer Clayton, Doris Fiszer and Deborah-Anne Tunney. Books available for sale on site.