Today in Toronto at Harbourfront there’s a poem-off. 2013 Participants are: Rosemary Aubert Giles Benaway Josephine Dion Casey Warren Clements Glen Downie Baila Ellenbogen Kim Fahner Mathew Henderson Al Hunter Amanda Jernigan Beatriz Hausner Shannon Maguire Christine McNair Jim Nason Lillian Necakov Peter Norman John Oughton Jim Smith Natalie Zina Walschots Lisa Young To my […]
Category Archives: PSA, Poetry
Haiku Workshop
when: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 1:00pm until 3:00pm where: Camellia House, Ottawa RSVP for details to info@camelliateas.net Join talented bilingual haiku and tanka poet, Ottawa’s Mike Montreuil for a workshop to enrich and expand your understanding of the traditional art of Japanese Haiku. Well beyond the ‘5-7-5’ syllable-counting vision of haiku, Mike will build on […]
Micro Press
Do you make ephemera? Have you ever made chapbooks in Canada? Ever wonder what the bigger picture is? Be a puzzle piece that speaks and answer a few questions for a PhD survey on Canadian small & micropress. It needs your info asap. You might get a lollypop but you’ll have to negotiate such higher […]
Kroetsch 2013
Claire Lacey is this year’s recipient of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. “Her manuscript, Twin Tongues, incorporates English and Tok Pisin, the two most widely used lingua franca in Papua New Guinea, in a text about the ethics of appropriation and language use.” Invisible Publishing will take it to the next stage of […]