VerseFest runs March 25-29. The kickoff was at Saw Gallery, Ottawa. It runs every day. We are so lucky to have access to this and some events are even offered for free. What a strange thing for this rural hermit to be in a city, teeming like an anthill. More pedestrians per block than I’ve […]
Category Archives: Poetry reading write-up
ottawa small press fair
For the first time in almost 3 years the small press fair was back(!) thanks to rob mclennan. It was like old home week. So many people we haven’t seen for years, catching up with directions lives have moved. Lots of good conversations! (I was more than a little hoarse yesterday as a result. ) […]
Interview
Some of the questions I was posed for the Girl Guides included these: Do you have poems about dragons? Not yet. But magic yes, and poems that play in imagination. I read from a pet radish, shrunken (Book*hug, 2015). What inspires you to make a poem? Sometimes when you have no one you can talk […]
Winter KaDo
Hard to chair a meeting, host, record minutes and take snapshots. But totally doable. Pics from the meeting today of Winter KaDo here.