Kevin Spenst spent yesterday poem-bombing Ottawa. He’s towards the end of the biggest poetry tour possible for the smallest wee books. When he gets back to Vancouver he’ll hit 100. Kingston gets him today and St. Catharines, soon. And last night the Factory Series Reading happened. What a fun time. Good crew of audience with […]
Category archives: Poetry reading write-up
Versefest 2014: Goyette Connelly and McFadden
A few more things from Versefest. Sue Goyette read. She warned before her reading think of it like technomusic. The poems make no sense. There’s no decoder ring, no test afterwards. You get them or you don’t. You probably already have Sue Goyette’s Ocean right? Before or after it was short-listed for the Griffin? Funny […]
Railroaded: Signature Editions
Railroad is a new pop-up reading series around town run by Rona Shaffran and Rod Pederson. It happens irregularly when there are speakers and a venue. On April 16th it was a special Signature Editions spring launch. It was a full to standing room only house. Rod Pederson gave some intros. There was a warm […]
Versefest Hall of Honour
Rusty welcomed a full house to the Versefest Hall of Honour on March 30th. Each year the idea is to give appreciation to someone who builds up Ottawa’s poetry community by sustained efforts. Day 6 of Versefest involved conferring thanks to 2 people in the community who have spent years making the community with their […]
Battle of the Bards, IFOA
Since we slipped in almost late for the Battle of the Bards, with only 5 people coming after us, 2 once readings were in progress, I didn’t inquire about taking any pictures. It felt too complex to be worth it to risk having a waggling finger come at me. It was a couple weeks ago. […]