Ottawa Poets Reading

Warm up before the Writers Festival with this in-person poetry reading at Perfect Books, 258A Elgin Street. Monday, Oct. 17, 7 pm. 7 Ottawa Poets read from their recent Aeolus House books: Miller Adams, Mary Lee Bragg, Brian Cameron, Blaine Marchand, Colin Morton, Claudia Coutu Radmore, and JC Sulzenko. And if you didn’t catch this […]

Nelson Ball Prize Longlist

The press release is out. The Nelson Ball Poetry Prize longlist has been announced. From about 100 submissions, my little chapbook made this cut with some very fine chapbooks and books, Lines – Cameron Anstee (St. Andrew Books) Undoing Hours – Selina Boan (Nightwood Editions) wind – Guy Ewing (Puddles of Sky Press) a grain of sand – Helen […]

New chapbook out today!

A new chapbook I wrote is out today from Trainwreck Press, whose mandate is: “Celebrating the innovative, the non-conforming, the radical, the alternative, the avant-garde, the non-linear, the abstract, the surreal, the visual, the concrete, the experimental.“ New is Mudflaps for short dogs: concrete poetry, machine sonnets, surreal and lyrical these poems poke and play. […]